Sep 2009
We are delighted to announce that the 1911 census will be available in October as a new subscription package on findmypast.com. 1911census.co.uk will continue as a PayAsYouGo site. Findmypast.com is the only family history website to offer the 1911 Census as a subscription.
The 1911 Census is of immense use to family historians, and even more comprehensive than the 1841 – 1901 England & Wales censuses we already provide. The project to digitise the 1911 census took over 2 years and involved over 300 staff.
Don’t just take our word for it, see for yourself by viewing sample images from 1911census.co.uk.
Subscriptions to the 1911 Census on findmypast.com will be available as two packages:
Money saving tip: if you plan to view fewer than 10 households, it will be cheaper for you to use PayAsYouGo credits rather than buying a subscription.
The 1911 Census has not been included within findmypast.com’s existing Explorer subscription. If you want comprehensive access to findmypast.com’s records, you can buy the Explorer and 1911 Census subscriptions together at a special introductory price, for a limited time. These discounted prices will be available for at least a month after the launch of the subscription:
Existing findmypast.com subscribers will be able to upgrade to the new combined subscription using their loyalty discount (currently 20%) at any time - if you decide to upgrade, we will automatically refund the remaining days of your current subscription at a daily rate and deduct this from the price of your new upgraded subscription. Existing findmypast.com subscribers will also get exclusive early access to the 1911 Census before it is made available to the general public.
The 1911 Census will be available as a subscription on findmypast.com no later than October 21st - to receive updates on the launch date, make sure you have opted in to receive newsletters from findmypast.com.
Finally, a reminder that you can use your 1911census.co.uk sign in details and credits on findmypast.com, and vice versa. If you are planning to take up a 1911 Census subscription, now is a good time to use up any remaining credits on the millions of other family history records available on findmypast.com.
We will be adding more detail on the 1911 Census subscription to the site shortly - if you have any questions at the moment, please contact our Customer Support team.
At last! I’m looking forward to exploring the 1911 census in more depth than is affordable on Pay As You Go. Hopefully I will at last be able crack some of the mysteries that can only be solved by checking the records for quite a few households in the hope of eventually finding the right people.
Now we just need a similar arrangement for records available on your sister site Scotland’s People. Any chance of a subscription package which would enable people to explore their Scottish ancestors and relatives at a reasonable price?
Hear hear! I second that, Steve. I have so much I want to check north of the border, but it is simply cost prohibitive for so many wild goose chases. I have already spent a small fortune on fruitless searches. Bring on the subscription option! PLEASE!
I purchased a FindmyPast Explorer subscription in January 2009 purely to enable me to access the 1911 Census. The email advertisement promised:
“2009 will see us finish our new versions of the last two England & Wales censuses (1851, 1901), add images to the 1881 census, and most importantly, will see us add the brand-new 1911 census later in the year.” (email message, sent 30 December 2008 from email@email.findmypast.com)
Now I find that existing subscriptions will not allow access to the 1911 Census - instead, customers like myself are expected to upgrade to include the 1911 Census in a subscription package (for which we are offered a miserable 20% discount, if we extend our existing subscription).
This is not good enough. There was no indication that the 1911 Census would not be available to Explorer subscribers. If I had known the 1911 Census was not going to be included in the Explorer package, I would not have subscribed to it. I would have saved money by simply subscribing to the 1911 site for 6 months, or would have utilised the PayAsYouGo option.
I would therefore like FindmyPast to include the 1911 Census on my Explorer package, as originally indicated, at no additional cost to myself.
I have already waiting 10 months to access this information. I am happy to wait until it becomes available on Ancestry, or any other site if FindmyPast are not prepared to honour their initial advertisement, which was that subscribers would be able to access the 1911 Census as part of their subscription.
This is absolutely correct and was the reason that I took up an Explorer subscription too. Sadly beggars can’t be choosers and because I am 73 yoa I cannot delay indefinately waiting for Ancestry, or whoever, to produce a competitive site. I have therefore accepted but for six mionths only, the add-on 1911 package. Genealogy is rapidly becoming as expensive a hobby as keeping horses and other Upper Middle Class activities!
I think FMP need to recognise that when long-time genealogists chat together, most of the bad comments that used to be aimed at Ancestry are now aimed at them and commercially his may eventually prove to have been a very bad decision for them to take. Remember, Scottish friends, what happened following the initial rapid gains of Prince Charles Edward Stewart.
I also fell for the advertising gimmick of 1911 census available in 2009 - and took out a subscription to FMP in December 2008.
As Terry remarks waiting for another provider did not seem realistic - so I fell for FMP advertising again - an subscribed to the new joint package this week.
BEWARE of the lastest trick - this new subscription does not give access to the full 1911 census, only the original page is available - the EXTRA pages - enumerator pages etc are not available.
So I have been hoodwinked again and sold a restricted access package.
Also the search engine on FMP subscription does not return the same entries as the 1911 site.
When will we learn the underhand tricks of the marketing men????
Steve,
I agree with you on the subs package for “Scotlands People”. I have spent a fortune on that site. It’s great when you can download a copy of BMD cert.
Fingers crossed. Lets hope they (Brightsolid) give us an answer one way or another on this one.
Mark
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