The Huntingdonshire 1841 Census, now also comes as smaller set covering just one
or two piece numbers on each CD, so why buy the full county set, if you
don't need it. This set contains the places covered by HO107/453-455, and
it contains images of the census books digitised from the microfilm.
The
publishers are very proud of the superb quality of the scanned images.
They've have worked from really excellent films copied from the first
generation films at the PRO, and have then used the very best possible
film scanner currently available to digitise the images at a high
resolution.
Link to indexes to browse the areas and streets where
your ancestors possibly lived, and it covers the places as they
appeared on the 1841 Census fiche (see the list below for the places
that are covered by this set).
This is real primary data. Note
that the CDs contain images of the actual pages of the census
enumerators' books. Real original primary research data, (not
transcriptions in text format). What you see is the original hand
written documents. That does involve you reading the pages rather than
typing in a name and expecting the computer to find it. However, you
will very quickly become used to the handwriting styles of the
different enumerators, and it is easy to click through the pages at
even low magnification to spot the people you are looking for.
Features
of the CD set are: the ability to magnify an area to see further
detail, print the current page, alphabetic street index for larger
towns, and searchable area indexes.
Places on CD 3 (HO107/453-455):
Abbotsley, Buckden, Diddington, Eynesbury, Fen Stanton, Godmanchester, Great Gransden, Great Paxton, Great Staughton, Hail Weston, Hemingford Grey, Hemingford Abbots, Hilton, Huntingdon All Saints, Huntingdon St Benedict, Huntingdon St John, Huntingdon St Mary, Little Paxton, Midloe (ex par.), Offord Cluny, Offord Darcy, Papworth St Agnes (Cambs), Southoe, St Neots (part), St Neots (part), Tetworth, Toseland, Waresley, Yelling.
