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Yes, I agree that families can be found from other members if
the head cannot found.
However, my aim is merely to get some appreciation of the
proportion of the then population who can be found from their
details alone.
To include all family members in such an exercise as
I've proposed would greatly increase the complexities of
working out even simple statistics, and make the results very
difficult to interpret with any degree of confidence.
By limiting the exercise to household heads and loan
individuals the exercise is made a lot easier.
If also we limit the exercise to those who have already been
found on microfiche we simplify the task even further.
David
On Mon, 16 Sep 2002 22:23:49 +1000 E & R Shanahan <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
# Dear David
# just for your figures, yes mine are in the index and on the microfiches
# - for that one family. The advantage to the PRO online is that if (like
# me) you have no idea of where the person lived, you cannot buy any
# microfiches to check. But the index SHOULD give you a clue if it produces
# the search.
# My Welsh grandfather David Price showed NO MATCH but I put in his wife's
# name and it brought up the page with the wife AND the husband David Price,
# and also the daughter, so that was a bonus for me as I did not know the
# daughter was still at home at that time. So in that respect the index
# failed in one case but came up trumps with another but whether that would
# be on the microfiche or not I don't know, as I do not have the London fiches.
#
# hope that helps anyway
# Cheers
# Eunice
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Staffordshire University,
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