As far as I am aware you can still obtain the entire machine readable 26
million 1881 Census records from the Data Archive at Essex University.
Some 11 years ago I imported them into an Access database from where I
can filter on any particular field or fields (including birthplace Isle
of Man). I think Scotland is also available.
Peter Tilley
On 22/03/2011 16:40, Frances Coakley wrote:
> Which file - from the CD ? or from which webpage
> I'd very much like to easily find for example all Manx born in 1881
> (1851 would have been much more convenient)
> removing multiple spaces tabs etc is totally trivial using Perl or any
> of the grep/awk tools under Linux-like systems (admittedly such tools
> are deliberately broken under Windoze but you can install cygwin)
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