----- Original Message -----
From: "J. Roberts" <tegfan(a)bigfoot.com>
To: <MIDMARCH-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Tuesday 06 2002 7:04 PM
Subject: [MM] The 1901 Census Fiasco
Having become tired of waiting for the on-line version of the above
"comic"
project, our FHS has bought the fiche for our area. My wife and I
have
been
doing some Surname Indexing and have just completed 3 Piece
No's.
We each have 25 years of extensive experience in reading "old"
handwriting.
In 2 of the Enumeration districts, the handwriting was so impossibly
bad,
that a very large proportion of the names were impossible to read.,
despite
extremely careful poring over each one with a very high power
magnifying
glass.
Thus, If WE are unable to read the fiche, how on earth have Prisoners and
Foreigners, both classes of persons having NO INTEREST WHATSOEVER in the
Project, been able to decipher these names???
The worth of the whole project is going to be open to VERY grave doubt. If
ever it does come on-line, I for one will totally ignore it. (Haven't much
choice anyway)
John Roberts
In the Staffordshire Potteries Where The Mugs Come From.
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