tice board at the FRC.
In the year 2000 we are planning to speak to groups at venues up and down the country (at County Record Offices, libraries and Family History Fairs). We will continue to brief the FRC User Group which meets every 4 months. In addition we intend to set up an advisory panel consisting of representatives from those who use the census returns for a variety of research purposes (family history, one-name studies, local and social history).
Regular information will be published in the FRC newsletter and on the PRO web site (http://www.pro.gov.uk/). If you would like further information please contact David Annal at the FRC (tel:0181 392 5303) or email: email@example.com
PRO using inmates to index 1901 UK census!!!
The actual press release from DERA is available from the company's website at:
DERA Technology revamps 1901 Census Returns
The UK's Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA) is making available on-line the Census details of around 32 million individuals living in England and Wales in 1901. Researchers on genealogy, who are the third biggest users of the Internet, will be delighted with this news.
Census returns are not released for 100 years for reasons of personal confidentiality - the 1901 Census is the next to be released in January 2002. The Keeper of Public Records today announced the appointment of DERA as the prime contractor for the digitisation of the 1901 Census returns.
Currently recorded on microfilm and comprising about 1.5 million pages, the details on the returns will be turned into an index of individuals with links to digital images of the original enumeration register page. This will be the first time the original images and associated index have been made available in electronic format to a worldwide audience.
From January 2002, the new DERA digitised system will be accessible on the Internet. Genealogy researchers will also be able to access the service by calling into the Family Records Centre of the Public Records Office.
DERA in partnership with Enterprise Supply Services (part of the Prison Service), Applied Net Ltd and Comax (part of Amey plc), will find the data input task of the longhand records an enormous one - in 1901 there were no computers.
Enterprise Supply Services will use the services of inmates to input the data twice (double keying method) with cross-checking software to ensure the best possible level of accuracy.
Applied Net Ltd will configure the database and create the website that will enable the data to be indexed and searched remotely, and, in view of the large numbers of genealogy researchers, the site will be sized for some 1 million visitors a day over the initial period.
Date Calculation Websites: Ever read a newspaper article and wanted to know the day it was published? Ever tried to find the day of the week a birth date fell on? Here are a few sites for perpetual calendars and for calculating birth dates and other dates:
Birthdate Form: Calculates birthdate from death date and age of death in year-month-day format at Ben Buckner's website:
Calculating Birth Year Based on Census Information at Rose-Anne Cunningham Bray's website:
Calendars from a variety of countries and time periods visit the Time and Date website at:
Search by Keywords to specify year or month/year. Try 9/1752 to see the Gregorian Reformation.
Perpetual Calendar, just change the four digit year to whatever year you want:
Virtual Perpetual Calendars can be found at:
Michael Bertrand's Java Perpetual Calendar can be found at:
10,000 year calendar:
A variety of calendar websites can also be found at Cindi's list:
About Fawne Stratford-Devai
Fawne Stratford-Devai's work on Land Records and early Ontario records is well known in the genealogy community. A published author of several Canadian and UK research books, she has also contributed articles to the Ontario Genealogical Society's newsletter "Families" as well as writing for the online family history newsletter the "Global Gazette". Biography