Derbyshire 1841 Census CD's Released Today

[Rob Dewsall]

Hi All,

We at The Archive CD Books Project have today released the Derbyshire 1841 Census, both as a full county set and as individual CD's for those who only wish to research a particular part of the county.

Scanned in greyscale to the highest possible quality, the images on the CDs are actually far easier to read than the microfilms!

Parish Chest (http://www.parishchest.com/en-gb/dept_2400.html)

Best wishes
Rob Dewsall

[Patrisia]

....and I was going to do the ironing tomorrow!|woohoo|

Patrisia

[Brett]

I've ordered mine|cheers| but will have to wait a couple of weeks before I can celebrate properly!

Brett

[lanerellis]

Hello all,

How wonderful to have the great news about the release of the 1841 Derbyshire census! I pre-ordered my set a long time ago, when the first orders were being taken, and have been looking forward to this release. I assume that as usual ACDB will honor the original price for those of us that pre-ordered early on, and just want to thank Rod and the staff for this release.

[Brett]

My CDs arrived a couple of days ago, and I must say that I am most impressed with the quality of the images. Compared with the LDS microfilm of the 1841 Census for an area of South Derbyshire which I attempted to transcribe a few years ago, it certainly is, as Rod promised it would be, "almost 100% readable". I strongly recommend this purchase for anyone doing Derbyshire research in this era.

Regards and best wishes,

Brett