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Old 14-11-12, 17:42
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On Ancestry - up to 1965 and I notice that there are some Walthamstow ones in the update so they've strayed into Essex. Some of the addresses appear as badly as on the Birmingham ones!

http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=1795
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Old 14-11-12, 19:53
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How do you see what's in the update, please, Asa?
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Old 14-11-12, 20:04
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Just by looking about unfortunately. Didn't they just go up to 1960 before? My great grandmother now appears up to 1965 and I can see relations in Barnet and Walthamstow who didn't appear before - a lot of the outer areas finished in the 30s before.

I do wish Ancestry would tell us what exactly has been added.
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Old 14-11-12, 20:15
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The title said 1965 before, but it only went up to 1961. Ooh, my parents are on there together in 1962 now!
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Old 14-11-12, 21:24
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Wow, thanks, Asa! Found my parents... and a few local scandals the adults never mentioned among the neighbours!
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Old 14-11-12, 21:49
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It looks like two years worth: presumably the new authorities collected the old electoral rolls to ensure a smooth administrative transition when Greater London mushroomed in 1965.
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Old 14-11-12, 21:55
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Thanks for flagging this up, I've found my parents - though they appear to be living at different addresses as not ony has as the trascriber has used the voter number instead of the house number and has transcribed them as being in the next street to the one they obviously lived in!
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Old 14-11-12, 22:23
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I got fooled that way too, Jill. In fact every look up I have done (well, okay, four!) has given the address incorrectly: previous road, mistranscription and wife's name!
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There is no transcriber, Jill; it was done using OCR software.
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My grandfather Jeuel Gray has been the subject of many errors in recording - Juel, Jewel, Jule etc. But I found him in the electoral roll for 1927 as Jcuol Jabez J. Gray. They've even given him an extra initial!

And his wife Annie? She's down as Aiftiie!
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