England & Wales Electoral Registers 1832-1932 - findmypast

[kiterunner]

FMP have said on Facebook that more records will be added in the future.

[Guinevere]

Nothing for Wales except Glamorgan.

And Suffolk doesn't go up to 1932.

[Kit]

In some ways I wish they would just release the whole record set rather than in stages. Then you know that people should be in there somewhere and you are playing hide and seek. it also saves time trying to work out what is the old release and what is the new release.

[Mary from Italy]

The search doesn't work properly - how annoying!

I've been looking for people with the surname Pool in a particular town, but whether I enter a Christian name or leave it blank I'm just getting people with completely different surnames living in Pool Road.

I expect I shall find some Pools eventually, but it's going to take hours at this rate.

And the next surname I'm going to be looking for is North, which is sure to be even worse

[kiterunner]

Originally Posted by Mary from Italy

The search doesn't work properly - how annoying!

I've been looking for people with the surname Pool in a particular town, but whether I enter a Christian name or leave it blank I'm just getting people with completely different surnames living in Pool Road.

I expect I shall find some Pools eventually, but it's going to take hours at this rate.

And the next surname I'm going to be looking for is North, which is sure to be even worse

Yes, it's because they indexed it using OCR software, but they didn't program it to try to identify names and addresses like ancestry did with the London Electoral Registers, just to index all the words like they (FMP) did with the National Probate Calendar. I suppose it does avoid some of the problems of ancestry's way of doing it, but it introduces problems of its own, especially since you have to load each image to see what is on it, and since there isn't a full browse feature, or at least, not that I've found.

[kiterunner]

These can now be browsed:
http://search.findmypast.co.uk/searc...FcNg2wodlQ0Hvg

[Mary from Italy]

Do we know when they're likely to complete these records?

I was hoping to find Kidderminster, but the only borough in Worcs that turns up when I browse is Dudley.

[kiterunner]

In this week's Findmypast Fridays, they have announced that "Over 116 million names have been added" to this database!