My Ancestors beta

I'm sure I should know the answer to this, and at present I can't find it in the LC help anywhere, but I've just entered a relative from the 1881 census who is a servant in a household of apparently unconnected people. She appears on the page following the head of the household, but in the census index the whole household appear under the same reference.

I think in similar circumstances, where I've been adding a whole household, I've put everyone in with the same page number.

So which page number should I be using when entering just the one person - the one she appears on, or that of the head of the household? When I click the arrow to check the reference, she is, of course, not in the list of people that I see at FMP.

Thanks.

 

Pauline, do you view the original images? I often view preceding and following pages/images.. curiosity as much as anything

 

When entering information at LC? If so, it depends. Sometimes a mistranscription makes it unclear if I've found the right family, and sometimes the transcription is so unlikely I feel I must look and see if it really says that!

For my own records I generally only collect census entries which include actual ancestors, and then I always check the original images.

 

Thanks, Peter. I was pretty sure that's what I was supposed to do, and that I'd seen it somewhere on the site, but clearly I was missing what was right in front of me.

(I was going to add a smiley but that option seems to have disappeared - and I'm sure it's not just me this time.)

 

The smileys were not available for me via IE but are shown here on Firefox

 

After a bit of experimenting it seems that using compatibility view in IE11 was causing the problem. Previously this was needed to get the reply with quote to work, but now it seems all the rich text options don't show up until you turn it off.

 

The reference checking arrow seems not to be working for me today - it just takes me to the FMP homepage. I've tried logging out of FMP but the same happens. It was working fine yesterday.

 

The reference checking arrow isn't working for me either. While we're on the subject of things not working, could you tell me why, every now and then, e.g. today, the Lost Cousins website asks me to log in with my ancient e-mail address? I replaced this ages ago. I can't remember exactly when but it was a long time ago.

 

OK, many thanks - that's good to know.

It does confirm what a useful feature this is - I really missed it!

 

I have just been checking my ancestors census references.
For one of my 1911 households the check comes up with a whole extra household on FMP, that are not there on the 1911census site.
Reference 29762/112 the Moffatts are not on my original image taken from the 1911census site.

 

Thanks Peter, I can see how it was wrongly transcribed. The 4 does look like a 2.
I will update my household.