Re: 1881 census

Hi Maxwell,
I don't think you can, but if you find someone by town in county, you can view their neighbours.

tim sewell...

The following method was revealed in a very recent a post from "mickg" on
soc.genealogy.britain (Tues May 23 2006, thread re "quill dresser")

To do it off the CD's you have to search by region: Pick your region,
enter a dummy name to close the initial search box (ignore any results),
in the Search menu Select 'Neighbors - Advanced Query' (note the
American spelling) in the query for box at the bottom enter "Quill
dresser" (yes including the quotes).

It's a bit of a process and using quotes ties you to that exact
character sequence including spaces etc. Use the help to define more
specific searches. entering - quill and dresser - (not the -s) will find
all records containing both words and thus "Quill Pen Rubber (Quill Pen
Dresser)" is found too - probably a better search.

When searching multiple regions I keep notepad open ( well actually
Win32pad ) to store search strings I want to reuse.

MickG

Mickg was referring to a search for an occupation, but it works (for me,
anyway) for all search strings.

I just searched Northern Borders region for references to "Front Street"
Whitburn and got 42 hits. Without "Whitburn", I get 1533 hits for the whole
region. If I refine my search to "Front Street" Whitburn Br*, I get four
results - entries for a Bryan Smith, a Brother, a Bricklayer, and a birth
in Brecknock. Very effective!