Have you ever wondered how a website like findmypast.co.uk goes about scanning the information for us family historians to use before they put up online?
I mean what do they have to do to actually extract all that information from the government documents so that eventually we can go online and type in our search criteria and then get to see the results?
I watched this film and was fascinated by the facts…
- There are 18 million pages of the 1911 census of England & Wales.
- 36 million people made up the population then, just before the First World War.
- 10 times the number of images than the 1901 census.
- A team of 350 people worked on the transcriptions.
- 7 billion keystrokes were made by the transcribers!
- 2 Kilometres of shelving housed the 1911 census before the process of scanning started.
Watch it here.
Disclosure: Compensated Affiliate of findmypast.co.uk
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