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Electoral Rolls on Ancestry

Electoral Rolls on Ancestry

Posted: 18 Aug 2013 2:45PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 18 Aug 2013 5:24PM GMT
Hello,

I'm sure there's a simple answer to this, but what year do the data base of electoral rolls start on Ancestry - and what year do they end?

Also, is there a reason why a person, no matter what information one put in, only appears to be on once in the rolls?

A person I'm looking for only appears on the 1964 electoral roll - she would have been twenty-two - and doesn't seem to appear on any others.

It's not helping my research at all :)

Re: Electoral Rolls

Posted: 18 Aug 2013 3:48PM GMT
Classification: Query
Ancestry have two lots of electoral registers: London (from 1832 to 1965) and "Midlands" - actually just Birmingham and a bit of Warks (1832 to 1955).

On the basis that your ancestor was in London and 22 in 1964, you would only expect to find her once. She would have been too young to vote before that (voting age was 21 then) and the later registers are not online.

Re: Electoral Rolls

Posted: 19 Aug 2013 5:05AM GMT
Classification: Query
Ah, that explains it - thank you.

Re: Electoral Rolls

Posted: 20 Dec 2014 7:55AM GMT
Classification: Query
Just to add many of the London electoral rolls are garbled on Ancestry, it would seem their system has a problem reading across three columns of names. Ancestry seems to limit the number of names it will index per page, so not only is a page garbled but two thirds of the entries are not indexed.

When viewing an image it is possible select a different year and 'physically' check for missing people by 'flicking' through the pages.
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