Glamorgan Family History Society
DATA
for GLAMORGAN 1851 CENSUS CD-ROM
1. A search
engine is provided with the CD and is installed on the hard drive when the CD
is first loaded into the CD-ROM drive.
2. The program is started in the same way as other Windows programs.
3. The search fields are: Given Name, Last Name, Birth Year,
4. You can search on one or more of these.
5. Soundex option is provided on the name which is of
great help when searching for variants.
6. It will also be possible to view the following:
Census as Enumerated, Census in Name Order, Enumeration Districts [descriptions
as given by the enumerators] & Census Abbreviations.
7. Minimum system requirements: Windows 95, 98, NT or 2000. A screen resolution
of 800x600 pixels: IBM PC or equivalent with at least a 486 processor, 16Mb of
Ram and 5Mb of free hard disc space.
8. The CD will also run on Windows XP, but requires a small patch which can be
found below:
<--- Click on
the CD opposite for the XP patch.
1851 Census Software Version 4.01 (Do not use if you already have
Version 5.xx)
Save to: C:\PROGRAM FILES\GLAMORGAN1851\GL51.EXE
Click To Download: GL51.EXE
Links
Glamorgan Family
History Society