From: chris@cjpl.co.uk   
      
   On 22/03/2022 15:45, Nigel Reed wrote:   
   > On Tue, 22 Mar 2022 12:32:45 +0200   
   > Steve Hayes  wrote:   
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   >> On Mon, 21 Mar 2022 10:21:49 -0500, Nigel Reed   
   >>  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On Mon, 21 Mar 2022 15:38:15 +0200   
   >>> Steve Hayes  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> I've been researching several families in the Beler registration   
   >>>> district in Derbyshire, mainly on FamilySearch, and haven't been   
   >>>> able to find any of them in the 1871 Census.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Was there something wrong with it in Derbyshire, or is it just   
   >>>> FamilySearch?   
   >>>   
   >>> Is it possible they were not home at the time of the census? They   
   >>> could have been visiting friends or traveling? I've seen this   
   >>> occasionally. Have you tried surrounding areas?   
   >>   
   >> I'd be rather surised if 20 different families were not at home on the   
   >> same night in 1871, yet were at home in 1861 and 1881.   
   >   
   > Maybe they took a family holiday ;) Sorry, but to me "several" doesn't   
   > equate to 20.   
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   It is possible that one or more folios, present in the original books,   
   have been accidentally omitted from the digitisation (and, assuming the   
   digitisation was done from microfilm, perhaps also from the microfilm).   
      
   This might be apparent from a break in the folio and page numbers. You   
   are not going to want to browse the whole of Belper (though you probably   
   would have done in pre-internet days when there was no alternative), but   
   if you can narrow down the area where the families should be, you might   
   be able to page through to check.   
      
   I found such an instance in the 1851 census for a town in Wales, where   
   entries I had transcribed from the microfilm years ago were missing from   
   either Findmypast or Ancestry (or both - I forget). This involved a   
   significant number of missing pages, and they did correct it after I   
   drew their attention to it.   
      
   It might be worth raising the query on a Derbyshire specific forum, for   
   example https://groups.io/g/derbysgen2 , in case someone with local   
   knowledge has an answer.   
      
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