CenMatch - Helps search Census Records at Ancestry.com
A few days ago, Dick Eastman wrote about CenMatch for Ancestry.com. CenMatch's web page advertises this:
"Are you struggling to find families when searching census records on Ancestry.com? Do you wish there were more options available? CenMatch is the answer for you!
An easy to use Excel template is all that you need to start matching those hard-to-find families.
CenMatch is designed to match either 2 or 3 people that appear on the same census page together or a page following person # 1. You have the ability to Sort by Name, Birth Year, Census Parish, Census County or Matching records. It is then simply a matter of clicking on the icon to go to the page in question."
CenMatch costs $7.50 in Australian dollars, which is approximately $5.75 in U.S. dollars. So the product itself is pretty inexpensive, but you do need a subscription to Ancestry.com and to have Microsoft Excel on your computer in order to use it. I don't have Excel on my computer (I use a free program called OpenOffice), so I don't plan on buying this program...but I'd be interested to hear if anyone tries it and what they think of it.
The CenMatch template works with the following databases at Ancestry.com :
1850 United States Federal Census
1860 United States Federal Census
1870 United States Federal Census
1890 United States Federal Census Fragment
1900 United States Federal Census
1861 Channel Islands Census
1871 Channel Islands Census
1881 Channel Islands Census
1891 Channel Islands Census
1901 Channel Islands Census
1861 England Census
1871 England Census
1881 England Census
1891 England Census
1901 England Census
1861 Isle of Man Census
1871 Isle of Man Census
1881 Isle of Man Census
1891 Isle of Man Census
1901 Isle of Man Census
1861 Wales Census
1871 Wales Census
1881 Wales Census
1891 Wales Census
1901 Wales Census