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the server history of census.pro.gov.uk: (from security space via usenet)

           Aug 13, 2002  193.195.171.72  Apache/1.3.26 (Unix)
           Jul 10, 2002  193.195.171.72  Apache/1.3.26 (Unix)
           Feb 7, 2002  194.131.235.33  No contact
           Jan 7, 2002  194.131.235.33  No contact
           Dec 9, 2001  194.131.235.33  No contact
           Nov 6, 2001  194.131.235.33  Microsoft-IIS/4.0
           Oct 6, 2001  194.131.235.33  Microsoft-IIS/4.0
           Sep 9, 2001  194.131.235.33  Microsoft-IIS/4.0
           Aug 7, 2001  194.131.235.33  Microsoft-IIS/4.0
           Jul 9, 2001  193.113.180.5  Apache/1.3.14 (Unix)

so the census site started off on apache/unix, someone had a great idea
to launch the 1901 census site using microsoft’s iis, they spent about 4 months sorting that out, everything went horribly
wrong, and now they are back (and working ok apart from occassional “yes
we really are still testing” pages) using apache/unix. surprise.

the 1901 census is back online. it’s a lot faster than before it collapsed in a heap but the help pages are useless:

England and Wales were divided into a number
of administrative areas known as Counties. On some enumeration pages, the
name of the Borough is given as the Administrative County.

yes, i can work out what an administrative county is. what i want to
know is what my options are. what county naming system was in place in 1901?
i’ve already sussed out that i need to look under both shropshire and salop
for my ancestors fom that county but i can’t find anyone under montgomery or powys just across the welsh border from there. grrrrrr.

also some directory of similarly spelt and misspelt names would come in exceedingly handy.

i obviously haven’t listened to the shipping forecast in quite a while. finisterre got wiped out six months ago and her place has been taken by fitzroy.

She was rubbed out by international agreement, since one of Spain’s meteorogical areas confusingly bears the same name.

the shipping forecast makes the perfect lullaby and you can play singalong-a-shipping-forecast. with the web page.