How do I look up my great great grandparents (Abraham and Mary ROBERTS) and their young children in the indexed 1881 census?
– You can study the indexed 1881 census at your local LDS Family History Centre on microfiche. There are 13 sets of fiches corresponding to the 13 counties of Wales: Anglesey, Breconshire, Caernarvonshire, Cardiganshire, Carmarthenshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Glamorgan, Merionethshire, Monmouthshire, Montgomeryshire, Pembrokeshire, and Radnorshire. Each county set is divided into subsets headed: Surname, As enumerated, Birthplace, Census place, Miscellaneous, and Institutions. They are differentiated by colour. Scan through the Surname subset and list all the adult Abraham ROBERTS, noting their 4-digit reference numbers and folio numbers (e.g. 4938 25). Repeat with all the Mary ROBERTS of child-bearing age. Hopefully, you should find no more than two reference numbers which match. Then retrieve the ‘As enumerated’ microfiche which contains the matching reference number. You should now have the married pair with the rest of the family together with their address. Note that this meth
