Absent Voters List with name index

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Edit: Please see last post for absent voters download links.

We are pleased to inform all that the two Absent Voters Lists that we have available on our site have now had a name index added.

The AVLs can be seen at the following links;

www.swarm.net63.net/salfordavlnorth.pdf

and

www.swarm.net63.net/salfordavlsouth.pdf

The third and last AVL is being indexed as I type.

These Absent Voters Lists have been made available through the kind cooperation of:
Neil Drum

The Manchester Regiment Forum
themanchesters.org/forum

The Salford War Memorials Project
www.swarm.net63.net/

Manchester and Lancashire Family History Society
www.mlfhs.org.uk

No money has changed hands to make the lists available just a lot of hard work by many people especially the volunteers at the MLFHS, our heartfelt thanks to them all.

May we ask that if you see anyone trying to sell copies of the lists on ebay, local markets, Loot, etc.. that you report it to a staff member on our forum and point out to any unsuspecting purchaser that they are free on our website.

We hope that these list benefit both Salfordians and war historians alike.

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A brief bit about the Absent Voters Lists and how to use them:


Absent Voter Lists

The United Kingdom general election of 1918 was the first to be held after the Representation of the
People Act 1918, which meant it was the first United Kingdom general election in which nearly all men
aged 21 and women aged 30 and over could vote. Polling was held on 14 December 1918, although the
count did not begin until 28 December.
The wide extension of the franchise combined with the large number of voters whose military service
or other contribution to the war effort meant that they were expected to be absent from their normal
residential address at the time of the election required special measures for voter registration. Absent
voter lists were therefore compiled listing all voters affected in this way.
The lists are arranged by electoral division and then by ward and finally alphabetically by street and
house number. Each voter is allocated a number and his name and identifying details are given. These
latter (in the case of servicemen) consist of the person’s name, rank, regiment (or ship/naval
establishment) and service number. A very small number of women’s names appear in the lists.


Using the Lists

The absent voter list is reproduced here as scanned images of the original document. This is
accompanied by a name index arranged in surname/forename order giving the voter number for each
person. Using the voter number, the individual can be readily found in the list. Bookmarks have been
provided at intervals of each 500 voters to assist in location.
The images of the lists have also been subjected to optical character recognition (OCR) to make them
searchable. This might permit a regiment or ship name to be located in the list. However, the
imperfections of OCR mean that this process is not wholly reliable, and the failure of a search should
not automatically be taken to mean that the search term is not present in the list

[prospectroad]

Well done Garry, Mack and everyone else involved.

Cheers
Pete

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[tonyrod]

i second that, first class job, done by all .

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The third and final absent voters list has now been indexed and is available at the following link.

www.swarm.net63.net/salfordavlwest.pdf

Many thanks to all involved.

[Hawker Hurricane]

Brilliant work. :Action:

[Ben]

Congratulations all involved

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I have now moved the AVLs to a more reliable site. Hopefully the download issues are now resolved.

Salford North

Saford South

Salford West