Transcript TheGenealogist - Unlock the Past

TheGenealogist:
break down your brickwalls
Rosemary Kopittke
Great Britain & Ireland
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Civil registrations & Parish records
Official Non-Conformist Registers
Census (1911 being added progressively)
Directories
Military records
Land records
Electoral Rolls and Poll Books
PCC Wills and images
Peerage & heritage records
Newspapers & magazines
Occupational lists
BMDs
• Award winning BMD service
• YFT Magazine site of the year
• Includes entries missing from the microfiche
and film
• Overseas BMDs
• Now completely searchable marriages back to
1837, births from 1960 and deaths from 1984
GRO Overseas BMDs
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Marine Births & Deaths 1837-1965
Army Births, Marriages & Deaths 1747-1980
Air Births, Deaths & Missing 1949-1966
Informal certificates of births at sea 1839-1867
Consular records
▫ Births 1849-1885
▫ Marriages 1916-1935
▫ Deaths 1849-1940
TNA Overseas Birth Records
• RG33 Overseas BMD and burials of British
subjects including those on board ships
▫ Covers 1627 to 1960
▫ Contains original registers, notebooks and
copies of entries
• RG32 POWs and Civilian deaths
• RG34 Foreign marriages including WWI
• Lots more ...
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Records
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records online – over 8 million individuals
• Invaluable for non-conformist families
• Produce trees
• Includes early birth certificates
• Many records contain extensive information
Non-Conformist Records
• RG4 Series
▫ Baptisms, Marriages, Deaths and Burials
1567-1858
▫ Includes Baptist, Independent Presbyterian,
Wesleyans, Roman Catholics and Protestant
Refugees
• RG8 Series
▫ British Lying-in Hospital, Holborn 1749-1868
▫ Very detailed records of births & baptisms
Non-Conformist Records
• RG6 Series – Quakers (Society of Friends)
▫ 1.3 million individuals complete with images
and family tree
• RG7 Series – Fleet marriages
▫ 1667 to 1777
▫ 800,000 people listed
▫ Over half of London marriages were here
Primitive Methodist Connexion at Ebenezer
Chapel in St Peter’s Place, Stockport
Registers of Births, Marriages and Deaths of
Passengers at Sea from 1856 to 1865
Parish Records
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Millions of records from 1540 onwards
Transcript books
Original register images
Transcript databases
Continually expanding ... Many Catholic
registers just released in October
Census
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Complete census for England and Wales
Full transcripts
Images
1911 census project underway – over 8 million
records so far (19 counties)
• Save records to log or TreeView
Census – Name Maps
Census – Marriage Finder
PCC Wills 1384 to 1858
• Over 840,000 Wills
• Over 200 years complete
• All mariners had to make a will before going to
sea
Military Records
• Largest set of Army and Navy Lists
available online
• WWI deaths
• WW2 Deaths
• Rolls of Honour
• and more ...
Poll Books and Directories
• Directories – Post Office,
Commercial and Telephone
• Poll Books – useful as early
voters lists
• Electoral registers
• Electoral Roll London 2005
Diamond Content – priority access
• A greater range of electoral records including
new transcripts
• International records
• Newspapers and magazines
• Telephone directories
• Occupational lists
• Peerage and heritage records
• Regimental records
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Australia
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Electoral rolls (can only see Qld 1900)
Transportation records
Census & muster rolls
Directories from 1834-1937
New South Wales Landholders
Telephone directories
Regional Cyclopaedias & Dictionaries of
Biography
International records
New Zealand
• Post Office Directories
• Early Settler’s Lists & Biographies
• Military Records
▫ Rolls of Honour
▫ Regimental records
▫ Biographies and histories
International records
America
• Wills – Delaware, Maryland,
New York
• Elector lists
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Family Forename Search
• Ideal for the Smiths, Browns, Joneses and
other common surnames
• Good for finding names resulting from poor
handwriting
• Can enter multiple forenames
• Can use County / Surname / Birth decade to
refine the search
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Enter at least 3 letters from the address
Can use wildcards
Select from the matching streets
Select the house in the street
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tree
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