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The range of online records and CDs now include the 1881 census and wills. Two major software releases give you even more choice when using the latest Vista PC's. Major shows are coming soon with Maidstone, swindon and York. Also our offers will save you money on a wide range of products.
In this issue:
* UK Events
Come and see us at local events like Maidstone, Swindon or York and benefit from show specials
* Special Email News Offers - Save Up-to 30%
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Save £3 on the Family and Local History Handbook
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We are currently giving out a free online trial to an all-inclusive subscription. This comes with a special offer for all those who take a Premium subscription out after the trial. www.TheGenealogist.co.uk/freesub
* What's New Online?
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Wills and Will Indexes (our growing collection of PCC wills now covers even more years and includes images of the original documents)
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The 1881 Census with images are nearing completion for England
- More overseas BMDs
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Parish Record Transcripts 250,000 added
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Worcestershire Parish Record Transcript (Malvern FHS Joint Project)
- Gloucestershire Parish Record Transcript
* What's New on CD
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Army List
- Navy List
- Family Pedigrees and Knight's Pedigrees
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School Registers
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Landed Gentry and Peerages
- Royal Courts
- Freemen of York and Cheshire
* New Software
- RootsMagic 4
- Family Historian version 4
* Top-selling Products
We are currently giving out a free online trial to an all-inclusive annual subscription. This comes with a special offer for all those who take a Premium subscription out after the trial. Go to www.TheGenealogist.co.uk/freesub to sign up now.
* GenFair
New societies joining all the time and making their wares just a click away
UK EVENTS
Maidstone, Kent - 7th June 2009 10am - 5pm
Lock Meadow Market Hall, Maidstone
Wiltshire FHS Open Day - Swindon, Wiltshire 20th June 2009 10.00 am -
3.30pm
New College, Swindon
Yorkshire Family History Fair 27th June - Sponsored by TheGenealogist.co.uk
York Racecourse
Yorkshire Family History Fair - York Race Course
27th June 2009 10am to 4.30pm Admission: Adults £4
: Children under 14 FREE
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TheGenealogist.co.uk are proud sponsors of the Yorkshire Family History Show which is always a great day out and well attended by societies and family historians. Here you will have access to regional expertise provided by a range of family history societies as well as specialist products and services to help you trace your ancestors. See us on the stands in the foyer and by the Tote booth.
We have two free free talks by Nigel Bayley and Mark Bayley, these cover TheGenealogist.co.uk and RootsMagic with regular demos being given throughout the day.
www.yorkshirefamilyhistoryfair.com
For further details of fairs visit www.genealogysupplies.com/events.htm
SPECIAL EMAIL NEWS OFFERS
Save £3 on “The Family and Local History Handbook” 11th Edition
This is the latest in the series of handbooks. This comprehensively covers all aspects of family & local history, with listings of over five thousand useful addresses. Each edition complements the previous, providing new articles on all aspects of Family, Local & Military History.
Free Library Subscriptions to Census Transcripts BMDs and More
If you work for a council library your library could benefit from a 3 month free subscription. Our transcripts cover the period 1841 to 1901 and are fully searchable across Name, occupation, relationship etc.
WHAT'S
NEW ONLINE
We have added millions of records into the All-Inclusive subscriptions which cost as little as £4.66 a month.
Wills
Look under the Wills, Probates and Testaments section for the second part of our PCC Wills and probate records.
The wills are searchable by name, year of will, year of probate, area and profession. The search results also show the image of the original record. This will be expanded to cover all years.
Many areas not covered by PCC wills are covered by our will indexes in this section.
1881 census (Millions of records added)
Our new 1881 census material transcribed by us with links to images of the original census now covers Berkshire, Cheshire, Channel Isles, Devon, Durham, Essex, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Kent, Lancashire, Leicestershire, London, Northumberland, Middlesex, Somerset, Sussex, Wiltshire and Yorkshire with many more counties coming over the next few months. It can be searched under the appropriate county census transcripts, Master Search or Family Search.
Overseas BMDs
We have added 22,000 records, with images. Bringing the total of records to over 1,000,000. This transcript covers the births, marriages and deaths of British Service Personnel throughout the world. The new data now also includes South African Deaths : 1899 - 1902
Parish Record Transcripts
Worcestershire Parish Record Transcript (Malvern FHS Joint Project)
We have also added 35,000 individuals to our transcript for Worcestershire,
expanding our coverage and bringing the total to 305,000 individuals.
With Baptisms/Births for 1812 - 1849
Gloucestershire Parish Record Transcript
We have now added our transcript for Gloucestershire with nearly 150,000
individuals. With years ranging from 1524 - 1913.
Swap to TheGenealogist.co.uk and Save
There has never been a better time to swap your online subscription. Many services have raised their prices but our service is now offering even more for less. It could save you nearly £40 a year and with our £20 voucher or free software offer, its even more of a bargain. Our All Inclusive credit free subscriptions start at £39.95 and our credit based All Inclusive works out at £4.66 a month.
With The Genealogist now covering the census from 1841 to 1901, bmds, parish, non-conformist records, Wills, military and early electoral registers it's never been a better time to join.
Just visit www.TheGenealogist.co.uk to see the various options and offers.
Share
your trees and pictures on The Genealogist
Tree View - The free service open to all
Store your photos and link them to your tree
We have two new features on TreeView, the first is the ability to upload pictures and link them to family members and events. So now you can add a picture to that wedding and put faces to all those names. To link an image to an individual or event, go to that individual/event and click on the images tab, then click the “Add image” button and follow the on screen instructions.
Share Your Tree
The second feature is the ability to share your tree with friends and family. Just go to tools and click “Add a friend”, they'll receive an invitation to view your tree and as an extra bonus they'll also get a 30 day free trial to the Genealogist, if they've not already had one. The people you invite to your tree will not be able to edit or delete any details so you can be rest assured that nothing will change the next time you log in!
This now means that you can share all your family memories with friends and relatives alike. Why not start now and introduce your kith and kin to your ancestors on TreeView today.
If you haven't used TreeView just signup to a free subscription at www.TheGenealogist.co.uk/freesub and from then on you can use the link tree.thegenealogist.co.uk
All of the new data has been added into the All-Inclusive subscriptions which cost as little as £4.66 a month.
WHAT'S NEW ON CD
New Data CDs
NEW SOFTWARE
RootsMagic
4
RootsMagic
Platinum Edition latest version of RootsMagic software includes
over £99-worth of Genealogy Resources
PLUS £1,620-worth of S&N Census Vouchers.
Some of the NEW FEATURES in Version 4:
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RootsMagic-To-Go - Run RootsMagic from a Removeable Drive
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Quaker and BMD date support
- Live Spell Checking
- Thesaurus
- Geocoding
- Online Mapping
- DNA Test Support
- Multi-language Support
- People and WebSearch Tabs
- Website CSS
This Edition is the most comprehensive version available. It includes seven CDs containing:
- Bartholomew's 1898 Royal Atlas of England and Wales
- Change of names CD
- Burke's General Armory of England, Scotland and Ireland
- English and Welsh Landowners
- Irish Landowners
- Scottish Landowners
- 90 day online subscription to www.TheGenealogist.co.uk.
This package also includes £1,620-worth of vouchers off the British Data Archive Census CD sets and a printed "Quick Start" manual.
Only S&N publishes the UK version with the UK spellcheck and settings.
- Wide range of charts and reports
- Create shareable CDs so others can view your work
- Plan your next move with research tools
- Create a beautiful family history website
- Add photos to bring your family history to life
- Document your family history
- Publish your family history
- Six condition search
- Easy to learn and use
Runs under Windows 2000, 2003, XP, Vista, Vista 64, Windows 7.
PLUS free S&N Resources CD worth £7.95
This extra CD contains a UK research guide, free online subscription and
various other resources.
Family Historian V4
S&N Exclusive - Free Resource CD worth
£7.95
Written for the UK by a leading UK software designer. A new concept in genealogy programs that allows you to enter your family by drawing a tree. Full support is given for sources, notes, facts and linked multimedia elements. For researchers it provides support for Queries and Reports.
New features in version 4 include:
A new hub component window called the 'Focus Window', with views for spouses & children, parents & siblings, ancestors and descendants. It is designed to make adding relatives and moving around a family tree, completely intuitive and easy.
The main 'Property Box' (for data entry) has been reworked so that it
too is now easier than ever to use. Users can configure its appearance,
customize it, move it, resize it, or 'dock' it to the side of the application
window.
Project management capability has been added. The program automatically
looks after all your project files for you (including picture files and
other multimedia, saved charts and more) in a dedicated folder on your
hard disk.
Multi-level undo/redo lets you make changes in confidence, knowing that
if you make a mistake you can easily undo it (this is the most voted-for
feature on users' wish lists).
Full support for same sex relationships has been added.
Support for multimedia, and especially pictures, has been significantly
enhanced. Thumbnail views have been added to make browsing pictures easy.
You can now link pictures to events and attributes. Adding pictures and
multimedia is easier than ever, as is browsing all the pictures in your
project - thanks to extensive filtering options, including keyword filtering,
in the Multimedia Window. Support for pictures has been improved in reports,
and there is an all-new multimedia report.
Charts, reports and queries can all now be saved in PDF format. With charts,
you also have the option of saving the entire chart as a one-page PDF
file.
Extensive power-user features have been added, giving power-users much
greater scope to extend and customize the program than ever before. Ordinary
users can also benefit through the ability to download program extensions
written by power users, from Family Historian user websites (e.g. www.fhug.org.uk).
Enhancements to charts and diagrams.
Improved support for website generation and for family tree CD creation.
System Requirements: Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2000, 2003, ME, or 98, with at least 40 MB of available hard drive space and a minimum of 64 MB RAM (128 MB RAM recommended). CD or DVD burning drive/software required to create family CDs/DVDs. Internet connection required for Internet Search features. Support for PDF output requires Windows Vista, XP or 2000. Web space is required if you wish to upload created websites to the Internet.
Resources CD worth £7.95
This extra CD contains a UK research guide, free online subscription and
various other resources.
Family
Historian V4 Upgrade (from version 3 only) £ 20.50
TOP-SELLING
PRODUCTS
- RootsMagic UK Version 4 Platinum Ed. + Free Resource CD worth £7.95 £49.95
- RootsMagic UK Version 4 Upgrade £19.95
- Family Historian v4 + Free Resource CD worth £7.95 £35.50, Upgrade £20.50
- Family Tree Maker 2009 Deluxe Edition (UK) + Free CD worth £7.95 SRP £39.95 Now £27.75
- Reunion 9.07 for the Mac SRP £79.95 Now £64.95
- NBI - National Burials Index Second Edition £36.95
- Long Luxury Burgundy Certificate Binder £14.95
- A4 Burgundy Family History Binder £14.95
- RootsMagic UK Version 4 Standard Edition £34.95
- Lancashire 1881 Census CD Set £49.95
Order any of the above at www.GenealogySupplies.com
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