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* UK Events

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Glamorgan FHS Family History Fair and Open Day 3rd October 2009

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• FTM 2010 & 2009 Special Offers

• London 1851, 1861, 1871, 1901 and Yorkshire 1891 CD sets and Yorkshire 1891 DVD - 50% Off

• Save £5 on the Family and Local History Handbook

• 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

* Tracing the Brontë Family

• Using various resources on TG including Poll books and Directories we show why these little used resources are important in adding detail to your ancestors lives. Read the full article at TheGenealogist.

* What's New Online?

• 1881 Census now completed with searchable transcripts and images

• Featured Release: RG36 Registers and Returns of Births, Marriages and Deaths in the Protectorates etc of Africa and Asia

• Other Records - New Parish Records, Directories, War Records and School Records added.

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1881 census (Millions of records added)

The final counties for 1881 have now been completed adding over 3 million records of original transcripts with linked images.

We are the only service that offers transcripts with images for the whole of this period.

The records can be searched under the appropriate county census transcripts, Master Search or Family Search.

Non-Conformist Records - RG36 Registers and Returns of Births, Marriages and Deaths in the Protectorates etc. of Africa and Asia

Covering dates 1895-1965. Notifications of birth, marriage and death forwarded by officials responsible for civil registration under administrative ordinances in Nyasaland, Kenya, Somaliland, Uganda, Sudan, Palestine, Sarawak, Malaya, including Johore and Selangor, and British North Borneo. They have been added to the freely searchable online service at BMDRegisters and viewable as part of subscriptions to TheGenealogist.co.uk. These newly added records were previously only viewable on microfilm at The National Archives.

Phonetic Search

The crux of a decent search system is one that gives you valid results and also finds all the spelling variations for the name you're interested in. Many services have tried to offer this but failed dismally. The first search technology used was Soundex, then double metaphone, and then a host of methods that pay very little attention to the sounds of names and produce a majority of unsuitable matches. Many services give a fuzzy search that drowns you in results with names that are nothing like the surname you entered.

We believe we have found the perfect solution with our new search that's based on phonemic speech patterns. Take a look at the results for bayley by clicking the image on the right.

The Keyword search and Census Transcript search have now been encoded and we will expand this coding to all our data. So now is a good time to try and find those elusive ancestors on TheGenealogist.co.uk.

Parish Record Transcripts

We have just added over 400,000 parish records to our databases covering:

Cheshire with over 33,000 individuals, years ranging from 1557 - 1837 with images

Cambridgeshire with over 70,000 individuals, years ranging from 1538 - 1837 with images

Cornwall with over 260,000 individuals ranging from 1531 - 1917 with images

Durham with over 22,500 individuals ranging from 1569 - 1812.

Also Northumberland Parish Registers have been added to the Parish Records (Printed Books) section on the site with years ranging from 1572 - 1812 including the parishes of Alnham, Beadnell, Berwick -upon-Tweed, Bothal, Hebburn, Chatton, Edlingham, Eglingham, Halton, Ingram, Lesbur, Meldon, St. Nicholas Cathedral (Newcastle-upon-Tyne), Tynemouth & Whalton.

We have completed our 1812 - 1849 Baptism Parish Transcripts for Worcestershire adding a further 77,000 individuals, bringing the total to over 430,000.

You can access records from the Worcestershire Parish Record Transcript (Malvern FHS Joint Project) through the Parish Record (Transcript) section on the Research View.

Other Records

We have added over 200,000 records, with images, to our overseas BMD record set, bringing the total of records to over 1,200,000.This transcript covers the births, marriages and deaths of British Service Personnel throughout the world. The data set now includes:

Marine Births 1837-1965
Army Births & Registers, Marriages and Deaths: 1747-1980
Air Births, Deaths & Missing Persons: 1947 - 1965
Consular Birth, Marriages, Deaths: 1849-1915
High Commission Births, Marriages, Deaths: 1899-1964
Informal Certificates of Birth at Sea: 1839 - 1867
Ionian Island Births, Marriages, Deaths: 1818 - 1864
Marriages & Deaths Abroad: 1966 - 1994
Regimental Births: 1407 - 1997
Article 6/18 Marriage: 1961 - 1965

Tracing the Brontë Family

"Although the legacy of the Brontë family now lives on into its third century, the life of the sisters themselves was in fact very short-lived and all died before reaching the age of 30.  As well as the famous sisters, Emily, Charlotte and Ann, there were also two elder sisters Elizabeth and Maria who both died of TB in 1825 before reaching the age of 13.  The only son, Patrick Branwell, also died in 1848, at the age of 31.

Despite their short lives, it's possible to trace this family in early records which are available online at www.thegenealogist.co.uk. The Yorkshire census records are now complete on The Genealogist from 1841 through to 1901, and the 1841 is the only census to show all three sisters."

Click here to read the full article at TheGenealogist.

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