Online research has really taken off with millions of
records added to TheGenealogist and new launches including UKCensusOnline and
updates to RootsUK, FHS-Online, GENfair and BMDregisters giving many new ways to
research.
2012 has seen the biggest changes yet in TheGenealogist with 200
million records added to the site. Completing the 1911 Census and
launching it for the first time with the high resolution images was a major
milestone.
 Our decision to fully transcribe the birth, marriage and death records has
been a great success allowing us to integrate our SmartSearch technology
with even more record sets. For example we now have linked marriages from
the 1911 census,
linked births from our 1841-1911 census records, linked birth records from
deaths, linked from births to the parent’s marriage and links to
siblings. See our Ronnie Barker article for an example of this. There are now over 132
million birth transcripts, 96 million marriages and over 42 million death
transcripts available.
The Parish Record project has seen millions of new records added for many
counties, we have also added new residential directories, electoral rolls,
Army Lists, Navy Lists, RAF Lists, Occupational Lists and Trade
Directories.
 The Illustrated London News project has added a further 30 years to our
newspaper archive now stretching from 1842 to 1879 as crystal clear
searchable copies. There’s information on the Great Exhibition of
1851, the General Election in 1874 and Queen Victoria becoming Empress of
India in 1876 and so much more.
We have also started adding other newspapers and magazines too, with The War
Illustrated, The Great War Magazine, Harper’s Magazine and The Channel
Islands Monthly Review.
Our new releases include over 2.6 million Irish individuals in our Griffiths
Valuation Land Records which is a brilliant census substitute for Ireland
covering 1848 to 1864.
Other records include visitations, peerage records, school, college and
university records, TheGenealogist has more information than ever and it’s
easier and quicker to find your ancestor too. |
