S&N Email News: November 2007

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Newsletter for BMDindex, TheGenealogist, Genealogy Supplies, BMD Registers and British Data Archive

In this issue:

* UK Events

* Special Email News Offers

* What's New Online?

•   Tree View
•   1901 Transcripts

* BMD Registers - The Hidden Records - Official National Archives Site

* New Software

* New Service for Societies – Online Publishing with ease

* New RootsMagic Pack and FTM V2008 Deluxe/flatpack at new low prices

* What's New on CD

•  Major 1901 Census sets and Directories

* Family History Articles - Captain James Cook

Why don’t you email us your personal story about researching your family history and the interesting tales you’ve discovered about your ancestors lives. All stories submitted will be eligible to compete for the prize of £100 for the top story of the month.

Email your stories to [email protected] or submit them in the Community Area of The Genealogist.

* Top-selling Products

Email News Offer - Free Online Trial

Email News offers – 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

UK EVENTS November 2007

Woking Family History Fair - Saturday 3rd November
Woking Leisure Centre, Kingfield Road, Woking
www.wsfhs.org
 
East Anglia Family History Fair - Sunday 18th November
ST. ANDREWS HALL, St. Andrews Plain, Norwich NR3 1AU
www.familyhistoryfairs.com
 
Wimborne Family History Fair - Sunday 25th November
QUEEN ELIZABETH LEISURE CENTRE, Blandford Road, Hillbutts, Wimborne, BH21 4DT www.familyhistoryfairs.com

Show Specials

When you buy any item collect your free family history research guide (while stocks last) and benefit from our special show pricing.

Save £5 on A4 binders and £7 on A3 binders with our special show prices. Keep your documents, certificates and photographs safe with our archival padded leather effect high quality binders.

RootsMagic Platinum has recently won the best genealogy software in the group test in Your Family Tree June 2007 issue. Save money and pick up your copy at our show special pricing.

For further details of fairs visit www.genealogysupplies.com/events.htm

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SPECIAL EMAIL NEWS OFFERS

Buy 2 or more London Census sets and get each set half price

If you buy 2 or more London Census sets, you can get each set at half the normal price.

Free Library Subscriptions to Census Transcripts, BMDs & More

If you work for a council library your library could benefit from a 3 month free subscription. Our Transcripts are complete for 1841 to 1891 and are fully searchable across Name, occupation, relationship etc.

We have low cost subscriptions that start at just £30 per PC.

Click here to view all special offers

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WHAT'S NEW ONLINE

www.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.

TreeView

TreeView is an exciting new project from S&N that allows users to manage their family tree online. The project has just come out of our beta testing stage and is open to anyone with a “The Genealogist” account. TreeView has many features... READ MORE

New Census Transcripts Completed

Over 6.9 million records added

Monmouthshire 1901 transcript complete with images.
Suffolk 1901 transcript complete with images.
Surrey 1901 transcript complete with images.
Northumberland 1901 transcript complete with images.
Essex 1901 Transcript complete with images.
Leicestershire 1901 Transcripts complete with images
Isle of Man 1901 Transcripts complete with images
Hampshire 1901 Transcript complete with images
Essex 1901 Partial Transcript complete with images
Durham 1901 Transcript complete with images
Lincolnshire 1901 Transcript complete with images

All of the new data has been added into the All-Inclusive subscriptions which cost as little as £4.66 a month.

www.TheGenealogist.co.uk

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NEW VOUCHERS

BMD Index 50 Credit Voucher £ 5.00
The GRO index of births, marriages and deaths from 1837 to 2005

BMD Registers 20 Credit Voucher £ 10.00
You can buy credits online or from Genealogy Supplies on 01722 716121

Access to search BMD Registers is free simply visit www.BMDRegisters.co.uk

The Genealogist 20 Credit Voucher £ 5.00
Gives access to BMDs, Census and lots more.

BMD Registers - The Hidden Records - Official National Archives Site

Birth, Marriage and Death Records are the most important way of tracking down your ancestors. The trouble is the BMD records in the General Register Office main index only go back as far as 1837.

The hidden Birth, Marriage and Death records have been compiled from various unpublished registries and many unusually include records of three generations of a family.  These are a fantastic resource for the family historian and often prove to be the only record of the events.

The returns from various registries were submitted to the GRO but it was felt as these events were not part of the official system they would not be included in the standard GRO index. These records are now held at The National Archives.

Genealogy Supplies recognising the importance of the records applied and won the bid to make these available online as part of The National Archives LIA scheme on the site www.BMDregisters.co.uk

This new release of online records means that for the first time these additional BMD records can be searched with ease rather than looking through millions of images on thousands of reels of microfilm.

Many famous non conformists helped shape the world in which we live and famous writers abound:-

Daniel Defoe (Robinson Crusoe) Listed as Mr Dafow, William Blake (Jerusalem) and Mary Shelley nee Godwin (Frankenstein).

The site www.BMDRegisters.co.uk allows you to search over six million individuals with ease and allow you to see three generations of a family for many of the records.

Lets have a look in more detail on how to use the material and what it will provide... READ THE FULL ARTICLE

Parish Records – We can all benefit

We have been working a pace on adding new parish records to the site. This involves transcribing film and fiche as well as making available older transcripts of parish records.

We don’t want to duplicate work, if societies can work with us on these projects everyone will benefit.

Societies and individuals that own their own parish records can derive revenue from this indexing and transcription project. This is an important way for societies to fund equipment, events and facilities.

S&N are launching a new service to help societies get their data online and derive significant benefits from it without losing control or creating headaches in maintaining systems.
 
This service will be hosted on its own unique website and optionally to have the data included on our own service for extra revenue.

For Societies
This site will allow customers to go to a specific page showing what data is available and giving a number of options, subscription or Pay per View. We can advise on pricing but the society itself sets the price for access to the records.
 
The infrastructure, data conversion and online payments will be handled by S&N with information and links provided by the society.
 
The revenue after credit card charges will be split 50/50 with the society. 
 
The 50/50 rate is for an exclusive agreement between the society and S&N. Non exclusive arrangements would pay only 30% of royalty to the society.

The site will have a master index allowing customers to find society resources countrywide that match their name interests within a given period.

We have our own infrastructure in London, Wiltshire and Jersey and already run many major online websites with internal technical experts on hand.
 
We are also willing to pay an extra flat annual fee, to be agreed with the society, for allowing us to include Parish Records on The Genealogist.

We are currently making agreements with archives and other organisations and need to plan which counties we will need to digitise and transcribe ourselves. So if you are involved in a society please let me know if you wish to discuss these opportunities before our own parish record transcription projects become too far advanced.

For Individuals
We are always interested in acquiring new data sets and antiquarian parish record transcripts. Please contact us if you have parish records and are interested in joining the scheme.

For enquiries, please use the following form:

WHAT'S NEW ON CD

New Software

RootsMagic Platinum Edition - Last weeks of Special Pricing (Only £43.95)

This new version of 3.2.4/5 now also includes Irish records and an online

subscription to www.TheGenealogist.co.uk.

To read the full details of our most popular package visit http://www.rootsmagic.co.uk

New Family Tree Maker Pricing

Family Tree Maker 2008 Deluxe Edition (UK) £ 36.95
 
Family Tree Maker 2008 Platinum Edition (UK) £ 59.95
 
Family Tree Maker 2008 UK Flatpack £ 18.45

This is the latest version of the famous tree charting program with new online features that work with the Ancestry website.

We also sell the Family Tree Maker 2008 Official Guide, priced at £16.95, which can be bought with the Flatpack or Deluxe editions (the Platinum edition comes with this book).

The complete list of new releases

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Voyage of Discovery: Tracing a route to Captain James Cook by Eric Caton

As a young lad, one of my delights was visiting my paternal grandmother Mary Crame Caton (nee Baker). She lived almost next door to my parents house, so the visits were frequent. She lived alone in one of the oldest houses still left standing in the town. It was built of sandstone, roughly plastered, and colour (yellow) washed once a year; lit by gaslight even to the year she died in 1956. It is also the house in which I was born.

Among the many conversations we had, only two things stand out in my memory. The first, that we have French and Welsh blood running through our veins (well diluted by now) and second, that we are related to Captain James Cook.

At the time those things didn't register much with me, I just took it for granted. After all, aren't grandmothers the fount of all wisdom and knowledge? And the family was/is of seafaring stock (except for me, that is!).

It wasn't until 1977 when, as a (by now) minister in the Maori section of the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand, in the Parish of Whakatane (North Island), thatI began to think more deeply of my 'relationship' to Captain Cook, and the need to establish it as fact.

READ THE FULL ARTICLE OF OUR £100 WINNER ERIC CATON

If you have a story to tell you too could win £100 in S&N vouchers.

Email your stories to [email protected] or submit them in the Community Area of TheGenealogist.

www.TheGenealogist.co.uk

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TOP-SELLING PRODUCTS  November 2007

1. RootsMagic UK Version 3 Platinum Ed. £43.95
2. Family Historian v3.1 Full £35.45, Upgrade £20.95
3. Long Certificate Binder with Archival Sleeves £14.95
4 . Reunion 9 for the Mac £68.95
5. Family Tree Maker 2008 UK Flatpack £18.45
6. A4 Binder with Archival Sleeves £14.95
7. RootsMagic UK V3 Standard £34.95
8. Getting the Most out of RootsMagic by Bruce Buzbee 14.90
9. BMD Registers 20 Credit Voucher £10
10. NBI - National Burials Index Second Edition £37.45

Order any of the above at www.GenealogySupplies.com

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Sue and Nigel

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