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At this time when we are all so very conscious of the work of our medical professionals in the face of the pandemic, we have released a set of new records for our medical ancestors who treated others in the course of their occupations in the time before the creation of the National Health Service.
It would have been a very different world from today in which these men and women worked. Before 1948 and the founding of the NHS, medical professionals were in private practice. The poorer members of society depended on charity and being assessed for what financial contribution they could make to their treatment.
TheGenealogist has added to its occupational records with a fascinating release that has a medical theme. From the time before the NHS came into being, these name rich records covering Doctors, Midwives and Opticians can be searched by name and keywords. All of these practitioners would have been working at the time when the wealthy could afford the best treatment, while the poor went to hospital with the added shame that this held as these institutions were where the poor were predominantly treated.
Use these records to:
Add details to the lives of your medical ancestors
Discover Doctors etc. who served in India in The Madras Medical Register 1934
Find Medical Ancestors in The Medical Who's Who 1912
Seek out midwives in The Midwives Roll 1905
See optometrists names in the Institute of Ophthalmic Opticians, Official Directory, 1927
This latest release expands our extensive Occupational records collection that includes actors, apprentices, clergy, crew lists, directors, flight, freemen, law, railway, sports, teachers and biographies as well as other medical registers.
Over One Million RAF Operations Record Books released 22 May 2020
We have expanded our unique collection of searchable RAF Operations Record Books with the addition of 1.2 Million new records for aircrew operations.
Operations Record Books (ORBs) are official Air Force documents chronicling an air force unit from the time of its formation. They were intended to be an accurate daily record of the operations that the squadron carried out in peace and at war. The ORBs are for squadrons primarily after the First World War, but there are a few early squadron records from 1911 to 1918. We have made the Operations Record Books fully searchable by name, year and keywords.
This collection also includes some record books for Dominion Air Forces (Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa) as well as Allied Air Force squadrons under British Command and can be used to find the stories of brave aircrew, giving insights into the operations that they carried out. The ORBs follow a daily diary format giving summaries of events and can reveal the death of aircrews, crashes, as well as less disquieting entries such as the weather for flying, promotions and the decorations men of the squadron received. ORBs also detail the areas that the fighter planes patrolled, or the bombers targeted, as well as where the squadrons were based as the war wore on. These duties and assignments include bombing the enemy, patrolling the skies, convoy escorts, submarine hunts, attacking docks & shipping, dive bombing raids, and more.
As aircrew personnel are named in these reports, those wanting to follow where an ancestor had been posted to and what may have happened to them will find these records extremely informative.
Use these records to:
Add details to an aircrewman's story
Study the war movements of personnel in air force units
Discover if a pilot, navigator, radio operator or gunner is mentioned in the action
Note dates airman received promotions, medals, or other honours
See the names of squadron members wounded, killed, or who did not return
Easily search the transcribed records and images licensed from The National Archives
This latest release expands our extensive Military records collection and is available to all Diamond subscribers.
Tithe Maps added to Map Explorer™ 07 May 2020
Our Map Explorer™ which can help researchers find an ancestor's property and watch the landscape change over time has now been enhanced by the addition of georeferenced black and white Tithe Maps for Berkshire, Cambridgeshire, Leicestershire and Oxfordshire.
Joining the georeferenced Lloyd George Data Layer, Headstones, War Memorials, and colour Tithe Maps for a number of counties, the new additions to the ever-expanding Map Explorer™ allow researchers to trace property from Victorian times to the modern era.
Over 3,300 Tithe Maps now available in Map Explorer™
Map Explorer™ now has over two million selectable records shown using Map Pins
Map Explorer™ displays maps for historical periods up to the modern day
New Records for Kingston upon Thames, Hook and Malden 24 April 2020
We have just released the Kingston upon Thames, Hook and Malden areas into its Lloyd George Domesday Survey Records on the Map Explorer™.
These fully searchable land owner records enable researchers to find where an ancestor from Kingston lived in the 1910-1915 period. You can now search over half a million individuals in this collection.
By using our powerful Map Explorer™, family history researchers searching for where their ancestors lived in the period before the First World War are able to see the actual plots for buildings and explore the district as it was in that period on large scale OS maps linked to the field books containing descriptions of the properties.
Announcing Essex Colour Tithe Maps with MapExplorer integration, exclusive to TheGenealogist 28 March 2020
The land use has changed dramatically over the last 200 years and the colour Tithe maps in our map tool allows you to explore it in great detail. This release allows us to see the area in West Ham, Essex on which the ExCel centre now stands and to discover the changes from Victorian pasture land, to dock complex and now to the Nightingale Hospital as the Covid-19 emergency builds.
Map Explorer™
This versatile tool can give the family history researcher a fantastic insight into what our ancestors' city, town or village looked like over a number of periods and can also help them to find an ancestor's property. With the addition of georeferenced Colour Tithe Maps, TheGenealogist has also today released colour tithe maps for Essex – you can search these as normal or browse them on Map Explorer™.
Subscribers to TheGenealogist's Diamond membership can now view the latest colour or grayscale maps when using the Tithe & Landowner records.
New Pre-Census Trade and Residential Directories 14 March 2020
We have just released a collection of searchable Early Trade and Residential Directories that cover the years 1816-1839 to help find ancestors in the period before the usable census records begin.
Prior to 1841 all of the U.K. censuses were generally statistical: that is, mainly headcounts, with virtually no personal information such as names recorded and so family history researchers need to turn to a substitute to find out the address where their ancestors had lived. Trade and Residential Directories list names of tradespeople, prominent citizens and in some cases other residents of a town as well.
Many of these directories will also give a good description of the town or area which can give family historians an interesting insight into the social history of their ancestors' locality at the time. This information usually includes the main industry, topographical details, communication links with the surrounding towns by stage coach or railway, and details of local administration offices, post offices, the clergy, charities, hospitals and schools.
The early Trade and Residential Directories being released include volumes that cover the areas of Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Cornwall, Derby, Devonshire, Dorsetshire, Durham, Essex, Glasgow, Hampshire, London, Liverpool, Middlesex, Northumberland, Norfolk, Nottinghamshire and Suffolk.
Find out more about this interesting resource with our intro here:
New Property Records for Greenwich 28 February 2020
We have just released over 57,700 individuals from the Greenwich area into our Lloyd George Domesday Survey Records on the Map Explorer™. These fully searchable property records enable researchers to find where ancestors from Greenwich lived in the 1910-1915 period. This release now brings the total coverage of Lloyd George Domesday Survey Records to over half a million individuals.
By using our powerful Map Explorer™, family history researchers searching for where their ancestors lived in the period before the First World War are able to see the actual plots for buildings and explore the district as it was in that period on large scale OS maps linked to the field books containing descriptions of the properties.
New Historical Medical Professionals 05 June 2020
