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North Buckinghamshire added to Lloyd George Domesday Records 11 October 2019

We have just released the North Buckinghamshire maps and field books into our land and occupiers record set, The Lloyd George Domesday Survey. This unique online resource allows researchers to discover where an ancestor lived in the 1910-1915 period from various London districts and now, for the first time, North Buckinghamshire.

These records make use of TheGenealogist's powerful new Map Explorer™ to access the maps and residential data, giving those who want to investigate where their ancestors lived in the period before the First World War some powerful new features to use.

The Lloyd George Domesday Survey records are sourced from The National Archives and are being digitised by TheGenealogist so that it is possible to precisely locate where an ancestor lived on large scale hand annotated maps. These plans include plots for the exact properties and are married to various georeferenced historic map overlays and modern base maps on the Map Explorer™ which allows the researcher to thoroughly investigate the area in which an ancestor lived.

New Regimental Histories 27 September 2019

We have just released a set of 50 Regiments' Records & Histories to join our ever-growing military records collection bringing the total coverage to over 70 different regiments.

Researchers can use the collection to follow an ancestor’s regiment, discovering the battles they took part in and trace their movements. You can also find ancestors who were mentioned in the war movement diaries or listed in the appendices of men and officers of the regiment.

This release covers records from the 17th century in the earliest incidence, for The Honourable Artillery Company 1611-1682, through to the late 1920s for The King's Royal Rifle Corps Chronicle, 1927. There are also a large number of Regimental Histories that cover the First World War which can reveal some fascinating details for family historians tracing their ancestors in World War I.

Find out more in Nick Thorne's Latest Article.

New School and College Registers 12 September 2019

We have just released a diverse batch of school and college records to join our ever growing education collection.

Researchers can use this new data to find ancestors who attended or taught at a variety of Educational establishments between the 1830s and 1930s. Also listed are the names of those who held high office in the institutions, such as the patrons, deans, visitors, professors and masters in the case of universities and colleges. Whereas schools tended to list their principals and governors.

Use these records to add colour to a family story and glean important information from the biographical details to use in further research.

These new records are available as part of the Diamond Subscription at TheGenealogist.

New Lloyd George Domesday Survey Records for the Tower Hamlets area 30 August 2019

We have just released the Lloyd George Domesday Survey records for Tower Hamlets which cover land owners and occupiers in 1910-1915 with over 91,500 individuals recorded. These now join the previously released data books and their detailed associated maps for other parts of London, bringing the total number to nearly half a million individuals within this record set.

This new release is the latest phase of TheGenealogist's extensive ongoing project to digitise over 94,500 Field Books, each having hundreds of pages, and linking them to large scale IR121 annotated OS maps which are now viewable in TheGenealogist's powerful Map Explorer tool.

The records, which are sourced from The National Archives, were originally compiled by the Valuation Office in a period that stretched from 1910-1915 in response to Lloyd George's government passing the People's Budget 1909/1910.

Complementing the maps on TheGenealogist's Map Explorer are the accompanying Field Books which provide detailed information relative to the valuation of each property, including the valuation assessment number, map reference, owner, occupier, situation, description and extent.

These new records are available as part of the Diamond Subscription at TheGenealogist.

New Charles Booth Poverty Maps Added to Map Explorer 15 August 2019

Our innovative Map Explorer, which allows researchers to trace an ancestor's property and then view the changing environment over time, now boasts another powerful new feature. While previously researchers were able to view the georeferenced Lloyd George Domesday Survey Data Layer of maps and also see the sites of UK War Memorials, cemeteries and churchyards from across the country, TheGenealogist has now added the fascinating Booth Poverty Maps of London 1898-1899 to this useful resource.

• Use the new Charles Booth Maps to reveal London streets classified by income and class
• Research neighbourhoods where different classes of people lived close to each other
• Use the opacity slider to view various modern day maps as a base layer to see the area today

There were seven classifications detailed on Booth Maps ranging from the lowest to the wealthy. The streets were coloured as follows:

• Black - 'Lowest classes. Vicious, semi-criminal.'
• Dark Blue - 'Very poor, casual. Chronic want.'
• Light Blue - 'Poor. 18s to 21s a week for a moderate family.'
• Purple - 'Mixed. Some comfortable others poor.'
• Pink - 'Fairly comfortable. Good ordinary earnings.'
• Red - 'Middle class. Well to do.'
• Yellow - 'Upper-middle and upper classes. Wealthy.'

Our powerful Map Explorer has been developed to view these georeferenced historic maps overlaid on top of modern background maps including those from Ordnance Survey and Bing Street maps, as well as a satellite view. With the Map Explorer you can search for an ancestor's property, discovering its site, even if the road has changed or is no longer there.

These maps were featured in Kate Winslet's Who Do You Think You Are, find out more here.

60,000 Headstones Added 02 August 2019

We have just released nearly 60,000 new individuals on Headstones from another 61 churchyards and cemeteries. This means that there are now a total of over 174,500 individuals that are fully searchable in our Headstone collection which has examples from across England, Scotland and Wales as well as Jersey in the Channel Islands, Cyprus and India.

Read our article about the Headstone Project to find out more.

New War Memorials Added 19 July 2019

This week we have released over 75,000 additional War Memorial records. These fully searchable records are transcribed from images of the tributes put up to honour the war dead from various conflicts including the Boer War, the First World War and World War II. This latest release from TheGenealogist covers war memorials from many parts of the UK, as well as some further afield monuments in Australia, Canada and New Zealand.

Read our press release to find out more.