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Important London Resource Now Complete 21 September 2022

The Lloyd George Domesday Survey is now complete for all of the Greater London boroughs, as well as for North Buckinghamshire. Over 1.6 Million records within Greater London are now searchable by name, address or location.

This is a key resource for those researching London in the Edwardian period and this latest release completes the IR58 Valuation Record Offices records for London. You can now research and discover detailed information on the houses your ancestors occupied in the capital between 1910 and 1915.

Mark Bayley, Head of Content for TheGenealogist said: "This is great news for family historians, local historians and those researching house histories. These records are linked to our powerful Map Explorer interface so you can see your ancestor's home pinned on a contemporary map and discover where they went to work, school, church or even find their local watering hole!"

We now intend to extend this important dataset out into the rest of the country in future releases.

Find out more about these records in our featured article: Snapshot of Edwardian London revealed in Land Tax Records.

New Headstone Records Added 31 August 2022

Our International Headstone Collection has been boosted with 100,000 new records this week, bringing the total to nearly 400,000 records in the collection available for all Diamond subscribers.

Included are some extremely interesting memorials that allow researchers to see details about ancestors that have been immortalised on gravestones. These inscriptions can provide the family historian with useful information about the deceased and their family as commemorated in various churches and cemeteries.

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Over 109,000 Land Tax Records on Map Explorer 28 July 2022

More than 109,000 new IR58 Valuation Office land tax records for owners and occupiers have been added to our Lloyd George Domesday Survey records. Each property is shown plotted on detailed mapping on our Map Explorer™.

Researchers can now discover all types of interesting details about the homes of their ancestors from the Lewisham and Bromley areas. Diamond subscribers can find what their forebears' property was like in the years before WWI using the scanned images of the field books. These documents reveal what the surveyor from the years between 1910 and 1915 recorded about the size, state of repair and value of the house.

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Complete Tithe Maps for England now on Map Explorer 15 July 2022

You can now search the complete National Tithe Record Collection for England and view their ancestors' land and homes plotted through the ages on Victorian Tithe maps, as well as on today's Modern Street and Satellite maps.

Our powerful Map Explorer™, which has seen a number of records added in recent months, will now also benefit from the inclusion of Tithe Maps and Records for five extra counties of England. With Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Herefordshire, Nottinghamshire and Sussex joining those that had previously been released, this means that we now have all of the English counties' Tithe Records and Maps available on Map Explorer™, exclusive to our Diamond subscribers.

Click here to read our featured article where we plot a Victorian farmer's home over time.

Pinpoint your ancestors homes from the 1891 census on historic maps 04 July 2022

The 1891 census is now linked to historical and modern georeferenced maps by TheGenealogist to make it easier than ever to find where ancestors lived and see the surrounding neighbourhood.

Family and house historians are able to investigate the streets, lanes and wider areas of where their ancestors lived at the time of the 1891 census in this latest release from TheGenealogist. A release that sees the 1891 census linked up to the Map Explorer™ for the first time.

The 1891 Census joins the 1901 census, 1911 census and the 1939 Register that are already connected to the innovative Map Explorer™. This means that researchers are able to identify, with just the click of a button, where their forebears lived and to see the routes their ancestors used to visit shops, local pubs, churches, places of work and parks. With a historical map it is possible to find where the nearest railway station was, important for understanding how our ancestors could travel to other parts of the country to see relatives or visit their hometown. With this release, Diamond subscribers of TheGenealogist can pinpoint ancestors’ properties at the time of the 1891 census and so investigate the neighbourhood from behind their computer screen. Alternatively, users may also access TheGenealogist on their mobile phone to trace their ancestors’ footprints while walking down modern streets.

Most of the London area and other towns and cities can be viewed down to the property level, while other parts of the country will identify down to the parish, road or street.

Viewing a household record from the 1891 census will now show a map, locating your ancestor’s house. Clicking on this map loads the location in Map Explorer™, enabling you to explore the area and see the records of neighbouring properties.

Find out more about our latest release in Nick Thorne's article, where he discovers the home of a famous Victorian chocolatier.

1901 Census now on Map Explorer 10 June 2022

Following on from our recent releases of the 1939 Register and the 1911 Census records linked to contemporary and modern map layers on our Map Explorer™, now the same innovative features have been applied to the 1901 Census of England and Wales. With this new release, viewing a household record from the 1901 census will now show a map, locating your ancestor's house. Clicking on this map loads the location in Map Explorer™, enabling you to explore the area and see the records of neighbouring properties.

With this release Diamond subscribers are able to pinpoint where their ancestors' properties were at the time of the census count and so metaphorically walk the streets from the comfort of their home. Alternatively, users may access TheGenealogist on their mobile phone to physically discover the neighbourhood while on the move.

In our featured article, we investigate the area where Charlie Chaplin and the Eight Lancashire Lads clog-dancing troupe lived, and find shops, public houses, railway stations and other places that they would have known well in their everyday life.

Over 31,000 New Land Tax Records from 1910 06 May 2022

Fascinating English land tax records from the years before the First World War are being released today. Researchers are now able to search 31,394 newly added records of owners and occupiers to discover their ancestors from Merton, Mitcham, Morden and the Wimbledon areas.

Each record is linked to clear scanned pages of the actual IR58 Field books, sourced from The National Archives, and the properties plotted onto large scale contemporary IR121 maps. These maps are digital copies of the ones used at the time by the Valuation Office of the Board of the Inland Revenue to locate each and every parcel of land in the survey taken in between 1910 and 1915.

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