December 2006

COMPLETE Census Coverage for England, Wales and the Channel Islands

TheGenealogist.co.uk now has transcripts and indices for all of the counties, completed and with images for 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871 and 1891.

The Channel Islands 1861 is now available as both a transcript and an index, completing the set. Also added is a new directory for Midlands and East Anglia Counties.

New Features on TheGenealogist

Mapping Tool

Find where your ancestors lived before the boom in population and rapid expansion to towns and cities caused by the Industrial Revolution. The maps show how surnames spread over time. You can also use the mapping feature in the BMDs for modern surname mapping.

Census Crew Lists

The Census Crew Lists contain data about Naval personnel both foreign and abroad, as well as information on the crews of non-naval vessels in UK ports.

Wills and Testaments Index Viewer

Bristol, Edinburgh and a variety of Yorkshire volumes have been added, with more to follow. Wills are a valuable source of genealogical information. They can give details of family members, places of residence and burial, as well as revealing details about their possessions.

See more features at TheGenealogist.co.uk

May 2005

BMD index complete database of births, marriages and deaths

With BMDindex.co.uk you can now search over 250 million birth, marriage and death records across 167 years.

www.BMDindex.co.uk was awarded the top score in an independent comparative test in the June 2005 issue of Family History Monthly. It was given 95% declared 'best for value, features and general usability'. See the magazine for the full article.

Full-name searching gives you accurate results. This means fewer records to view to find information. View credits are only debited for the full records you view not for the search results. This means you pay less than other systems who use only three letters of a surname to index images and charge credits for search results.

BMD Index is the only BMD site offering modern surname distribution maps within your subscription. So, £5 will give you 50 view credits which should meet all your research needs. Credits can be bought as you need them. Maps of surname concentrations cost from 10 credits.

You can come back to the same image again and again at no extra cost.

BMDindex.co.uk provides a fully searchable electronic version of the index to civil birth, marriage and death records for England and Wales. The current index contains around 250 million events. Included are complete records from 1837 to 2003.

SmartSearch is a new way of searching the data for 1984 onwards. It allows you to:

• Search for the children born to a couple using the father's surname and mother's maiden name.
• See the details for either partner in a marriage.
• Find the birth record from the death record at the click of a button.

Subscriptions are available for three months at £5 or a year for £14.95. This allows subscribers to search, view or print these records. See www.BMDindex.co.uk for more details.

You can read another review of BMDindex.co.uk HERE.

New London Census Site launched:
www.LondonCensus.co.uk

The London Fair saw the major launch of the London Census website. This is the first time that all years of the census can be researched from a dedicated website.

Indexes will be available for all census years and you will also be able to browse online images. S&N has been working on both online and CD-ROM sets for London. They have already launched 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1891 and 1901 Census sets on CD-ROM.

The 1881 census images will be available later this year.

The family-run company has also developed a search system for searching, displaying and printing entries from CD-based name indexes. Three of the indexes were launched at the London Fair.

S&N are the only supplier of census images for 1841 to 1901. They have already launched sets for London, Lancashire, Yorkshire, Glamorgan and Herefordshire. Online indexes are also available for these counties with selected years also having web-based images.

The new London site has both genealogical and historical information giving you a true insight into the lives of your London ancestors.

Read about the life and times of Charles Dickens, Florence Nightingale and other famous Londoners.

Visit the site at www.LondonCensus.co.uk