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| January 2010 15 reasons to join TheGenealogist.co.uk This leading, family-run site has a host of unique features and millions of records to explore. In the cut-and-thrust world of genealogy websites, one stands out for its friendly ethos and impressively broad range of content: The Genealogist (www.thegenealogist.co.uk). READ FULL ARTICLE October 2009 Subscription Websites Subscriptions Compared - Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine available from Smiths TheGenealogist.co.uk popular for value, content and ease
of navigation, as well as its impressive range of functions and
features 3 of the 5 reviewers rated TheGenealogist.co.uk as their no 1 site and was voted "Best For Value" overall. Search Smarter with The Genealogist When it comes to searching census and BMD records, it's easy to assume that all the family history websites are the same. In reality, as well as having BMD indexes from 1837 to 2005 and complete census images and transcripts from 1841 to 1901. The Genealogist offers a range of tools and features that you won't find on any other site. READ FULL REVIEW August 2009 Which subscription to go for depends on a lot of factors: which data sets do you get, how much it costs and what features the site has... READ FULL REVIEW... May 2009 Website Tour - Find your way round TheGenealogist.co.uk Mike Ratcliff takes you on a tour of this invaluable website, to show you just which records are available, and how its search facilities will help you to find your ancestors. READ FULL REVIEW... Christmas 2008 Website of the Month: TheGenealogist.co.uk Part of the S&N Genealogy Supplies' empire, TheGenealogist is an online records-searching website offering access to genealogical data. Its current collections - new material is being added monthly - include UK censuses, births (including pre-1837) marriages, deaths, land records, military records, directories, parish records, and non-conformist records. READ FULL REVIEW... December 2008 TheGenealogist - Census and BMD Website of the Year Most of the major family history websites have comprehensive census and BMD coverage these days. So, in this category we're looking for something out of the ordinary that sets a site out from the crowd. READ FULL REVIEW S&N Genealogy Supplies - Online Store of the Year It's a second award for S&N, which also runs The Genealogist. It's difficult to argue with the vast range of products offered at this excellent online store, dedicated solely to family history. READ FULL REVIEW November 2008 TheGenealogist - Using this website is like opening Pandora's box to the past... READ FULL REVIEW December 2007 Website of the Month - BMDRegisters.co.uk This new website - a database utilising sources from before compulsary civil registration and potentially featuring six million names - was launched on 14th September as a joint effort by S&N Genealogy Supplies and The National Archives (TNA). It is a great resource for those looking to take their research back before the days of compulsory civil registration, especially if your ancestors non-conformists. Its index can be searched for free. READ FULL REVIEW... October 2007 ONLINE! Key records pre-1837 - Nonconformist church records Searching for ancestors before 1837 - the date that the civil registration of births, marriages and deaths in England and Wales was introduced - is set to become much easier. These Non-parochial Nonconformist records are coming online and often provide unique information about the events that they record: the births, baptisms, marriages, deaths and burials of our Nonconformist ancestors. READ FULL REVIEW... TheGenealogist.co.uk - Website Review by David Frost The Genealogist website www.thegenealogist.co.uk is run by S&N Genealogy and provides some interesting new ways in which to research your family history. David Frost has been having a look and here is what he found. READ FULL REVIEW... Summer 2007 Customer Reviews of TheGenealogist.co.uk It took just a few minutes of using the free trial offer to persuade me to take out a full year's subscription. In next to no time has it not only been possible to find invaluable leads to a Derbyshire branch of my wife's side of our tree, but also to sort out details of ancestors with a very common surname. Have been researching these for weeks without any success on a certain other site (no prizes for guessing which one). My subscription there expires in the next few days, and most certainly will not be renewed. Many many thanks to them for a quite outstanding service. M D Eccleston TheGenealogist Team have been a great help. Words can not thank them enough on helping reunite my family.
I thought I'd drop a line to thank TheGenealogist for a fantastic
service over the Regards, C Daley I have joined TheGenealogist with unlimited access for The website is fantastic. Penny Spring 2007 How to Become a Volunteer Indexer More and more websites enable home computer users to contribute towards the accuracy of genealogical data. UK Indexer (www.ukindexer.co.uk) is a project that uses volunteers to corroborate the census indexes and transcripts that are produced by the family-run business S&N Genealogy and published on its website TheGenealogist (www.thegenealogist.co.uk). READ FULL REVIEW... April 2007 Surname Mapping at TheGenealogist Update with Helen Tovey - Subscribers to www.TheGenealogist.co.uk can view census maps for their surnames online, to help see when and where their family names originated and spread... READ FULL REVIEW... February 2007 New Features at TheGenealogist TheGenealogist now has the largest collection of genuine census transcripts available online. There are complete transcripts of the 1841, 51, 61, 71, 91, and 1901 censuses for England and Wales, with more images uploaded and linked to these transcripts every day. READ FULL ARTICLE... January 2007 Find the Records you need online with The Genealogist Search census records, birth, marriage, death and parish record indexes, London directories, plus four specialist indexes at The Genealogist website. READ FULL REVIEW... This site has recently added a new Wills and Testaments Index Viewer, and as their census transcription project draws to a close, TheGenealogist is switching focus to the transcription of parish record material. READ FULL ARTICLE... Autumn 2006 How to Use RootsUK.com - by David Fowle With a host of top records, the new pay-per-view website at RootsUK.com is ideal if you're keen to test the genealogical waters. READ FULL REVIEW... November 2006 In order to expand their range of census data, TheGenealogist has recently licensed the 1901 census. READ FULL ARTICLE... March 2006 UKindexer.co.uk and TheGenealogist.co.uk S&N Genealogy Supplies’ online genealogy data service has taken off, and they are striving to make their indexes as accurate as possible, largely helped by the UKIndexer project www.ukindexer.co.uk. This is part of a vigorous, many layered, checking system to ensure a high degree of accuracy... READ FULL REVIEW...
October 2005 The Genealogist is the rapidly growing online data subscription service... READ FULL REVIEW... Subsequent to my piece on www.bmdindex.co.uk in the September issue (Connect, page 48), a major change to charging for data has occurred... READ FULL REVIEW...
September 2005 Your Family Tree September 2005 issue compares all the BMD sites and rates www.BMDindex.co.uk as the best value! It was awarded 5 stars in every category - first time/light user, general researcher and heavy user - no other site achieved 5 stars in any category. Only £5 for 3 months! READ FULL REVIEW... This site has the complete range of birth, marriage and death records from 1837-2003, indexed by surname, forename and initial, where required. READ FULL REVIEW... The Genealogist - New subscriptions Completely new pricing structure to their BMD index and The Genealogist web services giving access to a wide variety of material with a single subscription instead of just a single database... READ FULL ARTICLE...
August 2005 All the Birth Marriage and Death Indexes from 1837 through to 2003 have now been completed... READ FULL ARTICLE...
July 2005 Online census news - The Genealogist S&N have added much improved search facilities to their online index to the London 1861 census... READ FULL REVIEW...
June 2005 Website of the Month: The Genealogist The Genealogist website contains a wide variety of subscription databases. With the exception of the excellent BMD index section, much of the other material available on the website is census related, and as these two sources are of paramount importance to your family history research after the mid-19th century, this is a useful service to explore... READ FULL REVIEW... 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'... READ FULL REVIEW...
August 2005 Longstanding researchers knew the birth, marriage and death (BMD) records as the St. Catherine's House Indexes and spent many hours winding microfilm or navigating microfiche to search just a couple of years... READ FULL REVIEW...
April 2005 Still on the topic of the 1861 Census, The Genealogist now has a fully searchable online index... READ FULL REVIEW...
March 2005
Their indexing of the post-1984 data is considerably better than the 1837online version... READ FULL REVIEW...
February 2005 Find certificates at www.BMDindex.co.uk Website Guide: Search for birth, marriage and deaths certificates, and discover some unique additional features too. READ FULL REVIEW... It's a neat site and the searchable indexes are clear and well presented, offering you potential leads for further research. Full Review in The A to Z of Genealogy Websites, Your Family Tree Magazine, Feb 05
October 2004 Full name indexes to birth, marriage and death registers for England and Wales... READ FULL REVIEW...
May 2004 As anyone with ancestors in the London area knows, research there can be a nightmare. There are different records offices for the City of London, Westminster, Greater London, parishes in the pre-1888 counties of Surrey and Kent, as well as a multitude of local history libraries... READ FULL REVIEW... |
