Genealogy Reviews
Your Family Tree
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Your Family Tree is a leading family history magazine available from all good newsagents. For subscriptions click here. June 2007 Discover your early 20th century ancestors with one of the latest sets of census images from census specialist British Data Archive. The data is supplied as a series of PDF documents, plus on Disc 1 you get a handy guide to reading the census. READ FULL REVIEW... The Best Genealogy Software - RootsMagic V3 With a user-friendly interface, RootsMagic boats a wonderfully friendly approach, and throws in enough powerful features to make it a real contender - it's not hard to see why it's critically acclaimed by many. If you want the right balance of tools and accessibility, RootsMagic is well worth considering. READ FULL REVIEW... Kelly's 1917 Directory of Shropshire For all those hunting for Shropshire ancestors during World War 1, this edition of Kelly's 1917 Directory of Shropshire on CD-ROM is a complete copy of the original document. Brimming with useful indexes, it offers an interesting account of the area and helpfully identifies the county's hundreds, poor law unions and parishes. READ FULL REVIEW... Should you have an Apple Mac, then there are two major programs you should take a closer look at: Reunion and Heredis. READ FULL REVIEW... 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... Yorkshire 1741 and York 1868 Poll Books Available on two CDs but reviewed here together are two poll books for the Yorkshire area - one for the county and one for the city of York, 127 years apart. The first CD contains the names of freeholders who voted in 1741 and the second CD has the names of the voters in an 1868 poll. READ FULL REVIEW... November 2006 Bairnie and Tillydesk Parish Registers Published in 1907 and attributed to the Scottish Record Society, this is a rare register of baptisms in the parishes of Bairnie and Tillydesk from 1763 to 1801. This could be a great help for finding residences of ancestors. READ FULL REVIEW... October 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... Lancashire and Cheshire Wills and Inventories 1621 - 1650 Acts of Parliament culminating in 1653 ruled that probates and letters of administration would only be legal if carried out by the Keeper of the Prerogative Court at Canterbury Thus we have Lancashire and Cheshire data on this CD from records at both Cheshire and Canterbury. READ FULL REVIEW... Shropshire Parish Records, Sets 1 and 2 Two seperate CDs, but sufficiently similar to be reviewed together. Each CD holds data from different parishes - both sets are PDF files, fully searchable, complete with bookmarks and interface. READ FULL REVIEW... September 2006 Set of three CDs containing census information taken from the microfilm of the original pages as written by the census enumerators. The microfilms have been scanned several times to give better quality images. Supplied as PDF files, they cover... READ FULL REVIEW... Official List of Registered Teachers 1917 This CD contains a list of registered teachers from 1917. The book was published by the Teachers Registration Council, and describer as 'representative of the teaching profession. READ FULL REVIEW... June 2006 The 1861 Staffordshire Census from British Data Archive spreads over 13 CDs of scanned images of the original enumerators books. Handily, they're in PDF files, with bookmarsk to help you find the right section. READ FULL REVIEW... January 2006 The Census and more at thegenealogist.co.uk Website Guide:TheGenealogist.co.uk contains a wide range of census indexes, images, parish records, directories and aims to provide the most accurate online census transcripts available... READ FULL REVIEW...
November 2005 With its easy-to-use interface and depth of features RootsMagic has quickly established itself as one of the most popular family history programs around. 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...
April 2005 Originally published in 1899, every page has one or two Victorian photographs taken in locations across the British Empire... 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 Indexes of Wills in the Yorkshire Register New from S&N are these Indexes of the first 42 Registers of Transcribed Wills proved in the Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of York... READ FULL REVIEW...
December 2004 Certificate and Archive Binders Keeping your well researched documents safe and handy can understandably grow into a massive headache, especially as you delve down deeper into your research, collecting more and more certificates and records... READ FULL REVIEW...
June 2003
British Data Archive is steadily but surely converting all the country's 1901 census returns from their microfilm originals to digital copies. And here is the biggest offering - a 45-CD set of London 1901 census return pages... MORE |
