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August 2013 Need help finding those elusive ancestors? Today there are huge volumes of birth, marriage and death records on the web, and Mark Bayley, online genealogy expert, looks at how effective website searching can solve your family history mysteries using these sources - with the help of a Hollywood actress. READ FULL REVIEW... November 2012 TheGenealogist’s innovative smarter, context aware All-in-One search tool scans entire collections of records in one go to return specific results about your ancestors. See your family tree quickly take shape with this exciting new development in the world of online research... READ FULL REVIEW... February 2012 RootsMagic UK Platinum Edition v5 Over the past ten years, RootsMagic has proved to be a leading light in the genealogy software market, and this latest version continues the trend. I found it incredibly easy to install and was swiftly inputting my family tree details. Intuitive and simple to use, I can see why it is so popular. READ FULL REVIEW... May 2011 Getting the 1911 Census online The wealth of historical records online have made family history much more popular and easier too. Here Family Tree talks to Mark Bayley, senior web developer at TheGenealogist.co.uk, about the feats of technology and teamwork needed to make online genealogy possible. READ FULL REVIEW... November 2010 Centuries of Soldiers & Sailors Through the centuries many of our ancestors have served in the armed forces, fighting in wars and policing the British Empire. Mike Ratcliff explores the military records that are available on TheGenealogist.co.uk, which will help you learn more about the soldiers and sailors on your family tree. READ FULL REVIEW... July 2010 In pursuit of his more elusive ancestors, Mike Ratcliff sought new approaches and new sources, and explored the directories and school registers available on TheGenealogist.co.uk. "The ideal ancestors for family historians lived at the same address for many years, had an unusual surname and gave accurate information to the census enumerators. Unfortunately, some of my relatives failed to meet these criteria, which meant taking another approach to locate them..." READ FULL REVIEW... May 2010 Search online for further records at BMDRegisters with Mike Ratcliff. READ FULL REVIEW... April 2010 Genealogy News - Family Tree 2010 Achievement Awards Who Do You Think You Are? LIVE, Olympia, 2010, seemed to be buzzing with activity, with a continual round of workshops to attend and stalls to visit. A highlight of the Family Tree weekend were the Family Tree Achievement Awards 2010... READ FULL REVIEW... January 2010 RootsMagic has long been established as one of the leading genealogy programs. Now readers can enjoy a free copy of this award-winning software with the newly released UK RootsMagic Essentials. READ FULL REVIEW... October 2009 This CD of Wesley's Journals covers his life from his time in Georgia before the beginnings of Methodism until shortly before his death in 1791. They comprise over 2,000 pages, and were originally published in 1793 as a four volume set. This is a facsimile of the fifth edition, which does not have the errors and omissions of some earlier versions. READ FULL REVIEW... August 2009 The Pageant of the Century 1900-1933 This illustrated historical account is largely concerned with Britain and its happenings, but also features important events in other countries. With this publication, it is the comparison between the 1933 viewpoint and present-day attitudes that will be of most interest. READ FULL REVIEW... July 2009 Chatham, Plymouth & Portsmouth Memorial Registers After the First World War, the Admiralty commissioned the erection of three identical memorials to those who had died at sea and who had no identifiable grave. These were placed in prominent sites in the home ports of Chatham, Plymouth and Portsmouth, and were accompanied by a register with information about the names on the memorial. READ FULL REVIEW... June 2009 Over the past few years, RootsMagic has esablished itself as one of the key family history programs. John Hanson tries out the latest version and its developments. "This is a good feature upgrade to an already good product. Some of the new features are worth the extra on their own but all seems to work well and there are many enhancements to existing features." READ FULL REVIEW... When the Protestant Huguenots were expelled from France in 1685, they settled in various countries, including Britain. Here, they continued to worship in French in their own churches, and many of those church records still survive. 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... April 2009 Army and Civil Service List 1862 Until the Indian Mutiny of 1857, India was ruled by the East India Company, but the British Crown assumed direct responsibility following an Act of Parliament in 1858. This list for January 1862 therefore provides us with a view of the elaborate bureaucracy that was created for the governance of India... READ FULL REVIEW... March 2009 Lincoln's Inn Admissions 1420-1893 Lincoln's Inn is one of the four ancient Inns of Court in London, which have the power to nominate and regulate barristers-at-law. This list of admissions was originally published in 1896, and covers admissions from before 1420 to 1893. READ FULL REVIEW... February 2009 The year 1936 was important for British aviation, with the Government expanding the Royal Air Force (RAF) and planning to open over 30 new air stations in the coming three years, including Brize Norton and Cranfield. READ FULL REVIEW... January 2009 Marlborough College Register 1843-1904 Marlborough College was founded in 1843 as a boarding school primarily for the sons of the clergy. This fifth edition of its register contains information about all those who attended the school up to 1904, as well as all masters and other college staff recipients of awards, and details of other important sports matches. READ FULL REVIEW... Christmas 2008 Major Family History Databases - TheGenealogist.co.uk BMD indexes for 1837 to 2005 are included. Pages missing from the microfiche/microfilm used for indexing have been seperately filmed and added so entries should be complete. The first section is easy to search by quarter and from 1984 to 2005 individual results are given... READ FULL REVIEW... Boer War Magazine - Under the Union Jack 1899-1900 The Second Boer War lasted from 1899 to 1902, and was fought between the British Empire and the two independant Boer republics in South Africa. This CD, Under the Union Jack 1899-1900, comprises facsimiles of a copiously illustrated 24-page weekly periodical... READ FULL REVIEW... How dull is the world of Google and online information compared to the 19th Century publications like The Royal Calendar. This 1879 edition is stuffed full of facts like the cost of licences for keeping a dog... READ FULL REVIEW... December 2008 Craven's Part in the Great War Compiled by the editor of the Craven Herald, the original publication was paid for by Walter Morrison of Malham Tarn and a copy given to all those from the Skipton area of Yorkshire who joined the armed forces in the First World War. READ FULL REVIEW... Oundle School - Memorials of the Second World War The original book of this CD, Oundle Memorials of the Second World War 1939-1945, was an official publication of Oundle School, and includes pupils and staff of both Oundle and Laxton School who served in the Second World War. READ FULL REVIEW... November 2008 Dorset Absent Voters' List 1918-1919 The First World War involved so many combatants that identifying them in the records can be difficult, especially where initials are used rather than first names. The more records you can use, the better, and this Dorset Absent Voters' List will be invaluable in that regard. READ FULL REVIEW... Mr Punch's History of the Great War This CD, Mr Punch's History of the Great War, is a reissue of contemporary monthly articles about the First World War which appeared in the periodical Punch. Although accompanied by cartoons, some of them humourous and some inspirational, it is basically a commentary on the progrss of the war... READ FULL REVIEW... October 2008 Medicine Men - The Medical Directory 1895 This Medical Directory contains over 1,900 pages and is a little daunting at first to find one's way around: browsing the whole is not practical. Luckily, as well as being bookmarked, the text is searchable and the contents list near the beginning of the directory is also helpful. READ FULL REVIEW... August 2008 Commonwealth Probates 1650-1651 The Commonwealth period, when the monarchy ceased to rule following the English Civil War, was a time when many of the traditional laws and customs were abandoned. For the family historian it means that the usual rules for the location of records and the way they were kept may no longer apply. READ FULL REVIEW... July 2008 Reproduced from an original publication by the Ordance Survey in 1930, this includes not just a map of 17th Century England but also essays about Stuart England and the English Civil War. There are also chronological tables on science and philosophy, music, art and literature, history, archaeology and cartography. READ FULL REVIEW... Parish Registers of Bishopsgate, London Early parish records are difficult to use in the original, and this transcription by A W Cornelius Hallen, originally published in three volumes from 1889 onwards, will be invaluable to anyone with ancestry in the City of London. READ FULL REVIEW... May 2008 The Visitation of Buckinghamshire 1634 In the 16th and 17th Century, those who wished to bear a coat of arms were expected to prove their entitlement from time to time. The Heralds visited each county and examined each armigerous family, writing down their history and in many cases much of their genealogy. READ FULL REVIEW... April 2008 History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland Originally published in 1835 by John Burke, of Peerage and Baronetage fame, this four-volume work covers the genealogy and heraldry of those 'enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank but uninvested with heritable honours'. READ FULL REVIEW... March 2008 Etonians who fought in the World War 1939-1945 Originally published in book form in 1950, this publication will be of interest to all with Eton connections, and as an aid to a study of the Second World War. It lists the Old Etonians who served in the armed forces, records the year they left the school and the house they were in. READ FULL REVIEW... February 2008 Completely different in feel and functionality, Family Tree Maker 2008 is a complete rewrite of earlier versions of the program. David Frost's previous version of Family Tree Maker was version 11 so he was certainly expecting some major improvements for Family Tree Maker 2008 and he wasn't disappointed. READ FULL REVIEW... Clandestine Marriages in the Chapel and Rules of the Fleet Prison 1680-1754 Mark Herber, solicitor; member of the Society of Genealogists and author of Ancestral Trails - the complete guide to British genealogy and family history, has transcribed a series of registers of clandestine marriages which took place in and around the Fleet Prison in London between 1680 and 1754. The original documents can be viewed at The National Archives. READ FULL REVIEW... The Navy List is an annual listing of officers in the Royal Navy and Royal Marines. This one, from 1935, provides us with a snapshot between WWI and WWII. It contains an alphabetical list of names followed by a more detailed listing by rank, starting with The King, his aides-de-camp and equerries, and ending with naval cadets. READ FULL REVIEW... November 2007 Index Ecclesiasticus 1800-1840 Even if you do not have clergy ancestors, it is interesting to know more about the names on parish registers. The Index Ecclesiasticus was originally published in 1890, and is a list of Church of England rectors, vicars, bishops, deans and other salaried staff. 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... Undated, but published about 1930, the Official Guide to Edinburgh is both a history of the Scottish capital and a guide book for tourists. READ FULL REVIEW... September 2007 The Visitation of Cambridgeshire 1575 and 1619 The names, in this digitally enhanced original text, run from Adam to Wysse, and pedigrees going back up to 10 generations are included. The pedigrees are designed to show the status of an individual at the time of the visitation. READ FULL REVIEW... Parish Records for Surrey Volume IX - Article September '07 Track your ancestors back to the 18th century and earlier using Phillimore's marriage indexes to the parish records. The parish records covered in volume IX are for the parishes of Stoke D'Abernon 1620-1812, and Haslemere 1772-1812. READ FULL REVIEW... 1861 Census for Ludlow, Shropshire - Article September '07 Stokesay Castle is situated close to the Welsh border and is said to be the oldest building of its kind in England. Technically Stokesay Castle is more of a fortified manor house than a castle and the original structures were extensively modified by Lawrence de Ludlow. READ FULL REVIEW... Legacy 6 Standard - Article September '07 Legacy is a family history computer program that makes it easy to store your genealogical information. Legacy keeps track of millions of names, alternate names, dates, places, events, notes, sources, pictures and sounds and presents them on screen in an intuitive manner, allowing you to see the big picture of your entire family. READ FULL REVIEW... August 2007 Dudley, Worcestershire Parish Registers 1656-1837 They cover nearly 200 years and contain over 3,000 entries of births, baptisms, marriages, deaths and burials of Quakers, Congregationalists (Independants), Baptists and Wesleyan Methodists. READ FULL REVIEW... 1901 Census for Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire - Article August '07 Bletchley Park was the location of the British Intelligence code-cracking team during the Second World War. Also known as 'Station X', this site housed decrypting machines (forerunners of the computer) that were used to crack Axis-coded transmissions, such as the ones created on the famous Enigma machines. READ FULL REVIEW... Parish Records for Leicestershire, Volume IX - Article August '07 Track your ancestors back to the 18th century and earlier using Phillimore's marriage indexes to the parish records. The parish records covered in volume IX are for the parishes of Walton-on-the-Wolds, Quorndon, Woodhouse, Wanlip, Swithland and Humberstone. READ FULL REVIEW... RootsMagic UK Edition - Article August '07 RootsMagic has quickly become one of the UK's favourite genealogy packages, being easy to use and with powerful features. READ FULL REVIEW... July 2007 Crockford's Clerical Directory 1929 If you have a family history interest in a member of the Church of England clergy, then Crockford's Clerical Directory is invaluable for providing details of careers, and information about churches, their patrons, and the hierarchy and organisation of the church. READ FULL REVIEW... Family Historian - Article July '07 Family Historian was written by a leading UK family history software designer and it allows you to enter your family by drawing a tree. Full support is given for sources, notes, facts and linked multimedia elements. READ FULL ARTICLE... Parish Records for Buckinghamshire, Volume IX - Article July '07 Track your ancestors back to the 18th Century and earlier using Phillimore's marriage indexes to the parish records. The parish records covered in volume IX are for the parishes of Broughton, Lathbury, Moulsoe and Newport Pagnell. READ FULL ARTICLE... 1871 Census: Huntingdonshire - Article July '07 Hitchingbrooke House sites close to the Huntingdonshire-Cambridgeshire border, and was owned by the Cromwell family until 1627, at which point it was bought by the Montague family. Arguably, one of the most interesting of the Montague family was John the 4th Earl of Sandwich, who held some impressive positions. READ FULL ARTICLE... June 2007 The History of the United States of America John Clark Ridpath rose from humble origins to become a college principal before being a full-time writer. His Popular History of the United States was originally published in 1878. READ FULL REVIEW... Legacy is a family history computer program that makes it extremely easy to store your genealogical information. READ FULL ARTICLE... Parish Records for Derbyshire, Volume IX - Article June '07 Trace your ancestors back to the 18th Century and earlier using Phillimore's marriage indexes to the parish records. The parish records covered in Volume IX are for the parish of All Saints, Derby 1558-1837. READ FULL ARTICLE... 1871 Census: Newcastle Upon Tyne - Article June '07 The Census pieces for Newcastle Upon Tyne cover All Saints, Byker, Jesmond and Heaton (RG10/5094-5108). These are all available in the Northumberland 1871 Census. READ FULL ARTICLE... May 2007 Kelly's Durham, Northumberland, Cumberland, Westmorland 1894 Directory There may be no trace of the church at Sheepwash, but there's plenty of data about those who lived in these northern counties towards the end of the 19th century in this directory. READ FULL REVIEW... April 2007 The Homeland Handbooks: Newquay The Homeland Handbooks was a series begun in 1896 to provide information about local areas in Great Britain. This volume is about Newquay in Cornwall. READ FULL REVIEW... 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... March 2007 To find relatives on board ship at the time of the 1861, 1871 or 1901 Censuses, try the Census ship lists at www.thegenealogist.co.uk, which includes 142,000 entries. READ FULL REVIEW... Family Tree Magazine - March 2007 Articles Including Nottinghamshire Parish Records (Phillimore's Marriages), RootsMagic 3 UK Edition, and the Staffordshire 1871 Census. READ FULL ARTICLES... January 2007 This nine CD set published by S&N Genealogy Supplies contains the 233 digitally enhanced and indexed issues of The War Illustrated. The original magazine was a 'weekly picture-record of events by land, sea and air' of the First World War. READ FULL REVIEW... 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... Bedfordshire 1861 Census - Article Jan '07 An Article about the Daniel Albone in the Bedfordshire 1861 Census. Daniel Albone was born in Biggleswade in 1860, and can be found in the 1861 census for Bedfordshire at the age of only six months. READ FULL ARTICLE... Legacy 6 Software - Article Jan '07 This family history program makes it easy to store your genealogical information - millions of people can be recorded, displayed and reported, and Legacy can keep track of this. READ FULL ARTICLE... December 2006 Hitchin, Hertfordshire 1851 Census The 1851 Census for Hitchin, Hertfordshire includes the records for Knebworth House, the 'stately home of rock', which has welcomed acts such as Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin and Queen. READ FULL REVIEW.. We usually think of a celebrity as a modern invention, but this collected biography of the great 19th century soldiers shows who were the figures of public interest at the height of Britains imperial power. READ FULL REVIEW.. November 2006 In the 19th century, a career as a physician wasa highly respected following for a man. Yet it was considered outrageous for any woman to pursue a career in such a traditionally male-dominated profession. READ FULL ARTICLE... August 2006 Exclusive RootsUK.com website, review by David Tippey RootsUK.com is a new and easy to use pay-per-view site launched by S&N Genealogy Supplies. It offers full census transcripts with images, births, marriages and death (BMD) indexes and other useful material. READ FULL REVIEW... This CD for use on Windows computers contains the full data from Professor Michael Anderson's sample of the 1851 UK census, together with Barney Tyrwhitt-Drake's analysis and mapping program... READ FULL REVIEW...
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... The Genealogist is well known for the various census indexes on the site, but now full transcriptions... READ FULL REVIEW...
February 2006 A series of ‘original memoirs of distinguished men of all ages and all nations by writers of eminence in the various branches of Literature, Science and Art’. 17th to 19th century, over 2,600 pages, and listed and indexed alphabetically. READ FULL REVIEW... January 2006 The British Data Archive website by David Tippey British Data Archive, now the largest publisher of census material on CD, recognised early on that not many of us were lucky enough to have the census material we needed for our research available locally... READ FULL REVIEW... December 2005 1841 and 1851 Censuses for London, Lancashire and Yorkshire - now online These important releases — the 1841 and 1851 Censuses for London, Lancashire and Yorkshire — add to the extensive material already available from an all-inclusive subscription... READ FULL REVIEW...
November 2005 London 1861 Census Index - London City Companies - First World War Deaths Briefly described below are three recently-released CDs... 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 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... Reviews of London 1677 Directory, The Homeland Handbooks- Part 1 Guernsey, Sark, Alderney and Herm, Wills in the York Registry, 1389-1652, and Second World War- Overseas deaths in the Army, Navy, RAF and Indian services. 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... New website laucnhed: www.LondonCensus.co.uk S&N Genealogy Supplies has launched a new website to concentrate on research in London and the use of the census in researching your family history. READ FULL REVIEW... Phillimore's Marriages on CD-ROM These parish records of marriages- with, for some parishes, baptisms and burials- were transcribed by volunteers, edited by W P W Phillimore and Frederic Johnson and published by Phillimore and Co. in the latter part of the 19th and the early part of the 20th centuries... 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... January 2005 London & Shropshire Parish Records Briefly described here are just two CDs from more than 27 for the English counties... READ FULL REVIEW...
October 2004 Full name indexes to birth, marriage and death registers for England and Wales... READ FULL REVIEW...
June 2004
Altogether I found the program really easy to use with an impressive range of facilities, suitable for all users... READ FULL REVIEW...
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