Another week and more data is added to the website!
I have spent many hours this week manually reviewing over 6000 records for Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. They have now been divided into two sections so you will now see Isle of Wight as an option in the English counties drop-down list. This will help with searching for ancestors by these geographic locations. The OGI is now the largest Index of Isle of Wight genealogical data online with 818 data sets.
Findmypast is the star site of the week due to the release of a number of image collections for Norfolk.
Norfolk Parish Chest Records 1300-1990 Browse Norfolk Parish Register Browse Norfolk Archdeacon's Transcripts 1600-1812 Image Browse
These collections include Apprenticeship records (find your ancestor in their first job!) and Bastardy Bonds (horrible name but excellent resource to find the father of an illegittamate child).
I also learned this week that Archdeacon's Transcripts were copies sent to the Archdeacon up to 1812. In 1813, copies of parish registers were sent to the Bishop, creating Bishop's Transcripts.
This weeks additions total 1,426. I am still hoping to near 400,000 data sets by the end of the year but that depends on
New record sets include updates in Gloucestershire's Ancestry collections, Suffolk parish registers and Somerset gravestone photos (from gravestonephotos.com).
A great website you may find interesting is this comprehensive index of all graves in Froyle, Hampshire, a wonderful resource if you have ancestry in this area. This is another excellent example of a free site created for the benefit of all! I hope as more genealogists retire, they will spend more time adding resources similar to the Froyle pages online.
If you have any electronic or scanned documents you feel would be of value (such as graveyard transcriptions or parish records), they can be hosted on ogindex.org for all to see.
A recent example of a hosted document found through web.archive.org for a defunct website is here. It is a graveyard survey for Horninglow, St John the Divine in Staffordshire. Glad this is now available at a link on the OGI as it is hours of work to lose.
I am dedicated in making this website the best resource for English, Welsh and Isle of Man research.
May you be encouraged in your family history efforts! The number of records and websites available today are better than ever before!
Until the next update,
Tim Manners
Founder and Chief Data Hunter!
http://ogindex.org
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