Digital Books add hundreds of new records this week

Greetings fellow researchers,

I have spent hours this week working on the digital books available at books.familysearch.org.  There are many there not available at archive.org or elsewhere online and they are a reminder of the valuable data recorded by faithful and dedicated genealogists.

There are two large collections of monumental inscriptions for Suffolk (467) and Yorkshire (62).  The total number of additions this week is 581 bringing the total of OGI data sets to 384,755.

Additional data sets found in the FamilySearch Books collection include parish registers and monumental inscriptions from Lancashire, Shropshire, Staffordshire and Warwickshire.  

The gentleman who roamed the country from 1825-1834 was John Wareyn Darby who spent thousands of hours transcribing headstones all over Suffolk.  He died unmarried in 1846.  I suppose it was difficult to meet a future wife in churchyards!  

He visited 467 churchyards throughout Suffolk and recorded the details of the gentry and, sometimes, listed the surnames from headstones in the churchyard.

Charles Patridge published printed copies of these transcriptions starting in 1913.  The complete collection, organized by parish hundreds, is available at books.familysearch.org  but I have added each one with corresponding page number in the original books so you can jump directly to the parish needed.  You can view the first book here.

This is only an example of the large collections available thanks to those who devoted their lives to recording the names of the deceased.

A second collection added this week is from Yorkshire and was completed in 1947 by full-time missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints serving in the Yorkshire area.  They were able to visit and transcribe the headstones from 62 churchyards.  Probably a little different from their regular missionary work but of great value to all those with Yorkshire ancestors!  You can view that book here.

I will continue looking for new resources and return in a week or so!

Regards,

Tim Manners

Creator and Owner

http://ogindex.org

Big week for Lancashire

Hope you are all enjoying this warm and dry summer.  Reminds me of my childhood in 1976 which, so far, was actually a warmer one!  The record high in the UK that year was 36 degrees.

Findmypast released a huge Lanacashire collection yesterday which is now included in the Online Genealogical Index.  

Here is a review of today's updates:

• Lancashire Baptisms, Marriages, Banns and Burials for 215 parishes from Findmypast
• Jewish burials for 96 locations in the UK from jewishgen.org
• New additions from Staffordshire, Cheshire and Lancashire civil registration (www.ukbmdsearch.org.uk)
• Sheffield updates for parish registers and memorial inscriptions (27 new entries from sheffieldindexers.com)
• New graveyards on gravestonephotos.com
• Twelve new Lancashire parish register data sets from www.lan-opc.org.uk
• New Norfolk baptism set added to tinstaafl.co.uk

Total additions for this week = 870 data sets (that includes over 2.5 million names)

I hope these new entries will assist you in finding your ancestors.  I have found a few new children this week due to the tools found in the General Register Office Index.  Don't forget about my extensive guide on using the GRO Index for family history research found HERE

It will help you use the best combination of online tools to find marriages and missing family members from 1837 and beyond.

I am taking a few weeks off in August travelling to Germany where we lived for 7 years (and I enjoyed 3 of my teenage years as well) so things may be quiet but I will be back full force in September gathering more data for your use.

The total data sets available on the OGI stands at 384,175.  I am still hoping to reach 400,000 by the end of the year so we will see if I can find another 16,000 new data sets online!

Best wishes,

Tim Manners

Creator and Owner

http://ogindex.org

 

691 New Data sets added to the OGI this week

Hello all,

I am happy to report that I have updated and added 691 data sets on ogindex.org today.

Findmypast have added the following new collections:

• Berkshire Registers & Records
• Durham Registers & Records
• Northumberland and Durham Memorial Inscriptions

Updates were also made to these collections:

• Greater London Burial Index
• Sussex Monumental Inscriptions

Ancestry has made updates to the Liverpool, Church of England collections adding a number of new parishes.

There are also new updates to Lancashire parish regsiters available at www.lan-opc.org.uk.
Bolton Birth updates for lancashire.bmd.ork.uk.
Gravestone Photos added new graveyard transcriptions for Durham, Gloucestershire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Norfolk, Somerset, Sussex and Warwickshire.

Norfolk Baptism Project has also added two new parishes to its collection.  (tinstaafl.co.uk)

Durham also has a GRO Index site which can give more details than other sources

(https://gro.durham.gov.uk/pgPublicSearch.aspx) Things are moving forward with new data being made available all the time.  Still waiting for the large collection of Kent data coming to Findmypast before the end of the year. Hope you are all enjoying the summer so far and have found some extra time to do your family history research. Until next time, Tim Manners Creator http://ogindex.org