Huge collection of 1754-1837 marriages added for England and Wales

Dear users of the OGI,

Firstly, I must apologize that searching Wales and the Isle of Man is not working as it should but we are working on it today.  Hopefully, you will see the county list for both appear later.

The big news, and reason I am doing another update so soon, is the amazing content at my fellow researcher friend, Steve, at TINSTAAFL Transcripts. 

Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764)

His new project is to transcribe marriages from 1754-1837 in England and Wales.  This period of record keeping was started by the Hardwicke Marriage Act.  This is described on Wikipedia as follows:  "The Marriage Act 1753, full title "An Act for the Better Preventing of Clandestine Marriage", popularly known as Lord Hardwicke's Marriage Act, was the first statutory legislation in England and Wales to require a formal ceremony of marriage. It came into force on 25 March 1754."

Steve has already transcribed close to half a million marriages!  He adds new transcriptions every few days.  The full site will be live by the end of August but currently includes marriages for most Welsh counties and English counties from Berkshire to Staffordshire.  Suffolk through Yorkshire coming in the summer.  Visit his site here. I have linked his existing parishes and added them to the Online Genealogical Index.  

This week also included some new headstone photos and transcriptions from gravestonephotos.com and billiongraves.com.  Also, another set from Steve's other site, Norfolk Baptism Project for the parish of King's Lynn, St Margaret covering baptisms from 1813-1880.  Also, three more parish record indexes from durhamrecordsonline.com

It is always a pleasure to locate these amazing projects and link them to the database for all to find and appreciate.

The full total of data sets added on 23rd May is 658.  New total of records on the OGI is 390,547.  Maybe I will reach my goal of 400,000 this year after all!

I know you will find the content on Steve's marriage site very useful and hope you enjoy using it in the future.  I will keep all new parishes added to the OGI for easy access.

Until the next update,

Tim Manners
Creator and Owner
http://ogindex.org

Lots of new records for Lancashire, Lincolnshire and Somerset

Dear fans of the Online Genealogical Index,

Another update of 190 data sets today including parish registers, memorial inscriptions and gravestone photos.  This brings the total number of data sets on the site to 389,898.

Here is a summary of today's new additions:

Berkshire
Parish Registers on Genuki.org.uk (7 sets)

Devon
Memorial Inscriptions found on a "dead" website using web.archive.org (2 sets)

Lancashire
Parish Register transcriptions from lan-opc.org.uk (74 sets)

Lincolnshire
New Parish Record additions by Findmypast (50 sets)

Somerset
Parish Register Transcriptions on Genuki.org.uk (84 sets)

There are a few parish register and memorial inscription additions for Durham, Gloucestershire, Kent, Norfolk, Nottinghamshire, Rutland and Suffolk.

Ancestry recently updated their URLs for all collections in the catalog.  I have discovered 16 collections are now unusable (missing or broken) and have reported this to Ancestry this week.  If you would like to see which collections are missing, here is a list:

1. Bedfordshire, England, Extracted Church of England Parish Records
2. Berkshire, England, Extracted Church of England Parish Records
3. Devon, England, Extracted Church of England Parish Records
4. Durham, England, Extracted Church of England Parish Records
5. Kent, England, Extracted Parish Records
6. Lancashire, England, Extracted Church of England Parish Records
7. London Churches, Christening and Baptismal Records
8. London Churches, Burials and Deaths Records
9. Norfolk, England, Extracted Parish Records
10. Somerset, England, Extracted Church of England Parish Records
11. Suffolk, England, Selected Church of England Parish Registers, 1558-1778
12. Suffolk, England, Extracted Church of England Parish Records
13. Surrey, England, Extracted Church of England Parish Records
14. Westmorland, England, Extracted Church of England Parish Records
15. Wiltshire, England, Selected Church of England Parish Registers, 1591-1812
16. Wiltshire, England, Extracted Church of England Parish Records

I have left these in the OGI for now hoping the problem will be fixed soon.  

I appreciate all those reading the blog and using the site.  I know it is saving you all time in your research and, hopefully, guiding you to little-known sources.  You are welcome to leave comments on the blog. I love hearing from those using the site.

Please help by passing the word around to others engaged in family history research!  

Regards,

Tim Manners

http://ogindex.org

Creator and Owner