Just a quick note to let you know if you have NowTV Broadband (amazing deals, I am saving 30% over TalkTalk) and try to view a web.archive.org site linked from the OGI, that site is being blocked. They claim it has been labelled as being used by hackers. This is not correct.
I had to contact them through their online Chat and they got it turned off for me (the setting is called Broadband Buddy) and the menus are not working today.
Just thought this may be useful for some of you!
Tuesday 12 November 2019
Friday 8 November 2019
Hundreds of new resources for Yorkshire
Dear users of the OGI,
Another week has flown by and another update has been added to the site today.
This weeks major addition boosts resources for Yorkshire. I was guided to a set of memorial inscriptions with individual photos of each headstone on genuki.org.uk. A link to each location has now be added to the OGI.
Check out the index here: https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/YRY/ERY/GraveIndex
The updates this week are listed below.
New total of 402,011 data sets.
Findmypast updated their Dorset collections combining some together. These have now been updated on the OGI.
Had a great experience researching with my friend Andy this week. We struggled to find the christening of an ancestor in Lowthorpe, Yorkshire with the name Elizabeth Ellerley as recorded on her marriage entry in the parish register of Beverley, Yorkshire.
On reviewing the birth registration of her children in the General Register Office, we saw that they were recorded with a mother's maiden name of Hillaby.
We then cross-referenced the marriage entry for Elizabeth Ellerley and noted that she had not signed her name and simply marked it with an X. This made us think that phonetically, Ellerley and Hillaby sound similar and the parish clerk could have transcribed the name she said at the time of the marriage.
Upon seeking an Elizabeth Hillaby in Lowthorpe at the right birth year (using the OGI), we found Betty Hillaby's birth date, christening, parents and, sub sequentially, all her siblings. We then linked into another tree taking the line on Elizabeth Hillaby's father's side back to the 1500s.
This experience was a good reminder how the GRO Index is an excellent tool for breaking through brick walls such as the previous example. Don't forget to download my free guide on using the GRO by clicking here. It includes many examples and step-by-step instructions of how to find more ancestors using this resource.
Currently working on a transcription of the contents of Pallot's Marriage Index which can be found on Ancestry (but with no contents). I found an old typed manuscript on a digital film made many decades ago and have been working on getting it transcribed. This resource will add thousands of links to the OGI.
Until the next update,
Tim Manners
Creator and Owner
http://ogindex.org
Another week has flown by and another update has been added to the site today.
This weeks major addition boosts resources for Yorkshire. I was guided to a set of memorial inscriptions with individual photos of each headstone on genuki.org.uk. A link to each location has now be added to the OGI.
Check out the index here: https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/YRY/ERY/GraveIndex
The updates this week are listed below.
- Isle of Man Parish Registers from archive.org (6 data sets)
- Lancashire Civil Registration Marriages (3 data sets)
- Shropshire Civil Registration Marriages (77 data sets)
- Yorkshire Civil Registration Marriages (2 data sets)
- Yorkshire Memorial Inscriptions and Parish Registers (481 data sets)
- Yorkshire War Memorials from rootsweb.com (5 data sets)
New total of 402,011 data sets.
Findmypast updated their Dorset collections combining some together. These have now been updated on the OGI.
Had a great experience researching with my friend Andy this week. We struggled to find the christening of an ancestor in Lowthorpe, Yorkshire with the name Elizabeth Ellerley as recorded on her marriage entry in the parish register of Beverley, Yorkshire.
On reviewing the birth registration of her children in the General Register Office, we saw that they were recorded with a mother's maiden name of Hillaby.
We then cross-referenced the marriage entry for Elizabeth Ellerley and noted that she had not signed her name and simply marked it with an X. This made us think that phonetically, Ellerley and Hillaby sound similar and the parish clerk could have transcribed the name she said at the time of the marriage.
Upon seeking an Elizabeth Hillaby in Lowthorpe at the right birth year (using the OGI), we found Betty Hillaby's birth date, christening, parents and, sub sequentially, all her siblings. We then linked into another tree taking the line on Elizabeth Hillaby's father's side back to the 1500s.
This experience was a good reminder how the GRO Index is an excellent tool for breaking through brick walls such as the previous example. Don't forget to download my free guide on using the GRO by clicking here. It includes many examples and step-by-step instructions of how to find more ancestors using this resource.
Currently working on a transcription of the contents of Pallot's Marriage Index which can be found on Ancestry (but with no contents). I found an old typed manuscript on a digital film made many decades ago and have been working on getting it transcribed. This resource will add thousands of links to the OGI.
Until the next update,
Tim Manners
Creator and Owner
http://ogindex.org
Friday 1 November 2019
Two more updates added
Dear fellow genealogical researchers,
I have uploaded two batches of new and updated record sets over the past week.
The new total of data sets hosted on ogindex.org is now 401,670.
Findmypast have been busy releasing new and updated collections that are now available on the OGI.
I have uploaded two batches of new and updated record sets over the past week.
The new total of data sets hosted on ogindex.org is now 401,670.
Findmypast have been busy releasing new and updated collections that are now available on the OGI.
- Dorset Memorial Inscriptions (268 parishes)
- Norfolk Parish Registers and Memorial Inscriptions (additions and changes to 2,150 parishes)
- Cornwall Burials
- Kent Burials
- Kent County Council Parish Register Browse (228 data sets)
- Middlesex Monumental Inscriptions
- Westmorland Baptisms
- Westmorland Marriages
- Westmorland Burials
Other recent additions include:
- Lancashire Online Parish Clerk (14 new data sets)
- Shropshire Civil Registration Marriages (39 new data sets)
- Gravestonephotos.com (12 new locations)
- Wakefield Council Burial Database (15 cemeteries)
I hope these updates will help you find your ancestors quickly.
Just a reminder to download my free guide to the General Register Office Index available here.
This step-by-step guide will show you how to use the GRO Index (free registration) to find mother's maiden names for any child born from August 1837 to 1918 (use FreeBMD for years up to 1984 then FindMyPast to see births up to 2008). Also learn how to use this data to find marriages. Deaths ages are also shown from August 1837 to 1957. FreeBMD only shows deaths from 1866.
There are many new collections from FamilySearch.org including Bedfordshire, Oxfordshire, Herefordshire and Surrey. These do not currently have an obvious index of included parishes but some have linked images to the results of your search.
I hope to return very soon with more records to improve your search results!
Best wishes,
Tim Manners
Creator and Owner
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