Big updates for Surrey and Wiltshire today

Dear users of the OGI,

I have been reviewing the amazing resources at the Online Parish Clerk site for Wiltshire.  They now require a free account before allowing access to their data.  

As you can see, I have now changed the opening images on the site to announce that the Online Genealogical Index site was recommended at RootsTech in London and Salt Lake City.  Whitney Peterson, a British Research Expert, mentioned the site in her lectures and recommended it for finding information quickly.

Here are today's updates:

Gravestone Photos - 2 new cemeteries

OPC Dorset - 7 new data sets

Shropshire BMD - 16 data sets

TINSTAAFL Marriage Project - 19 new parishes

TINSTAAFL Norfolk Baptisms - 3 new parishes

Wiltshire Graveyard Photos - 38 graveyards

Wiltshire OPC - 759 new and updated data sets

Findmypast 

• Derbyshire Deaths and Burials - 7 parishes
• National School Admission Registers - 2 new schools
• Surrey Baptisms - 440 new and updated parishes
• Surrey Marriages - 450 new and updated parishes
• Surrey Burials - 190 new and updated parishes
• Yorkshire Baptisms - 13 new parishes
• Yorkshire Monumental Inscriptions - 39 new parishes

Total number of new items this week are 1988 (good year for music!) and the new total on the site today is 404,191.

I will be finally taking some family time off (first time this year) and heading to a few family history sites including the pub where my great-great-grandfather was landlord in 1894.  The Black Swan in Belford, Northumberland now has rooms for rent and I am fulfilling a lifelong dream of staying there.  

Here is a photo of the pub in the late 1890s.

Have a wonderful summer,

Tim Manners

Creator and Owner

http://ogindex.org

303 new and updated data sets uploaded on 26th June

Dear Users of the OGI,

This update was done last week just before I fell ill for a few days!  I have not got the dreaded virus but was on my back for a while.

Here are the contents of the update:

OPC Dorset - 2

TINSTAAFL Marriages - 6

TINSTAAFL Norfolk Baptisms - 1

Yorkshire Civil Marriages - 7

FindmyPast 

• Roman Catholic Baptisms - 98
• Roman Catholic Burials - 39
• Roman Catholic Marriages - 76
• Roman Catholic Congregational Records - 64

Durham Records Online - 6

FamilySearch Durham Graveyards - 4

This brings the total of records on the Online Genealogical Index to 404,005.  I remember a few years ago when i first past 100,000 and I was amazed!  Things are still growing and I am still finding new ancestors by using the site!  The whole idea for the OGI was to create a tool for my own use but I quickly realized it would benefit others!  Thank goodness for my good friend David Sheppard from the Forest of Dean who helped build the site for me.  I see that over 28,000 searches have been done so far, my wife suggests half were my own searches, but I hope others have had success with their research using this tool.

Please pass the word on to others if you have found the OGI helpful in your research.  I know it has saved me thousands of hours of research time.  It has also been a good reminder of wonderful resources available online created by generous others who give away their work for the world to enjoy.  

Until the next update,

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