Dear Users of the OGI,
An additional 1,737 data sets have been added to the Online Genealogical Database this week. The majority are the new Ancestry Staffordshire Parish Register collections. These cover Baptisms, Banns, Marriages and Burials from 1538 to 1900. This brings the total of data sets on the OGI to 413,443. Each one was researched, typed in and uploaded! Seven years in and the OGI is still growing.
I was very honoured to receive the personal project of former vicar Andrew Knight of Lougher, St Michael's parish in Swansea.
He has transcribed each of the hundreds of headstones in the churchyard and ordered them by surname. This is now available on the OGI under Glamorganshire or see it now here.
I hope the OGI can be a tool to preserve the projects of others unavailable elsewhere online.
Here are the details of the recent uploads:
- FamilySearch - 4 new parishes
- TINSTAAFL Norfolk Baptisms - 1 new parish
- TINSTAAFL Marriages - 8 new parishes
- Staffordshire Burial Search - 1 new churchyard
- OPC Dorset - 4 new data sets
- Gravestone Photos - 4 new cemeteries
- Durham Records Online - 8 new data sets
- Staffordshire BMD - 4 new death data sets
- Staffordshire BMD - 5 new marriage data sets
- Ancestry Staffordshire Parish Registers 1538-1812 - 491 data sets
- Ancestry Staffordshire Baptisms 1813-1900 - 361 data sets
- Ancestry Staffordshire Marriages and Banns 1754-1900 - 557 data sets
- Ancestry Staffordshire Deaths and Burials 1813-1900 - 288 data sets
Off to Devon next week but will keep an eye out for any new genealogical data coming my way to pass on to all of you lovely people.
I hope you have had a chance to see the Family Tree Magazine article about the OGI (also got a mention on the cover!). It is an excellent article written by one of their editors with a few tweaks by myself.
Have a great summer and take some time to visit family. Maybe you will discover some clues to your genealogical mysteries.
Best regards,
Tim Manners
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