Final Update of 2022

Dear OGIers,

One final update for this year brings a variety of resources including more marriages from the excellent Hardwick Marriage Index.

This week's update brings the grand total of data sets on the Online Genealogical Index to 449,267 and includes the following.

• Archive.org - 18 Croydon church graveyards
• Cornwall OPC Database - 100 new data sets
• Durham Records Online - 9 new data sets
• Gravestonephotos.com - 14 new cemeteries
• Kingston Upon Thames BMD Civil Registration - 4 new data sets
• Lancashire OPC - 12 new data sets
• Sheffield Indexers - 11 new data sets
• Staffordshire BMD Civil Registration - 10 new data sets
• TINSTAAFL Marriage Project - 11 new parishes
• TINSTAAFL Norfolk Baptisms - 2 new parishes

I am always glad to see new data being released almost on a daily basis and am grateful for those who are so dedicated in publishing new information to aid our genealogical research.

Best wishes for 2023 and I look forward to finding more treasures online to add to the OGI.

Kind regards,

Tim Manners

http://ogindex.org

December update brings big boost for Yorkshire research

Dear OGIers,

Thanks to Ancestry, a large update was added to the database on 9th December.  It includes 983 data sets in North Yorkshire and covers parish registers from 1558 to 1997.  The Online Genealogical Index now includes 449,063 data sets.

Jerry Evans / Frosty landscape near Heaning

Here are the details of this update.

• Ancestry North Yorkshire Parish Registers - 983 new data sets
• Cornwall Online Parish Clerk Database - 79 new data sets
• Findmypast Norfolk Baptisms - 3 new data sets
• Gravestone Photos - 6 new cemeteries
• Lancashire Deaths - 1 new dataset

In 2022, 13,747 new data sets were added to the database.  I expect to reach 450 thousand very soon.  Each data set can include a dozen headstones or thousands of parish registers.

Thanks to those who reached out to highlight dead links.  I was able to use web.archive.org to find the last backed up version so none of the genealogical data was lost.  

Thank you for your continued use of the site.  It will continue to grow in 2023.

Best wishes, 

Tim Manners

https://ogindex.org

November Update

Dear OGIers,

Sorry for the delay in updating the database.  Today, 407 new sets were uploaded bringing the grand total to 448,027 data sets on the site.  The majority are for Cornwall.

Here are the details of today's update.

• Cheshire BMD Civil Registration Marriages - 9 new datasets
• Cornwall OPC Database - 301 new data sets
• Gravestone Photos - 19 new cemeteries
• Lancashire BMD Civil Registration - 19 new data sets
• Lancashire OPC - 8 new data sets
• OPC Dorset - 10 new data sets
• Staffordshire BMD - 9 new data sets
• TINSTAAFL Marriage Project - 25 new parishes
• TINSTAAFL Norfolk Baptisms - 4 new parishes

Each addition increases your chances of finding ancestors who were not yet available online.

As 2022 winds up, I wish to thank those who make the OGI a vital part of their research process.  I will continue to add new records to fill gaps in current availability.  

Until the next update,

Tim Manners

https://ogindex.org

Big update for Norfolk

Dear OGIers,

Findmypast released a large update for Norfolk Parish Registers this week so I have uploaded these collections today.

The new total is 447,620 data sets.

• Ancestry - Wrexham Burials
• Cornwall OPC - 61 data sets
• Durhamrecordsonline - 12 new data sets
• Findmypast Norfolk Baptisms - 1105 data sets
• Findmypast Norfolk Burials - 1075 data sets
• Findmypast Norfolk Marriages - 1049 data sets
• Freereg - 36 new parishes
• Gravestonephotos.com - 7 new cemeteries
• Lan OPC - 3 new data sets
• Lancashire BMD - 4 Birth data sets
• TINSTAAFL Marriages - 15 data sets
• TINSTAAFL Norfolk Baptisms - 2 data sets

I will certainly be investigating the expanded Findmypast Norfolk collections.

More updates coming in October!

Til then,

Tim Manners

https://ogindex.org

Lots of new resources in the September Update

Dear OGIers,

I am happy to share details of the September update.  Lots of variety and unique content will help you in your research.

The addition of 878 data sets brings the latest total on the Online Genealogical Index to 446,376.  I have now completed the import of parish register transcript scans on hathitrust.org.  This is an excellent resource with fast loading images of books.

Here are all the juicy details of today's update.

• Cornwall OPC Database - 90 new data sets
• Findmypast - Derbyshire Births and Baptisms - 26 new parishes
• Findmypast - Durham Marriages - 11 new parishes
• Findmypast - Lincolnshire Marriages - 9 new parishes
• Findmypast - Lincolnshire Monumental Inscriptions - 130 new cemeteries
• Findmypast - National School Admission Registers - 7 new schools
• Findmypast - Northamptonshire Burials - 137 new parishes
• FreeReg.org - 11 new parishes
• Gravestonephotos.com - 4 new data sets
• Hathitrust.org - 406 Parish Registers
• OPCDorset - 1 new data set
• Staffordshire BMD - 8 new data sets
• TINSTAAFL Marriage Project - 13 new parishes
• TINSTAAFL Norfolk Baptisms - 1 new parish
• UKGA.org - Dorset Marriages - 25 parishes

As you can see, lots of new resources to investigate.

More resources on the horizon so keep an eye out for the next update!

Until October, 

Tim Manners

https://ogindex.org

Second August Update

Dear OGIers,

One more update for August!  Ancestry released a large collection of parish registers for Nottinghamshire.  Also updates from Findmypast bulked out today's total of 1,406 new items.

Here are the details:

• Ancestry Nottinghamshire Baptisms - 192 new data sets
• Ancestry Nottinghamshire Burials - 141 new data sets
• Ancestry Nottinghamshire Marriages - 230 new data sets
• Ancestry Nottinghamshire Parish Registers - 177 new data sets
• Cornwall OPC Database - 72 new data sets
• Findmypast Durham Baptisms - 49 new data sets
• Findmypast Northumberland Baptisms - 9 new data sets
• Findmypast Northumberland Marriages - 6 new data sets
• Findmypast Staffordshire Baptisms - 27 new data sets
• Findmypast Staffordshire Marriages - 19 new data sets
• Findmypast Suffolk Baptism Index - 232 new data sets
• Gravestonephotos - 3 new cemeteries
• Lancashire OPC - 17 new data sets
• OPC Dorset - 4 new data sets
• Staffordshire BMD - 16 new data sets
• TINSTAAFL Marriage Project - 17 new parishes
• TINSTAAFL Norfolk Baptisms - 2 new parishes
• babel.hathitrust.org - 192 new parish registers

New total for data sets on the Online Genealogical Index is 445,739.  I hope this will boost your search results for ancestors.

Until September....

Tim Manners

https://ogindex.org

August adds hundreds of Warwickshire, Worcestershire and Yorkshire data sets

Dear OGIers,

I have finally completed the massive import project for Ancestry's Worcestershire and Yorkshire collections released in June and July.  The Worcestershire collection of Bishop's Transcripts was a mess as many place names were misspelled.  Also, that collection includes parts of Gloucestershire, Staffordshire and a lot of Warwickshire.  The Online Genealogical Index now contains 444,333 data sets.

Photo by David Precious on Flickr

The breakdown of today's upload is as follows.

• OPC Dorset - 4 new data sets
• TINSTAAFL Marriage Project - 8 new parishes
• TINSTAAFL Norfolk Baptisms - 1 new parish
• Cornwall OPC Database - 58 new data sets
• Ancestry's Worcestershire Church of England Bishop's Transcripts - 1,439 data sets
• Ancestry's York Church of England Parish Registers - 746 data sets

It is good to see new collections coming to light.  I am a bit disappointed that the for profit companies release such a mess of data, often with no indices but I will continue to put the hours in to make sense of them for the benefit of all OGIers!

Have a wonderful summer and see you again soon here on the OGI Blog.

Kind regards,

Tim Manners

https://ogindex.org

July Update

Dear OGIers,

I managed to fit in an update before the end of the month.  Lots to offer for many counties and record types.

The new total of data sets is 442,069 and here are the details.

• TINSTAAFL Norfolk Baptisms 7 new parishes
• LancashireBMD Civil Registration - 130 new data sets
• TINSTAAFL Marriage Project - 42 new parishes
• Babel Hathitrust Scanned Parish Registers - 627 parishes
• Cornwall OPC Database - 202 new datasets
• Findmypast - Greater London Burial Index - 1 new cemetery
•            - Middlesex Baptisms - 3 new data sets
•            - National Burial Index - 19 new cemeteries
•            - Surrey Baptisms - 4 new parishes
• DurhamRecordsOnline - 8 new data sets
• Gravestone Photos - 21 new burial sites
• StaffordshireBMD - 26 new data sets

I am still working on sorting out the messy Ancestry Worcestershire Bishop's Transcript collections and will add them soon.  And new Ancestry collections for York, Church of England has been released requiring hours of analysis but details will arrive on the OGI in good time.  

I have just completed six rounds of chemo and will require rest and time so hopefully the energy will be available to continue releasing updates and gathering data.

Thanks for your support and use of the site.  

With kind regards,

Tim Manners

https://ogindex.org

June update adds 785 new data sets

Happy June to all OGIers!

As we bask in record breaking temperatures for 2022 in the UK, I hope you are enjoying the shade during your genealogical research indoors!  

Today's update will be of great benefit to those with ancestors throughout England and Wales with many focusing on Cornwall, Durham and Norfolk.

North Elmham, Norfolk, is where many of my wife's ancestors lived and died.

Findmypast are expanding their Norfolk Gravestone image collection by adding transcriptions (though my wife's great-great-grandmother's grave is recorded as Arthur Margaret Jarrett as it had her husband mentioned as well!)

The update has added 785 new data sets to the site bringing the new total to 440,981.

Here are today's details.

• Cornwall OPC Database - 48 new data sets
• Durham Records Online - 7 new data sets
• Durham and Northumberland - Cemetery Index (96 cemeteries)
• Essex and Suffolk Surnames - 7 new parish registers
• Findmypast Newspaper Birth Notices - 48 towns covered
• Findmypast Newspaper Death Notices - 58 towns covered
• Findmypast Newspaper Marriage Notices - 39 towns covered
• Findmypast Norfolk Gravestone Photos - 91 new cemeteries 
• Findmypast Norfolk Gravestone Transcriptions - 345 cemeteries
• Gravestonephotos.com - 14 new cemeteries
• Lancashire OPC - 11 new data sets
• OPC Dorset - 1 new data set
• TINSTAAFL Marriage Project - 25 new parishes
• TINSTAAFL Norfolk Baptisms - 3 new parishes

As you can see, if you have ancestors in these areas, it is worth taking a new look to find these new data sources.

Have a wonderful summer.  I hope to add more data as I find it.

Kind regards,

Tim Manners

http://ogindex.org

Another May Update!

Dear OGIers,

I am happy to report that a large update was added to the database today.  2,800 items to be exact bringing the current total to 440,197.  The majority of the updates are from the county of Sussex thanks to new collections released by Ancestry last week.   The coverage for this county is now extensive and expanded into the 1900s further than every before.  I even found some burials records up to 2015 (despite the Ancestry collection label stating up to 1995).

For those of you with Herefordshire ancestry, Findmypast has expanded their Herefordshire Marriages collection and added thousands of new records also.

Here is today's update in detail:

• Cornwall OPC Database (105 new data sets)
• Findmypast Herefordshire Marriages (450 new data sets covering multiple counties)
• Ancestry Sussex Parish Registers (2,236 data sets)
• Gravestone Photos (9 new data sets)

My maternal ancestry was in Sussex (Walberton to be exact) for many generations so I am looking forward to finding the christenings of the more recent ancestors now that many records in the 1900s are now available.

Off to hospital for a lovely 3 day stay (it is not that lovely) and then another 2-3 weeks of recovery before the next visit.  I will continue to look for new resources and upload them in a timely fashion as my health and energy allow.

Thanks for your support and use of the site.

Until the next update,

Tim Manners
https://ogindex.org

May Update

Greetings OGIers!

Another update adds 386 new data sets to the site for your research success.  These cover many counties and expand collections already included in the database.

For those of you with Cornwall, Huntingdonshire or Staffordshire ancestry, large additions to these counties will boost your options.

Here is the breakdown of today's update.

• Cornwall Online Parish Clerk Database - 124 new data sets
• Durham Records Online - 4 new data sets
• Findmpast Wiltshire Baptisms Index - 4 new parishes
• Findmypast Huntingdonshire Marriages - 128 new parishes
• Findmypast National School Admissions - 4 new schools
• Findmypast Wiltshire Asylum Registers - 8 record sets
• Gravestonephotos.com - 11 new cemeteries
• Lancashirebmd.org.uk Marriages - 13 new data sets
• OPC Dorset - 3 new data sets
• Staffordshirebmd.org.uk Marriages - 77 new data sets
• TINSTAAFL Marriages Project - 7 new parishes
• TINSTAAFL Norfolk Baptisms Project - 2 new parishes

These updates bring the current total of data sets on the site to 437,397.

Thank you for using ogindex.org.  I sincerely hope you find it a valuable tool in your research process.  

Until the next update,

Tim Manners

https://ogindex.org

April Update

Dear OGIers, 

I hope you are having a wonderful month.  The weather here in Staffordshire has been lovely.  Maybe we will have all our expected showers in May....  

Today's update included 559 new data sets covering a range of counties.  This brings the current total of data sets on the OGI to 437,011.

Findmypast released a number of Salford Diocese Roman Catholic records this week.  Unfortunately they didn't give a list of content so I have just spent the past 6+ hours figuring out what the new items are and the associated date ranges.  I really hope Findmypast will up their game and match their indices with their new releases.

Salford Cathedral Church, St John the Baptist

Here are the details of today's update.

• Cornwall OPC Database - 161 new data sets
• Durham Records Online - 2 new data sets
• Findmypast - Dorset Monumental Inscriptions - 17 new churchyards
• Findmypast - Middlesex Monumental Inscriptions - 7 new cemeteries
• Findmypast - National School Admission Registers - 19 new schools
• Findmypast - Roman Catholic Baptisms (Salford) - 95 new parishes
• Findmypast - Roman Catholic Burials (Salford) - 22 new parishes
• Findmypast - Roman Catholic Marriages (Salford) - 95 new parishes
• Gravestonephotos - 20 new cemeteries
• Lancashire BMD Deaths - 4 new data sets
• Lancashire BMD Marriages - 3 new data sets
• Lancashire OPC database - 16 new data sets
• OPC Dorset - 16 new data sets
• Staffordshire BMD Marriages - 39 new data sets
• TINSTAAFL Marriage Project - 39 new parishes
• TINSTAAFL Norfolk Baptisms - 5 new parishes

I sincerely hope that these new additions will guide you to your ancestors records.  I will be in and out of hospital over the next month but will continue searching for new data to add to the Online Genealogical Index.  

Thank you for your support.  Please spread the word about this site.

Kind regards,

Tim Manners

https://ogindex.org

March Update

Dear OGIers,

Good news for those with ancestry in Cambridgeshire.  I updated the data from Findmypast which now includes much more details than was originally available on the OGI.  

Here is the nitty gritty about last night's update:

• Cornwall OPC Database - 62 new data sets
• Durham Records Online - 4 new data sets
• Findmypast - Cambridgeshire Parish Registers - 455 new and updated parishes
• Findmypast - Lincolnshire Burials - 4 new burial grounds
• Gravestonephotos.com - 2 new cemeteries
• OPC Dorset - 4 new data sets
• Staffordshire Marriages - 55 new data sets
• TINSTAAFL Marriages - 14 new parishes
• TINSTAAFL Norfolk Baptisms - 2 new parishes

The new total of data sets on the OGI currently stands at 436,536.  These are all hand-picked and verified at the time of publication.  I appreciate when researcher's inform me of dead links so I can find a newer or archived version.  The OGI includes over 2,900 links to dead sites that were archived at web.archive.org allowing us to still benefit from the original content, even though the site is no longer alive.  An example of this is Wimpole, St Andrew's Memorial Inscriptions Index here.  This website 'died' in 2005 but thanks to the amazing Wayback Machine of Archive.org, the site has been stored (minus images).  I have spent hundreds of hours finding lost websites this way and putting them in the OGI for easy access.

Wishing you a successful and healthy month ahead,

Tim Manners

https://ogindex.org

February Update Details

Dear OGIers,

Here are the details of an update added on 28th February.  Lots of new parish registers for your research success.

• Ancestry - Cemetery Registers - 16 data sets
• Cornwall Online Parish Clerk Database - 253 new data sets
• Durham Records Online - 7 data sets
• Findmypast - National Burial Index - 245 data sets
• Findmypast - Norfolk Non-Conformist - 128 data sets
• Findmypast - Norfolk Workhouses - 6 data sets
• FreeReg - 103 data sets
• Gravestonephotos - 10 new cemeteries
• LAN OPC - 18 new data sets
• OPC Dorset - 4 new data sets
• Staffordshire Marriages - 19 new data sets
• TINSTAAFL Marriage Project - 36 new parishes
• TINSTAAFL Norfolk Baptisms - 5 new parishes

This update added 851 new data sets bringing the total on the OGI to 436,383.

Thank you for your support and interest.  I will continue searching for useful resources to help you find your ancestral records.

Always happy to hear from you with suggestions or comments.  Use the Contact link at the top of the page to send me a message anytime.

Until the next update,

Tim Manners

https://ogindex.org

First update of 2022

Dear OGIers,

I hope you have had a restful new years and started off with health and vigour.  There are lots of new genealogical resources for you to discover with today's addition of 511 data sets.

Here are the details:

• Cemetery Searcher - 3 new data sets
• Cheshire BMD - 5 new marriage data sets
• Cornwall OPC Database - 377 new data sets
• Durham Records Online - 8 new data sets
• FamilySearch.org - 10 new parish register data sets
• GravestonePhotos.com - 7 new cemeteries
• OPC Dorset - 3 new parish data sets
• Staffordshire BMD - 2 new death data sets
• Staffordshire BMD - 32 new marriage data sets
• Surrey Parish Register scans on Google - 10 new data sets
• TINSTAAFL Marriage Project - 41 new data sets
• TINSTAAFL Norfolk Baptisms - 6 new data sets

I am sure there will be some of your ancestors included in these, especially if you have Cornish connections.  The new total for the complete database is 435,533 data sets.  Please remember that a data set can be thousands of names or a handful of headstones.

Good to know the availability of new material continues to improve.

Aren't we all looking forward to enjoying warm days down south again soon?  Here's a photo of Porthleven, Cornwall.

Photo by Darren Welsh on Unsplash

Here's wishing you a happy and healthy 2022.

Until the next update,

Tim Manners

https://ogindex.org