January update part 2

Dear OGIers,

Thanks to the hardworking transcribers at FreeReg, the Online Genealogical Index has grown this week.  Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of volunteers are transcribing parish registers throughout the UK and these are updated daily at freereg.org.uk.  They are always looking for new volunteers to help out.  You can choose a specific parish or county to support.  Take a look at their site.  It has been a struggle to keep up with all their hard work but I am going county by county to try to catch up.  Sussex has been scanned and all new parishes have now been added to the OGI.

Along with these additions, a number of other sites have added to today's upload of 360 new data sets.  The total of the OGI database now stands at 449,943.

Here are the details for today's upload.

Cornwall OPC Database - 53 new data sets

FreeReg - 294 new parish data sets

TINSTAAFL Marriage Project - 11 new parishes

TINSTAAFL Norfolk Baptisms - 2 new parishes

I will continue to add the new FreeReg parish registers as time allows.  The OGI is still growing and will continue to be the best resource online for finding genealogical data for England, Wales and the Isle of Man.  It highlights all the hard work transcribers and photographers (headstones, etc) are doing on a daily basis.

Until the next update,

Tim Manners

https://ogindex.org

First Update of 2023!

Dear OGIers,

A Happy New Year to you all.  I hope you have had a wonderful Christmas season.  We enjoyed time with extended family for my mother's 90th birthday.

Meanwhile, I have been sneaking some research time to find new resources available to add to the Online Genealogical Index.

This latest upload of 316 data sets brings the grand total to 449,583.

• BillionGraves - 103 new cemeteries
• Cornwall Online Parish Clerk Database - 71 new data sets
• Findmypast Middlesex Monumental Inscriptions - 5 new cemeteries
• Findmypast National School Records - 10 new schools
• GravestonePhotos - 1 new cemetery
• Kingston BMD - 1 new Birth data set
• LAN OPC - 18 new data sets
• OPC Dorset - 1 new record set
• Staffordshire BMD - 17 new data sets
• TINSTAAFL Marriage Project - 18 new parishes
• TINSTAAFL Norfolk Baptisms - 3 new parishes
• Yorkshire BMD - 68 Marriage data sets

The big sites are not releasing new collections as often as they used to but the privately owned sites are still busy collecting data.  FreeReg is always adding new information but since they updated their site a few years ago, new additions are, unfortunately, very vague and harder to track.  I still highly recommend using their site if you cannot find anything elsewhere.

I look forward to a busy year of finding new resources for this site and adding them regularly for your research success.

Until the next update,

Tim Manners

https://ogindex.org