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