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