The Origins Network (formerly Origins.net) was founded in 1997 and offers online access to some of the richest ancestral information available to help you research your family history.
Origins Network services include subscription access to exclusive genealogy related collections on British Origins and Irish Origins, plus expert Scottish Old Parish records research on Scots Origins.
Our unique primary genealogical data for researching your family history online includes marriage registers, wills, court and apprentice records, as well as downloadable images of original maps and plans used in 19th surveys. Most of this information is not available anywhere else on the internet.
Through The Origins Network, family historians and professional researchers can:
Research comfortably from your computer, saving time and travel costs
Access exclusive source data collections and research from UK and Ireland specialists
Use FREE state-of-the-art technology to locate records across the internet
Stay regularly updated with exciting new UK and Irish collections
Speed Your Research
The Origins Network offers a treasure-trove of research aids to genealogy records and images that are physically stored in many different places.
For example, if you are interested in English marriage records, the 534 volumes of Boyd's Marriage Index, compiled from sources throughout England, are far easier to search online via British Origins than by going directly to the volumes themselves. You can search all the online collections at the same time to uncover gems in places you may never have thought to look.
Exclusive Primary Data
The Origins Network is known for our commitment to providing access to high quality data.
Our partnerships with leading archives and genealogical societies in the UK and Ireland, including the Society of Genealogists, the National Library of Ireland, and the Borthwick Institute for Archives, allow us to provide exclusive online access to important primary sources, abstracts and index databases, including definitive versions of key Irish material (Griffith's Valuation). For many source documents, users of The Origins Network services can place orders online for hard copies.
The only other way to access most of this material is by traveling to the source archives in the UK and Ireland.
Unique UK/Ireland Offering
Although other major online genealogy companies have some UK and Irish records, their focus on United States data means they don't have the local expertise and access to unique source records that The Origins Network, with our focus on the UK and Ireland, can offer.
Additionally, offerings from genealogical companies, which focus on the UK or Ireland, only give users only half the story. The extent of migration between England and Ireland and the commonality of many names has, compounded with the passing of time, been a cause for confusion even to natives of Britain and Ireland, who need to be able to access source data from both areas to pinpoint their real origins.
If you are one of the 20% of Americans who can trace their origins back to Ireland, and over 15% with British origins, as well as the many Australians and Canadians of British and Irish descent, you'll need even more help sorting out their roots.
Technology Leaders
The first company to put official genealogical vital records online, The Origins Network continues to pioneer in the technology of online genealogical record search and retrieval.
All of our services feature NameX®, the most powerful name-matching technology available. Vastly superior to the widely-used Soundex, NameX® will locate a wider range of genuine variants of your ancestor's name than any other software, which is important as many names have common historical variations in spelling, or have been spelled incorrectly on important records.
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EC1R 5AR
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