What's New on The Origins Network
3 new datasets on British & Irish Origins
  • Surrey Will Abstracts (1470-1856)
  • Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries 1890-1980
  • Memorials of the Dead - Galway & Mayo
British Origins: Surrey Will Abstracts (1470-1856)
A major new collection on British Origins, Surrey Will Abstracts (1470-1856) are among the most valuable research sources for Surrey. These fully indexed abstracts of all 28,000 wills proved in the Archdeaconry and Commissary Courts of Surrey and known still to exist, are now available online exclusively on British Origins

The Wills provide a more detailed picture of how our ancestors lived than almost any other genealogical resource. The wills come from a cross section of society, most testators being people of relatively modest means - artisans and tradesmen. Many contain rich details of the testator's property and the value placed upon it - clothes, furniture, tools, land. Even if you don't find one of your own ancestors in these records, by searching on date and occupation, you may find people living at the same times and in similar conditions to your ancestors. Dating from the 15th to the 19th centuries, the abstracts include all personal names (testator, beneficiaries, executors, witnesses, overseers and others) with their relationships, place names, occupations, monetary and other bequests, and descriptions of lands. The indexes include the name of every person mentioned - over a quarter of a million people. Searches can be made on name and date or by using the "free text" search facility to look for any word in the abstracts.

Above all, the Surrey Will Abstracts provide one of the best sources of any kind for identifying family members. The average will contain the names of ten people and some many more; most of these people are related.

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British Origins: Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries 1890-1980
A rich miscellany of information can be found for Somerset & Dorset, including articles on the history, archaeology, genealogy, folklore and literature of the two counties. For many decades Notes & Queries for Somerset and Dorset was the only dedicated journal for family historians specifically for these counties. Consequently there is a mass of important material of interest and value to the family historian, including family trees, parish registers, wills, inventories, property records, articles on emigration, militia, shipping, the civil war, the Monmouth Rebellion and much, much more.

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Irish Origins: Memorials of the Dead - Galway & Mayo
This index includes full transcripts of the surviving memorials found in the 128 graveyards and churches of west Counties Galway and Mayo. Over 3,000 memorials dated up to 1901 have been transcribed and over 8,000 names indexed, including names added for erectors who were not otherwise commemorated. Memorials were often erected by American relatives, and their details are included.

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1871 England & Wales Census now Complete!
The remaining counties have now been indexed and uploaded onto British Origins providing users with over 22 million names and images to search through. Over 60 Million names from three censuses (1841, 1861 and 1871) are now available on British Origins

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British and Irish Passenger Lists 1890 now complete
Abstracts of all 1890 passenger lists from British and Irish ports with US and Canadian destinations are available on The Origins Network. The names of nearly 200,000 passengers are now included.

The passenger records are abstracts of 1890 passenger lists from British & Irish ports with US and Canadian destinations, compiled by Peter Coldham directly from the original lists held at The National Archives, London. The original lists are often very difficult to read but we believe these abstracts are the most accurate available anywhere.

The records include date of sailing; ship's name, departure port, destination port. For each passenger, the full name is given, occupation, nationality, age, and marital status.

Three extra destination ports have been added to the existing 11 previously on Origins Network, which are: Galveston, Vancouver & West Indies.

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Over 3 million additional names now available for searching at British Origins
Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, Derbyshire, Durham, Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire and Oxfordshire - now available on 1871 England & Wales Census.

The remaining counties for the England & Wales 1871 census will be added in the next two months. Users with access to CDs of the original records can use this index alongside these CDs.

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The Origins Network re-launches online Store!
Origins Network is proud to announce the re launch of Origins Store – now featuring over 3000 books and CDs!

Visitors to the store can browse through various categories such as Music, Military, Employment, Church Registers, Immigration, Peerage, Heath, Family Histories and much more! There is huge range of products from social history books such as “The Education and Employment of Girls in Luton, 1874-1924” or the fascinating “Dialects, Proverbs and Word-lore” to the more academic products such as “The Burke's Peerage & Gentry Collection” or “Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches” (published 1846).

Searches can be narrowed down by country and then by area and have been sourced from various reputable genealogical and historical publishers such as Archive CD Books, Boydell & Brewer, The Society of Genealogists, Burke’s Peerage & Gentry, The Borthwick Institute and Eneclann.

All of these products are highly valuable for anyone with an interest in Family History research or for those simply wanting to know more about history or social history in general and there are prices available to suit every pocket!

Visit www.originsnetwork.com/store/store.aspx to browse through our thousands of titles and enjoy getting more out of your family history research!
Boyd’s Marriage Index - London and Middlesex Supplement on British Origins
While Boyd's Marriage Index is the largest index of pre-1837 English marriages, it is estimated that only 15% of marriages for the period are included.

Cliff Webb has undertaken to "fill in the gaps" for the City of London and Middlesex, to the extent that is possible from surviving records. This "Supplement" is integrated in the British Origins database with Boyd's index records, so that Boyd's Marriage Index and the Supplement may be searched simultaneously.

This is an on-going project. In the first batch of new records for London and Middlesex nearly 96,000 marriages have been indexed (nearly 200,000 names); over 50,000 City of London marriages and 46,000 for Middlesex. These include 3,100 Jewish marriages from Bevis Marks and the Great Synagogues, 3,160 Roman Catholic marriages, and 862 Huguenot marriages.

Please note that the most of the marriages included in the Supplement are not, to the best of our knowledge, available anywhere else online.

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Buckinghamshire, Hampshire, Rutland and Sussex added to England and Wales 1871 Census
Hampshire, Huntingdonshire, Oxfordshire, Rutland and Sussex are now available on the England and Wales 1871 census on British Origins.
A full index to and digitised images of the complete census for England & Wales will become available over the coming months. Users with access to CDs of the original records can use this index alongside these CDs.

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Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Gloucestershire and Kent counties added to England and Wales 1871 Census
Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Gloucestershire and Kent are now available on the England and Wales 1871 census on British Origins.
A full index to and digitised images of the complete census for England & Wales will become available over the coming months. Users with access to CDs of the original records can use this index alongside these CDs.

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Essex, Lancashire and Somerset counties added to England and Wales 1871 Census
Over 3.5 million names can be searched throughout the 3 counties. A full index to and digitised images of the complete census for England & Wales will become available over the coming months. Users with access to CDs of the original records can use this index alongside these CDs.

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Suffolk and Yorkshire counties added to England and Wales 1871 Census
Suffolk & Yorkshire are now available on the England and Wales 1871 census on British Origins.
A further 2.5 million names can be searched throughout the 2 counties. A full index to and digitised images of the complete census for England & Wales will become available over the coming months. Users with access to CDs of the original records can use this index alongside these CDs.

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