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Oaths of allegiance, used to secure the loyalty to the sovereign and to help identify potential opponents, were relatively common in in post-Reformation and revolutionary England. Oath rolls offer a valuable pre-19th century "census substitute" often containing a substantial proportion of adult male names within the areas they covered. The Association Oath followed the discovery in 1696 of a plot to assassinate William III. A transcription of the Association Oath Rolls for the City of London Livery Companies are now available on British Origins. This dataset contains the names of over 21,500 members of 77 livery companies. Origins are pleased to announce a series of bespoke research packages for England and Wales provided by Sticks Research Agency, the organisation behind BBC’s triple BAFTA nominated series Who Do You Think You Are?. Sticks Research Agency senior researchers can quality check your work to date, confirm the accuracy of your family tree, suggest further research, or confirm that you have hit the end of road for a particular line. This can be done via a one-to-one meeting, or via submitted research notes and documentation. Passenger records for all 1891 sailings from Irish ports to US and Canadian destinations have now been added to British & Irish Passenger Lists 1890 & 1891. These new records include the names of nearly 50,000 passengers. This dataset now contains the names of nearly 200,000 passengers. In many cases lists are clearly multiple members of the same family present on the list, making these records much more valuable than simply records of individuals. Between c.1970-1990 Brian J. Cantwell transcribed and published 11 volumes of graveyard transcriptions primarily covering Counties Wicklow, Wexford and South Dublin. Cantwell's original typewritten records have all been scanned and are available now on Irish Origins as digitised images. All the names in the transcriptions have been indexed - over 60,000 people are mentioned covering all visible and legible memorials in graveyards that had a date of 1880 or before and all surviving interior church memorials. Now available to British Origins and Total Access subscribers, over 150,000 marriages transcribed by Somerset & Dorset Family History Society from parish registers, Bishops Transcripts, and non-conformist circuit registers. Online records are of the actual marriages and over half a million names are searchable, including witnesses. For Irish history and Irish genealogy researchers directories are a vital tool. Two new directories have been added to Irish Origins:
Details those eligible to vote in Ireland after the electorate had been greatly increased following the Great Reform Act of 1832. With over 52,600 names, with details of occupations, addresses and entitlement criteria to vote, this index is one of the great untapped resources for the study of the Irish electorate in the 1830s. This collection is now available to Irish Origins and Total Access subscribers. A further 165,000 York probate records have been added to the Prerogative & Exchequer Courts of York Probate Index, covering the period 1731 to 1842. The Indexes now contain 215,000 records, for 1731 to 1858. Hard copies of all the original records can be ordered online. Abstracts of poor law records for the parish of St Sepulchre have now been added, taking the total searchable names to over 20,000. Poor Law records are among the most valuable of all sources for genealogists, yet underused. They can contain a mass of biographical detail unavailable anywhere else. Origins Network are initially making available a series of Poor Law Records for the City of London covering the parish of St Botolph Aldgate, a large but poor parish with a highly transient population. The index to these records contains nearly 12,000 names. We will be regularly adding to this collection. .  About the collection
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Two of the most comprehensive Irish directories available have been added to the Directories of Ireland collection: Pigot's Commercial Directory of Ireland, 1824 & Slater's Commercial Directory of Ireland, 1846. London Burials Index 1538-1872 Over 32,000 names have been added to the London Burials Index 1538-1872 with St Leonard Shoreditch Burials. Free Text Search on Somerset & Dorset Notes & Queries Nearly 10,000 pages of articles are now easier to access with a NEW free text search. London Apprenticeship Abstracts 1442-1850 Over 100,000 names of apprentices and masters have been added to the London Apprenticeship Abstracts 1442-1850. Prerogative & Exchequer Courts of York Probate Index 1842-1853 A further 34,000 records, for 1842-1853 have been added to the Prerogative & Exchequer Courts of York Probate Index. St Andrew Holborn Marriage Index 1754-1812 Origins Network has now added over over 92,000 names from the marriage registers of one of the biggest parishes in London - St Andrew Holborn Marriage Index 1754-1812. Entries from these marriage registers do not appear on the International Genealogical Index or in Boyd's Marriage Index. For this reason the Society of Genealogists decided to embark a project to transcribe and index the registers. We are pleased to announce these records are now available to British Origins and Total Access subscribers. Militia Attestations Index 1860-1915 Indexes to records for further 6 English militia regiments have now been added to British Origins Militia Attestations Index 1860-1915: East Yorkshire Regiment, Durham RGA, Lancashire RGA, Northumberland Fusiliers, West Riding Regiment and Wiltshire. These cover over 23,500 recruits to these regiments. The Origins Network militia indexes now cover over 110,000 recruits to English and Scottish regiments, as well as 12,500 recruits to Irish regiments. Copies of the original documents can be ordered online. For Irish history and Irish genealogy researchers directories such as Slater's are a vital tool. Only a handful of truly national Irish directories exist; the current edition is one of only nine for Ireland prior to the twentieth century. Slater's Royal National Directory of Ireland, 1881, is one of the most comprehensive Irish directories available, with over 1,500 pages of text and more than 180,000 names. Now available for Irish Origins or Total Access subscribers.
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. 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.
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.
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 Number of names per county
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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. Find out more
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