U3A Genealogy

March 20th 2012

Cost of BMD CertificatesSo you have successfully used FreeBMD and got the required information. You want to order the certificate concerned.Good News!The Government Records Office is holding the price of birth / marriage / death certificates at £9.25 in 2012/13, even though the price of certificates from local register offices will be going up by 11% from £9 to £10 (excluding postage) from 1st April.

Family Search

Since 2006, FamilySearch has dramatically improved its ability to scan and convert microfilmed records into digital images. In addition, more than 185 digital camera crews are now at work throughout the world, capturing images six days a week. Between microfilm digital conversions and new field captures, FamilySearch now creates an average of 10 new digital images every second of every day and publishes them at familysearch.org within a matter of weeks.

NNFHG meeting

• Meeting of Genealogy Group Leaders from a number of U3A organisations across Northants

• Exchange ideas and information on group structures, presentation materials, speakers, interesting websites, blogs, etc

• Established mailing list for ongoing exchange, plus future meetings

NNFHG meeting• Kettering Ray Bradbury• Brixworth Philip Pomeroy• Ise Valley Jill Dee• Towcester Judith Laslett• Wellingborough 1 Ann Stegall• Wellingborough 2 Lynn Burkhart• Northampton 1 Mo Sherwood• Northampton 2 Pauline Riley• Northampton 3 Dave Willington• Oundle Marilyn Jenner

+ Me!

YourInformation

Find itYourself

Known Relatives Information

Ask them

New relatives Information

Genes Reunited

BMDInformation

CensusInformation

ParishRegisters

Information

Other SourcesOf

Information

CENSUSES

CIVIL BMDRECORDS

About 1840

PARISHRECORDS

GENES REUNITED

GENUKI , FHS, GOONS, ETC

GOOGLE, ROOTSWEB and OTHER LISTS

Ancestry.co.ukLDS 1881

Findmypast.com

FreeBMDAncestry

Findmypast.comUKBMD

Local BMDsites

LDS Microfiche

LDS Family Search

New Records on AncestryWest Yorkshire

• Baptisms, Marriages and Burials 1512-1812• Marriages and Banns 1813-1921• Deaths and Burials 1813-1985• Births and Baptisms 1813-1906• Confirmations 1859-1915

Recent Records on Ancestry• Warwickshire Militia 1776-1825• Warwickshire Bastardy Orders 1816-39• Warwickshire Land Tax 1773-1830• Warwick Cemetery Burial Slips 1859-1968• London Schools Records 1840-1911

840 schools• The Belfast Newsletter 1738-1925

200,000 pages

Recent records on findmypast

• Scotland 1891 census (no images)• Thames Watermen / Lightermen ocupational

records (100,000 records)• 40,000 Lincolnshire Parish marriage records

covering 1699-1838• 359,000 new Merchant Navy Seamen records

for the period 1835-1857 (1918-1941 records added in 2011)

New records on findmypast• Royal Artillery Military Medals 1916-93

16,500 medals• Royal Artillery Honours & Awards 1939-46

21,400 awards• Manchester City (Pals) Batallions from WWI

11,000 records• Manchester Roll of Honour records WWI

63,000 names

The Genealogist

• I saw a presentation on The Genealogist at the Northampton Family History Centre several weeks ago.

• I decided to take a Diamond subscription at a “show” discount, with a plan to stop my Ancestry subscription at the next renewal time and use the Library Ancestry edition

• Due to the issues referred to above, I have only now started to look at The Genealogist

The Genealogist

• Who Do You Think You Are Magazine have published two comparison features over the last two years.

• The Genealogist has proven to give the best value for money and the widest range of data.

• The Genealogist was popular for value, content and ease of navigation, as well as its impressive range of functions and features.

• "The Gold subscription is excellent value for money" Nick - Value for money [WDYTYA Magazine January 2012]

The Genealogist

• "The Genealogist has a strong census search tool to help you locate ancestors more easily" Claire - Ease of use [WDYTYA Magazine January 2012]

• "The street search tool for census records is superb." Nick - Navigation [WDYTYA Magazine January 2012]

• "Trees are quick and easy to build on the site, and the results are particularly visually attractive." Jenny - Family Tree Builder [WDYTYA Magazine January 2012]

• I'm really impressed by the extra features, ...Transcripts were better than some other sites" Raymond - Features & Quality [WDYTYA Magazine October 2009]

The Genealogist• "An excellent selection - Channel Isles, Census, Non

Conformist BMDs, quality transcripts and a facility to report errors, I liked the census search by county and year, I found several ancestors. But The Genealogist.co.uk's more advanced content - particularly the huge number of databases made it top of the class. Within 30 minutes I had found 1,2 and 3 x grandparents using the master search of all databases" Marjorie - Content [WDYTYA Magazine October 2009]

• "3 of the 5 reviewers rated TheGenealogist.co.uk as their no 1 site and the site was voted 'Best For Value' overall."

Overall Result - [WDYTYA Magazine October 2009]

So.........

I hope to give you a walk through all aspects of using The Genealogist at our April meeting...