Details of what is
available at the Origins Website
The Scots
Origins Sighting Service
Scots Origins now
offer FREE services - enhanced IGI searching and extensive
place name searching, in addition to the "Sighting service"
which allows access to original Scottish documents from 1700
up to 1990
Lets you request
via the Scots Origins web site the transcription of details
from Scottish Old Parish Registers (birth/baptisms and
marriages only; 1700 - 1854), Statutory Registers (birth,
marriages and deaths; 1855 - 1990) and 1861 and 1871 Census
records.
Irish Origins - just
click on the link above - It's FREE
Irish Origins
allows users to search for FREE across 17,000 Irish
genealogy web pages, containing 1.5 million names, including census data, Griffith’s valuations, ships’ passenger lists, church records, convict
records and more. Also included on Irish Origins are links on how to find useful information
including Irish source archives, discussion group, with articles and tutorials to follow shortly. By entering in a surname, and
any other relevant information such as year, place of birth, residence, our search engine will link you directly to sites where that name and
information appears.
Access to Irish Origins is entirely free as they do not hold any primary
data themselves, but a comprehensive searchable index to data from other sites.
New - For those of you researching your Irish ancestors,
locating exactly where your relatives may have come from can
often be difficult. In response, they have added a new
Placename Search to Irish Origins, the best source for
Irish genealogy online. This is an invaluable feature if you
are trying to find a place in Griffith’s Valuation and are
unsure of where it might be.
New CD-Roms
Available
You can now purchase
online CD-Roms of Irish genealogical data published by
Eneclann. You can further your family history research with
the following CD-Roms:
Index of Irish
Wills 1484-1858
The William Smith
O’Brien Petition 1848-49
1851 Dublin Census
Memorials of the
Dead - Galway & Mayo
Grenham’s Irish
Surnames
Origins Search
- Genealogical Search Engine
Origins Search
- Now A Smarter Search Engine for Genealogists
Origin search currently indexes over
407 million names and uses NameX™ the most sophisticated tool for finding name
spelling variants. There are now around
double the number of names for each region than in the launch version, which
went live in August 2002. Origin Search now returns over 130% more US names and
around 300% more European names. The number of names currently indexed in Origin
Search by region is:
USA - 248 million ,
UK & Ireland - 21 million,
Canada - 14.5 million, Europe (excl. UK & Ireland) - 19.2 million
Australia & New Zealand
- 3.4 million Unclassified - 128 million
Origin Search is a
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unlimited use or $15 for 14 days. The uniqueness of Origin Search is that it is
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difficulty in genealogical research: how to find nuggets of information of real
value to your research which may be buried deep within millions of web pages.
Origin Search allows users to locate ancestors' information using structured
searches based upon events from marriages to mentions in ships' passenger lists,
with grouping of results by region, and with a proprietary mechanism for
retrieving alternate name spellings, NameX™.
English Origins
English Origins access now increased to 7
days for all users
Data currently available on English Origins includes: · Marriage Licence
Allegations Index 1694-1850· Boyd's Marriage Index 1538 - 1840· Bank of England
Will Extracts Index 1717 - 1845 · Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills Index
1750 - 1800· Archdeaconry Court of London Wills Index 1700 - 1807 · London
Apprenticeship Abstracts 1442 - 1850 · London Consistory Court Depositions Index
1700 - 1713. New English Origins Records – Over 1.4 Million
Names Added, Double Credits on English Origins Instead
of 150, you’ll now receive 300 credits on English Origins when you signup or add
credits to your existing account access fee (£6, €9 or US$9).
Boyd's Marriage Index “First Miscellaneous Series”
has now been added to English Origins, making it the richest
source of authentic English genealogy records online. This new
data includes over 1.4 million names that are not included in
the previously available county lists, making a total of over
6.4 million names available now on Boyd’s Marriage Index. The
new records cover 25 counties, so that names are now available
for every English county.
