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In this issue:
* UK Events
* Special Email News Offers
* What's New Online?
* GenFair - The Official FFHS Website
* FHS Online - New Service for Societies
* What's New on CD
- Major 1901 Census sets and Directories
* Family History Articles - Family Legends
Email your stories to enquiry@thegenealogist.co.uk or submit them in the Community Area of The Genealogist.
* Top-selling Products
UK EVENTS November 2007
East London FHS
19th January 2008
Eastbury School, Barking, Essex
Bracknell Family History Fair
Sunday 27th January 2008 10am-5pm
SPORT & LEISURE CENTRE, Bagshot Rd (A322), Bracknell, RG12 9SE
Sussex & South London Family History Fair at CRAWLEY
Sunday February 10th 10am-5pm
K2, Pease Pottage Hill, Crawley, RH11 9BQ
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Save up to £8 per set with our new prices. Our London, Lancashire and Yorkshire sets are now only £24.95; even cheaper if you are buying several census sets. See Page 14 of the catalogue.
The new census bundle deal is simple - order three and get the cheapest one free.
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If you haven't got your copy of the 2008 catalogue and Christmas Newsletter download it here.
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Free Library Subscriptions to Census Transcripts, BMDs & More
If you work for a council library your library could benefit from a 3 month free subscription. Our Transcripts are complete for 1841 to 1891 and are fully searchable across Name, occupation, relationship etc.
We have low cost subscriptions that start at just £30 per PC.
To arrange a no obligation trial, just ring 01534 610735.
WHAT'S NEW ONLINE
All of the new data has been added into the All-Inclusive subscriptions which cost as little as £4.66 a month.
We are now putting the last year of census online. If you have a premium subscription you will find the images for the 1881 Census on TheGenealogist under 1881 Census Images.
Why only images? Well the Church of Latter Day Saints have the 1881 census transcripts online. These can be easily searched without charge so we have included a link so you can get the piece and folio references needed by the image viewer.
Family Search Website http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=census/search_census.asp
To use their site select 1881 British Census at the top, then at the bottom of their page select Country England and County London. You can then enter the First and Last name of the person you’re researching and click on search.
The system will return the Piece and Folio reference which can be used to view the appropriate pages. A folio references two pages so its worth browsing a page either way. The folio number is stamped on every other page at the top right hand corner.
We have asked permission to integrate a free to search index on the site as this would make searching and viewing pages easier. The current system isn’t too difficult.
The London 1881 will quickly be followed by all other counties giving complete coverage of all years of census on TheGenealogist.
New Census Transcripts Completed
Over 5.2 million records added
London 1881 Images
Our new London 1881 Image system allows you to view a census image by piece and folio reference.
Channel Isles 1901 Transcript Completed
We have now completed our Channel Isles 1901 transcript. Bringing the total number of records to nearly 100,000, complete with images.
Somerset 1901 Transcript Completed
We have now completed our Somerset 1901 transcript. Bringing the total number of records to over 460,000 complete with images.
All of the new data has been added into the All-Inclusive subscriptions
which cost as little as £4.66 a month.
GENFair – The online Family History Fair www.GENfair.co.uk
S&N Genealogy Supplies are pleased to announce that we have won the
bid to run GENfair on behalf of the Federation of Family History Societies.
GENfair is the online equivalent of a family history fair giving
access to products from over 120 different societies and suppliers selling
over 20,000 products.
It's a great place to find specialist products provided by a host of
societies and companies.
The GENfair site is now hosted using the latest database technology allowing extensive new features to be developed.
This enables customers to search on multiple criteria or list and search a specific supplier’s items. The search highlights the matching products.
The new site went live on the 12th December 2007 and welcomes both old and new customers alike.
If you are a society wishing to participate in the enhanced sales that the site can provide, please request details on www.GENfair.co.uk
FHS Online - New Service for Societies
To compliment the range of services we operate for societies we are now offering a new online data service. FHS Online will allow you to get your society data online without you having the burden of requiring highly qualified staff http://www.fhs-online.co.uk
For the initial period we are offering county societies the incentive of free equipment (Laptops, Projectors and computer storage). This is open to those that also allow us to host the data on a royalty basis on Thegenealogist.co.uk
Societies and individuals that own their own parish records can derive revenue from this indexing and transcription project. This is an important way to open up society data worldwide so that members can benefit from the research.
With 50% royalties and free equipment there has never been a better time to get online.
WHAT'S NEW ON CD
New Data CDs
£14.95 |
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Cambridgshire, Gonville, and Caius College Register 1558-1679 |
£17.45 |
Cheshire Census Bundle - 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1891 and 1901 |
£79.80 |
£19.95 |
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Derbyshire Census Bundle - 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1891 and 1901 |
£79.80 |
£ 10.00 |
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£17.95 |
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£17.45 |
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£17.45 |
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£17.45 |
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£9.95 |
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Lancashire indexes for 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1891, 1901 at only £14.95 each if you already purchased our Census image set. Or if you need an image set and an index save with our new £32.95 combined price. |
£14.95 |
London 1901 Census Complete Name Index (for those who have the S&N census set and previous index) |
£14.95 |
£19.95 |
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£17.45 |
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£17.45 |
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£17.45 |
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£17.45 |
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£17.45 |
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Northamptonshire, Oundle Memorials of the Second World War 1939-1945 |
£17.45 |
£17.45 |
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£17.45 |
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£17.45 |
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£19.95 |
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Nottinghamshire Census Bundle - 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1891 and 1901 |
£ 79.80 |
£17.95 |
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£ 17.45 |
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£ 19.95 |
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Shropshire Census Bundle - 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1891 and 1901 |
£ 79.80 |
Somerset Census Bundle - 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1891 and 1901 |
£ 79.80 |
New Detailed Map CDs with Indexes
£ 12.00 |
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£ 27.50 |
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£ 22.50 |
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£ 27.50 |
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£ 22.50 |
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£ 22.50 |
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£ 22.50 |
Family Legends: Shadow or Substance? by David Roberts
There is no such thing as an ‘ordinary’ family any more than there might be ‘ordinary’ people. We all have our tales to tell as individuals. So it is with families.
Anyone who has reflected on their family history is sure to have wondered about the family stories and legends we all heard in our childhood. Who hasn’t heard seemingly far-fetched tales as a child – ones that you could scarcely believe even in your naïve, gullible years and which as an adult seem even more laughable?
Although in later years one can look back at them, and see a glimmer – just a glimmer mind you – of truth.
As a child I recall asking my grandmother (b 1870) about the family history. I would say – “…and where did he come from?” “…and where did his father come from?” In common with most readers perhaps, how I wish I had pursued this line of enquiry even further.
An early recollection was that of being told that Charles, one of my grandfather’s brothers, joined the North West Mounted Police, later to become the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. I may have been sceptical because my grandfather (b 1857) never mentioned it. It was my mother who did so. The difference is simply that my mother is a romantic at heart (I use the present tense because she is now 100 years old), and I was aware of this characteristic even as a small child.
READ THE FULL ARTICLE OF OUR £100 WINNER DAVID ROBERTS
If you have a story to tell you too could win £100 in S&N vouchers.
Email your stories to enquiry@thegenealogist.co.uk or submit them in the Community Area of TheGenealogist.
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