[ 07 May 2013 ]

New Pilot Database

MAJOR NEW RELEASE: We have added a new resource for those with aeronautical ancestors. Records include a selection of The Royal Aero Club Yearbooks, which include the years 1914-1918, 1920-1921, and 1924-1926. Also included are many pictures and autobiographies.

We've also released the book "Who's Who in Aviation, 1918" to provide you with even more detail. This joins our other aviation records including "Who's Who in British Aviation 1936" and our Air Force Lists.

These records cover the years of the Great War, so could prove vital to your research.

[ 06 May 2013 ]

Worcestershire Parish Record Transcripts

We have added over 27,000 individuals to our Baptism Transcripts for Worcestershire in partnership with Malvern Family History Society, expanding our coverage and bringing the total to over 1 million individuals. With years ranging from 1544-1891

Click Here to view the coverage of our Parish Record Transcripts

[ 03 May 2013 ]

New records added to our Starter, Gold & Diamond subscriptions

British Jewry Book of Honour 1914-1918

This roll of honour is now available for all Starter, Gold & Diamond subscribers. It contains over 2,500 records of Jews who fell in the Great War. To search these records, select "Roll of Honour Records" on the search view, or find them under the military section of the master search.

[ 02 May 2013 ]

Complete BMD Transcripts

MAJOR NEW RELEASE:

TheGenealogist has now completed transcribing birth, marriage and death records for England and Wales giving a third of a billion fully searchable records. These are also linked into their unique 'SmartSearch' facility taking you through a person’s life events.

This release marks the completion of a hugely successful project for TheGenealogist, now providing family historians with fully transcribed BMD records dating back to the start of civil registration in 1837.

What makes this unique is the linked in ‘SmartSearch’ feature, which makes life even easier for the family historian. 

Mark Bayley, Head of Online Content, explains: "The transcriptions allow us to harness the full power of 'SmartSearch' and allow our users to swiftly jump from one record to the next. It's now possible to move through your ancestral line with unparalleled speed. No other site makes searching for your ancestors so straightforward."

[ 28 Mar 2013 ]

Death Transcripts 1880-2005

MAJOR NEW RELEASE:

We have just added over 10 million death transcripts, bringing the total number of death records to over 68 million.

These transcripts can be used with a tool that lets you search across all our Birth, Marriage and Death transcripts, with built in SmartSearch technology, enabling you to find potential parents from a birth, potential children to a marriage and potential birth records from a death record.

[ 28 Mar 2013 ]

War Memorials - 20,000 new records added

We have added another 20,000 records to our War Memorials, which is the largest name searchable collection of War Memorial photographs. This brings the total to over 120,000, and our collection is quickly growing to offer more coverage. With records ranging from soldiers lost in the Boer War in 1901 to more modern day conflicts such as in Northern Ireland, there are numerous records to access in our War Memorial collection.

[ 28 Mar 2013 ]

Naturalisation Records - 200,000 new records

Naturalisation Records - 200,000 new records We have added another 200,000 records to our collection of Naturalisation and Denization records. This brings the total to over 350,000, with records ranging from 1609 to 1960. Naturalisation records are an invaluable way of tracking down an ancestor who was born abroad and then settled in the UK. With the political and social upheavals over the last few centuries, many people have made the journey to the UK to start a new life. There's a substantial chance that many family history researchers will discover they have ancestors who originated from overseas.