In 2020 TheGenealogist will be releasing millions of new records to its Diamond subscription which aims to increase its coverage of a broad variety of records that are essential resources for family history researchers. The Map Explorer™ will have additional Datasets and Features added in this next year.
We will be partnering with The National Archives on various projects including adding detailed maps down to street level as part of Lloyd George Domesday Survey records.
Our new releases will also include new Parish Records; Criminal Records; Prisoner of War, Military, Navy and Air Force Records, plus Colour Tithe Maps for more counties which will augment the already published greyscale maps. There will be various new areas released for the Lloyd George Domesday Survey to include Hackney, Greenwich and a number of others within the year.
TheGenealogist will also be releasing Naturalisation Records; Change of Names Records; Catholic Records; Northern Ireland Records; the Times Newspapers and Historic Photographs and Portraits Database Indexed by Name.
TreeView® Online has been re-written with brand new functionality and will emulate the look and feel of the software, so you’ll have access to your family tree wherever you are.
This update to TreeView.co.uk will utilise the powerful features of the new version of TreeView® Software for Windows and Mac, TreeView 3 will be released in 2020. This new version will be easier to use and is many times faster to load, import and sync family trees.
New Parish Records Released
We have added over 85,500 individuals to our Parish Records for Worcestershire in association with Malvern Family History Society. This is an ongoing project where high quality transcripts of Parish Records are made available for family history researchers to find their ancestors. Included in this release are:
These new records can be used to find your ancestors' baptisms in fully searchable records that cover parishes from this part of the English midlands. With records that reach back to the mid 16th century, this release allows family historians to find the names of ancestors, their parents' forenames, the father's occupation where noted, and the parish where the event took place.
New Headstone Records Released
We have expanded our growing International Headstone Collection with nearly 53,000 new additions that allow researchers to see details that have been carved on stone about their ancestors and commemorated in various churches and cemeteries.
The headstone records released cover 71 new cemeteries from the English and Welsh counties of Buckinghamshire, Cheshire, Conwy, Denbighshire, Devon, Dorset, Essex, Flintshire, Gloucestershire, Hertfordshire, Kent, Lancashire, Merionethshire, Merseyside, Oxfordshire, Somerset, Warwickshire, West Midlands, Wiltshire and Worcestershire. These new records are all available as part of our Diamond Subscription.
The International Headstone Collection is an ongoing project where every stone photographed or transcribed earns volunteers credits, which they can spend on subscriptions at TheGenealogist.co.uk or products from GenealogySupplies.com. Click here to find out more.
New Historical Medical Professionals
At this time when we are all so very conscious of the work of our medical professionals in the face of the pandemic, we have released a set of new records for our medical ancestors who treated others in the course of their occupations in the time before the creation of the National Health Service.
It would have been a very different world from today in which these men and women worked. Before 1948 and the founding of the NHS, medical professionals were in private practice. The poorer members of society depended on charity and being assessed for what financial contribution they could make to their treatment.
TheGenealogist has added to its occupational records with a fascinating release that has a medical theme. From the time before the NHS came into being, these name rich records covering Doctors, Midwives and Opticians can be searched by name and keywords. All of these practitioners would have been working at the time when the wealthy could afford the best treatment, while the poor went to hospital with the added shame that this held as these institutions were where the poor were predominantly treated.
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This latest release expands our extensive Occupational records collection that includes actors, apprentices, clergy, crew lists, directors, flight, freemen, law, railway, sports, teachers and biographies as well as other medical registers.
Over One Million RAF Operations Record Books released
We have expanded our unique collection of searchable RAF Operations Record Books with the addition of 1.2 Million new records for aircrew operations.
Operations Record Books (ORBs) are official Air Force documents chronicling an air force unit from the time of its formation. They were intended to be an accurate daily record of the operations that the squadron carried out in peace and at war. The ORBs are for squadrons primarily after the First World War, but there are a few early squadron records from 1911 to 1918. We have made the Operations Record Books fully searchable by name, year and keywords.
This collection also includes some record books for Dominion Air Forces (Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa) as well as Allied Air Force squadrons under British Command and can be used to find the stories of brave aircrew, giving insights into the operations that they carried out. The ORBs follow a daily diary format giving summaries of events and can reveal the death of aircrews, crashes, as well as less disquieting entries such as the weather for flying, promotions and the decorations men of the squadron received. ORBs also detail the areas that the fighter planes patrolled, or the bombers targeted, as well as where the squadrons were based as the war wore on. These duties and assignments include bombing the enemy, patrolling the skies, convoy escorts, submarine hunts, attacking docks & shipping, dive bombing raids, and more.
As aircrew personnel are named in these reports, those wanting to follow where an ancestor had been posted to and what may have happened to them will find these records extremely informative.
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This latest release expands our extensive Military records collection and is available to all Diamond subscribers.
Tithe Maps added to Map Explorer™
Our Map Explorer™ which can help researchers find an ancestor's property and watch the landscape change over time has now been enhanced by the addition of georeferenced black and white Tithe Maps for Berkshire, Cambridgeshire, Leicestershire and Oxfordshire.
Joining the georeferenced Lloyd George Data Layer, Headstones, War Memorials, and colour Tithe Maps for a number of counties, the new additions to the ever-expanding Map Explorer™ allow researchers to trace property from Victorian times to the modern era.
New Records for Kingston upon Thames, Hook and Malden
We have just released the Kingston upon Thames, Hook and Malden areas into its Lloyd George Domesday Survey Records on the Map Explorer™.
These fully searchable land owner records enable researchers to find where an ancestor from Kingston lived in the 1910-1915 period. You can now search over half a million individuals in this collection.
By using our powerful Map Explorer™, family history researchers searching for where their ancestors lived in the period before the First World War are able to see the actual plots for buildings and explore the district as it was in that period on large scale OS maps linked to the field books containing descriptions of the properties.
Announcing Essex Colour Tithe Maps with MapExplorer integration, exclusive to TheGenealogist
The land use has changed dramatically over the last 200 years and the colour Tithe maps in our map tool allows you to explore it in great detail. This release allows us to see the area in West Ham, Essex on which the ExCel centre now stands and to discover the changes from Victorian pasture land, to dock complex and now to the Nightingale Hospital as the Covid-19 emergency builds.
Map Explorer™This versatile tool can give the family history researcher a fantastic insight into what our ancestors' city, town or village looked like over a number of periods and can also help them to find an ancestor's property. With the addition of georeferenced Colour Tithe Maps, TheGenealogist has also today released colour tithe maps for Essex – you can search these as normal or browse them on Map Explorer™.
Subscribers to TheGenealogist's Diamond membership can now view the latest colour or grayscale maps when using the Tithe & Landowner records.
To find out more, you can read Nick Thorne's article, Essex Tithe Maps reveal ever-changing landscape.
New Pre-Census Trade and Residential Directories
We have just released a collection of searchable Early Trade and Residential Directories that cover the years 1816-1839 to help find ancestors in the period before the usable census records begin.
Prior to 1841 all of the U.K. censuses were generally statistical: that is, mainly headcounts, with virtually no personal information such as names recorded and so family history researchers need to turn to a substitute to find out the address where their ancestors had lived. Trade and Residential Directories list names of tradespeople, prominent citizens and in some cases other residents of a town as well.
Many of these directories will also give a good description of the town or area which can give family historians an interesting insight into the social history of their ancestors' locality at the time. This information usually includes the main industry, topographical details, communication links with the surrounding towns by stage coach or railway, and details of local administration offices, post offices, the clergy, charities, hospitals and schools.
The early Trade and Residential Directories being released include volumes that cover the areas of Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Cornwall, Derby, Devonshire, Dorsetshire, Durham, Essex, Glasgow, Hampshire, London, Liverpool, Middlesex, Northumberland, Norfolk, Nottinghamshire and Suffolk.
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New Property Records for Greenwich
We have just released over 57,700 individuals from the Greenwich area into our Lloyd George Domesday Survey Records on the Map Explorer™. These fully searchable property records enable researchers to find where ancestors from Greenwich lived in the 1910-1915 period. This release now brings the total coverage of Lloyd George Domesday Survey Records to over half a million individuals.
By using our powerful Map Explorer™, family history researchers searching for where their ancestors lived in the period before the First World War are able to see the actual plots for buildings and explore the district as it was in that period on large scale OS maps linked to the field books containing descriptions of the properties.
You can find out more by reading Nick Thorne's article Greenwich property records reveal the lost past.
New RAF Operations Book Records
MAJOR NEW RELEASE:
In a release of over half a million records, this is the first batch of RAF Operations Records Books (ORBs) to join our ever-expanding military records collection. This is the first time that these RAF records are fully searchable by name, aircraft, location and many other fields, making it easier to find your aviation ancestors.
These documents tell the stories of these brave aircrew who battled against the odds and give insights into their everyday lives. You can use the collection to follow an airman's war time experiences from these fully searchable Air Ministry operations record books which cover various Royal Air Force, dominion and Allied Air Force squadrons that came under British Command. They allow the family history researcher a fascinating insight into their relatives serving in a number of wartime air force units.
The records provide summaries of events and can reveal the death of aviators, crashes, as well as less traumatic details such as weather and places patrolled by the planes and where the squadrons were based as the war wore on. As aircrew personnel are named in these reports, those wanting to follow where an ancestor had been posted to and what may have happened to them will find these records extremely informative.
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To find out more about these records, you can read Nick Thorne's article "RAF Operations books build a picture of WWII aircrew ancestors' action".
New Norfolk Parish Records
We have just added over 500,000 individuals in a new release of Norfolk Parish Records with images of the original records in association with the Norfolk Record Office. We have transcribed them so that they are fully searchable by name and place.
These East Anglian records feature the registers of baptisms, marriages and burials covering various parishes in Norfolk, allowing family history researchers from all over the world to search for their Norfolk ancestors online. This release, accessible with our Diamond subscription, includes 330,000 individuals from baptisms, 100,000 from marriages and 95,000 from burial records.
This release has been added to millions of existing parish records for this area and tens of millions of parish records for other counties.
To find out more about this release, you can read Nick Thorne's article, The Millers at Docking Windmill.
Colour Tithe Maps added to Map Explorer™
MAJOR NEW RELEASE:
Our latest innovation to help you find an ancestor's property and watch the landscape change over time has now been enhanced by the addition of georeferenced Colour Tithe Maps. So now you can view exactly where your ancestor lived or worked on a modern day map. We're also releasing colour tithe maps for Cumberland - you can search these as normal or browse them on Map Explorer™.
The colour maps now available on MapExplorer™ cover the counties of Warwickshire, Rutland, Huntingdonshire, Buckinghamshire, Middlesex, Northumberland, Surrey, Westmorland, York City, North and East Ridings of Yorkshire along with the newly launched Cumberland.
Joining the georeferenced Lloyd George Data Layer, Headstones and War Memorials, the Colour Tithe Maps are a significant addition to the ever-expanding Map Explorer™. Our Diamond subscribers have access to all layers within Map Explorer™.
To find out more about the release, you can read Nick Thorne's article Exploring the Island at Twickenham.
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Ace in a Day
10th July 2020
Worcestershire parish records trace family events back through the centuries
3rd July 2020
Headstone Collection reveals the family history of the owners and staff of one of the most famous house and gardens in England
18th June 2020
Medical ancestors from before the NHS began
5th June 2020
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