2/1/2003
By Nancy Hendrickson
Surf back to your noble beginnings at the Burke's Peerage & Gentry Web site.
Burke's Peerage & Gentry has rolled out the red carpet for online researchers. Its fee-based database on the Web at <www.burkes-peerage.net> is the site to trace your “titled and untitled families” in the British Isles.
A $99 annual subscription will get you 24/7 access to more than 5,000 family records from the 106th edition of Burke's Peerage & Baronetage and the 19th editions of Burke's Landed Gentry for Scotland, Ireland, England and Wales. The subscription includes Atavus, a bimonthly e-zine that covers topics as varied as Scottish clans and US presidents. There's even a tongue-in-cheek editorial on one of Burke's “bad boys” — Sir Mick Jagger. If you don't want a full year's worth of access, you can ante up $25 for a day's search privileges.