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New Access to Millions of English Records
England's Society of Genealogists at www.sog.org.uk is about to make researching your British ancestry a whole lot easier. From Charles Dickens' 1836 marriage license (shown at right) to family group sheets dating back to the 14th century, the society's valuable collections of parish registers, censuses and more will soon be available to search online on a pay-per-view basis. Origins.net, which already has a similar arrangement with the General Register Office of Scotland at www.origins.net/GRO/, is working with Society members to decipher and digitize millions of records, including:
For about $10, you can retrieve 150 records from the database and have photocopies mailed for $16. Five indexes, including the marriage licenses and wills, are to be up by November. Boyd's Marriage Index will be accessible by early 2001, the company estimates. Most of the society's records are not available anywhere else, including the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' Family History Centers. Watch Origins.net for such ventures in the future; the company says it is talking with other owners of "valuable genealogical data" about creating more pay-per-view data sites.
—Susan Wenner
For more of what's new in discovering, preserving and celebrating your family history, see the December 2000 issue of Family Tree Magazine.
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