Genealogic provides a full research service for genealogy, family history, and general historical enquiries.
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Whatever your research requirements, we would be delighted to hear from you.
Based in London, Genealogic has the wealth of the capital's historical resources close to hand.
Please contact us to discover how we can help you to find your ancestors.
Genealogic offers a number of gift packages which make great presents for birthdays or other special occasions. We also offer packages for individuals.
Emma Jolly's latest book is Tracing Your British Indian Ancestors. For the latest reviews, see the Articles and Books page. Copies can also be ordered directly from the publisher http://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Tracing-Your-British-Indian-Ancestors/p/3356/ or from Amazon Tracing Your British Indian Ancestors
Read Emma's related guest post on the words of women in India for Chris Paton's British GENES blog.
An interview with Emma about the book is featured in Issue 26 of Your Family History magazine
Emma is a regular blogger for Deceased Online, a useful website for family historians, with extensive burial and cremation records. The blog can be read at http://deceasedonlineblog.blogspot.co.uk/
NEW article on how to get the most out of the census online for Who Do You Think You Are? magazine (December 2012)
NEW article on the V&A Theatre Archive and researching theatre ancestors in Family Tree magazine (December 2012)
NEW article on children and young people in family history for FGS Forum (Summer 2012), the magazine of the Federation of Genealogical Societies (FGS)
NEW blogpost on the use of imperial names by the working classes
Guest blog for FIBIS: In Memory of Mothers Who Died Young
Article in March 2012's Family History Monthly on the history of women in local government
Reader Story in September 2011's Who Do You Think You Are magazine features client, Dave Brown, and his amazing discoveries about his family's Irish and Indian past
Guest blog for Kith and Kin Research on the first Indian MPs: Dadabhai Naoroji andSir Mancherhee Bhownaggree
For more on London parishes not on ancestry, see the Genealogic blog, Diary of an Urban Genealogist
- Fascinating article in The New York Times (15 March 2013) reveals the relationship between children's emotional health and their family history knowledge: "The more children knew about their family’s history, the stronger their sense of control over their lives, the higher their self-esteem and the more successfully they believed their families functioned. The “Do You Know?” scale turned out to be the best single predictor of children’s emotional health and happiness."
- Hundreds of Army, Navy, RAF and Indian Civil Service Lists have been uploaded to the archive.org website by the National Library of Scotland. This gives free and easy access to these essential military history records. The records can be accessed via
http://archive.org/details/nationallibraryofscotland
- Good news from TNA: more than 300,000 naturalisation records from the HO 334 series (date from 1870 to 1980) have been catalogued. Where duplicate certificates were not
kept, between 1969 and 1980, descriptions have been added to the indexes
in HO 409 instead. The records are easy to search by name at Discovery.
- British Empire records news [thanks to Chris Paton for highlighting this]: former colonial administration records are being 'migrated' from the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) to TNA. Available records are held at Kew in series FCO 141. The full set should be available by November 2013.
- Local newspapers from across the UK are now fully-searchable online at the British Newspaper Archive http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/ . Scanning is continuing, so check back if you have not yet found your ancestors.
- Locating London's Past is a new website that
allows you to search a wide body of digital resources relating to early
modern and eighteenth-century London, and to map the results on to a
fully GIS compliant version of John Rocque's 1746 map.
http://www.locatinglondon.org/index.html
London-based Family History Research London Metropolitan Archives [LMA] has uploaded its parish registers (originals held at LMA) onto ancestry.co.uk. Check for London baptisms, marriages and burials. For original church registers not held at LMA, see Westminster Archives or the churches themselves. Do check in case LMA has a copy on microfilm (e.g. St Giles in the Fields), which can be consulted in the research room. Also, the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section material is now on LMA's catalogue. See http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Corporation/LGNL_Services/Leisure_and_culture/Records_and_archives/Events/LMA_OPAC.htm for further details. Registers from Westminster City Archives are now online at FindMyPast. See http://www.findmypast.co.uk/content/news/westminster for full details.
- Ancestors in the USA? New website www.censusrecords.com features records from 1790 to today.
Transcriptions for the 1790-1840 censuses can be viewed here for free.
- Ancestors in Australia? Try excellent website Trove.
- Find Irish ancestors on the 1901 and 1911 censuses at
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/
- Irish ancestors and more can be found in the new Liverpool Roman Catholic records on ancestry. Do be aware that some of the names have been Latinized (eg James appears as Jacobi). Take time to search through the database.
PROBATE NEWS: Ancestry.co.uk has now added the England & Wales National Probate Index of Wills & Administrations 1858-1966. The indexes help identify deaths and some beneficiaries. A full copy of the will/ admon. + grant costs £6 and can be obtained from the Principal Probate Registry [PPR] in London. Do note, however, that PPR is no longer running a one hour collection service. Please contact me if you would like a copy obtained, or if you would like a search made of the indexes from 1966 to date.
1939 census data now available http://www.ic.nhs.uk/news-and-events/news/nhs-ic-launches-the-1939-register-service
Ancestors in the British Army 1760-1913? Records now online at http://www.findmypast.co.uk/chelsea-pensioners-service-records-collection-search-start.action
- Merchant Navy Seamen Ancestors: find their records at
http://www.findmypast.co.uk/search/merchant-navy-seamen
Royal Navy ancestors: Navy Lists online at http://www.familyrelatives.com/navigate/navigate_detail.php?id=17
Have you searched for your ancestors or area of research interest on google book search or www.archive.org? You may be surprised what you find! Any information that you cannot follow up yourself, I can research for you at the British Library in London.
Are your WWI relatives buried at lost battle site of Fromelles? Check www.cwgc.org/fromelles for more details.
Genealogic is based in London and research is done regularly in many London archives. Please note that the Family Records Centre is now closed. However, many of its resources can now be found online at www.ancestry.co.uk. Post 2005 birth, marriage and death indexes are held at the British Library.
Copies of the indexes, including ‘Births, Deaths and Marriages from 1837 – 2008’, ‘Overseas from 1761 – 2008’, ‘Civil Partnerships from 2005 – 2009’, ‘Adoptions from 1927 – 2009’, and the provisional indexes for ‘Births and Deaths from 2009 to June 2010', are available to consult at: Manchester City Library, Birmingham Central Library, Bridgend Reference and Information Library, Plymouth Central Library, City of Westminster Archives Centre, London Metropolitan Archives and The British Library.
We can check entries in these indexes for you. For more information on GRO records see www.direct.gov.uk
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