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, Tracing Your British Indian Ancestors, was published on 5 March 2012. Copies can be ordered from the publisher via http://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Tracing-Your-British-Indian-Ancestors/p/3356/ or from Amazon at Tracing Your British Indian Ancestors
To mark the occasion of the publication of this book, I was invited to write a guest post on the words of women in India for Chris Paton's British GENES blog.
An interview with me about my book is featured in Issue 26 of Your Family History magazine
NEW article on NHS nurses in Your Family Tree, Issue 116
NEW blogpost on the current Street of Dickens exhibition at Camden LS & Archives
NEW 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
Article in March/April 2012's Discover My Past Scotland on researching footballer ancestors
Reader Story in September 2011's Who Do You Think You Are magazine features one my clients, 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
- I'm very pleased that 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. The first batch of records are now available to search 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 1861-1941. 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 me to obtain a copy for you, or would like me to search the indexes from 1941 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 theBritish Library in London.
Are your WWI relatives buried at lost battle site of Fromelles? Checkwww.cwgc.org/fromellesfor 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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