Research

Genealogic provides a full research service for genealogy, family history, or general historical enquiries.

Flexibility is important with our service. We provide research for all requirements. Are you a complete beginner looking for help with your family tree research?  Or are you experienced in family history, but you need specific information from London archives? Either way, we can help.

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. Follow emmajolly on Twitter 

Genealogic offers a number of gift packages which make great presents for birthdays or other special occasions. We also offer packages for individuals.



Writing

NEW blogpost on an iPhone app that helps children to record their family history

NEW guest blog for FIBIS: In Memory of Mothers Who Died Young

Article in November 2011's Family Tree magazine on ancestors in British India and FIBIS.

NEW article in FIBIS Journal, Autumn 2011: "Dean Mahomed and Captain Godfrey Evan Baker of the HEIC Bengal Army"

Article in October 2011's Discover My Past England on exploring women's services in the Second War War.

Expert Answer on ancestors abroad in September 2011's Your Family History magazine.

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.

My latest book, Tracing Your British Indian Ancestors is due to be published by Pen and Sword Books in February 2012 and can be pre-ordered from the publisher here: http://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Tracing-Your-British-Indian-Ancestors/p/3356/   and from Amazon here: Tracing Your British Indian Ancestors

For more on London parishes not on ancestry, see the Genealogic blog, Diary of an Urban Genealogist

Family History Updates
  • 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 should be on FindMyPast from next year.


  • 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.
  • Irish ancestorsand more can be found in the new Liverpool Roman Catholic recordson 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 in London. 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.


London and England

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

 If you have London/Greater London/ Middlesex ancestors If you require research at National Institutions
 
  • London Metropolitan Archives
  • Camden, Islington & Hackney Archives
  • Guildhall Library
  • City of Westminster Archives Centre
 
  • The National Archives
  • Society of Genealogists
  • British Library (India Office Records)
  • Principal Probate Registry (Wills and Administrations post-1858)
  • Institute for Historical Research
  • Library and Museum of Freemasonry
  • other lesser known archives for specific occupations, religious groups etc.

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More information is provided on our services, the qualifications of genealogist, Emma Jolly, and full contact information.