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From: "George Quibell" <>
Subject: Society of Genealogists
Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 11:49:40 EST

I swa this on another list and thought it thought it would be of interest:

London, England -- May 5, 2000 -- The Society of Genealogists
(www.sog.org.uk), has selected Origins.net (www.origins.net)
to provide exclusive Internet access for an initial ten-year
period to important elements of its valuable collections of
indexes and genealogical data. Origins.net currently is the
sole provider of Internet access to the official genealogical
data of Scotland: birth, death and marriage records dating
back to 1553. With the addition of data from the Society,
family researchers with British ancestry now gain a unique,
new Internet resource for ancestral information. Access will
no longer be restricted to those who can travel to the
Society's premises in London, nor will researchers have to
contend with the tens of thousands of visitors that crowd the
aisles of the Society of Genealogists (SoG) library every
year.

The Society of Genealogists collection is the foremost source
of genealogical information in the British Isles. The
Society's collections bring together thousands of source
materials such as parish registers and bishops' transcripts,
monumental inscriptions and censuses, local history, as well
as an unequalled assembly of research notes on families. More
important are the unique indexes and finding aids that have
been compiled from a number of sources that enable access to a
vast fund of useful genealogical data. Chief among these are
those finding aids listed below that will be the first data
sets to appear on the Origins.net web site beginning in the
fourth quarter of 2000.

The information to be made available online includes:

Vicar General Marriage Licence Allegations Index 1694-1850
The Vicar General of the Archbishop of Canterbury granted
marriage licences within the Province of Canterbury. The court
had great status and was used widely by Londoners or by
couples who lived in different dioceses within the Province of
Canterbury. This index replaces the old manuscript calendars
and makes finding the original marriage licence allegation
much easier.

Faculty Office Marriage Licence Allegations Index 1715-1850
The Faculty of the Archbishop of Canterbury granted marriage
licences within the Provinces of Canterbury and York. The
court had great status and was used widely by Londoners or by
couples who lived in different parishes in the Provinces of
Canterbury and York. This index replaces the old manuscript
calendars and makes finding the original marriage licence
allegation much easier.

Bank of England Wills
This index to a series of 176 volumes, covering the period
1717-1845, contains will extracts for those with monies in the
public funds. The volumes also contain details of
stockholders who went bankrupt or who were declared insane.
Many of the will extracts are from PCC (Prerogative Court of
Canterbury) wills for which later period there is no published
index.

London City Apprenticeship Indexes An ongoing project to index
the London City Guilds and Livery Company Apprenticeship
records. Many men came to London to seek their fortune.

London Consistory Court Depositions Index The London
Consistory Court was used as the country's divorce court and
contains depositions from people from all over England.

Apprentices of Great Britain Series: Indexes to Apprentices
and Masters, 1710-1744
A tax was levied on apprenticeship from 1710 to 1808. The
resulting records at the PRO (Public Records Office) in the
IR1 series were indexed by the SoG for the period 1710-74. The
indexes usually give the name of the apprentice, the father of
the apprentice, the name and trade of the master and the
amount paid. The tax was not paid on apprenticeships paid for
by parish and public charities and the series contains few
borough or city apprenticeships.

Boyd's Marriage Index
The first and largest index of marriages 1538-1837. Arranged
in generation spans, it contains coverage for some 16 counties
in specific county volumes and covers many other counties in
miscellaneous sections. The arrangement is phonetic and
includes the name of either party and the date and place of
the marriage. In some counties only the grooms have been
indexed. The coverage is most useful for marriages in East
Anglia, Yorkshire, Durham, Somerset, etc., but most counties
have some parishes represented. The index also includes
references from marriage licences such as those issued by the
Archbishops of York or Canterbury, the Bishop of London and
the Archdeacon of Nottingham. There are also references to
marriage notices in the Gentleman's Magazine.

Boyd's Inhabitants of London
The collection contains family group sheets relating to men
and their families found in London City records, notably
apprenticeships, freemen records, parish registers, poll
books, London letter books, Courts of the Common Serjeant and
Common Council, Herald's Visitations, Wills in the PCC and
other courts. It is strongest for persons in the 16th & 17th
centuries, but entries occur from the 14th century up to some
very few in the 19th. Many sons of such families migrated to
America in the 17th century, and London attracted many
migrants from the English shires to the metropolis. It is a
unique source for London and migration within the UK.

Boyd's London Burials
Extracts of burials for adult males in London City parishes as
well as neighbouring Middlesex and some other parishes.

Prerogative Court of Canterbury (PCC) Wills Index 1750-1800
The PCC was the highest church court that dealt with
testamentary matters. It also had jurisdiction over people
dying overseas and refers to many who died in America and
other foreign parts who had property and connections in
England.

Trinity House Petitions, Apprenticeships, Pensions, and
Almshouse Applications 1780-1890 Index
This indexes the petitions from seafaring men and their
dependants asking for assistance to be paid out of charitable
funds administered by Trinity House. They are rich in
biographical material.

Teachers Registration Council c 1902-1948 (Subject to Data
Protection Act Limitations)
Registrations made by the Teachers Registration Council.
Registration was never compulsory, so the registers do not
contain all teachers; however, the volumes are useful for the
information they contain on the careers of teachers, including
the institution where they trained and details of the schools
where they taught. There is one main alphabetical sequence
and a smaller run of registrations of deceased registered
teachers, often stamped with the date of "notification of
death" and the source the information came from.

The first of these databases will probably appear online late this
year. There is more information about this new offering available
at the Society of Genealogists' Web site at http://www.sog.org.uk
and at Origins.net's Web site: http://www.Origins.net.
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