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If you’re researching your family history in the British Isles, Origins Network gives you access to some of the richest ancestral information available.
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Our partnerships with leading archives and genealogical societies in the UK and Ireland, including the Society of Genealogists, the National Library of Ireland, and the Borthwick Institute for Archives allow us to provide exclusive online access to important primary sources, abstracts and index databases. Much of the material on the Origins Network is unavailable anywhere else online. The only other way you can access it is by travelling to the archives in the UK and Ireland.
Material on the Origins Network includes: the largest set of pre-1837 marriage registers available online; a major collection of indexes and abstracts of wills; court, poor law and apprentice records. Our census record are recognised as the most complete and accurate available. We also have definitive versions of key Irish material (Griffith's Valuation) augmented by original survey maps.
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Each month there’s a load of new material added, so you always have new records to search through. And never forget that most of our datasets are unique to the Origins Network – you can’t get this material anywhere else on the web.
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Subscription includes access to our collection of wonderful photographs, maps and historical publications that show a rare glimpse of daily life in the UK and Ireland prior to the 20th Century. You can download anything from a ‘Pictorial Description of Great Britain & Ireland’ to the ‘Domesday Book for Middlesex’.
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We offer a treasure-trove of research aids to genealogy records and images that are physically stored in many different places.
You can search all the online collections at the same time to uncover gems in places you may never have thought to look.
For example, if you are interested in English marriage records, the 534 volumes of Boyd's Marriage Index, compiled from sources throughout England, are far easier to search online via British Origins than by going directly to the volumes themselves.
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Much of our material is very rich; the records often tell you far more than you might expect. With the Origins Network you get a lot more than just names dates and places. Our datasets truly help “put flesh on the skeletons” of your ancestors, with information about their families, where and how they lived, what they did. For example:
Our apprentice records don’t just give the apprentice’s name, but his father’s name and occupation and whether he was still alive, where they were living, who he (or she) became apprenticed to, and where. From the date of the apprenticeship you can also get a good idea of the apprentice’s age.
The Surrey & South London Will Abstracts provide an extraordinary amount of detail: names of relatives and friends; sometimes comments on their relationships (sometimes love; sometimes hatred); with the bequests providing unique details on what was considered of value at the time – which can be quite unexpected.
Poor law records are probably the most valuable records of all – if you are lucky enough to find an ancestor who applied for poor law relief. These records contain unparalled detail on families, what they did, and where they lived.
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