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Origins Newsletter [scots-origins-list]

A newsleter from list@origins.net
July 20, 2000

Dear Origins.net Customer,

This is the second Origins.net Newsletter.  It includes information on the following:-

1. Additional Scottish Index Records and Current Index Data.  (1899 Data & Deaths to 1824)
    
2. Society of Genealogists Archives to be Offered by Origins.net
    
3. Cyndi, of Cyndi's, List Praises Origins.net
    
4. New Resources
    
5. New Output Options for Database Search Results
    
6. Scots Origins Discussion Group Update
    
7. Higher Speed Access to the Scots Origins Database Server
    
8. Accessing the Scots Origins Database - New "Technical Issues" Pages
    
9. Subscribing and Unsubscribing from this Newsletter
    

1.  Additional Scottish Index Records and Current Index Data

The following index records have recently been added to the Scots Origins Database and can be viewed by registering for access and searching in the normal way:

• The Index to the Statutory Records for 1899 - This consists of the index to the birth, death and marriage records that were recorded the closing year of the 19th century.
   
• The Death Record Indexes from 1900 - 1924.  We are now able to provide a further 25 years worth of Death index material as the GROS have reduced the waiting period for these record from 100 years to 75 years.  This means that the Scots Origins database now holds the indexes for the Statutory Records for death for the years between 1855 to 1924.
   

The Origins database does not contain birth and marriage records for the period 1900 - 1924, ONLY DEATH RECORDS!

Complete List of Databases on Origins.net for Scotland;

• Indexes of all existing Old Parish Registers of births/baptisms and banns/marriages 1553 to 1854
   
• Indexes to the Statutory Registers of births and marriages from 1855 to 1899
   
• Indexes to the Statutory Registers of deaths for 1855 to 1924
   
• Index to census records for 1891.
   

One additional year of births/deaths/marriage index data is added per annum.

Click on the link below to visit the Scots Origins Homepage:- http://www.scotsorigins.com/

2.  Society of Genealogists Archives to be Offered by Origins.net

The Society of Genealogists (http://www.sog.org.uk), has selected 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.  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 Library every year.

About the Society of Genealogists The Society of Genealogists was founded in 1911 and is a charitable organization offering a unique combination of research material, guidance, and support for those interested in family history and the lives of earlier generations.  Its objective is to promote, encourage, and foster the study, science and knowledge of genealogy.  Its Library is the foremost in the British Isles with a large collection of family histories, civil registration and census and the widest collection of Parish Register copies in the country.

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 amongst these are those finding aids listed below that will be the first datasets to appear on the Origins.net web site beginning in the fourth quarter of 2000.

Society of Genealogists Archives to be Offered by Origins.net:-

• Vicar General Marriage Licence Allegations Index (1694-1850)
   
• Faculty Office Marriage Licence Allegations Index (1715-1850)
   
• Bank of England Wills Extracts Index (1717-1845)
   
• London City Apprenticeship Indexes
   
• London Consistory Court Depositions Index (1700-1717)
   
• Apprentices of Great Britain, Indexes to Apprentices and Masters (1710-1744)
   
• Boyd's Marriage Index (1538-1837)
   
• Boyd's Inhabitants of London
   
• Boyd's London Burial
   
• Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills Index (1750-1800)
   
• Trinity House Petitions Index (1780-1890)
   
• Teachers Registration Council Registers (1902-1948) (subject to Data Protection Act limitations)
   
• Parish Register material where copyright is held by the Society
   

An extraordinary amount of wonderful genealogical material is buried in archives, accessible only to a few.  Origins.net and the Internet allow millions of family historians worldwide to access this material, making their research more productive.  Using the Internet for family history research eliminates distance barriers, and creates strong 'virtual' communities linked together by common interest in family, heritage, and culture.  We are delighted to work with the Society of Genealogists to allow Web access to their rich holdings.

Origins.net Careful Methodology to Capture Meaningful Data.  The closer data is to the source material, the more valuable to the researcher.  Origins.net works with the Society of Genealogists and other information owners and custodians to create accurate indexes, and to decipher and transcribe the old handwritten text of irreplaceable and fragile original material, producing archival copies on microfilm and in digital form.

Origins.net staff have decades of experience with this type of work.  The computerised data - indexes and images - are placed on the Worldwide Web.  Paper copies of the source material can be ordered via the Web.

Click on the link below for further information and access to example images:-
http://www.origins.net/sog/announcement.htm

3.  Cyndi of Cyndi's List Praises Origins

At the recent National Genealogical Society (of the USA), 2000 Conference in Providence Rhode Island, Cyndi and Mark Howells of the wonderful genealogy resource Cyndi's List (http://www.cyndislist.com) sought out the Origins.net staff to praise our support staff who anticipated a billing problem and corrected it before she was aware of it.  They had many kind to things to say about having "gotten it right." She went on to name Scots Origins as one of the top twelve internet sites for genealogy in her presentation "The Internet for Genealogy: A Twelve-Site Program.  "Among many more kind things, she said, "The secure online ordering of the records cannot be easier, making this the model for all future records offices to use as they develop their online presence."

4.  New Resources

We have just added a link to the Society of Genealogists Bookshop, which provides a particularly comprehensive list of genealogy books, all of which can be ordered via the Web.

See the articles link at http://www.scotsorigins.com/help/popup-resarticles-so.htm.

We have just added a link to a new map site, which should make searching for UK place names much easier.  The link can be found on the place names search feature.

5.  New Output Options for Database Search Results

We have introduced new display options for results downloaded from the Scots Origins database.  After downloading a page of results the user now has the option to re-display the page in a printer-friendly format.  This will show the same page of results in black and white on a single printable page.

6.  Scots Origins Discussion Group Update

The Scots Origins Discussion Group has now been operating for almost a year.  The group is hosted by Egroups and at the time of writing has over 750 active members.  Since the group was started there have been 8,700 messages posted and these can be viewed by clicking on the link below:

To view the messages go to:-
http://www.egroups.com/messages/scots-origins.  For information about joining the group go to the same link and Join.

7.  Higher Speed Access to the Scots Origins Database Server

The internet connection to the Scots Origins database server was upgraded on the 25th May 2000.  This upgrade should improve download speeds from the main server and ensure that even at peak times all registered users will experience fast access.

8.  Accessing the Scots Origins - New "Technical Issues" Pages

Recent visitors to the site may have noticed a new link entitled "technical issues".  This will be used to inform customers of any technical problems that may affect their ability to use our service.

Our policy is to make the site as accessible to as many people as possible by ensuring that all our pages are compatible with the lowest common denominator browsers and systems.  However, from time to time there may be technical problems that are either beyond our control or which we are in the process of resolving.  This new page should be the first place a user should refer to if they are experiencing unusual or unexpected difficulties accessing any of our pages.

9.  Subscribing and Unsubscribing from this Newsletter

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