Regarding the data now on-line on behalf of SoG I thought some might find Andrew's comments useful and he has agreed that I might pass them on to list members...... The website concerned is http://www.origins.net/ Paul Portland On Mon, 22 Jan 2001 05:58:10 -0000, Andrew Mead <andrew.mead@bbc.co.uk> wrote: >Possibly useful site, but watch out for the warning at the end about time - >you get 150 records downloaded or 48 hours access from the time you sign >up (not on-line time) for GBP6. You may also find, as I did, that a category >will show there are 4 records with your search criteria, but when you pay up >and look there is nothing there. This is because you need to search on the >partner's name, not the main one! Origins are aware of this and will be >doing something about it! (150 records can disappear very quickly from your account!) >Andrew > English Origins Launch - Press Release > London, England - 18 January 2001 > Origins.net, in collaboration with the Society of Genealogists, announces > the launch of English Origins. This will operate on a similar 'pay per > view' basis to the company's existing Scots Origins service. > > The Society has agreed with Origins to allow important parts of its unique > collection of British Isles material to be made available over the > Internet, no longer restricting access to those able to visit the Society's > Library in London. > > The initial datasets are all of English records and will appear on the new > English Origins site. Others may appear on different parts of the Origins > site in due course. > > The English Origins database currently includes over one million names, > covering the period 1568 to 1850, and including the indexes listed below. > These indexes provide rich genealogical and biographical details and also > allow you to locate otherwise inaccessible source documents. > > Vicar-General Marriage Licence Allegations Index, 1694-1850 > Faculty Office Marriage Licence Allegations Index, 1701-1850 > Bank of England Will Extracts Index, 1717-1845 > London City Apprenticeship Abstracts, 1568-1850 > London Consistory Court Depositions Index, 1703-13 > Archdeaconry Court of London Wills Index, 1700-1807 > > Other records, which will be added to the collection over the course of > 2001, include: > > Boyd's Marriage Index, over 6 million records > Apprentices of Great Britain,1710-74; over 600,000 records > Boyd's Inhabitants of London,14th-19th centuries; 60,000 families > Boyd's London Burials; 50,000 names > Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1750-1800; 333,000 records > > Access to the English Origins database is by credit or debit card, via a > secure payment system. The charges are: GBP6 (about USD9) for 48 hours > continuous access to the database, with hard copies of original documents > (which can be ordered online) costing GBP10 (about USD14.50). A free surname > search facility is available to determine whether there are any potentially > interesting records for a given surname. > > Members of the Society of Genealogists are allowed one free 48 hour access > each calendar quarter. This will allow members to view a maximum of 150 of > the Society's online records during each of these accesses. Additionally, > members will be given a 20% discount on orders made via English Origins for > hard copies provided by the Society, i.e. GBP8 instead of GBP10. <snip>