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Society of Genealogist (SoG) volunteers have been very busy in recent months and as a result approximately 250,000 new entries p
Society of Genealogist (SoG) volunteers have been very busy in recent months and as a result approximately 250,000 new entries plus images of another seven poll books have been uploaded to the Society’s online data on MySoG.
PDF images are now available for the following poll books, comprising some of the most useful genealogical lists for the late 18th and early 19th centuries:
- Ipswich Poll Book 1820
- Suffolk East Poll Book 1835
- Evesham Poll book 1780
- York Poll Book 1758
- City of London Poll Book 1837
- Newcastle upon Tyne Poll Book 1741
- Norfolk West Poll Book 1865
SoG volunteers continue to index furiously and the following data sets with some 247,000 entries have been uploaded to MySoG:
- Hertfordshire marriage index 1538-1837 ( 168,969 entries)
- Index to The Great Western Railway in WW1 (3,258 entries)
- Holborn St Andrew marriages 1813-1837 (expanding the earlier index coverage of 1754-1812) (17,884 entries)
- Apprentices of Great Britain 1710-1764: Books 10 & 11 & 1773-1811: Piece 62 (46,000 entries)
- Index to Archdeaconry Court of London wills 1750-1781 (1338 entries)
- Association Oath Roll for Monmouth 1696 (226 entries)
- Some Scottish rebels of the 1745 Rebellion
- Surname studies on the following surnames by Michael J E Gater:
- Bower (1019 entries)
- Jenks (2120 entries)
- Russell (1418 entries)
- Swancott (813 entries)
- Tassell (2337 entries)
- Usborne (1885 entries)
Access to the Society’s data is available exclusively to members on MySoG as part of the annual membership subscription, although a free surname search will enable non-members to see if the names they are interested in appear on MySoG. More background to the newly uploaded collection can be found in the notes on MySoG. Information about joining the Society can be found on the Society of Genealogists website at www.sog.org.uk.
To find out what other SoG data is available online, have a look at this useful pdf: http://www.sog.org.uk/online/datsets.pdf.