Else Churchill

Genealogist

Society of Genealogists

www.sog.org.uk 14 Charterhouse Buildings

Goswell Road

London EC1M 7BA

The Society of Genealogists

at a distance Getting the best from the SoG from home and in the library

Society of Genealogists

14 Charterhouse Buildings,

Goswell Road, London EC1M 7BA

www.sog.org.uk

Founded in 1911

“the world’s best

genealogical library

outside the US”

The Independent,

23 Feb 2011

SoG at a Distance

• SoG Website

• SoG Library Catalogue

• SoG Data Online

• Help and Advice

• Copy/Search service

Website Home Page

support@sog.org.uk

Anyone can login and create an account with SoG on our new website to purchase books from our shop or to book a course or event. You can even do some basic FREE searches on SoG Data Online. The Library Catalogue and website surname indexes are FREE to search and you don’t need to create an account. However you need to join and become a member to register with the site to view full entries and images on SoG Data Online, receive the Genealogists’ Magazine and obtain discount on publications, courses and the search copy service.

SoG News SoG Blog with news about the SoG & the genealogical community is incorporated into the SoG website

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• Help Getting Started – Record Source Guides

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Library Pages

• Using the Library

• Library Catalogue

• SoG Data Online

Why use the SoG Library?

• Where did they live?

• What did they do?

• What’s been done before?

Middle Library –

main help and enquiry desk

Free On – Site Library Access to Some Genealogy Websites

Various Ways to Search Records

Library Catalogue

SoG online data (for members)

Website surname indexes to

manuscripts

Library Catalogue

Register copies, transcripts & indexes • All published marriage,

baptism and burial transcripts & indexes

• Boyd’s Marriage Indexes online on My SoG & FMP

• Books in Middle Library – “maroon cloth”, shelf mark -/R

• Copies of originals on fiche and film in Lower Library

• Access to indexes & images online

Check the original

What did my ancestors do? Upper Library

• Armed forces

• Professions & trades

• Apprenticeships

• Education

• Religions

• Migration

• Wills & marriage licences

Will indexes at SoG • 1858-1930 Indexes on Film

• IR 27 Estate Duty Indexes 1796-1858

• All published indexes pre 1858

• British Record Society Volumes (BRS)

• MS calendars on film

• Free access to PCC on TNA’s Documents online

• Access to National Wills index on British Origins

• Abstracts & transcripts – e.g Bank of England Wills 1717-1845, Irish collections

• Abstracts & Copies in some Special & Document Collections indexed on

SoG members area website

Bank of England Will Abstract for Lawrence Spencer 1720.

The BoE Will Abstracts record bequests of stock or shares. Lawrence Spencer senior was clerk of works to the building of St Paul’s Cathedral by Sir Christopher Wren. He inherited the Lottery annuity stock mentioned in the abstract after administering the estate of his son Lawrence junior.

BoE wills index and images are on findmypast and SoG data online

SoG Significant Holdings Irish Will Indexes

• Prerogative Court of Armagh 1538-1810 (IR/G 93 & 150)

• Reports of the Deputy Keepers 55-57 (IR/K)

• Consistory Courts Ardagh –Waterford & Lismore (Phillimore indexes, RDKs, Irish Genealogist etc)

Irish Will Abstracts and Copies

• Sir William Betham’s Abstracts of PCA wills 1530-1808, admons 1595-1810, letters of tutelege 1595-1754 from PRO Dublin (MF 309-324)

• Welply Collection Irish Wills and Pleadings 1568-1859 (IR/G 96-113 & 116) • Rossbottom Collection Abstracts 4000 wills (NOW ONLINE) • Registry of Deeds Abstracts vols1-3 1708-1832 (IR/G 90-1,131) • Friends Meeting House Dublin etc (IR/G 76 & 75) • PCC Irish wills and admons pre 1660 (IR/G 94) • NA 2,690 probate records received 1922-30 (DRK 55-57) (IR/K) • Genealogy Office 7,500 wills in various collections (Analecta Hibernica 17) • Carrigan MS (Diocese of Ossary) 1546-1863 (Irish Genealogist vol 4 no 3) • Swanzy MS (PCA & Clogher & Kilmore 1681-1846 (IR/G 143) • Various Collections e.g.W Clare’s Calendar of Wills… escaped destruction (IR/G

92)

Welply’s Irish Wills and Pleadings

“20 Volumes from pencil and other abstracts given by W H Welply Esq and others typewritten for us [SoG] by the Public Record Office, Northern Ireland, Mary Street, Belfast, 1933” Contains abstracts from Proragative Court of Armargh and other courts’ wills, Chancery & Exchequer cases, Guardianships, Deeds , Marriage Settlements etc

Marriage Licences @ SoG

Vicar General & Faculty Office on Findmypast & SoG Data Online

All published indexes

e.g published & unpublished indexes to Diocese of Exeter Licences 1523-1762

London licences (Great Card Index)

1700-1780

Crisps abstracts & original London licences

SoG Significant Holdings – Irish Marriage Licences

• Prerogative Court of Armagh – Betham’s Abstracts 1629-1810 (MF 324-5)

• Consistory Courts – Clonfert, Cloyne, Cork & Ross, Ferns,Killaloe,

Limerick, Ossery, Raphoe

– Dublin 1536-1858 Reports of Deputy Keepers 26&30 (IR/G 72,219 & IR/K )

– Dublin 1638-1824 Betham’s Abstracts 1638-1824 (MF 326-331)

Carey’s Irish Lists Some Irish Lists vols 1-7 with a cumulative index in vol 8.

Compiled and donated by Captain G S Carey 1943-1949, IR/G 123-130. • Extracts from PRs, Directories

& Newspapers

• Obituaries

• Proprietors of Sedane (sic) Chairs

• Office Holders

– High Sherifs, JPs, Mayors, Coroners, Churchwardens

See Carey’s Irish Lists by Else Churchill, Genealogists Magazine, vol 27 no 3 page 125 Sept 2001

Irish Lists – Directories & Poll Books

• Wilson Dublin Directories from 1761 • Holden’s Triennial Directory from 1805 • Limerick from 1769 • Dunleer, Louth Poll Book from 1715 • Freemen Lists 18th Century

• Published and Unpublished Family Histories

• Research Notes - surname

• 350 Special Collections – subject or theme

• Card Indexes

• Microforms

• Computer databases

• Various locations and media throughout the SoG Library and some on website

What research has been done before?

Family Histories, Document & Special Collections

Tell the Story

SoG Library Catalogue on website sog.org.uk

Published FHs found through SoGCAT

Published bibliographies

G W Marshall The Genealogist’s Guide

(To 1903)

J B Whitmore A Genealogical Guide

(1903-1953)

G Barrow

The Genealogist’s Guide (1953-1977)

available through 2nd hand and

facsimile CDs – Archive CD Books etc

SoG Members’Birth Briefs index on www.sog.org.uk (28,000 surnames)

Birth Briefs received 2007-2012

Document Collection surnames listed on website

www.sog.org.uk

7000 Roll Pedigrees surnames listed www.sog.org.uk

What is NOT Online? 350 Special Collections in 1300 boxes

Names listed in Special Collections Card Index

One Name Collections – e.g.DOO

SoG Card Indexes on film • Great Card Index 3m miscellany of information in name order

• Bernau Index 3m legal entries from Chancery and other courts etc . pre 1750

• Fawcett Index Clergy and Northern Family interests

• Dwelley Index West country families

• Glencross Index West country families

• India Index Miscellany on British in India

Filmed by GSU and available

through FH catalogue

Single Surname Card Indexes

ANSELL, BETHELL BLO(O)MFIELD, COTTERELL, DIBDEN, DREW, DUNKLEY, ELLIOT, FAWCETT, GALE, GIRTON, GRAHAM, HAILEY, HALE, JONES, KEMBALL, KEMP, LANGTON, MANFIELD, MARKWELL, MASTERSON, MEACOCK, MILBOURNE, PITMAN, SAINSBURY, SCATCHARD, TAPLEY, TURNER, WALL, WILLIS, WODEHOUSE, YOUNGER

Digitising Card Indexes • One-Name Study

Indexes

• Stand Alone Indexes

• Unfilmed cards

Search/Copy Service

www.findmypast.com

SoG Data on www.sog.org.uk

• Selected datasets of Findmypast

• All SoG digitised material on SoG Data Online

SoG data on-line

SoG Data Online “A snapshot of the SoG Library”

Non-members search results/ £ = gentle reminder to pay up and join!

Purple box search results lists the datasets with information

Log into site using the email you registered with us and the password you got when you

validated your membership number on the site

Once logged in the £ sign has disappeared and you can view results or browse

Browse Records – open up folder of datasets to see contents

& search individual items

Boyd’s family units

Boyd’s inhabitants of London 60,000 family group sheets fully indexed by names

Bisham, Berks aka Bustleham PRs (SoG ref BK/R6)

PDF

POLL BOOKS PROJECT

Surnames digitised card indexes, gedcomfiles and PDFs of books

Bank of England Will Abstracts 1717-1845

Index to Wills in SoG MS Document & Special Collections

On-going work as our volunteers work their way through the collections

Standing on the Shoulders of Giants since 1911