FFHS-NEWS FamilySearch Announces Plans to Broaden Access to All Available Censuses for England and Wales

[News from the Federation of Family History Societies]

FamilySearch Teams with findmypast.com and others to Broaden Access to All
Censuses for England and Wales 
Online Volunteer Indexers Sought to Improve Select Collections
 
SALT LAKE CITY-FamilySearch have announced that it is joining forces with
findmypast.com, The Origins Network, and Intelligent Image
Management-companies that specialize in providing online access to British
family history resources-to make significant British historical record
collections more broadly available online. The first joint initiative seeks
to publish online indexes to censuses for England and Wales from 1841 to
1901. The 1841 and 1861 Census indexes are the first targeted under the
agreement and are accessible now at FamilySearch.org and findmypast.com.
 
In the agreement, FamilySearch, in conjunction with The Origins Network,
will provide digital images for the 1851, 1871, and 1881 Censuses. It will
also extend the 1871 Census index. Findmypast.com will provide FamilySearch
copies of its English and Welsh Census indexes from 1841 to 1901. The
Federation of Family History Societies will help complete the index for the
1851 Census.
 
Initially, users of FamilySearch.org will be able to do a free search by
record type, given name, surname, age, gender, place of birth, and
relationship to head of household (relationship was not recorded in the 1841
Census). The free search capability at FamilySearch.org will include
additional fields of data in the future. Users will be able to search the
full indexes and view original images for free at FamilySearch's 4,500
Family History Centers or for a nominal fee at findmypast.com. 
 
The addition of findmypast.com's English and Welsh Census Collections to
FamilySearch's online databases will increase the use of the valuable record
sets and increase traffic to findmypast.com. 
 
FamilySearch will utilize its impressive online community of volunteer
indexers to add more fields of data to select censuses. When finished, the
improved census indexes will be available on FamilySearch.org,
findmypast.com, and Originsnetwork.com. Individuals interested in
volunteering as online indexers for British historical projects can do so at
FamilySearch.org.
 
About FamilySearch
FamilySearch is a nonprofit organization that maintains the world's largest
repository of genealogical resources. Patrons may access resources online at
FamilySearch.org <http://www.familysearch.org>  or through the Family
History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah, and over 4,500 family history
centers in 70 countries. FamilySearch is a trademark of Intellectual
Reserve, Inc. and is registered in the United States of America and other
countries.
 
About findmypast.com
Findmypast.com is the leading UK family history Website (formerly
1837online.com) and has been instrumental in creating the widespread and
growing interest in genealogy seen in the UK today. It has 800,000 active
registered users, millions of historic document images, and 600 million
records online dating back to 1538. The comprehensive collections include
military records, census, migration, occupation directories, current
electoral roll data, birth, marriage, and death indexes.  It manages the
ancestorsonboard.com Website for The National Archives of the United Kingdom
and offers a range of online tools to help people discover and share their
family history more easily. Findmypast.com's parent company is brightsolid
(formerly Scotland Online).
 
About Intelligent Image Management, Inc (IIM) 
Intelligent Image Management, Inc., helps companies of all sizes reduce the
challenges and high costs of managing data processing and other
labor-intensive, back-office operations. It has a proven track record of
delivering accurate, reliable offshore outsourcing operations, for a growing
list of leading global firms and growing enterprises. It has delivered
superior results for highly demanding clients in a wide variety of
industries since 1996.  IIM has 1400 dedicated full-time employees and is
comprised of privately owned companies in the U.S., India, Sri Lanka, and
Bangladesh. All onshore and offshore companies are 100 percent owned. 
 
About Origins
The Origins Network (formerly Origins.net) was founded in 1997 and offers
online access to some of the richest ancestral information available to help
you research your family history. Origins Network services include
subscription access to exclusive genealogy related collections on British
Origins and Irish Origins, plus expert Scottish Old Parish records research
on Scots Origins. OMS Services developed and operates The Origins Network
(incorporating British Origins, Irish Origins, Scots Origins) & Burke's
Peerage Online genealogical database services.  
Its unique, primary genealogical data for researching family history online
includes marriage registers, wills, court and apprentice records, as well as
downloadable images of original maps and plans used in 19th surveys. Most of
this information is not available anywhere else on the Internet. 


Maggie Loughran 
Joint Administrator, Federation of Family History Societies 
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 <http://www.ffhs.org.uk/> www.ffhs.org.uk 
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