Genealogy in the Sun Else Churchill The SoG at a Distance.Getting the most from the Society of Genealogists - Online and in the Library

1. 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

2. 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

3. SoG at a Distance
• SoG Website
• SoG Library
Catalogue
• SoG Data Online
• Help and Advice
• Copy/Search
service

4. Website Home Page

5. support@sog.org.uk

6. 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.

7. SoG News
SoG Blog with news
about the SoG & the
genealogical
community is
incorporated into the
SoG website
•
@ SoGGenealogist
 SoG Face Book Page

8. Learn
• Help Getting
Started – Record
Source Guides
• Hints and Tips
• Events & Courses
• Distance Learning
• Advice
• Ask an SoG Expert
• Professional Help

9. Hints & Tips

10. Library Pages
• Using the Library
• Library Catalogue
• SoG Data Online

11. 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

12. Free On – Site Library Access
to Some Genealogy Websites

13. Various Ways to Search Records
Library Catalogue
SoG online data (for mem
Website surname indexes
manuscripts

14. Library Catalogue

15. 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

16. Check the original

17. What did my ancestors do?
Upper Library
• Armed forces
• Professions & trades
• Apprenticeships
• Education
• Religions
• Migration
• Wills & marriage licences

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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)

21. 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)

22. 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

23. 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

24. 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)

25. 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

26. 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

27. • 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

28. Tell the Story

29. SoG Library Catalogue on
website sog.org.uk

30. Published FHs found through
SoGCAT

31. 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

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

33. Birth Briefs received 2007-2012

35. Document Collection
surnames listed on website
www.sog.org.uk

36. 7000 Roll Pedigrees
surnames listed www.sog.org.uk

37. What is NOT Online?
350 Special Collections in 1300 boxes

38. Names listed in
Special Collections Card Index

39. One Name Collections – e.g.DOO

40. 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

41. 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

42. Digitising Card Indexes
• One-Name Study
Indexes
• Stand Alone Indexes
• Unfilmed cards

43. Search/Copy Service

44. 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

45. SoG Data Online
“A snapshot of the SoG Library”

48. Non-members search results/ £ = gentle reminder to pay up and join!
Purple box search results lists the datasets with information

49. Log into site using the email you registered with us and the password you got when you
validated your membership number on the site

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

51. Browse Records – open up folder of datasets to see contents
& search individual items

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

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

62. POLL BOOKS PROJECT

64. Surnames
digitised card indexes, gedcomfiles and PDFs of books

67. Bank of England Will Abstracts 1717-1845

68. Index to Wills in SoG MS
Document & Special Collections
On-going work as our volunteers work their way through the collections

71. Standing on the Shoulders of Giants since 1911