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• Ireland's Memorial Records 1914-18 June 2010
• Dublin Will and Grant Books Index, 1270-1858 June 2010
• Henry & Coughlan's General Directory of Cork & Munster, 1867 Mar 2010
• Slater's Royal National and Commerical Directory of Ireland, 1870 Feb 2010
• Association Oath Rolls 1696 Jan 2010
• British Family History Research Jan 2010
• British & Irish Passenger Lists 1891 Jan 2010
• Brian J. Cantwell's Memorials of the Dead Nov 2009
• Dorset Marriages Index 1538-1856 Sept 2009
• Additional Directories of Ireland Sept 2009
• Electoral Registers for Ireland 1832-38 July 2009
• Additional Prerogative & Exchequer Courts of York probate records July 2009
• Additional Poor Law Records for the City of London April 2009

Ireland's Memorial Records 1914-18
The objective of these volumes was to preserve the names of over 49,000 Irishmen who lost their lives fighting in the Great War, World War I, 1914-1918. The collection, published in 1923, was compiled by The Committee of the Irish National War Memorial under the direction of the Earl of Ypres. It is the most complete record known and is unique in many ways.

Name, rank, regiment, regimental number, and in most cases, county/place of birth, and place and date of death are recorded. Subscribers can also view the original printed publication for every entry which may contain more information.

Now available for Irish Origins or Total Access subscribers. Dublin Will and Grant Books Index, 1270-1858
Highly recommended for family history researchers and those studying the social history of Dublin, and east Ireland. Since most of the original records were destroyed in the Irish Public Records Office in 1922, these indexes of marriages and wills provide a record of events which might otherwise be unidentifiable.

Now available for Irish Origins or Total Access subscribers. Henry & Coughlan's General Directory of Cork & Munster, 1867
This extremely rare book really contains two publications. The first is the general directory for Cork city, followed by Wynne's Directory of the province of Munster, which covers every county.

Now available for Irish Origins or Total Access subscribers. Slater's Royal National and Commerical Directory of Ireland, 1870
Published in Manchester and London in 1870, encompasses almost 1,200 pages of text and more than 154,000 names.

Subdivided into provinces and further subdivided into counties with entire sections given over to the cities of Belfast and Dublin. Each county and city is introduced by a brief social and political history as well as topographical and geographical descriptions.

Only a handful of truly national Irish directories are available, so this directory is a vital research tool.

Now available for Irish Origins or Total Access subscribers. British Origins: Association Oath Rolls 1696
Oaths of allegiance, used to secure the loyalty to the sovereign and to help identify potential opponents, were relatively common in in post-Reformation and revolutionary England. Oath rolls offer a valuable pre-19th century "census substitute" often containing a substantial proportion of adult male names within the areas they covered.

The Association Oath followed the discovery in 1696 of a plot to assassinate William III. A transcription of the Association Oath Rolls for the City of London Livery Companies are now available on British Origins. This dataset contains the names of over 21,500 members of 77 livery companies. British Origins: British Family History Research
Origins are pleased to announce a series of bespoke research packages for England and Wales provided by Sticks Research Agency, the organisation behind BBC’s triple BAFTA nominated series Who Do You Think You Are?.

Sticks Research Agency senior researchers can quality check your work to date, confirm the accuracy of your family tree, suggest further research, or confirm that you have hit the end of road for a particular line. This can be done via a one-to-one meeting, or via submitted research notes and documentation. British Origins & Irish Origins: British & Irish Passenger Lists 1891
Passenger records for all 1891 sailings from Irish ports to US and Canadian destinations have now been added to British & Irish Passenger Lists 1890 & 1891. These new records include the names of nearly 50,000 passengers. This dataset now contains the names of nearly 200,000 passengers.

In many cases lists are clearly multiple members of the same family present on the list, making these records much more valuable than simply records of individuals. Irish Origins: Brian J. Cantwell's Memorials of the Dead
Between c.1970-1990 Brian J. Cantwell transcribed and published 11 volumes of graveyard transcriptions primarily covering Counties Wicklow, Wexford and South Dublin.
Cantwell's original typewritten records have all been scanned and are available now on Irish Origins as digitised images. All the names in the transcriptions have been indexed - over 60,000 people are mentioned covering all visible and legible memorials in graveyards that had a date of 1880 or before and all surviving interior church memorials. British Origins: Dorset Marriages Index 1538-1856
Now available to British Origins and Total Access subscribers, over 150,000 marriages transcribed by Somerset & Dorset Family History Society from parish registers, Bishops Transcripts, and non-conformist circuit registers.
Online records are of the actual marriages and over half a million names are searchable, including witnesses. Irish Origins: Additional Directories of Ireland
For Irish history and Irish genealogy researchers directories are a vital tool. Two new directories have been added to Irish Origins:

• Slater's 1894
• Henderson's Ulster Directory 1856

The Directories of Ireland collection now contains more than 720,000 records. This collection is now available to Irish Origins and Total Access subscribers. Irish Origins: Electoral Registers for Ireland 1832-38
Details those eligible to vote in Ireland after the electorate had been greatly increased following the Great Reform Act of 1832. With over 52,600 names, with details of occupations, addresses and entitlement criteria to vote, this index is one of the great untapped resources for the study of the Irish electorate in the 1830s.
This collection is now available to Irish Origins and Total Access subscribers. British Origins: Additional Prerogative & Exchequer Courts of York probate records
A further 165,000 York probate records have been added to the Prerogative & Exchequer Courts of York Probate Index, covering the period 1731 to 1842. The Indexes now contain 215,000 records, for 1731 to 1858. Hard copies of all the original records can be ordered online. British Origins: Additional Poor Law Records for the City of London
Abstracts of poor law records for the parish of St Sepulchre have now been added, taking the total searchable names to over 20,000. For information about material found on The Origins Network sites contact pr@origins.net

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