Using Online Sources

Approaches to digitization

Indexes, transcriptions and images

Quality issues

• [34] Text Encoding Initiative
• [36] Census. The Expert Guide: Error Tables

Searching online records

Name matching

• [39] Guild of One-Name Studies: Register of One-Name Studies
• [40] NARA: The Soundex Indexing System
• [40] Peter Christian: Soundex - can it be improved?
• [40] NameX - currently unavailable
• [40] Thesaurus of Briitish Surnames
• [40] Origins: About NameX
• [41] WeRelate: Variant names
• [41] WeRelate: Variant names project
• [41] Library Ireland

FamilySearch

• [41] FamilySearch
• [41] FamilySearch: Old home page
• [44] FamilySearch Wiki: FamilySearch Indexing Updates
• [45] FamilySearch Indexing
• [45] FamilySearch: Blog
• [45] FamilySearch: Labs

The commercial data services

• [47] The Genealogist: Comparison Chart

Origins

• Origins closed in 2015 and its data was transferred to Findmypast
• [47] Origins
• [47] British Origins
• [48] Irish Origins
• [50] Origins: Subscription packages

ScotlandsPeople

• [50] ScotlandsPeople
• [51] Scottish Documents

Ancestry

• [52] Ancestry
• [52] Ancestry UK
• [52] Ancestry UK: Card Catalog
• [53] Ancestry Australia
• [53] Ancestry Insider

Findmypast

• [53] Findmypast
• [54] Findmypast: Subscription packages
• [54] 1911 Census
• [54] Findmypast Ireland
• [54] Findmypast Ireland: Subscription packages
• [54] Findmypast Australia and New Zealand
• [54] Findmypast US
• [54] ancestorsonboard - data is available on mian Findmypast sites

Genes Reunited

• [54] Genes Reunited

The Genealogist

• [55] The Genealogist
• [56] The Genealogist: Online Data Subscriptions
• [56] The Genealogist: Subscriptions compared
• [56] BMDindex
• [56] BMDregisters

Roots UK

• [56] Roots UK

Familyrelatives

• [57] Family Relatives
• [57] FamilyRelatives: Subscription or Pay Per View

Other sites

• [57] Irish Family History Foundation: Rootsireland.ie
• [57] AncestryIreland
• [57] World Vital Records

Document services

• [58] National Archives: Looking for a person?
• [58] The Original Record

Image formats and viewers

Adobe Acrobat (PDF)

• [61] Adobe

JPG

TIFF

• [62] Origins: Viewing Images and Maps on Origins.net

Flash

• [62] Adobe

DjVu

• [62] Findmypast: FAQs: Enhanced (DjVu) viewer - the site no longer uses the DjVu image format
• [62] FamilyRelatives: DJVu Image Viewer download
• [63] IrfanView

Which data service?

Free access

• [64] Society of Genealogists: Open Access Area

Common problems

• [65] National Archives: The technical settings you need to use DocumentsOnline - DocumentsOnline has now closed down

Cookies

JavaScript

Java

Plug-ins

• [66] National Archives: Plug-ins and file formats

Compatibility

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This page was last revised by Peter Christian, February 10 2019.
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