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1. British Records Online:
Past, Present and Future
Darris G. Williams, AG®

2. PAST

3. Dr. Williams’s Library
• Opened at Red Cross
Street, Cripplegate, Lon
don in 1729.
• One of the first libraries
open to the public.
• Moved three times but
still a center of
nonconformist studies.

4. Dr. Williams’s Library
• Has information about different types of
nonconformity and where to look for more
information
• Dr. Williams’s Library registers are not here
• Surman index to careers of Congregational and
Presbyterian (Unitarian) ministers
• Some local history documents

5. Society of Genealogists
• Incorporated 8 May 1911
• Centenary celebration
• Unique collections being
made available online

6. Society of Genealogists
• Several indexes at the
Society of Genealogists
Library are still in card
files

7. Society of Genealogists
• The Griffiths index for
Wales is full of good
information gleaned
from many sources still
not online.

10. The Genealogical Society of Utah
• Founded in 1894 by The
Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints
• 1938 microfilming began
• Family history centers
started in 1964

11. The Genealogical Society of Utah
• A storage vault was
excavated in a granite
mountain in the 1960s

12. The Genealogical Society of Utah
• Ancestral File allowed
people to submit
pedigree information to
be added to a computer
database
• 1998 development
began on
FamilySearch.org
• 24 May 1999 the website
went live then crashed
due to overload

13. PRESENT

14. Present
• Archives
• Libraries
• Websites
• More websites
• Social media

15. FamilySearch 2011
camera locations & numbers

18. Part of the Free Family
FreeREG, FreeBMD, FreeCEN

23. Hayes Manuscript Sources
• 1941 project start
• 1,000 libraries visited
• 30 countries
• Identified almost 100,000 manuscripts
• 17,000 pages published in 1965 & 1975

34. Providing a picture of everyday life

35. Scottish Kirk Session records are
being made available online

36. Royal Commission on Ancient and
Historical Monuments of Wales

40. FUTURE

41. Partnerships
• FindMyPast/British Library
• Welsh Archives Group/FindMyPast
• FamilySearch/Ancestry
• FamilySearch/FindMyPast
• Ancestry/Archives & Societies
• FindMyPast/Archives & Societies
• National Library of Wales/Ohio Welsh
• Origins: National Will Index

42. Family and Community Reconstitution

43. A one-place-study (OPS) considers
your ancestors in their physical and
social context.

48. I went on in my constant course of preaching,
since good god was blessed to do by me, our
divisions were about church – Government … our
friends at olny were miserably plundered at olny:
and I lay at peace without disturbance…

50. If you could buy these
for 5 cents each would
you get more of them?

51. Convert Civil Registration References
to a Parish Name

53. Decades of experience is being
applied to new technology

58. FamilySearch Indexing

59. Post 1837 Marriage Indexing