About Origins
Family history website offering access to British, Irish and Scottish genealogy records.
Access this at any of our libraries, between the hours of 10am and 7pm
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Key features
- National Wills index — pre-1857 probate material for England and Wales.
- The largest pre-1837 English marriage index on the web.
- London Apprenticeship Abstracts 1442-1850 — Over 165,000 abstracts with an index of nearly half a million names.
- Griffiths valuation — a "census substitute" for mid-19th century Ireland; the first systematic valuation of all property holdings in Ireland.
- Index of Irish Wills 1484-1858 — covers all wills and related documents, up to 1858, held by the National Archives of Ireland.
- International Genealogical Index births, christenings and marriages database.
More information
Searching is aided by NameX®, a name-matching technology which will locate a wider range of variants of your ancestor's name which is important as many names have common historical variations in spelling, or have been spelled incorrectly on important records.
