Wednesday, August 18, 2004

Genealogists, family historians, and historians generally can find an ever growing body of documentation on the web. Two new for-profit sites may be of interest to those tracing British families. Now in its 107th edition, the venerable Burke's Peerage and Gentry, founded on the principle (familiar to many dog and horse lovers) that breeding counts, can be accessed at http://www.burkes-libraries.com/. Meanwhile, 1837online.com "is part of an independently-owned business that is dedicated to providing high quality genealogical services to professional and non-professional researchers. On this site you will find the entire copy of the indexes of Birth, Marriages and Deaths for England and Wales from 1837 to 2002".