6th Edition
What's New: Added recently families from the Nottingham area, including updates to exsiting data. The main sources used has been a Guild of One Name Study Marriage Challenge. (there are more in the pipeline). New baptisms, marriages and death records added to by Paul R Featherstone from the southern counties. I have also added Birth Registrations 1922-1940, some 1,400 names, I am endevouring to link the births to parents using the mothers maiden name given in the birth details, so entering a marriage registration for the parents. I have also added Death Registrations 1922-1950 again 1,844 names. This will be important as after the 1921 census there is nothing till 1951 census which won't be released until 2051. I have also added a couple of members research which is based in the USA.
Now contains 34,652 primary names, which grow to 41,942 when I count variants.
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Information from the British Milita records, there are one or two in this edition.
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A work still in progress, to record all Featherstone and variant forms of the name.
The main content at the moment is based in England & Wales, however where we have proved links to other countries, these are included. We are trying to link Census 1841-1911 to Births Marriages and Deaths.
In most of the southern counties the information has been collected and proved by Paul R Featherstone member 200. So you can determine Paul R's contribution you will find a little yellow icon appearing next to the names.
Most of the Birth Marriage & Death indexes 1837-1911 have been collected and recorded by me W Paul Featherstone. The work done by the Guild of One Name Studies in their ongoing Marriage challenges has proved invaluable in linking families together. None of this would have been possible when we first started the Featherstone Society in 1997. The information now available on the World Wide Web has become over whelming.
I cannot keep up with the new information that is published, I just do my best. It took me nearly 10 years to collect and record the BMD's from 1837-1911. I think it might take another to record all the census information and tie it all together.
How can you help- look at the information and see if you can provide links that tie facts together. In theory I recorded three facts from the indexes (depending on how many times a person got married in his/her life time) Birth, Marriage, Death. In the last three years or so we have made some big strides. I have merged the Database from Paul R, and included the rest of the counties. Because the GOONS tend to do marriage challenges in the southern counties we have more families tied together. However the extraction of the Co. Durham census of 1851 and 1861 by our members mean there are some northern families included, just not tied together with BMD's yet. I would like to add members research to this database, but will only do so one member at a time, their are enough duplicates, without adding another 15,000 names.
Some points to remember all of the BMD data apart from some added much later for the years 1974-1986, does not include the country of origin, this I did on purpose to avoid it clogging up the indexes.
I know there are still a lot of duplicates if you can prove a link between any again let me know with the relevant ID numbers.
You will find that the counties used in the BMD's are the Chapman codes. This should help in finding people. The list can be found here : http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/Regions/Codes.html