Genealogy Chat

The NBI on CD from and how much does it cost - I hate asking to ask others for lookup's especially if things such as the NBI are easy to buy, easy to use and not mega expensive I subscribe to Ancestry and find it useful for many things but now would like to go further with me tree with regards to burials and baptisms etc Joanne

whats the NBI? Is it like BIVRI? Helen

Try this http://www.ffhs.org.uk/General/Projects/NBI.htm

Thanks - had a look and it seems quiet good - might have to get the old flexible friend out - AGAIN!! Joanne

Hello, My Mate ... :-) £45 is the price of the new National Burials Index set of 4 CDs - from http://www.ffhs.org.uk/General/Projects/NBI.htm. It looks like it is £37-95 from this site - http://www.my-history*.*co*.*uk/acatalog/National_Genealogy_Data.html Joy

Sorry to be a dunce but can you enlighten me on what info the cd's hold? Cheers jen

From the latter site: What is the National Burial Index? This very important data, of which 59% has never been published before, indexes more than 13 million burials from registers in England and Wales from 1538 onwards. It is not a complete index to all burials, but represents an enormous effort by Family History Societies and Groups over 10 years to make available a large amount of information easily searchable in your own home. The National Burial Index, known as the NBI, is quality British data at an affordable price. History of the National Burial Index The National Burial Index was begun by the Federation of Family History Societies in 1994 and the first edition was published in 2001 with some 5.4 million burial records. As an ongoing project, further collections of records were encouraged and continued to be received by the FFHS data manager. Over the ensuing three years sufficient additional material has now been collated to make a new edition feasible. A substantial number of member societies that did not originally participate in the burial project have become actively involved by presenting data they already held, or have embarked on this as a new project for their area.There are still some member societies which have not yet submitted their data to the NBI Project as work has only just begun or have pressures to complete other projects before undertaking the time consuming job of transcribing burial registers. However it is hoped that they too will be submitting further records for a proposed third addition in several years time. What Information is on the disk? The information provided in the National Burial Index, taken from parish, non-conformist, Roman Catholic and cemetery registers , includes where available: County of burial Parish or cemetery where the event of burial was recorded Date of burial Forename(s) of the deceased Surname of the deceased Age The society or group that transcribed the record This information is displayed in a table, which may be sorted on any column. Records may be tagged and exported to other applications. The National Burial Index does not contain full transcriptions of the burial records - it is simply an abbreviated finding-aid based on records that were sometimes difficult to read. As with the IGI, searchers are therefore discouraged from accepting the details of an entry at face value and should check the original source record. Also included is mapping software that interacts with the data. The maps display: Parishes covered by the National Burial Index including a table of Counties, Places/Parishes, Church/Chapel, and date range covered. The columns in the table may be sorted as desired. Parishes that match as a result of your last search Regions A bar graph is provided showing the count of people included in the Index for each year from 1538 to 2000. Using the program supplied on the CDROM, the searcher can interrogate the database by a number of methods: a standard surname and forename synonym 'dictionary', a list of uniquely-occurring surname spelling variants, or by using 'wildcards'. The search can be 'refined' by specifying date ranges or locations. To date, over 50 Family History Societies or Groups are involved with the project. Each appoints a co-ordinator who recruits inputters, checkers and correctors. Wherever possible, transcriptions are made from original source records but where this is not feasible other sources, such as microfiche transcriptions or printed registers, are used. ....................... continued

Thankyou Joy - always there to guide me in the right direction - lol, what would I do without you??? Be a wreck I would - lol Joanne

continued ...................... Using the program supplied on the CDROM, the searcher can interrogate the database by a number of methods: a standard surname and forename synonym 'dictionary', a list of uniquely-occurring surname spelling variants, or by using 'wildcards'. The search can be 'refined' by specifying date ranges or locations. To date, over 50 Family History Societies or Groups are involved with the project. Each appoints a co-ordinator who recruits inputters, checkers and correctors. Wherever possible, transcriptions are made from original source records but where this is not feasible other sources, such as microfiche transcriptions or printed registers, are used. Counties on the Disc The following table indicates the number of records held for different counties. Note the new counties of Brecon, Cornwall, Cumberland, Isle of Man, London City, Nottinghamshire, Rutland, Sussex and Westmorland entering the database for the first time. County 2nd Edition 1st Edition Bedfordshire 356,000 52,000 Berkshire 351,000 117,000 Brecon 5,000 None Buckinghamshire 83,000 80,000 Cambridgeshire 197,000 95,000 Cardiganshire 108,000 11,000 Cheshire 399,000 255,000 Cornwall 112,000 None Cumberland 57,000 None Derbyshire 82,000 35,000 Dorset 305,000 1,000 Durham 402,000 159,000 Essex 500,000 48,000 Glamorganshire 363,000 249,000 Gloucestershire 167,000 154,000 Hampshire <1,000 <1,000 Herefordshire 67,000 42,000 Hertfordshire 137,000 84,000 Huntingdonshire 192,000 76,000 Isle of Man 7,000 None Kent 205,000 16,000 Lancashire 170,000 29,000 Leicestershire 329,000 <1,000 Lincolnshire 711,000 616,000 London City 138,000 None Middlesex 11,000 11,000 Monmouthshire 7,000 <1,000 Montgomeryshire <1,000 <1,000 Norfolk 105,000 74,000 Northamptonshire 198,000 85,000 Northumberland 180,000 106,000 Nottinghamshire 281,000 None Oxfordshire 213,000 213,000 Radnorshire 11,000 5,000 Rutland 19,000 None Shropshire 168,000 85,000 Somerset 768,000 2,000 Staffordshire 799,000 18,000 Suffolk 803,000 429,000 Surrey 370,000 120,000 Sussex 316,000 None Warwickshire 507,000 460,000 Westmorland 6,000 None Wiltshire 224,000 145,000 Worcestershire 552,000 483,000 Yorkshire[City/Ainsty] 34,000 19,000 Yorkshire East Riding 40,000 28,000 Yorkshire North Riding 380,000 306,000 Yorkshire West Riding 1,689,000 708,000 Approximate totals 13,124,000 5,416,000

Thanks Joy - very comprehensive reply - much appreciated jen

Without me, Joanne ... you'd never have changed from BrickWall to Maddie's Mate!! ... :-) You are welcome, Jen ... :-)

For once I cannot reply - right again my dear friend Joanne :))))

A speechless former BrickWall!!