The Genealogist

The Genealogist TheGenealogist provides unique data and tools to help you find your ancestors Results are enhanced with the inclusion of phonetic matches.

TheGenealogist is an award-winning online family history website, which puts a wealth of information at the fingertips of family historians. With a full set of birth, marriage and death transcripts, census records from 1841 to 1911, significant collections of Parish and Nonconformist records, PCC Will Records, Irish Records, Military records, Occupations, Newspaper record collections and so much m

ore, TheGenealogist is one of the leading providers of online family history records. TheGenealogist’s tools let you find an ancestor using keywords, family members or an address. TheGenealogist has also developed ‘SmartSearch’ technology, which allows family historians to find records faster and easier than other sites. Uniquely to TheGenealogist, it’s possible to find potential birth records from a death record, potential parents from a birth record and potential children from a marriage record. TheGenealogist uses the latest technology to help you bring your family history to life. Use TheGenealogist to find your ancestors today!

09/06/2026

Debra had a photograph of her grandfather on a steam train and wanted to find out more. We helped her discover that her family had railway connections much further than she expected!

09/06/2026

Tonight on Who Do You Think You Are?, Joe Swash uncovers a remarkable family story full of surprises, secrets and Italian roots. Watch at 9pm on BBC One and iPlayer.

02/06/2026

Tonight on BBC One, Amy Dowden uncovers powerful family stories in a moving new episode of Who Do You Think You Are?. Don’t miss it at 9pm.

26/05/2026

Who's excited for the new series of Who Do You Think You Are? Starting tonight with Zoe Ball

20/05/2026

Who's excited for the new series of Who Do You Think You Are?

15/05/2026

New records reveal the village of Hallsands, just before it was washed away
Hallsands lies in a cleft of a cliff at Start Point, Devon. Although a chapel stood here by 1506, the modern village grew in the 18th–19th centuries into a small fishing community of 37 houses and about 159 people by 1891. The nearby sandbanks were rich in crab and pilchards, and most men made a living from the sea. A public house, the London Inn, and a village store served the community. After 1897, massive dredging of shingle offshore for the Plymouth dockyard began, removing up to 1,600 tons a day. Villagers complained that the beach was sinking beneath their feet, damaging their shore wall and boats. In 1902, a Board of Trade inquiry was forced by protests, and the dredging licence was revoked in January 1902. A raised concrete sea wall was built in 1906, but by the 1910s, the shingle bank had been critically weakened.

Today we celebrate Eric Morecambe's 100th Birthday!In the late 1970s, across Britain, millions of viewers would settle i...
14/05/2026

Today we celebrate Eric Morecambe's 100th Birthday!
In the late 1970s, across Britain, millions of viewers would settle in their armchairs, chuckling as Eric Morecambe waggled his glasses. The magic of Morecambe and Wise is in full swing on the TV, a double act so well-loved that their very presence brings warmth and laughter. But decades earlier, before they were national treasures, they were simply John Eric Bartholomew and Ernest Wiseman, two ordinary lads recorded in family homes on official ledgers, long before fame came knocking. This is the story of how humble family roots shaped the legendary comedy duo, a tale that begins with two youngsters in 1930s Britain whose supportive parents and close-knit home lives set the stage for a lifetime of laughter...

At first light on 7th September 1838, Grace Darling looked out from Longstone Lighthouse and saw the wreck of the Forfar...
30/04/2026

At first light on 7th September 1838, Grace Darling looked out from Longstone Lighthouse and saw the wreck of the Forfarshire on Big Harcar. Within hours, she and her father had rowed through dangerous seas in their coble and brought survivors back to safety. The rescue made Grace one of Victorian Britain’s most famous heroines - yet the records show more than a simple legend.

We've transformed the way you can explore parish records, now pinning baptisms, marriages and burials directly onto our ...
30/04/2026

We've transformed the way you can explore parish records, now pinning baptisms, marriages and burials directly onto our MapExplorer™ tool. We have also boosted our Image Archive with the addition of over 3,000 historic churches and added the ability to visualise results as a heatmap, giving you a powerful new way to explore patterns in your family history.

Today we have released over 1,000,000 names from historic court records, revealing disputes, relationships, property and...
02/04/2026

Today we have released over 1,000,000 names from historic court records, revealing disputes, relationships, property and occupations that can help break down brick walls from 1485 to 1695.

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