A further batch of obituaries has been added - bringing the total to over 350. Still a lot more on file to come but I'd be happy to receive any more contributions.

An index to Scottish Marriage records covering 1855 to 2009 has been uploaded today.

This index is only by year, not month or quarter and also includes quite a bit of duplication.

Marriages are sometimes recorded more than once in different locations or with different spouse surnames.

England and Wales marriage registrations for 1881-1920 have now been updated as well. As before, whenever the certificates are available an extra column in the table now includes the church or register office where the marriage took place.

Volumes 15 & 16 of the Crabb Newsletter (2005/2006) have now been uploaded.  They join volumes 17 to 21 in the newer "one file per quarter" PDF format. At present Volumes 1 to 8 are also available but in a less convenient format with a file per page.

Lynda Haack has provided the third and final (for now) Everyname index supplement for the Crabb Newsletters - The original Everyname index for volumes 1-18 is at the start of the Newsletter listing, the later indices for volumes 19, 20 & 21 (2009/2010/2011)  can be found at the start of each year's entries. Many thanks to Lynda.

A further batch of obituaries has now been added - bringing the total to 320 on-line. A backlog of over 200 still exists, so there will be lots more to come in due course.

England and Wales marriage registrations for 1861-1880 have now been updated as well. Whenever the certificates are available an extra column in the table now includes the church or register office where the marriage took place.

Everyname indices for the 2009/20010 Crabb Newsletters have now been uploaded to the website. The links can be found immediately above the index entries for those years.

An update to the English & Welsh Marriage registrations has started - so far 1837-1860 have been uploaded. The rest will follow in the near future. The final column shows if a full certificate is available.

Of the 3401 marriages registered between 1837 and 1911 the database now contains full details of 1184 - almost 35%.

Each page is sequenced in alphabetical order of the forenam of the family member, regardless of the varied spellings of the surname. (Crab, Crabb, Crabbe & Craib are the main ones but other rarer ones do appear on occasions).

Where a "Ref" number appears by a name this is a crossreference to the main section of family tree data - the first three digits (where 101 or over) refer to the individual tree number, the other four digits identify the individual. Where the first three digits are less that 100 they all refer to tree 100.

The section "Box Charts with Full Index" within the Family Trees pages has just been updated (a process taking over 100 minutes on a broadband link - hence it doesn't happen too often). Many new images of marriage certificates and census returns have been added where appropriate.