Data

Data Available

This page tells you something of the data available in the Hagger One Name Study

How the data is stored

The detailed data is stored in a series of Excel Spreadsheets, with each Spreadsheet dedicated to a particular type of record, e.g. Birth Index, Census, Marriage Certificates. A Master Excel Spreadsheet brings together the individual records on each person being given a unique reference number and allocated to a particular family. The personal reference numbers are six digit and the family identifiers are 3 alpha characters and 3 numerical digits. An example of a family identifier would be THE014, this tells me it is a a family with Therfield connections and it is family number 14 for this location. As work progresses families are combined where evidence is discovered supporting this decision. In addition to the spreadsheets Family Trees are constructed and the aim is to construct these in Family Historian, currently trees are in a mixture of Word, PDF and Family Historian descendent format. Currently we have over 50,000 individual data entries in the spreadsheets, these can of course cover more than one person, of these 46% have personal reference numbers allocated to them. There are over 200 discreet family groups at present which are at various stages of tree construction, some will certainly be merged and we have already merged 48 families into one of the other family groups.

Main Data Available

England and Wales BDM Indexes (1837 onwards)

Births (8,604), Marriages (6,194) and Deaths (5,631).

Certificates

Birth (132), Marriage (535), Death (84) National Burial Index (1,786)

Census

Pre 1841 (57), 1841 (1,042), 1851 (1,267), 1861 (792), 1871 (902), 1881 (1,819), 1891 (2,310), 1901 (1,344), 1911 (2,537). The 1939 Register (1,981)

Parish Registers

Baptisms (2,184), Marriages (1,312), Burials (1,183)

Other Information

We hold lots of other data including Armed Services Records (including Commonwealth War Graves and Soldiers who died in the Great War), Cemetery Records, IGI, VRI (births, Baptisms and Marriages), Passenger Lists, Pictures, Probate and Wills, Newspapers, Directories, Electoral Rolls, School Records. We do hold a limited range of non English and Welsh records, these have mainly been obtained when tracing the descendants of someone born in England. However, we have some data like BDM, censuses and electoral rolls from Australia, Canada, New Zealand and USA. In total we have 52,577 records and over 50% of these have personal references associated with them linking either to family groups or other people not yet placed in a family. Updated November 2020