The website The Original Record has made source books available for nearly 14,000 surnames.
The Original Record says: “Collections of entries for individual surnames from historical records from the British Isles and colonies from the 11th to the 20th centuries, hand indexed and extracted by surname, and available as ebook (£75) or DVD (£90). Each ebook contains the full set of descriptions and matching scans for the particular surname from the 10 million and more records hand-indexed by Theoriginalrecord.com. All scans are in PDF format.”
You can find a list of all available surnames at The Original Record‘s website.
“Each Surname Source Book contains the records relating to the surname in question, gathered from the archives of theoriginalrecord.com as of the time of purchase. These archives contain over 10 million surname-indexed items from the British Isles and the colonies, dating from the time of the first heritable surnames in the 11th century, through to 1958.
“This source has long been used by one-name studiers and professional genealogists. Three commonly available categories of record – parish registers, census returns, and birth, marriage and death certificates – are omitted, as being generally available and indexed elsewhere. Here are the main categories from which the contents have been amassed:
- Acts of the Privy Council
- Agricultural Society Magazines and Journals
- Annual Register
- Antiquarian Society Publications
- Army Lists
- Assizes Records
- Bankrupt and Insolvent Lists
- Baptist Sources
- Bills of Sale
- Bishops’ Registers
- Board of Trade Registers
- Borough Records
- Cartularies
- Central Criminal Court Reports
- Channel Island Records
- Chantry Certificates
- Chester Palatinate Records
- Church of England Journals
- Civil Service Commission
- Clergy Lists
- Churchwardens’ Accounts
- Close Rolls
- Collectanea
- County Court Judgments
- Curia Regis
- Deputy Keeper’s Reports
- Directories
- Divorce Notices
- Edinburgh Gazette
- English Reports
- European Magazine
- Evangelical Magazine
- Examination Lists
- Fine Rolls
- Flint’s Mercantile Gazette
- Freedom Registers
- French Rolls
- Gentleman’s Magazine
- Gild Records
- Hearth Tax Returns
- Home Office Papers
- Imperial Calendar
- India Records
- Inns of Court
- Inquisitions
- Inland Revenue Apprentice Lists
- Irish Records
- Law Times
- Lloyds List & Shipping Register
- London Archives
- Manorial Records
- Marriage Bonds and Licences
- Medal Rolls
- Medical Directories
- Methodist Magazine
- Metropolitan Police Registers
- Monthly Magazine
- Monumental Inscriptions
- Muster Rolls
- Navy Lists
- Newspapers
- Palestine Gazette
- Papal Letters
- Parish Magazines
- Patent Rolls
- Pedes Finium (Feet of Fines)
- Perry’s Bankrupt & Insolvent Gazette
- Pharmacists
- Pipe Rolls
- Police Gazette
- Poll Books
- Poll Tax Returns
- Professional Bodies Membership Lists
- Prerogative Court of Canterbury
- RCHM Reports
- School Registers
- Scottish Records
- Sessions Rolls
- Sports Reports
- State Papers Domestic
- State Papers Foreign
- Subscription Lists
- Telephone Directories
- Thacker’s India Directory
- Treasury Papers
- Unclaimed Dividends
- Union Membership Lists
- University Calendars
- Visitations
- Wesleyan Methodist Records
- Will Abstracts
“The records found for the surname are arranged chronologically, each source being prefaced by the title and description as in the website entry. Possessing a complete subscription in Source Book form gives you all the records for the surname from the site with all the convenience of an ebook.”
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