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The WHO Database

The WHO database focuses on the surname HODGSON and its variants, extracted from endless sources (see the examples below) including data from our family tree files and IGI soundex variants. The database project commenced in 1995 and is currently over 65100 births, 110000 baptisms, 40000 marriages, 14700 deaths/burials, 32600 census extractions, over 10500 miscellaneous subjects, all adding up to over 270,000 records. The goal is a half million Hod records by 2010, still possible!

Sample sources are: advertisements, annals, archives, arms, arrivals, assessments, attorneys, banns, baptisms, biographies, births, books, burgesses, burials, cemeteries & churchyards, censuses, certificates, charters, church wardens, citizens' rolls, convictions, crown grants, deaths, deeds, defence records, deportations, dioceses, directories, documents, electoral rolls, emigrants, essays, estates, exhibitions, family trees, fines, freemen rolls, gentries, GROs, guilds, hearth taxes, histories, honour rolls, immigrants, indexes, inhabitants, institutes, knighthoods, law lists, libraries, livestock assessments, lists, marriages, monuments, museums, musters, naturalisations, newspapers, non-jurors, notices, obituaries, papers, papist estates, pardons, pedigrees, pioneers, plaques, poll books, priests, private papers, projects, PROs, protestations, publications, reckonings, record offices, recusant rolls, registries, rolls, schools & universities, sessions, settlers, ships, societies, surtees, taxes, transcripts, voter lists, wardens, wills, etc. Can you help to add more?

Names of living individualsare accessible but any personal details are blocked. Immediate relations i.e. parents and offspring pass.

To access the WHO Database, go now to DBaccess. May the source be with you!