Phase 1: From 1837 to the present day

Our aim is to reconstruct every tree worldwide from the present day back to their origin. As a first phase we've rebuilt our UK trees back to 1837, the beginning of national registration of births, marriages and deaths in England & Wales. These have been cross-referenced with the seven available national censuses between 1841 and 1901. Some very small sub-sets of the 15,000 BMD records since 1837 we are still unable to link up, but around 95% of this data  has been linked, so we know that there are no more trees waiting to be discovered.

To encourage other researchers to contact us to cross-reference our findings, here are two PDFs that contain details of the spouse names of marriages to members in our UK trees.

List of Known Spouses 1837-2006  (1.1MB)

List of Marriages with Spouses not yet known 1837-1911  (17KB)

Phase 2: From 1750 to 1850

Our project is now entering its second key phase, where we attempt to take back each tree two or three generations. This requires us to concentrate on parish-level research across five counties as well as London. We're also hoping to identify the majority of emigrants from the UK who went to the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand & South Africa in the period since 1750, and their descendants living overseas.

For more information contact Chris Pomery at: