What's New?

We've added a Categories drawer to help you drill down into the record types you are most interested in viewing. We've also added a second Keyword section - which means you can now include some search words and exclude others!

What records are on SoG Explore?

We are undertaking an ongoing migration project, moving our digital collections from SoG Data Online to SoG Explore.

To date we have migrated the below list of records to SoG Explore, but please do revisit this page as updates are happening regularly or sign up to The Genealogy Gazette for all SoG news and announcements (including record updates).

UPDATED APRIL 24 - Parish Registers - 358 indexes with 938, 925 names

UPDATED APRIL 24 - Parish Registers - 106 new indexes (not previously on SoG Data Online) with 295,821 names

UPDATED APRIL 24 - Monumental Inscriptions - 143 datasets with 129,443 names

Apprentices of Great Britain (now with images and parent index)

Apprenticeship Indentures (by Crisp)

Boyd's Marriage Index Main Series (All Counties)

Boyd's Marriage Index (Miscellaneous) All Counties

Boyd's Family Units (with images)

Boyd's London Burials

Boyd's Inhabitants of London (with images)

Hertfordshire Marriage Index

Holborn St Andrew Marriages 1599 - 1837

Kent Marriage Index

East Kent Marriage Index

Kent Burials 1813-1851

Wiltshire Burial Index

PCC Administrations 1750-1800

PCC Wills 1750-1800

Vicar General Marriage Licenses

Faculty Office Marriage Licenses

Family Trees (First 2 boxes plus original public trees (with images))

Great Card Index (63 batches to date) with images

National Roll of the Great War (with images)

St Martin in the Fields Settlement examinations 1708-1750

Alumni Oxonienses (with images)

Palgrave-Moore Norfolk Marriage Index (Vols 1,2,3,11)

Irish War Dead (with images)

Found a bug?

SoG Explore continues to be tested and developed. You can report bugs via email to sogexplore@sog.org.uk, but before you do so please check the list of bugs already identified below. On reporting bugs, please provide screenshots if possible.

🐛 Filter down or search one data set / record type. We know you are interesting in this. Our categories filter is now available and we hope this helps in the meantime. We are taking on board your feedback as we consider further developments.

🐛 Previously viewed Search Results should appear in a fainter colour, indicating they have already been viewed. The fainter grey colour is only showing when results are refreshed.

🐛 PDF images are not currently viewable in the image viewer.

🐛 Record description information contains typos and formatting errors. This will be an ongoing tidy up project.

🐛 Synonyms in the process of being added (e.g. Peggy for Margaret).

Don't worry, our volunteers, staff, and IT suppliers are on the case to help us with the above bugs. If you'd like to help out too, please email sogexplore@sog.org.uk and use "Volunteering" in the subject line.