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).

Update Oct 24 - There are now more records on SoG Explore than on SoG Data Online! Including records not previously available digitially.

Update Q3 24 -

Coleman's Catalogue of Old Docs

Ye Olde Mortaility Book - All volumes, all counties

Whitehead Collection of Monumental Inscriptions

Crisps Marriage Licences - All Volumes

Well's Wills

NIPR (images only)

Royal Kalendar (11 Volumes)

112 local directories migrated

Great Card Index - 119 batches with 313,146 images and 577,367 names

Parish Registers - 566 datasets with 1,636,693 names migrated to date.

Parish Registers - 206 new datasets with 377,923 names also added that were not on SoG Data Online

Monumental Inscriptions - 159 datasets with 148,692 names

Poll Books - 149 datasets migrated with 568,013 names

Poll Books - 48 new datasets with 222,956 additional names 

Alumni Oxonienses (with images)

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)

East Kent Marriage Index

Faculty Office Marriage Licenses

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

Great Card Index (63 batches to date) with images

Hertfordshire Marriage Index

Holborn St Andrew Marriages 1599 - 1837

Irish War Dead (with images)

Kent Marriage Index

Kent Burials 1813-1851

National Roll of the Great War (with images)

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

PCC Administrations 1750-1800

PCC Wills 1750-1800

St Martin in the Fields Settlement examinations 1708-1750

Vicar General Marriage Licenses

Wiltshire Burial Index

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. We are currently working on creating a Card Catalogue / A to Z of Records.

🐛 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.