Family History Products available on Compact Discs

The following software products are produced by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and can be obtained within the British Isles from the Church Distribution Centre (contact details below).

Please note that we are not agents for the Church and do not act on their behalf in providing the information on these pages.
The products and prices on these pages are provided for convenience only and may vary at any time. Please double check before ordering.
(* Prices correct as of 19 August, 2002)

N.B. All compact discs are Windows 95/98/NT editions

British 1881 Census (50169)

The automated version of the 1881 British Census contains information for over thirty million individuals from England, Wales and Scotland (the Ireland census no longer exists). Every effort was made to reproduce the information as it was originally recorder by the census taker. (Requires Windows 95/98/NT or higher.)

Price - £29.95 (25 CD full set) *

1851 British Census (50096)

An index to the census records of Devon, Norfolk and Warwick counties only. The index contains about 1.5 million names and lists a person's name, relationship to head of household, birthplace, sex, age, occupation and residence. Families are listed as they were enumerated in the census. (Requires Windows 3.1x or higher.)

Price - £5.95 (1 CD) *

Vital Records Index - British Isles V2 (50126)

An Index of vital records for England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland recorded between 1538 and 1888. The index of approximately 10.4 million births and christenings and a further 1.9 million marriages fills ? CDs with records from parish registers, civil registration and other record collections from the British Isles. Not all counties are represented; some are more completely represented than others. (Requires Windows 95/98/NT or higher.)

Price - £22.95 *

United States 1880 Census (50168)

Complete transcript and enumeration of approximately 50 million individuals. Information shown by household or institution. 56 CD set !

Price - £45.00 *

Canadian 1881 Census (50179)

Contains about 4.3 million people who lived in the provinces of British Columbia, Monitoba, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec and Northwest Territories.

Price - £14.95 *

Vital Records Index - North America (50029)

An index of church, civil and other record collections for the United States and Canada recorded between 1620 and 1888. The index of nearly five million names fills seven CDs. Six discs contain marriage information; the seventh contains birth and christening information. Some areas are more completely represented than others. (Requires Windows 95/98/NT or higher.)

Price - £17.95 (7 CD's) *

Vital Records Index - Australia (50095)

An index to records from New South Wales (1788-1888), Tasmania (1803-1899), Victoria (1837-1888) and Western Australia (1841-1905). The index contains about 4.5 million records of births, christenings, marriages and deaths and includes an index reference that can be used to obtain a certificate from the state civil registration office. In Australia, this file is only available in Family History Centres, due to contractual limitations. (Requires Windows 3.1x or higher)

Price - £7.95 *

Vital Records Index - West Europe (50145)

An index of vital records for Alpine, Benelux, French, German, Italian and Spanish records containing approximately 12.5 million birth, christening and marriage records for Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, Netherlands, France, Baden, Bavaria, Hessen-Darmstadt, Lippe-Detmold, Oldenburg, Prussia, Tunringia, Wurtemburg, Italy and Spain. Contains 22 CDs. (Requires Windows 95/98/NT or higher.)

Price - £28.95 *

Mormon Immigration Index (50174)

Index of Mormon Immigration into USA 1840-1890

Price - £5.95 *

Freedman's Bank Records 1865 - 1874 (50120)

The Freedman's Bank was created to assist newly freed slaves during and after the American Civil War. The records document names and relationships and contain approximately 480,000 names in pedigree linked GEDCOM format.

Price - £5.95 *

Pedigree Resource Files: Discs 1-5 with index (50250)
Pedigree Resource Files: Discs 6-10 with index (50251)
Pedigree Resource Files: Discs 11-15 with Index (50252)
Pedigree Resource Files: Discs 16-20 with Index (50253)
Pedigree Resource Files: Discs 21-25 with Index (50254)
Pedigree Resource Files: Discs 26-30 with Index (50256)
Pedigree Resource Files: Discs 31-35 with Index (50257)

These CD's contain lineage-linked pedigrees that have been submitted to the Family History Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. These pedigrees contain unedited notes and sources. Charts and reports can be printed from this data. The information is put on disks as it is submitted. (Requires Windows 95/98/NT or higher.)

Price - £17.40 *

Pedigree Resource Files: Discs 1-25 with Index (50255) £55.00 *

Family History Library Catalogue (50081)

This CD describes the more than 3 million microfilms, microfiche, books and other items available at the Family History Library and through your local Family History Centre. Includes catalogue entries as of March 2000. (Requires Windows 95/98/NT or higher.)

Price - £5.95 *

Family History Source Guide (50176)

A compilation of more than 150 research guides that are produced by the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah. This software assists those who know basic information about their ancestors but need to search original sources to complete their family records. It includes research outlines, address lists, letter-writing guides, blank forms, census worksheets, research guides, maps, word meanings, and a function that identifies the best subjects to search in the Family History Library Catalogue.

Price - £5.95 *

Personal Ancestral File - Version 5 (77034)

Windows based software for recording, managing, and sharing your genealogical information. (The software can also be downloaded free of charge from the Church's Family Search Web site at www.familysearch.org.)

Price - £5.95

Personal Ancestral File Companion 5.0 (50128)

A product that prints family information from personal Ancestral File 3 and 4 in high-quality charts and reports. Users may print family information in several formats: family group records; pedigree charts; and ancestor and descendant charts, including circular and fan-shaped charts. Users may also compile their Personal Ancestral File database in a registry-book format, complete with indexes.

Price £9.95

Viewer V4.0 (50179)

Used to view the census/vital record CD's.

Price - £5.95 *

If you are ordering form the UK with a debit/credit card, all the above are available from:

The Distribution Centre
399 Garretts Green Lane
Birmingham
B31 0UH
Tel: 08700 10 20 51
Fax: 08700 10 20 52

For those outside the UK order online from the Church's Family Search web site, though for those outside North America the shipping charges can outweigh the cost of the products themselves.