How can you contribute?
The following are already transcribing data from digital images into Excel spreadsheets on English and Welsh BDM’s:
Martin Hagger, Mike Hagger, Doug Fitzjohn, and Miriam Hagger is now joining the team.
Basically, I send you some digital picture files on a CD and you transcribe the data into an Excel template, which I provide and then you return an Excel file to me. I do a certain amount of checking and clear up any queries you have raised and I then load the file into Custodian. I would welcome more transcribers, just email me at peter@hagger.org if you can help.
I would also welcome any other Hagger data, which can be loaded into Custodian and which can accept the data directly from Access 2000, Excel, text (Comma Separated Values) and ODBC (Open Database Connectivity). Although it can also take GEDCOM files, this is not very useful, as the data cannot be integrated into the main data area. So far, I have only mastered the input of Excel files and this works very well.
Custodian has its own data entry forms for all of the following types of data:
Apprentices; Armed Forces Records; Civil Registration Indexes (BDM’s) for England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Australia and US Social Security Death Indexes; Civil Registration Certificates, Census Returns (various - England, Wales, Ireland and US); IGI and VRI; Marriage Licences; Migration (Ellis Island and Passenger lists); MI’s & Cemetery Records; Directories; Parish Chest information; Poor Law Records; Probate; School Records and a few others.
I welcome all information, but please agree with me what format you are sending it in. Obviously it is easier for me if it is in a format which I can directly load into Custodian, but I am more than prepared to re-
www.hagger.org
This is the web site maintained by Martin Hagger and contains a great deal of information concerning a large number of Hagger’s who originated from Therfield in Hertfordshire. Although I own the One Name Study, Martin is putting in a lot of the work and contributing a great deal of his research and knowledge to the project. Martin has recently completed a transcription of the 1841 and 1851 census returns for Therfield and the relevant Hagger data will now feed into the study.
How many Hagger’s are there and where do they come from?
A fairly recent piece of software called Surname Atlas allows you to input a surname with or without variants to see the spread of a name across the UK at the time of the 1881 census. For Hagger and a number of variants this shows the following information:
Total No. Main counties
Hagar 83 35 in Yorks, 15 in Kent, 13 in Lancashire and 9 in Sussex
Hager 93 27 in Surrey, 16 in Lancashire and 14 in Suffolk
Haggar 454 92 in Suffolk, 76 in Middlesex, 74 in Essex, 64 in Herts,
31 in Surrey, 9 in Yorkshire and 15 in Cambridgeshire
Hagger 885 206 in Middlesex, 140 in Essex, 119 in Hertfordshire,
103 in Cambridgeshire, 84 in Surrey, 63 in Suffolk and 30 in Kent
In the next issue of the Newsletter I will show how Births were spread across the country in the period from registration commencing in 1837 until the end of 1859.
An occasional Newsletter for those interested in the study of the surname Hagg*r and its variants.