UK-based Origins.net (www.origins.net), a specialist in British and Irish genealogy, announced on October 1 a completely revamped online genealogy service, now named the Origins Network (www.originsnetwork.com), which provides multiple new and exclusive British and Irish genealogy collections via Irish Origins (www.irishorigins.com) and British Origins (www.britishorigins.com), as well as a free version of Origin Search (www.originsearch.com), the first genealogy specific search engine, now including over half a billion names.
There are over 1 000 000 new names available for searching on British Origins and over 100 000 new names and 5000 new images available for searching on Irish Origins. The Origins Network also offers a unique genealogy specific web search engine, Origin Search, a specialized web search engine for genealogy featuring a NameXtm-powered search across millions of web pages, which allows researchers of ancestors worldwide to locate family information faster and easier via structured searches and results over genealogy specific pages.