[2] The volunteer project at www.ukindexer.co.uk proved very popular and was a rewarding hobby for family historians to help provide quality, accurate data that was used on TheGenealogist.
[3] As the project continued, the need became apparent to offer a full range of transcribed records of all the census on a commercial basis and Susan and Nigel Bayley formed Genealogy Supplies (Jersey) Ltd in 2006.
[6] The company established scanning and transcription services from their base in Jersey focussing on the Census for England and Wales and civil registration records.
[8][9] TheGenealogist runs many digitisation projects, which in the past have included the PCC (Prerogative Court of Canterbury) Wills[10]: 57 and NonConformist[11][12] records collections from The National Archives.
[25] TheGenealogist has a number of different family trees available to view in its articles section which includes those of celebrities featured on the well known BBC TV programme Who Do You Think You Are?, such as Hugh Quarshie, Emilia Fox, Patrick Stewart and Len Goodman.