One of the aims we set ourselves in 2007 was to look at putting Cracroft's Peerage online. We have made a start on this project although a lot of work still has to be done on re-formatting pages so they display properly on the Web. The feedback we had from subscribers and visitors was very encouraging. The online version, which should be seen as a work-in-progress which will eventually take over from the downloadable version of Cracroft's Peerage next year, can now only be accessed by subscribers. A quick link to it is here. You will be asked for your username and password.

Thank you for visiting our updated and, we hope, improved website.

As you will see from the contents page, Cracroft's Peerage is the complete guide to the British Peerage and Baronetage. It is the only digital source that has accurate listings (and in many cases detailed narrative pedigrees) of all peerages and baronetcies created in the British Isles. Cracroft's Peerage is innovative and technically advanced - and we are always looking at new ideas to enhance the quality and breadth of our information. For example, we are pleased to be continuing in Release 8.1 the exciting series on homes, houses and palaces that began in previous releases - such a series of illustrated articles is totally innovative for a peerage reference work and adds to the already established authority of Cracroft's Peerage.

The appeal of a work such as Cracroft's Peerage is not just to people tracing their family histories, but also to:

• historians looking for background information on people who have made a contribution to local and national history
• students at both school and university studying for examinations in history
• people with an interest in the peerage and baronetage from a political stand-point, and
• journalists and other general researchers who need current information about members of the peerage and baronetage

Over the last few months we have been working hard transforming the way our web site works:

• it is now possible to download a demonstration version of Cracroft's Peerage for evaluation and review purposes
• we have improved the way the subscription process works so that order > payment > access to download page is now one seamless transaction
• we have given subscribers their own individual area so they can chat to other subscribers, have their own blog pages, etc.

I hope you enjoy looking around the website. If you have any comments or questions, then please do not hesitate to contact me at info@cracroftspeerage.co.uk. I am always interested in receiving suggestions for new articles or topics to be included in future releases of Cracroft's Peerage.

Patrick Cracroft-Brennan
Editor - Cracroft's Peerage
10 August 2008

Cracroft's Peerage participates in the voluntary scheme whereby producers of electronic publications donate a copy to each of the six legal deposit libraries which collectively maintain the national published archive of the British Isles. These libraries are: the British Library, London; the Bodleian Library, Oxford; the University Library, Cambridge; the National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh; the Library of Trinity College, Dublin; and the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth. Cracroft's Peerage Release 7.1 is catalogued under ISBN 0-9542070-5-X.