Friday, 7 September 2012

Mammoth upload of British material from Ancestry

Presumably reacting to the recent launch of FindMyPast.com, with its extensive collection of records from this side of the Atlantic, Ancestry.co.uk has released a vast amount of new material.

Nearly all of it relates to either England or Scotland, but there are a few collections that include a nod towards Ireland. 

Taking a random selection, it seems most of these new uploads are browseable books, rather than indexed records ready for searching. But valuable additions to online options, nonetheless.

These are the record collections included in yesterday's mammoth upload:
  • 1812 Bristol Poll Book
  • 1818 Norwich Poll Book
  • 1820 Westmorland Poll Book
  • 1890 Kelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed and Official Classes
  • A Calendar of Wills Proved in Consistory Court of Bishop of Gloucester Vol 1, 1541-1650
  • A Calendar of Wills Proved in Consistory Court of Bishop of Gloucester Vol 2,1660-1800
  • A Calender to the Feet of Fines for London & Middlesex, Richard I- Elizabeth I
  • A Century of Birmingham Life, from 1741-1841 - J. A. Langford
  • A Collection of Curious and Interesting Epitaphs, Compendium Set - Cansick
  • A Rent Roll - Presteigne 1705
  • A Warwickshire Word-Book by G. F. Northall 1896
  • Abstracts of Wills 1620 - Soame
  • Abstracts of Wills 1630 - Scroope
  • Abstracts of Wills 1658 - Wootton
  • Acton, Middlesex
  • After Pretoria: The Guerilla War plus supplement to "With the Flag to Pretoria"
  • An Account of Exeter’s Merchant Adventurers in 16th century
  • An Introduction to Heraldry
  • Ancient Funeral Monuments - 1631
  • An Introduction to Heraldry
  • Annals of Ayr, 1560-1692
  • Annals of Bristol in the 19th Century
  • Annals of Glasgow 1816
  • Annals of Nottinghamshire Volumes 1-4
  • Annals of Rochdale 950-1898
  • Annual Register for England, Scotland, Ireland & America 1798
  • Biblioteca Gloucesenstris
  • Bibliotheca Cornubiensis
  • Bristol Poll Book 1830
  • Burke's Extinct Baronetcies 1841
  • Burke's Peerage Baronetage and Knightage - 1881
  • Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk. 1803-1856
  • Bygone Days in Devonshire & Cornwall
  • Bygone Nottinghamshire, Stevenson 1893
  • Calendar of Wills Relating to Northamptonshire & Rutland 1510-1652
  • Cambria Triumphans 1661
  • Camden's Britannia 1722
  • Cheddar Rate Book 1865
  • Children's Employment Commission- Appendix to the Second Report of the Commissioners 1842
  • Clergy List 1897
  • County Genealogies - Pedigrees of the Families in the County of Hampshire
  • Court-Hand Restored - The Student's Assistant in Reading Old Deeds, Charters, Records Etc
  • Darwen and its People
  • Debrett's Peerage - Scotland & Ireland 1825
  • Decisions of the Court of Session 1781-1822
  • Dorset, England, Tithe Apportion and Maps, 1835-1850 (178291 searchable records)
  • Devonshire Wills and Administrations 1540-1799
  • Dougal's Unclaimed Money Register 1910
  • Eastern Division of Kent – Poll for the Knights of the Shire 1832
  • Eastern Division of Kent – Poll for the Knights of the Shire 1837
  • Eastern Division of Kent - Polls for the Knights of the Shire 1832 & 1837
  • Eastern Division of Kent-The Poll for the Knights of the Shire 1857
  • English Surnames – Essays on Family Nomenclature
  • English Surnames - Their Sources and Significations 1875
  • Eton School Lists 1791-1850
  • Extracts from the Council Register of the Burgh of Aberdeen 1398-1570
  • Farm Day Book: Glos 1894-1950
  • Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae
  • Fleet Street in Seven Centuries 1200-1912
  • Genealogy and Surnames
  • Hart's Annual Army List 1908
  • Historical Memorials of Canterbury (1857)
  • Historical Records of the 53rd (Shropshire) Regiment 1755-1889
  • Index to Bristol Wills 1572-1792
  • Kelly's handbook to the titled, Landed and Official Classes 1892
  • Kelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed and Official Classes 1927
  • Lincolnshire 1818 Poll Book
  • Linlithgowshire - Claims for enrollment in the 1839 election
  • Local Records of Northumberland & Durham, Volumes 1- 4
  • Matriculation Roll of the University of St. Andrews 1747-1897
  • Memorials of Angus & the Mearns-Castles and Towns visited by Edward I &
  • Fealtys to England 1291-6
  • Memorials of Bygone Manchester-1880
  • Memorials of Old Herefordshire
  • Memorials of Old Middlesex
  • Memorials of Old Shropshire
  • Memorials of Old Warwickshire
  • Memorials of Old Worcestershire
  • Memorials of Oxford, Ingram (3 vols)
  • Middlesex County Records - 1549 to 1603
  • Middlesex County Records - Calendar of the Sessions Books 1689 – 1709
  • Newcastle Polls 1777-1780
  • Newgate Calendar
  • Newport Pagnell Vaccination Register 1909-1927
  • Norfolk Poll Book 1768
  • North Nottinghamshire Register of Voters 1885
  • Nottingham & Derby - Pipe Rolls
  • Nottingham Corporation Chamber & Bridge Estates 1848
  • Nottingham Date Book - 1884
  • Nottingham Poll Books 1846, 1848/9, 1849/50 (3 Vols)
  • Nottingham Terrier 1903
  • Nottinghamshire County Records - 17th Century
  • Nottinghamshire Magna Britannia Antiqua & Nova 1738
  • Oxford - Brasenose College Register 1509-1909
  • Oxford Men and Their Colleges, 1880-1892, 2 Volumes
  • Pedigrees Recorded in the Visitations of the County of Durham. 1575 1615 & 1666
  • Peerages of England Scotland & Ireland 1790
  • Place Names of Scotland
  • Poll Book for Tewkesbury, 1832 and 1835
  • Records and Record Searching - A Guide for the Genealogist Topographer
  • Records of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire in the 11th to 13th Centuries
  • Records of Olden Times - J K Fowler
* The last twelve items have been added following an afternoon update to Ancestry's original list.


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