Summary of new & updated British family history collections, 1-15 October

Below you'll find my summary of the new and updated British records released by the major genealogy database suppliers in the first two weeks of October. (The previous listing was on 30 September. See blogpost.)

My regular listing of new and updated British collections is designed to help Irish family historians whose ancestors emigrated, temporarily or permanently, to England, Scotland or Wales.

NEW COLLECTIONS

FindMyPast

• England & Wales Government Probate Death Index 1960-2019 (14,726,308)

British Newspaper Archives (and shared with FindMyPast)

    Scotland

• Arbroath Guide
• East of Fife Record
• Irvine and Fullerton Times
• Perthshire Constitutional & Journal
• West Lothian Courier

    England/National

• British Press
• Colored News
• Express (London)
• National Register (London)
• North British Daily Mail
• Northern Daily Times
• Sheerness Times Guardian
• Star (London)
• Statesman (London)
• Sun (London)
• The Press (London)

UPDATED COLLECTIONS

Ancestry

• England and Scotland, Select Cemetery Registers, 1800-2016 (1,983,849)
• Scotland and Northern Ireland, Death Index, 1989-2018 (623,412)
• England and Wales, Death Index, 1989-2018  (4,561,200)
• Edinburgh, Scotland, Electoral Registers, 1832-1966 (4,931,869)
• Surrey, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1937 (1,108,226)
• Surrey, England, Church of England Baptisms/Marriages/Burials 1538-1812 (1,864,596)
• Surrey, England, Church of England Burials, 1813-1987 (519,990)
• Surrey, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1917 (2,262,611)
• UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current (6,343,674)
• Global, Find A Grave Index for Burials at Sea /Select Burial Locations 1300s-Current (13,368,377)

Family Search

• England, Essex Parish Registers, 1538-1997 (1,129,899)

FindMyPast

• Scotland Mental Health Institutions Registers & Admissions 1808-1883 (63,000+ transcripts from General Register of Lunatics in Asylum (MC7) added)
• Greater London Burial Index (45,000 additions from 10 parishes) Parish list.
• Middlesex Monumental Inscriptions (3,400 additions. Now 59,403 records)Parish list.
• Dorset Memorial Inscriptions (13,000 additions from 35 burial sites)

The Genealogist

• North Buckinghamshire Lloyd George Domesday records added to Map Explorer

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