My regular listing of new and updated British collections is designed to help family historians whose Irish ancestors emigrated, temporarily or permanently, to England, Scotland or Wales.
Unless otherwise stated, the figures in parenthesis reflect the number of records uploaded to a new collection or the new total of records in an updated collection.
NEW COLLECTIONS
Ancestry
FindMyPast
- 1801 Lancashire, Liverpool Census (13,879)
- Britain, The Great War, I Was There 1,186 pages over 51 editions, 1938-1939
- Burma Star Association Membership Forms (53,057)
- Dekho, Journal of the Burma Star Association, editions, 1951-2018 (4,167)
GRO UK
- Death Indexes Online indexes for deaths registered between 1984–2019 can now be searched on the GRO site. Armed with the index reference, an order can be placed for a hard copy.
MyHeritage
- United Kingdom, War Memorials, 1914–1949 (1.1million)
UPDATED COLLECTIONS
Ancestry
- UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current (6,687,31)
- Northamptonshire, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages & Burials, 1532-1812 (4,138,400)
BritishNewspaperArchives
- Coatbridge Leader 1905–1957
- Banffshire Reporter 1869–1920
- The Musselburgh News 1889–1941
FamilySearch
- England, Surrey Parish Registers, 1536-1992 (12,343)
- England, Oxfordshire Parish Registers, 1538-1904 (38,542)
- England, Herefordshire Bishop's Transcripts, 1583-1898 (5,845)
- England, Oxfordshire Parish Registers 1538-1904 (29,440)
- England, Yorkshire Marriage Bonds and Allegations, 1613-1887 (1,528)
FindMyPast
- Cornwall Burials 75,000 records covering 52 parishes added. (356,338)
- Kent Burials. 12,000 records added, most from Swanscombe Cemetery. (2,473,561)
- British, First World War Soldiers' Medical Records. Some 36,000 records added. (1,309,121)
TheGenealogist
- TheGenealogist’s Map Explorer. Lloyd George Domesday Survey, 1910-1915, Hackney Area maps and field books added.
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