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.NEW COLLECTIONS
FamilySearch
- Ireland and Britain, Transatlantic Migration from North America, 1858-1870. Of the 42,695 passengers noted in this index, sixty percent of the passengers were from the geographical British Isles: English (19%), Irish (20%), and Scottish (21%). The indexed names have been extracted from the collection held on FindMyPast where transcriptions of the papers can be viewed. (In searching this collection this morning I was unable to receive any results, even for those names I knew to be in the FMP collection. I assume this is a temporary glitch.)
- Lincolnshire, Parish Registers, 1538-1990. 3,947,025 baptism, marriage, and burial records indexed.
FindMyPast
- Dundee & Forfarshire (Angus) Electoral Registers 1857-1939 Collections holds 3,750,000 records.
- Dundee & Angus Photographs, 1844-2010 More than 5,000 photographs, indexed.
- Dundee & Angus, Church of Scotland baptisms, 1562-1855: 197,830 parish birth and baptism records from the Church of Scotland before the introduction of civil registration in 1855.
- Dundee & Angus, Church of Scotland marriages, 1562-1855: 153,684 marriage records from the Church of Scotland before the introduction of civil registration in 1855.
- Dundee & Angus, Church of Scotland burials, 1562-1855: 56,529 records from the Church of Scotland before the introduction of civil registration in 1855.
UPDATED COLLECTIONS
FamilySearch
- Cambridge Parish Registers, 1538-1983: 468,063 added records
- England and Wales, National Index of Wills and Administrations, 1858-1957: 49,830 added records
- England, Essex Parish Registers, 1538-1997: 159,775 added records
FindMyPast
- Northumberland and Durham Baptisms More than 42,000 transcripts covering the parishes of Meldon, Tynemouth, Berwick upon Tweed and Elsdon have been added to the collection.
- Northumberland and Durham Marriages More than 37,000 additions from the parishes of Newcastle St Nicholas, Meldon, Tynemouth and Berwick have been added.
- Northumberland and Durham Burials More than 25,000 additional burials from the parishes of Newcastle St Nicholas, Meldon, Tynemouth and Berwick now available to search.
- Greater London Burial Index More than 35,000 records from 15 parishes have been added.
- Scotland Newspapers, Death Reports & Obituaries Some 23,600 obituaries from local Dundee newspaper, 1869-2018, added to national collection which now tots up to more than 600,000 records.
The Genealogist
- National Tithe Map collection: Bedfordshire colour tithe maps added
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