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. By default, it will also be useful to anyone carrying out research in those three nations, regardless of the origin of their ancestors. The figures in parenthesis in the New Collections section are the numbers of records/images in the new record set.
Unless otherwise stated, the figures in parenthesis in the Updated Collections section reflect the number of records added to the collection in the recent update.
NEW COLLECTIONS
Ancestry
- UK, Officer Service Records, 1764-1932 (129,218)
FindMyPast
- Scotland, Stirlingshire & Perthshire Burials 1755-2019 (83,000)
- Scotland, Renfrewshire, Death & Burial Index (26,000)
MyHeritage
- E & W, Prerogative Crt of Canterbury, Index of Will Registers, 1384-1858 (979,653)
- Royal Navy Ratings’ Service Records, 1853-1928 (803,684)
- Registry Shipping/Seamen: RN Reserve Ratings’ Service Records 1908-1958 (129,896)
- Royal Air Force Officers’ Index, 1918-1919 (101,411)
- Royal Marines’ Service Records, 1842-1925 (112,012)
- UK, Index of Merchant Seamen’s Campaign Medals, 1939-1945 (108,387)
- UK, Index of Merchant Seamen’s Campaign Medals, 1914-1918 (157,424)
- British Army, Recommendations for Military Honours & Awards, 1935-1990 (78,497)
- Royal Navy Officers’ Service Records, 1756-1931 (66,686)
- Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve Index, 1903-1922 (59,784)
- UK, Index of Death Duty Registers, 1796-1811 (51,146)
- UK, Admiralty/War Office: Royal Naval: Service Records, 1914-1919 (50,017)
UPDATED COLLECTIONS
Ancestry
- Jersey, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-1940 (121,178)
- Commonwealth War Graves 1914-1921 & 1939-1947 (Changes to performance only)
FamilySearch
- England, Huntingdonshire Parish Registers (52,367)
- E & W, National Index of Wills & Administrations, 1858-1957 (49,830)
- England, Cambridge Parish Registers, 1538-1983 (468,063)
- England, Essex Parish Registers, 1538-1997 (159,775)
- England, Herefordshire Bishop’s Transcripts, 1583-1898 (5,845)
- England, Oxfordshire Parish Registers 1538-1904 (29,440)
- England, Surrey Parish Registers, 1536-1992 (12,343)
- England, Yorkshire Marriage Bonds and Allegations, 1613-1887 (1,528)
British Newspaper Archive (and FindMyPast's British Newspaper Collection) New titles
- England – Ashby-de-la-Zouch Gazette 1876-1888
- Scotland – Leven Advertiser & Wemyss Gazette 1897-1939
- Scotland - Mid-Lothian Journal 1884-1932
- Scotland – The Midlothian Advertiser 1906-1966
- Scotland – Leith Burghs Pilot 1875-1902
- Scotland – The Caithness Courier 1875-1892
- Wales – The South Wales Gazette. 1888-1969
FindMyPast
- Yorkshire Memorial Inscriptions (14,000)
- United Kingdom Deaths 2007-2017 (2.7 million transcripts)
- UK Electoral Registers & Companies House Directors 2002-2019 (981,000)
- Cornwall Burials (76,000 records over 57 parishes)
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