My regular listing of new and updated British collections is designed to help family historians whose Irish ancestors migrated, 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. In some instances, the supplier has not made this figure available.
New Collections
Ancestry
- Scotland, Ireland, Wales: Militia Attestation Papers, 1800-1915 (129,682 transcripts)
- UK, Officer Service Records, 1764-1932 (129,218)
FamilySearch
- Waterloo Roll Call 1815 (3,999)
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- Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Militia Attestation Papers, 1806-1915. (129,682, with images)
Catholic Family History Society
- Margaret Higgins database of Catholics in England and their Friends, 1607–1840 Free PDF 22.8Mb download (270,000+)
MyHeritage
- UK, Index of Burials, 1900–2019 Free. (158,099)
Updated Collections
Ancestry
- UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current (more than 6.7million)
- England & Scotland, Select Cemetery Registers, 1800-2016 (more than 3.3million)
British Newspaper Archive (these titles also joined FindMyPast's Newspaper Collection)
- Truth
- Western Evening Herald
- The Smethwick Telephone
- Aberdeen Weekly News
- Liberty
- Warrington Evening Post
- Warrington Standard, and Lancashire and Cheshire Advertiser
- Warrington Advertiser
- Warrington Daily Guardian
- Aberdeen Weekly News
DeceasedOnline
- Agecroft (Salford North) cemetery, 1903-2003 (51,282)
- Peel Green (Eccles) cemetery 1879-2010 (44,276)
FamilySearch
- England, Herefordshire Bishop's Transcripts, 1583-1898 (6,732)
- England, Oxfordshire Parish Registers 1538-1904 (19,399)
- England, Yorkshire Marriage Bonds and Allegations, 1613-1887 (4,174)
- England, Northumberland, Parish Registers, 1538-1950 (557,993)
FindMyPast
- Northumberland Baptisms (25,000+ added)
- Northumberland Marriages (28,000+ added)
- Northumberland Burials (98,000+ added)
- Northumberland and Durham Memorial Inscriptions (1,000+ added)
- Middlesex Monumental Inscriptions
- Sussex Monumental Inscriptions
General Register Office
- GRO Online Deaths Index, England and Wales: 1984–2019 registrations added
Scotland's People
- Annual top-up of civil registrations records published: Births for 1919, Marriages for 1944, Deaths for 1969. (207,000+)
The Genealogist
- War Memorials (12,000+ added)
- Tithe maps for Cumberland
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