This regular summary of releases relating to 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. Updates of fewer than 1,000 records have not been included.
NEW COLLECTIONS
FamilySearch
- England, Cumbria Parish Registers, 1538-1990 (836,106)
- Essex Non-Conformist Church Records, 1613-1971 (4,817)
FindMyPast
- Britain, Royal and Imperial Calendars 1767-1973 (3m+ records)
- Global Christian Leaders Index (England 97,897); (Scotland 2,930); (Wales 4,388)
BritishNewspaperArchive and FindMyPast's British Newspaper Colletion
- Westminster Gazette
- Burton Chronicle
- Merthyr Express
- Blyth News
- Somerset Standard
- Dudley Chronicle
- Merthyr Express
TheGenealogist
- RAF Operations Book (500,000+)
UPDATED COLLECTIONS
Ancestry
- Register Duties Paid for Apprentices' Indentures 1710-1811 (1,045,652)
- UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current (6,687,310)
DeceasedOnline
- East Cheshire burial registers and headstones, from seven cemeteries: Congleton, Coppenhall, Crewe, Nantwich, Sandbach, Weston and Macclesfield, plus two crematoria: Crewe and Macclesfield. (230,000)
FamilySearch
- Wales, Glamorganshire, Parish Registers, 1538-1912 (18,000)
- England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 (42,956; total 68,420,736)
- England Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991 (4,555; total 14,794,528)
- England Marriages, 1538–1973 (4,110; total 16,099,660)
- England Oxfordshire Parish Registers 1538-1904 (1,007; total 102,215)
- England Yorkshire Marriage Bonds & Allegations, 1613-1887 (18,290; total 44,471)
FindMyPast
- Durham Baptisms 28,000+ additions covering 9 parishes
- Durham Marriages 7,000+ additions covering 9 Durham parishes
- Durham Burials (66,000 additions from 11 parishes)
- British In India, 1664-1961 (7,000 added, J-K surnames. Total 88,445 bmds+divorces)
- Yorkshire Memorial Inscriptions 10,000+ additional inscriptions from six parishes
- Yorkshire Baptisms (39,000 records over 11 churches in Huddersfield. Total 5,932,549)
- Scotland, Stirlingshire & Perthshire Burials 1755-2019 (38,000, burgh of Perth, 1794-1855)
Society of Genealogists
SoG Data online additions include:
- Surrey Congregational History in the religion section
- Kelly’s Directory of Lincolnshire1889 in the Directories
- Guide to the Island of Jerseyin the Directories section
- Middlesex Deeds and other documents in the Land records
- Ipswich Poll Book 1823 in the poll books section
- Northamptonshire Notes and Queriesin the periodicals section.
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