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
Ancestry
- UK, Imperial Yeomanry Records, 1899-1902 (56,578)
- London, England, Royal Holloway and Bedford College Student Registers, 1849-1931 (record count not yet advised)
BritishNewspaperArchive
- Dudley Chronicle 1910-1935
- Somerset Standard
- Action 1937 - 1940
- The Communist 1920 - 1922
- Freedom. A journal of anarchist communism 1886 - 1927
- Blackshirt, The Patriot Workers' Paper 1933-1939
- Bradford Weekly Telegraph 1882 - 1917, with gaps
- Barnsley News/Barnsley Independent 1855–1928
- Batley News 1883–1907
- Batley Reporter and Guardian 1869–1907
- The Welshman 1832–1912
FamilySearch
- Isle of Wight Parish Registers, 1538-1983 (75,905)
- England, Essex Non-Conformist Church Records, 1613-1971 (1,719)
- England, Norfolk Non-conformist Records, 1613-1901 (2,081)
- England, Northumberland Non-Conformist Church Records, 1613-1920 (3,667)
- England, Yorkshire Marriage Bonds and Allegations, 1613-1887 (13,916)
FindMyPast
- British Army, Women's Army Auxiliary Corps 1917-1920 (9,433)
- British Armed Forces, WW1 Disability & Retirement Payments, Officers & Nurses (36,239)
Society of Genealogists (SoG Data Online)
- Index to printed pedigrees heralds Visitations 1867
- Wirral notes and queries volumes 1 & 2
- Hertfordshire Genealogist volume 2
- Durham South poll book 1832
- The Benevolent Medical College 1854
- Surrey Rifle Volunteer Association 1861
- Campton Monumental Inscriptions 1836
- Ward’s Newcastle-on-Tyne and adjacent villages 1890
- Deaths in India, volume 1
- Marriages in India, volume 1, part 1 men.
UPDATED COLLECTIONS
Ancestry
- UK, WWII Royal Artillery Tracer Cards, 1939-1948 (363,604)
- FindAGrave UK & Ireland ( 7,373,812)
Family Search
- Wales Deaths and Burials, 1586-1885 (1,352)
- England, Essex Non-Conformist Church Records, 1613-1971 (3,831)
- England, Derbyshire, Church of Parish Registers, 1537-1918 (28,958)
- England, Northumberland Non-Conformist Church Records, 1613-1920 (5,622)
- England, Yorkshire Marriage Bonds and Allegations, 1613-1887 (20,818)
- England, Gloucestershire Non-Conformist Church Records, 1642-1996
- England, Norfolk Non-conformist Records, 1613-1901 (2,081)
FindMyPast
- Wales Billion Graves Cemetery Index (36,000)
- Hampshire Baptisms (31,000 from five new parishes)
- Hampshire Marriages (26,000 from four new parishes)
- Hampshire Burials (24,000 from five new parishes)
- Surrey Baptisms (660,000+ plus images added; total records 1,264,231)
- Surrey Marriages (390,000+ records added; total records 1,190,116)
- Surrey Burials (440,000+ records added; total records 506,936)
- England & Wales Govt Probate Death Index 1858-2019 (9.3m new; total 24m+ records.)
TheGenealogist
- Lloyd George Doomsday Survey Records for Greenwich, 1910-1915, on Map Explorer (Records of 57,700 individuals)
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