2-week summary of updated British genealogy records

Below is a summary of new and updated family history record collections for England, Scotland and Wales released by major genealogy databases since 9 June (see last blogpost).

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

British Newspaper Archive

• Cornish Guardian
• Beeston Gazette and Echo
• Maidenhead Advertiser

FamilySearch

• Wales, Monmouthshire (Gwent), Electoral Registers 1839-1889 (455,348)

UPDATED COLLECTIONS

Ancestry

• UK, WWI Pension Ledgers & Index Cards, 1914-23 (Added Officers Survived and Officers' Widows. New total 4,288,702.)
• UK, Officer Service Records, 1764-1932 (Added 2,500+ images plus 3,200 indexed entries.)
• Somerset, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages, Burials, 1531-1812 (Additional register for Babcary parish uploaded. New total 4,462,551.)

Family Search

• England, Cambridge Parish Registers, 1538-1983 (2,979)
• England, Gloucestershire Non-Conformist Church Records, 1642-1996 (1,412)
• England, Middlesex Parish Registers, 1539-1988 (47,112)
• England, Yorkshire Marriage Bonds and Allegations, 1613-1887 (9,717)
• England, Northumberland Non-Conformist Church Records, 1613-1920 (3,731)

FindMyPast

• England Billion Graves Index (106,000 records added. New total 884,714)
• Britain, Royal & Imperial Calendars 1767-1973 (1.2m entries added. New total 4,318,937)
• British WW1 Soldiers' Medical Records (2,000+ added. New total 1,331,647)
• Scotland RC Baptisms (69,000 added for 11 parishes. Total 923,358.)
• Scotland RC Congregational Records (55,000)
• Scotland RC Marriages (27,000 added for 11 parishes. Total 432,059)
• Scotland RC Burials (9,000 added for 8 parishes. Total 324,571.)
• Scotland, Linlithgowshire (West Lothian), Electoral Registers 1864-1931 (1,050,763)
• Scotland Billion Graves Cemetery Index(59,000 added. New total 354,742.)

Scottish Indexes

• Dumbarton Sheriff Court Decrees, 1896-1909, Paternity Cases

The Genealogist

• International Headstone Collection Records from 71 new cemeteries in England and Wales uploaded: Bucks, Cheshire, Conwy, Denbighshire, Devon, Dorset, Essex, Flintshire, Gloucestershire, Hertfordshire, Kent, Lancashire, Merionethshire, Merseyside, Oxfordshire, Somerset, Warwickshire, West Midlands, Wiltshire and Worcestershire.

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