Below is a summary of new and updated family history record collections for England, Scotland and Wales released by the major genealogy databases during the last week (for the last summary, see 9 November blogpost).
This regular summary of releases and updates 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. Where two figures are given, the first is the number of additions, the second is the new total.
Please note that I don't usually include updates of fewer than 1,000 records.
NEW COLLECTIONS
Ancestry
- West Midlands, England, Police Files and Ledgers, 1850-1950 (39,424)
- West Midlands, England, Criminal Registers, 1850-1933 (10,157)
BritishNewspaperArchive (shared with FindMyPast's British Newspaper Collection)
- Warrington Examiner
- Widnes Examiner
- Runcorn Examiner
- St Helens Examiner
- Somerset Guardian and Radstock Observer
FamilySearch
- England, Berkshire, Reading, Cemetery Records, 1843-1959 (64,917)
- England, Norfolk, Bishop's Transcripts Index, 1600-1941 (12,664)
FindMyPast
- Warwickshire, Coventry Blitz, German Air Raids 1940-1941 (2,471 casualties)
UPDATED COLLECTIONS
FamilySearch
- England, Essex Non-Conformist Church Records, 1613-1971 (1,070) 192
- England, Herefordshire Bishop's Transcripts, 1583-1898 (4,584) 6565
- England, Middlesex Parish Registers, 1539-1988 (16,427) 20573
- England, Northumberland Non-Conformist Church Records, 1613-1920 (5,242)
- England, Northumberland, Parish Registers, 1538-1950 (11,133 records; 218,240 pix)
- England, Huntingdonshire Parish Registers (7,709)
- England, Norfolk Bishop's Transcripts, 1685-1941 (16,934)
- England, Norfolk Marriage Bonds, 1557-1915 (9,085)
- England, Norfolk, Parish Registers (County Record Office), 1510-1997 (489,765)
FindMyPast
- British Armed Forces, First World War Soldiers' Medical Records (New total 1,333,477)
- National School Admissions & LogBooks 1870-1914 (17,000+ Yorkshire entries)
- Yorkshire Baptisms (6,000+ from St Simon’s Church, Sheffield)
- Yorkshire Monumental Inscriptions (4,600+ West Riding)
ScottishIndexes
- Scotland's Criminal Database Glasgow, Greenock,Dumfries (12,713) (178,000+)
The Genealogist
- Lloyd George Domesday Survey Lambeth (83,000 names)
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