Below is a summary of new and updated family history record collections for England, Scotland and Wales released by the major genealogy databases over the last week (for the previous summary, see 25 April 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
BritishNewspaperArchive (shared with some FindMyPast subscriptions)
- Pierce Egan's Life in London, and Sporting Guide
- The Age
- Cycling
- British Emancipator
- Argus, or Broadsheet of the Empire
- Albion and the Star
- British Luminary
- The British Liberator
- Pictorial Times
- Mirror of the Times
- Beacon Edinburgh
- Weekly Journal Hartlepool
- Beacon London
- Midland Mail
- Glasgow Courier
FindMyPast
- Middlesex Poor Law Records (Parishes of Chelsea, St Luke; Ealing, St Mary; Feltham, St Dunstan; Fulham, All Saints; Hammersmith, St Paul; New Brentford, St Laurence; Shepperton, St Nicholas; Staines, St Mary; Stanwell, St Mary; Uxbridge, St Margaret. (16,058 records)
UPDATED COLLECTIONS
Ancestry
FamilySearch
- Essex Non-Conformist Church Records, 1613-1971 (1,363) (104,215)
- Gloucestershire Non-Conformist Church Records, 1642-1996 (1,547) (132,893)
- Herefordshire Bishop's Transcripts, 1583-1898 (13,904)(1,405,121)
- Middlesex Parish Registers, 1539-1988 (41,719) (1,875,744)
- Northumberland Non-Conformist Church Records, 1613-1920 (3,308) (94,100)
- Northumberland, Parish Registers, 1538-1950 (254,181) (2,771,114)
FindMyPast
- Monmouthshire Parishes (8,300 baptisms in 1921; 5,600 marriages/banns in 1936. Parish list)
- Glamorganshire Parises (Baptisms in 1921; marriages/banns in 1936. Parish list.)
- Devon Parish Records (122,000 Baptisms | 20,000 Marriages | 104,000 Burials)
National Library of Scotland
Scottish Indexes
- Scottish Poor Relief (selected records from Wigtownshire, Roxburghshire and Peeblesshire)
The Genealogist
- Index of Irish Wills 1484-1858 (100,000+ names)
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