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 two weeks (for the previous summary, see 14 June 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
- England, Westminster, London, Cemetery Registers, 1855-1990 (281,988)
- Scotland, Dundee, Poor Law Indexes, 1854-1878 ('Web' index to 14,263 records on 3rd-party site)
BritishNewspaperArchive (shared with some FindMyPast subscriptions)
- Kentish Express
- New Court Gazette
- Court Gazette and Fashionable Guide
- Royal York
- Trades Free Press
- City of London Trade Protection Circular
- Satirist or the Censor of the Times
- Trade Protection Record
- High Life in London
- British Statesman
- Weekly Intelligence
- British Standard
- Town & Country Daily Newspaper
- New Times London
- NonConformist Elector
- Cobbett's Evening Post
- Bell's Penny Dispatch
- Daily Politician
- Essex Times
- American Settler
The Genealogist
UPDATED COLLECTIONS
Ancestry
FamilySearch
- England, Essex Non-Conformist Church Records, 1613-1971 (6,208/136,791)
- England, Herefordshire Bishop's Transcripts, 1583-1898 (18,459/1,545,030)
- England, Middlesex Parish Registers, 1539-1988 (59,473/2,366,817)
- England, Northumberland Non-Conformist Church Records, 1613-1920 (132,981)
- England, Lancashire, Marriage Bonds and Allegations, 1746-1799 (12,161)
- England, Gloucestershire Non-Conformist Church Records, 1642-1996 (134,082)
- England, Hertfordshire, Marriage Bonds, 1682-1837 (8,844)
- England, Lincolnshire, Marriage Bonds and Allegations, 1574-1885 (72,634)
- England, Surrey Marriages Bonds and Licenses, 1536-1992
FindMyPast
- England & Wales, Crime, Prisons & Punishment, 1770-1935 (800,000+new/6,636,593 total)
- Endland, Westminster Parish Baptisms (389 Baptisms at Westminster Penitentiary)
- England, Westminster Parish Burials (558 Burials at Westminster Penitentiary)
- Scotland, Dumfries and Galloway Census & Population Lists 1792-1821 (8,006 records from Annan and Balmaclellan local census)
FreeBMD
- England and Wales – Birth, Marriage & Death Indexes (3,262,456 additions/new total 283,782,489)
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