New and updated British genealogy collections in last 7 days

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 7 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

• UK and Allied Countries RAF Bomber Command casualties 1936–1966 Web Index (161,642)

BritishNewspaperArchive (now at 43m pages, all shared with some FindMyPast subscriptions)

• Morning Herald London
• Darlington Richmond Herald
• Staffordshire Newsletter
• Croydon Observer

 

UPDATED COLLECTIONS

Ancestry

• Bedfordshire, England, Workhouse and Poor Law Records, 1835-1914

FamilySearch

• England, Northumberland Non-Conformist Church Records, 1613-1920 (4,407)
• England, Middlesex Parish Registers, 1539-1988 (63,750)
• England, Herefordshire Bishop's Transcripts, 1583-1898 (23,052)
• England, Essex Non-Conformist Church Records, 1613-1971 (2,653)

FindMyPast

• England Roman Catholic Parish Registers:
      Baptisms (4,000 additions)
      Marriages (1,500 additions)
      Burials (400 additions)
      Congregational Records: (2,400 additions)
  
• British Armed Forces, WW1 Soldiers' Medical Records (1,900 additions/new total 1,335,419)

FreeBMD

• England and Wales – Birth, Marriage & Death Indexes (415,535 additions/new total 280,520,033)

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