14-day summary: English, Scottish and Welsh genealogy updates

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 14 days (see previous summary, 6 August).

My 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

• U.S., Directory of Scottish Settlers in North America, 1625-1825 (26,157)
• Westminster, London, England, Wills and Probates, 1504-1829 (16,818)

BritishNewspaperArchive (and shared with sister company, FindMyPast)

• New titles in main collection ($£€)

	Liverpool Journal of Commerce	Forest of Dean Examiner
	Dewsbury Chronicle and West Riding Advertiser	Preston Pilot
	Stretford and Urmston Examiner	Cannock Chase Examiner
	Lancaster Herald and Town and County Advertiser	Stalybridge Examiner
	Swansea and Glamorgan Herald	Glasgow Chronicle
	Manchester Examiner	Nuneaton Times
	South Staffordshire Examiner	British Miner and General Newsman
	Commercial Chronicle London	City Chronicle
	Fleming's British Farmers'Chronicle	London Mercury 1847
	Sainsbury's Weekly Register and Advertising Journal	London Mercury 1828
	Newmarket Journal	British Army Despatch
	Thacker's Overland News for India and the Colonies
	Stockton Examiner and South Durham and North Yorkshire Herald

• 158 titles in new Free-to-view collection (see blogpost)

FamilySearch

• United Kingdom, British Royal Navy Ships’ Musters, 1739-1861
• England, Devon, Plymouth, Plague Rate, 1626-1629 (929)

FindMyPast

• British Army Royal Engineers (Other Ranks) Casualty Cards (17,307)

UPDATED COLLECTIONS

Ancestry

• Flintshire, Wales, Anglican Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1994 (1,371,630)
• UK and Ireland, Find a Grave Index, 1300s-Current (13,076,152)
• Pembrokeshire, Wales, Anglican Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1599-1994 (total now 983,886)

FamilySearch

• England, Middlesex Parish Registers, 1539-1988 (99,292 / 3,112,922)
• England, Northumberland Non-Conformist Church Records, 1613-1920 (8,259 / 165,448)
• England, Lancashire, Marriage Bonds and Allegations, 1746-1799 (10,048 / 44,984)
• England, Navy Allotment Records, 1795-1812 (193,190 / 485,017)
• United Kingdom, British Royal Navy Ships’ Musters, 1739-1861 (11,449 / 291,827)
• England, Cambridgeshire Bishop's Transcripts, 1538-1983 (11,796 / 1,104,555)

FindMyPast

• British Army Royal Engineers, 1900-1949 (130,000 tracer cards, most WW2)
• British Army Service Records (6,000+ Chelsea Pensioners' discharge docs)
• Essex Parish Baptisms
• Essex Parish Burials
• Greater London Burial Index (Chiswick, Southwark (Workhouse), Southwark St Olave)
• Britain, Knights of the Realm & Commonwealth Index (37,543 added)

National Library of Scotland

• OS 25 inch 'blue-and-black' drawings, Scotland, 1890s-1940s

TheGenealogist

• Tithe Maps added to Map Explorer: counties Cornwall, Derbyshire, Northamptonshire and Worcestershire (article)

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