New and updated British genealogy collections: 10-day summary

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 10 days (see previous summary, 13 September).

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

BritishNewspaperArchive (and shared with sister company FindMyPast)

• New titles in main collection ($£€) – (now more than 45m pages in holding)

	Borough of Greenwich Free Press	Hammersmith Advertiser
	South London Times and Lambeth Observer	Southwark Mercury
	Clerkenwell Dial & Finsbury Advertiser	Islington Times
	The North Londoner	Lynn News & County Press
	British Banner 1856	British Banner 1848
	Deal, Walmer & Sandwich Mercury	Paddington Advertiser
	Cornish Press & Mining News	Surrey Middlesex Standard
	Liverpool Chronicle 1767	North-West London Times
	West Londoner and Select Advertiser for the Borough of Marylebone	Palladium 1825

FamilySearch

• England, Archdiocese of Birmingham, RC Parish Records, 1539-1910 (589,802)

ScottishIndexes

• Criminal Database – Crown Counsel Procedure Books, 1863–1871 (22,391) see video

UPDATED COLLECTIONS

Ancestry

• UK and Ireland FindAGrave Index (new total 13,116,964)

FamilySearch

• England, Herefordshire Bishop's Transcripts, 1583-1898 (3,260)
• England, Middlesex Parish Registers, 1539-1988 (181,728)
• England, Northumberland Non-Conformist Church Records, 1613-1920 (12,883)
• England, Lancashire Non-Conformist Church Records, 1647-1996 (39,138)

FindMyPast

• England & Wales, Electoral Registers 1910-1932 (32m names/12m addresses added. New total 157,307,378 records)
• Scotland Monumental Inscriptions

FreeBMD

• Civil registration indexes 1837–1992 (3,664,966 / 285,283,867)

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