New and updated British genealogy collections: 3-week 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 three weeks (see previous summary, 5 November).

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, shared with FindMyPast (total 46,252,976 pages)

• New titles in main collection ($£€)

	London Scotsman	Weekly Advertiser
	Weekly Independent (London)	Weekly Echo
	Morning Mail (London)	Man About Town
	Sunday Gazette	Sussex & Surrey Chronicle
	Passing Events	East Wind
	London Life	Peterborough Express
	Folkestone Chronicle	Caerphilly Journal
	Beckenham Journal	Herald Cymraeg
	London & China Herald	London and Scottish Review
	Weekly Review London	London Mirror
	Rhonda Socialist Newspaper	Porthcawl News
	Porthcawl Guardian	Y Gwyliedydd
	Newport Gazette	South London Journal
	London & Provincial News and General Advertiser	Sutton Coldfield and Erdington Mercury
	Law Chronicle, Commercial and Bankruptcy Register	Cardiff Shipping and Mercantile Gazette

FamilySearch

• England, Berkshire, Parish Registers, 1515-1993 (322,879)
• England, Somerset, Church Records, 1501-1999 (4,834,219)

FindMyPast

• Indian Army Service Records, 1900-1947 (12,000)
• Greater Burnley Roll of Honour (4,100)
• West Glamorgan Electoral Registers, 1839-1925 (1,643,483)

UPDATED COLLECTIONS

Ancestry

• Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950
• Scotland, Select Marriages, 1561-1910
• England, Yorkshire, Probate Records, 1521-1858

FamilySearch

• England, Herefordshire Bishop's Transcripts, 1583-1898 (4,023/1,576,100)
• England, Lancashire Non-Conformist Church Records, 1647-1996 (26,495/427,842)
• England, Middlesex Parish Registers, 1539-1988 (100,978/4,362,869)
• England, Northumberland Non-Conformist Church Records, 1613-1920 (8,138/258,515)
• England, Yorkshire, York, Miscellaneous City Records, 1272-1945 (101,150)

FindMyPast

• Index to Death Duty Registers, 1796-1903 (5,000 / 3,385,928) See geographical coverage

FreeBMD

• England & Wales Civil BMD Index 1837-1992 (421,524 / 286,083,376)

ScotlandsPeople

• Maps and Plans 4,500 post-war agricultural maps/400 heritors’ plans (blogpost)

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