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, 7 January).
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
- UK, Portraits and Photographs, 1547-2018 (156,645 images)
BritishNewspaperArchive, shared with FindMyPast (total 47,292,474 pages)
- New titles in main collection ($£€)
FindMyPast
UPDATED COLLECTIONS
Ancestry
- UK and Ireland, Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960 (new total 16,201,620)
- UK and Ireland, Find a Grave Index, 1300s-Current (new total 13,696,805)
- England & Scotland, Select Cemetery Registers, 1800-2016 (new total 3,606,769)
FamilySearch
- England, Middlesex Parish Registers, 1539-1988 (228,246 added)
- England, Northumberland Non-Conformist Church records, 1613-1920 (14,753 added)
- England, Lincolnshire, Marriage Bonds & Allegations, 1574-1885 (3,545 added)
FindMyPast
- Berkshire Baptisms(nearly 1million transcriptions added)
- Berkshire Burials (new total 1,456,503 transcriptions)
- Berkshire Marriages and Banns (new total 956,431 transcriptions)
FreeBMD
- Civil BMDs, England & Wales: (3,686,691 added. New total: 286,836,234 distinct records)
General Register Office
- Births and Deaths in 2020 – Indexes for England and Wales
TheGenealogist
- Landowner and occupier property tax records, 1910, from IR58 for Camden and surrounding London areas. (72,000 records)
Includes Albany, Belsize, Camden Town, Chalk Farm, Euston, Grays Inn Road, Highgate East, Highgate West, Kilburn, Priory & Adelaide (Hampstead), St Andrew East and West, St Giles East/North/South, Saffron Hill, Somers Town, and Tottenham Court Road.
Some of the above content contains affiliate links. This means I may earn a small commission if you buy via these links. This does not affect the price you pay as a consumer, but it does contribute to keeping Irish Genealogy News online. See Advertising Disclosure tab above.