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 two weeks (see previous summary, 9 March).
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 48,825,218 pages)
- New titles in main collection ($£€)
Historic England
- Aerial Photograph Explorer map. 400,000+ digitized photos, most are modern but many from RAF early-to-mid 1900s.
UPDATED COLLECTIONS
Ancestry
- 1939 England and Wales Register (45,915,018)
- Surrey, England, Church of England Burials, 1813-1997
- UK & Ireland, FindAGrave Index, 1300s-Current (109,159 / 13,940,998)
FamilySearch
- England, Gloucestershire Non-Conformist Church Records, 1642-1996 (1,877 / 137,663)
- England, Herefordshire Bishop's Transcripts, 1583-1898 (18,620 / 1,602,835)
- England, Middlesex Parish Registers, 1539-1988 (89,522 / 5,761,375)
- England, Northumberland Non-Conformist Church, 1613-1920 (17,654 / 398,851)
- England, Lincolnshire, Marriage Bonds and Allegations, 1574-1885 (2,587 / 111,908)
- Scotland, Lanarkshire Church Records, 1823-1967 (483 / 17,802)
FindMyPast
- Cambridgeshire Burials Chatteris, Ickleton St Mary, Whittelsey Cemeteries and Eastwood burial ground. (14,000)
- National School Admission Registers & Log-Books 1870-1914 (Halifax, 12,000 records)
- Middlesex Monumental Inscriptions (4,000 / 69,136) Additions from seven parishes.
- Military Nurses 1856-1994 (9,000 / 19,731)
Free BMD
- Births, Marriages and Deaths (added 75,640 / 287,636,847 distinct records)
Scottish Indexes
- Prison Records (43,000 additional records)
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