Below is a summary of newly released and updated family history record collections for England, Scotland and Wales from the major genealogy databases over the last 10 days (for previous summary, see 14 April blogpost).
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
- Edinburgh, Scotland, Army Attestation Registers, 1796-1857 (40,730)
- UK, Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps Service Records, 1917-1920 (19,773)
- UK, Women’s Royal Air Force Service Records, 1918-1920 (31,399)
BritishNewspaperArchive, shared with FindMyPast (total 50,535,917 pages)
- New titles in main collection ($£€)
UPDATED COLLECTIONS
Family Search
- England, Lancashire Non-Conformist Church Records, 1647-1996 (236,778 added / 1,005,440)
- England, Lincolnshire, Marriage Bonds and Allegations, 1574-1885 (6,467 added / 132,164)
- England, Gloucestershire Non-Conformist Church Records, 1642-1996 (1,154 added / 139,938)
- England, Middlesex Parish Registers, 1539-1988 (6,600 added / 5,778,707)
- UK & Global, Prisoners of War, 1715-1947 (513,659 new total)
FindMyPast
- England Roman Catholic Parish Baptisms: 400,000 records added from Diocese of Salford. (New total 1,962,115)
- England Roman Catholic Parish Marriages: 85,988 records added from Diocese of Salford. (New total 469,045)
- England Roman Catholic Parish Burials: Records from 92 churches across Lancashire and Greater Manchester (21,525 / 212,720)
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