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, 25 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 50,056,587 pages)
- New titles in main collection ($£€)
| Tonbridge Free Press | Cleveland Standard | |
| Woodbridge Reporter | St Pancras Gazette | |
| Glasgow Mercantile advertiser | Brecknock Beacon | |
| Uxbridge Informer |
MyHeritage
- Scotland, High Court Precognitions and Trial Papers, 1800&andash;1916 (138,934)
- Scotland, General Register of Luncatics in Asylums (117,883)
UPDATED COLLECTIONS
Ancestry
- UK and Ireland, Obituary Index, 2004-2019 (230,021 / 6,700,836)
FamilySearch
- England, Lancashire Non-Conformist Church Records, 1647-1996 (59,581 / 768,622)
- England, Lincolnshire, Marriage Bonds and Allegations, 1574-1885 (6,469 / 125,697)
- England, Middlesex Parish Registers, 1539-1988(5,158/5,774,517)
- England, Northumberland Non-Conformist Church Records, 1613-1920 (21,198 / 445,908)
- England, Gloucestershire Non-Conformist Church Records, 1642-1996 (1,638 / 138,784)
- England, Herefordshire Bishop's Transcripts, 1583-1898 (8,026 / 1,603,017)
FindMyPast
- Scotland Roman Catholic Parish Baptisms (4,000+ added / 1,235,122)
- Scotland Roman Catholic Parish Marriages (nearly 10,000 added / 600,067)
- Yorkshire Baptisms 10,000+ Sheffied baptisms added
- Northamptonshire Baptisms (60,000+ baptisms across 82 churches / 213,197)
- Dorset Monumental Inscriptions (14,537 / 140,864)
- England & Wales 1939 Register (117,965 previously redacted records added / New total 42,187,196)
Free BMD
- England & Wales, Civil registration index to births, marriages & deaths (329,798 / 287,966,726)
TheGenealogist
- Land Owner & Occupier Records/Inland Revenue's Valuation Office (IR58). Hillingdon and Harrow areas in 1910 (35,000+)
- Peerage, Gentry and Royalty. Books listing toffs, heraldic families, royalty and similar leeches.