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 two weeks or so (for previous summary, see 26 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
- UK and Ireland, Newspapers.com Marriage Index, 1800s-current (2,495,690)
- UK and Ireland, Newspapers.com Obituary Index, 1800s-current (8,653,927)
- UK, Women’s Royal Naval Service Records, 1917-1919 (558)
- Edinburgh, Scotland, Alien Registers, 1794, 1798-1825 (328)
- UK, Women’s Royal Air Force Service Records, 1918-1920 (31,399)
- UK, Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps Service Records, 1917-1920 (19,773)
BritishNewspaperArchives, shared with FindMyPast (total 52,722,807)
- New titles in main collection ($£€)
FindMyPast
- UK Electoral Registers & Companies House Directors (125million new entries, mostly from 2021 registers)
- Historical photos of England and Wales (84, mostly first half of C20th)
- Lancashire, Oldham Workhouse, Admissions & Discharges, 1800–1936 (150,000)
UPDATED COLLECTIONS
Family Search
- United Kingdom, Prisoners of War, 1715-1947 (19,012 / 993,584)
- England, Northumberland Non-Conformist Church Records, 1613-1920 (2,911 / 453,880 )
- England, Lancashire Non-Conformist Church Records, 1647-1996 (43,850 / 1,116,025)
- England, Middlesex Parish Registers, 1539-1988 (1,881 / 5,788,480)
- England, Lincolnshire, Marriage Bonds and Allegations, 1574-1885 (2,743 / 135,963)
- England, Hampshire Parish Registers, 1538-1980 (new total 1,372,036)
FindMyPast
- National School Admissions Registers & Log Books, 1870–1914 Four schools in Halifax, Yorkshire added. (new total for Halifax 140,993)
- Huntingdonshire Marriages 1754-1837 Index (previously a browse collection. Now transcribed and indexed with 60,284 entries)
Free BMD
- England & Wales, Civil registration index to births, marriages & deaths (309,994 / 288,270,020)
TheGenealogist
- Land Tax Records from 1910 (31,000 additions from south west London.
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