Below is a summary of newly released and updated family history record collections for England, Scotland and Wales from the major genealogy databases. (Previous summary, 27 October.)
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, and shared with some FindMyPast subscriptions (59 million+ pages)
- Ramsbottom Observer
- Walton & Weybridge Leader
- Nottingham & Long Eaton Topper
- War Pictures Weekly and the London Illustrated Weekly
- Pals
- Million
- Dunstable on Sunday
- Chester Chronicle (Frodsham & Helsby edition)
- East Hull Advertiser
- West Hull Advertiser
- Bolton Advertiser
- Shropshire News
- Exeter Leader
- North Tyneside Herald & Post
- Woking Informer
- Ayrshire World
- Lanark & Carluke Advertiser
FamilySearch
- England, Lancashire, Liverpool, Baptisms, 1557-1919 (1,070,664)
- England, Lancashire, Liverpool, Church of England Confirmations, 1734-1930 (9,433)
Fold3
- UK, London WWII Military Notices 1939–1945 (1.3million records published in London Gazette)
MyHeritage
TheGenealogist
- The Times newspaper (3,129 editions from the 1870s)
UPDATED COLLECTIONS
Ancestry
FamilySearch
- England, Surrey Parish Registers, 1536-1992 (added 9,873)
- England, Lancashire, Liverpool, Burials, 1557-1968 (added 578,888)
FindMyPast
- Scotland, Poor Law & Poor Lists: Dreghorn Poor Relief, 1872-1901 | Inverness Poor Relief, 1846-1894 | Wick Poor Relief, 1870-1887 | Stirling & Perthshire Poor Relief, 1816-1899.(16,820 additions)
- Scotland, Occupations & Professions: Merchants Matriculat in the Company of Merchants of Edinburgh, 1687 | Scotland, Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons 1581-1873 | A history of the Society of Writers to Her Majesty's Signet, 1890 | Scottish Seafarers Index | Fife Shopkeepers and Traders. (16,000 additions)
National Library of Scotland
- Aerial photo mosaics maps, 1940s, of south east England
- Special Emergency Edition Maps,1938–1939
- Edinburgh 1890s: Place and street names (21,000+ entries)
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