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 November.)
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
- North Yorkshire, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1921 (1,432,220)
- North Yorkshire, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1937 (791,373)
- North Yorkshire, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-1995 (411,099)
- North Yorkshire, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages, Burials, 1558-1812 (2,678,402)
BritishNewspaperArchive, shared with some FindMyPast subs (nearly 61 million+ pages)
- Echo (London) | Leighton Buzzard on Sunday | Sunday Mail (Glasgow) | Northwich Chronicle | Wembley News | Daily Dispatch (Manchester) | Nottingham Evening News | Football Mail (Portsmouth) | Clapham Observer | Leicester Advertiser | Macclesfield Times | Daily Post (Wales) | South London Observer | Southwark and Bermondsey Recorder | Greenford & Northolt Gazette | Croydon Express
FindMyPast
- Norfolk Wills & Probate 1301-1858 (257,000 records from 14 Deaneries)
TheGenealogist
- Chelsea Pensioners, 1702-1933: registers, admission books, ledgers, payments (629,000)
UPDATED COLLECTIONS
Ancestry
- Hampshire, England, Wills and Probates, 1398-1858
- UK and Ireland, Newspapers.com Marriage Index, 1800s-current (1,295,705 added)
FamilySearch
- England, Gloucestershire Non-Conformist Church Records, 1642-1996 (204,664)
- England, Lancashire Non-Conformist Church Records, 1647-1996 (114 / 1,436,324)
FindMyPast
- Norfolk Banns and Marriages (65,000 additions)
- Kent Marriages and Banns (2,804 additions from St. Paul's Church, Devon Drive)
- Kent Baptisms (2,655 additions from St. Paul's Church, Devon Drive)
- Kent Burials (7,795 from Stone-next-Dartford, Swanscombe, Greenwich Royal Hospital)
FreeBMD
- England and Wales civil birth, marriage and death records (384,105,432 records)
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