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 January.)
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
- Berkshire, England, World War II Civil Defence Records, 1939-1945 (2,868)
- Berkshire, England, World War II Related Miscellaneous Records, 1939-1971 (23,808)
- Berkshire, England, World War II Home Guard Records, 1943-1958(563)
- Berkshire, England, World War II Evacuation Records, 1939-1945 (37,601)
- Kensington and Chelsea, London, England, Poor Law Records, 1695-1921 (66,506)
- Kensington and Chelsea, Church of England Parish Chest Records, 1597-1950 (135,370)
BritishNewspaperArchive (63,505,809 pages, all shared with FindMyPast)
- New titles in main collection ($£€)
FamilySearch
UPDATED COLLECTIONS
FamilySearch
- England, Cumberland Parish Registers, 1538-1990 (new total 61,982)
FindMyPast
- Northumberland Baptisms (13,000 additions from 6 churches, 1571-1847)
- Northumberland Marriages (384 additions from All Saints, 1769-1771)
- Northumberland Burials (86 additions for Our Lady & Haggerston RC, built 1829)
- Northumberland & Durham Memorial Inscriptions (5,300 additions from 7 burial grounds)
FreeBMD
- England & Wales civil registration of births, marriages, deaths (832,866 / 384,105,432)
TheGenealogist
- 1939 National Register E&W (342,500 previously redacted names of people born 1922)
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