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, 24 February.)
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
- Scotland, Burial Monument Inscriptions, 1507-2019 (619,169)
- London, Girls' Day School Trust, 1873-1950 Students, teachers, headmistresses (17,778)
BritishNewspaperArchive (63,867,119 pages, all shared with FindMyPast)
- New titles in main collection ($£€)
Southern Press (Glasgow) | Cheshire Daily Echo | |
Licensed Victuallers' Guardian | Govan Chronicle | |
Situation and London Advertiser | Wellingborough News | |
The Reporter (Stirling) |
FindMyPast
- Legacies of British Slavery 1883 Payments to colonial enslavers. (61,798)
- Lancashire, Barrow-in-Furness Shipbuilding & Engineering Employees (96,374 )
- United Kingdom, Commemorative Plaques (12,785)
MyHeritage
- Scotland, Prison Registers, 1791–1937 (215,819)
- Scotland, Crown Counsel Procedure Books (153,989)
- Scotland, Mental Health Records (127,746)
- England, Middlesex and Westminster Sessions of the Peace (82,679)
UPDATED COLLECTIONS
FindMyPast
Church register records from Notts, Derbys, Rutland, Leics, Lincs. (295,000+):
- England Roman Catholic Parish Baptisms
- England Roman Catholic Parish Marriages
- England Roman Catholic Paris Burials
- England Roman Catholic Parish Congregational Records
FreeBMD
- England & Wales civil registration records (464,462 added / 287,549,647)
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