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 March.)
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, Criminal Records, 1780-1871 (454,826)
- UK and Ireland, Medical Registers, 1859-1943 (2,991,949)
- England & Wales, Non-Conformist and Non-Parochial Registers, 1567-1936
BritishNewspaperArchive and FindMyPast (66,621,840 pages)
- New titles in main collection ($£€)
Lloyds Register
- Ships surveys and plans Ship owners and builders and master mariners (1million+)
MyHeritage
- Scotland, Paternity Decrees, Processes and Case Papers (83,012)
- Wales, Bangor and Carmarthenshire Wills (44,463)
- Wales, Denbighshire, Wrexham Burials (37,655)
UPDATED COLLECTIONS
Ancestry
- UK and Ireland, Obituary Index, 2004-Current (33,202/6,838,079)
- Birmingham, England, Calendar of Prisoners, 1880-1913 (12,454)
FindMyPast
- Sussex Burials Worthing, 1850-2012 (46,567)
- 1939 Register (90,809 annual rollover of 100-year-rule/new total 42,285,311)
- Montgomeryshire Monumental Inscriptions (7,413)
- Middlesex Monumental Inscriptions (6,233 from Hounslow Cemetery, 1839–2022)
- Essex Baptisms (122,464 from 154 churches, 1638–1922)
FreeBMD
- England and Wales BMDs civil registration (3,607,020/291,156,667)
TheGenealogist
- Police Gazette, Wanted persons, absentees and deserters editions for 1901, 1911, 1921 and 1931.(56,000 individuals and 20,802 aliases)
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