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, 5 May.)
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
BritishNewspaperArchive, shared with FindMyPast
- Citizen (Letchworth)
- Morayshire Advertiser
- Buteman and Advertiser for the Western Isles
- The Loftus Advertiser
- Downham Market Gazette
- Bayswater Chronicle
- Saturday/Football Telegraph (Grimsby)
- Grimsby & County Times
FindMyPast
- Scotland, People of Nairnshire (4,000) Nairn, Auldearn, Ardclach, Cawdor & Croy, Dalcross
- Lancashire,Oldham Inquisitions 1905-1917
- Greater Manchester Rate Books, Browse (215,002)
- E&W, Metropolitan Police Register of Habitual Criminals 1881–1925 (135,646)
- United Kingdom Merchant Navy, Index, 1820–1960s) (571,917)
OldScottish
ScotlandsPeople
- Prison Registers – Edinburgh & Largs (80,000)
TheGenealogist
UPDATED COLLECTIONS
Ancestry
- Edinburgh, Scotland, Extent Rolls, 1580-1847
- Norfolk, England, CofE Births and Baptisms, 1813-1922
- Norfolk, England, CofE Marriages and Banns, 1754-1938
- Surrey, England, CofE Baptisms, 1813-1921
DeceasedOnline
- Reading Cemeteries – 3 cemeteries, one crematortium (total names 264,561)
FamilySearch
- England, Cumberland Parish Registers, 1538-1990 (1,025 / 520,893)
FindMyPast
- Hampshire Baptisms (235,160 / 864,903)
- Hampshire Marriages (208,258 / 250,823)
- Hampshire Burials (239,466 / 1,004,814)
- Scotland Registers & Records, 1290–1850
- Anglo Boer War, 1899-1902 (19,117)
- Manchester Rate Books, 1790-1949 (4.9m /
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