Below is a two-week summary of newly released and updated family history record collections for England, Scotland and Wales from the major genealogy databases. (Previous summary, 17 August.)
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 parentheses in the New Collections section are the numbers of records/images in the new record set.
Unless otherwise stated, the figures in parentheses in the Updated Collections section reflect the number of records added to the collection in the recent update. Sometimes the supplier does not made this figure available so the figure provided is the new total. 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 (and shared with FindMyPast)
- Four new titles: Farnworth Chronicle | Western Echo | Skelmersdale Reporter | Sutton & Epsom Advertiser
MyHeritage
- England, Lancashire, Manchester Burials (855,713)
The Genealogist
- Lawyer Lists, 1780-1911 Judges, barristers and other court officials
UPDATED COLLECTIONS
Ancestry
- UK and Ireland, Find a Grave® Index, 1300s-Current (18,201,134)
- UK, Absent Voter Lists, 1918-1925, 1939 (174,695)
- Global, FindAGrave Index - Burials @ Sea & Select Locations 1300s-Current (15,090,205)
- UK and Ireland, Newspapers.com Obituary Index, 1800s-current (6,127,518 / 22,596,689)
- Scotland, Burial Monument Inscriptions, 1507-2019 (619,169, no change)
- London, England, Selected Poor Law Removal & Settlement Records, 1698-1922 Unions of Bethnal Green (138,940), Hackney (43,397), Poplar (53,056), Shoreditch (223,940), and Stepney (4,396). Total now in collection, 583,354.
FamilySearch
- England, Middlesex Parish Registers, 1539-1988 (2,010,432)
FindMyPast
- Norfolk Baptisms (3,853 records for year 1923)
- Norfolk Banns and Marriages (9,703 new records from year 1939)
- Norfolk Burials (239 / 2,748,308)
- Wales Births and Baptisms (15,428 records from 13 counties the year 1923)
- Wales Marriages and Banns (10,236 records from 13 Welsh counties from the year 1938)
- Norfolk Churchyard Graves and Memorial Transcriptions (30,149 / 295,758)
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