Below is a 10-day summary of newly-released and updated genealogy collections for England, Scotland and Wales from the major family history database providers. (For previous list, see 15 January blogpost.)
My regular summary of releases and updates relating to British collections is designed to help researchers 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 (or images, if browse-only) 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. In some instances, the supplier has not made this figure available so the figure 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
- North Yorkshire, Electoral Registers, 1832-1971 (15,054,046)
BritishNewspaperArchive and FindMyPast
FindMyPast
- Yorkshire, Sheffield Workhouse Admissions 1700-1915 (29,003 records)
- Britain, Jewish Commercial Directory 1894 (4,171)
- Scotland, Buchanan Society members 1725-1948 (1,053)
MyHeritage
- Wales, Telephone Directories, 2001 and 2003 (1,248,242)
- Scotland, Telephone Directories, 2001 and 2003 (2,170,524)
- England, Telephone Directories, 2001 and 2003 (18,723,475)
UPDATED COLLECTIONS
Ancestry
FamilySearch
- England, Northumberland Non-Conformist Church Records, 1613-1920 (451,617)
- England, Cheshire, School Records, 1796-1950 (388,462)
FindMyPast
- Yorkshire, Sheffield Crime Courts and Convicts 1737-1938 (2,185 transcriptions added)
- Yorkshire, Sheffield Social/Institutional, 1558-1939 (1,259 exam records, Norton Free School)
FreeBMD
- Civil Registration of BMDs, Index England & Wales (242,014 / 290,006,167)
Scotland's People
- Scottish Women's Land Army Volunteers born in 1923 (2,276)
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