Below is a two-week summary of newly-released and updated genealogy collections for England, Scotland and Wales from the major family history database providers. (For previous list, see 16 February 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
- UK, Admiralty Records of Marriages and Baptisms, 1754-1878 (7,206)
- London, England, Parish Maps, 1860-1880
- UK, Imperial Gazetteer Maps, 1900
BritishNewspaperArchive and FindMyPast
- Kent County Standard
- Fashion and Craft (Creative Needlecraft)
- Halifax Daily Guardian
- Kent Evening Post
- Tunbridge Wells Standard
- Brighouse Echo
FindMyPast
- Canada: British Home Children Inspection Reports (25,534 images and transcriptions)
- Canada, Home Children Board of Guardian Records, 1880s–1916 (10,678 trans/images)
- Lancashire, Liverpool, Children Sent To Canada 1883-1925 (466)
- Britain, Children's Legislation Correspondence Browse Browse only.
- Women's Land Army Service Cards 1939-1950 (128,440)
MyHeritage
- England, Cheshire Bishop’s Transcripts Baptisms, 1526-1909 (2,987,072)
- Cheshire Bishop’s Transcripts Marriages (478,468)
- England, Cheshire Parish Deaths and Burials (2,009,427)
- England, Cheshire Parish Births & Baptisms, 1538–1969 (5,136,832)
- Wales, West Glamorgan Electoral Registers 1839-1925 (1,643,484)
- United Kingdom Newspapers from OldNews.com (3,894,581 pages/3 newspaper titles)
UPDATED COLLECTIONS
Ancestry
- UK and Ireland, Find a Grave® Index, 1300s-Current (374,863 / 19,716,828)
- Global, Find a Grave® Index, Burials at Sea/Select Locations (174,193/15,823,357)
- UK and Ireland, Newspapers.com Obituary Index, 1800s-current (710,497 / 15,823,357)
- UK, World War II War Diaries, 1939-1946
- UK, Royal Navy Medical Journals, 1817-1856 (28,256)
FindMyPast
- 1871 England & Wales Census (occupation and birthplace added to 22,808,909 entries)
- England & Wales, Crime, Prisons & Punishment, 1770-1935 (62,569 / 6,662,616)
- Teachers' Registration Council Registers 1914-1948 (612 new plus improvements to existing records / 102,118)
- Northamptonshire Militia Lists 1762-1819 (13,351/26,819)
FreeBMD
- Civil birth, marriage, death registrations from 1837 (new total: 293,635,325 unique entries)
TheGenealogist
- Worcestershire parish records (120,000 / 2,650,000)
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