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 12 March 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
- Isle of Man, Birth, Marriage and Death Civil Registration Index, 1849-2015 (349,789)
- Aberdeen & North-East Scotland, Index, Memorial Inscription Bklets 1500-2021 (185,928)
BritishNewspaperArchive and FindMyPast
- Scarborough Evening News
- Gravesend Messenger
- The Regiment
- Kent County Examiner and Ashford Chronicle
- Halifax Daily Guardian
- Prisoners of War News
- Country Life
FindMyPast
- Scotland, Mental Health Institutions Registers & Admissions 1858–1921 (220,7317)
MyHeritage
- Wales, Glamorgan Parish Marriages, 1802–1958 (199,906)
- Cheshire Parish Marriages, from 1538 (1,617,527)
UPDATED COLLECTIONS
Ancestry
- UK & Ireland, FindAGrave Index (193,032 / 19,716,828)
- Global, FindAGrave Index for Burials at Sea and other Locations (381,182 / 15,823,357)
FamilySearch
- England, Manchester, Miscellaneous Records, 1700-1916 (678,488)
- Scotland, Death Records,1998-2015 (429,095)
FindMyPast
- Scotland, Poor Law & Poor Lists Wigownshire and Scottish Borders added (7,906)
- Scotland, Court & Criminal Database (more than 1m transcriptions added)
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