Please find below a two-week summary of newly-released and updated family history collections for England, Scotland and Wales from the major genealogy databases. (For previous list, see 11/4 blogpost.)
These regular listings are designed to help researchers whose Irish ancestors migrated, temporarily or permanently, to England, Scotland or Wales.
By default, they will also be useful to anyone carrying out research in those three nations, regardless of the origin of their ancestors.
Please note that I don't usually include updates of fewer than 1,000 records.
NEW COLLECTIONS
Figures in parentheses are the numbers of records (or images, if browse-only) in each new collection.
Ancestry- Aberdeenshire, Scotland, School Admission Registers, 1852-1927
- Aberdeenshire, Scotland, World War II Related Records, 1940-1945
- Aberdeenshire, Scotland, Police Records, 1818
- United Kingdom, Red Cross Volunteers During WWI, 1914-1918 (244,156)
BritishNewspaperArchive (BNA) and FindMyPast (FMP)
- Deeside Piper | Midhurst and Petworth Observer | Pontefract & Castleford Express | Sleaford Standard | Hucknall Dispatch | Daventry and District Weekly Express | Kirriemuir Herald | Glenrothes Gazette
FamilySearch
FindMyPast
- Oxford Dictionary Of National Biography Enhanced Genealogical Data (4,013)
MyHeritage
UPDATED COLLECTIONS
Unless otherwise stated, where there is only one figure in parenthesis, it reflects the total number of records in the updated collection. Where there are two figures, the first is the number of records added in the recent update, the second is the revised total number.
FamilySearch- England, Devon, Parish Registers (Devon Record Office), 1529-1974 (2,926,636)
- England, Devon, Parish Registers, 1538-1912 (1,043,193)
- England, Staffordshire, Church Records, 1538-1944 (4,850,444)
- Wales, Death Records, 1998-2015 (172,310)
FindMyPast
- Oxfordshire Baptisms Kiddington, Chudlington and Spelsbury (6,200 / 260,211)
- Oxfordshire Marriages (72,782)
- Oxfordshire Burials Kiddington, Chudlington and Spelsbury (41,327)
- Surrey Prerogative Court Will Abstracts, 1420-1857 (11,308 / 12,701) additions from 1700
- Lancashire Wills & Probate 1457-1858 (5,803 Infra Wills ie under £40 value)
FreeBMD
- England and Wales Civil Registration Index (202,914 / 294,092,936)
TheGenealogist
- Land Tax Records (IR58), Surrey property owners and heads of household, 1910-1915 (225,000+ / 2.6Million)
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