This week, Findmypast added three new record collections, plus English burials, and updates to several historical newspapers, including the Ottawa Free Press.
The Airmen Died in the Second World War, 1939-1946 collection is new to Findmypast. It covers Britain and the Commonwealth such as Canada, India, Australia and New Zealand, as well as the Allied air services of Belgium, Czechoslovakia, France, Greece, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, the United States and Yugoslavia, plus locally recruited airmen in Africa, the Middle East and Asia. There are more than 129,000 transcripts.
Thanks to volunteers at the International Bomber Command Centre in Lincoln, the new collection, Bomber Command Losses, 1939-1945, is available on Findmypast. There are about 57,000 records.
Also new this week is the Yorkshire, Sheffield, Air Raid Casualties, 1940-1941 collection that contains about 650 records. Although your ancestor may not have directly served, they may have experienced the struggles of war. Browse this collection to see if they suffered the effects of an air raid during 1940-1941.
Updated collection
About 100,000 new records, mainly for Yorkshire, have been added to the National Burial Index for England & Wales.
Newspapers
About three dozen newspapers have been updated, including the Ottawa Free Press. Editions of this Canadian publication for the years, 1903, 1907-1908, 1912, 1914, were added this week.
The full list of updated newspapers can be found in the Findmypast blog post.
