If your ancestors lived in Sussex, England, this may be your lucky week. Findmypast has added more than 800,000 baptism, marriage and burial records to its existing Sussex collection.
Sussex baptisms
A further 269,119 records have been added to this existing collection, with the transcriptions including key biographical detail to help you build your family tree, such as name, birth and baptism date, location, parents’ names, and sometimes the father’s occupation.
Sussex marriages
These new 268,217 records cover 1504-1937 and will help you uncover your ancestor’s date and place of marriage, their spouse, occupations, and often the fathers’ names and occupations too.
Sussex burials
If your ancestor was buried in Sussex between 1274 and 1996, they may appear here. Another 301,731 records make up this release, and often include the age at death, death date, burial date and burial location.
Newspapers
Findmypast this week has added three new newspapers to its online collection and updated another 27 titles. See the new and updated titles in Findmypast’s blog post.
