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New parish and electoral records on Findmypast

Posted on June 27, 2025 by Gail Dever

This week, Findmypast added baptism, marriage and burial records from Cheshire, England, as well as more than a million British electoral registers. UK Electoral Registers & Companies House DirectorsThere are now 1,081,193 records added to Findmypast’s existing collection of British … Continue reading →

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Warning: Findmypast’s new ship passenger lists and naturalization records could send you down the research rabbit hole

Posted on June 23, 2025 by Gail Dever

Bear with me. I tried to publish the news about Findmypast’s latest records a couple of days ago, but I was sidetracked by a discovery I made about my grandmother’s cousin whose name appears on a Lusitania passenger list in … Continue reading →

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More than 1.3 million records from Guernsey added to Findmypast

Posted on April 11, 2025 by Gail Dever

If your ancestors lived on the island of Guernsey and you have a Findmypast subscription, start doing the happy dance. This week Findmypast added more than 1.3 million records, spanning 459 years, from the island of Guernsey. Guernsey Parish recordsCovering … Continue reading →

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Newly added records on Findmypast from Wiltshire, England

Posted on April 8, 2025 by Gail Dever

There are more than 40,000 new additions from Wilshire in South West England on Findmypast. These records were made available in partnership with the Family History Federation and Wiltshire Family History Society. Wiltshire Police Officers Appointed, 1839-1926Did your ancestor serve … Continue reading →

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New British Home Children records on Findmypast

Posted on March 4, 2025 by Gail Dever

Findmypast has added three new sets to its British Home Children collection to help trace the migrations of 130,000 British children in the 19th and 20th centuries. Boarded-out Children and Home Children sent to CanadaThese records document children who were placed … Continue reading →

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Findmypast adds cemetery records from New Zealand and Scotland

Posted on February 9, 2025 by Gail Dever

This past week, Findmypast added 207,233 cemetery records from across New Zealand and 27,070 Scottish monumental inscriptions. The New Zealand records are from cemeteries in nine New Zealand districts, including Tasman, Christchurch and Clutha. The Scottish records are from two … Continue reading →

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New Australian record collections on Findmypast

Posted on January 26, 2025 by Gail Dever

Happy Australia Day! Findmypast added three new Australian record sets this past week. All are from the state of Queensland. There are Imperial pensions, criminal depositions, and dentist records spanning the 19th and 20th centuries. Queensland, Imperial pensions 1898-1912This week’s … Continue reading →

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More passenger lists available on Findmypast

Posted on January 12, 2025 by Gail Dever

Findmypast has increased the size of its United States Passenger and Crew Lists with more than 1.2 million new records. These additions span the east to the west coast and cover 40 years. United States, Passenger and Crew Lists – … Continue reading →

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1921 Census for England and Wales coming to Ancestry

Posted on January 2, 2025 by Gail Dever

If you have English and/or Welsh ancestry and a subscription to Ancestry’s Worldwide package, there’s very good news for you. On January 7, Ancestry will make available to subscribers the 1921 Census for England and Wales. The records will be … Continue reading →

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This week’s crème de la crème — December 14, 2024

Posted on December 14, 2024 by Gail Dever

Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blog postsYour Scottish Archive catalogue launches by Chris Paton on Scottish GENES. New Newspaper pages from Canadiana and 1921 Census of England and Wales by John Reid on Anglo-Celtic Connections. Major Breakthrough: … Continue reading →

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