Friday 24 April 2020

Latest additions to FindmyPast

The latest additions to FindmyPast (www.findmypast.co.uk):

Kent Baptisms
Over 490,000 new records covering 71 parishes have been added to our Kent baptismal collection.

Kent Marriages and Banns
Over 360,000 additional transcripts of marriage records to our Kent parish collection. 70 new parishes have been added to this record set.

Kent Burials
New burial records from 54 parishes across the county, over 378,000 of them.

Newspapers
Our newspaper collection continues to grow every week. This week, we have added 68,516 brand new pages, including one new title. The new paper covers British colonial governance in India:

Bombay Gazette from 1792, 1813-1814, 1816-1841, 1850-1856, 1858 and 1860-1868

As well as that, the following five papers have had more pages added from the listed years:

Sport (Dublin) from 1880-1896
West Bridgford Advertiser from 1915-1930
Meath Herald and Cavan Advertiser from 1885 and 1888
Beds and Herts Pictorial from 1919-1927, 1929, 1931-1935 and 1951-1958
Smethwick Telephone has been updated with editions from 1889

For further information and links, visit https://www.findmypast.co.uk/blog/new/kent-parish-records


Chris

My next 5 week Scotland 1750-1850: Beyond the OPRs course starts May 4th - see www.pharostutors.com/details.php?coursenumber=302. My next book, Tracing Your Scottish Family History on the Internet, at http://bit.ly/ChrisPaton-Scottish2 is out shortly, also available are Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet (2nd ed) at http://bit.ly/ChrisPaton-Irish1 and Tracing Your Scottish Ancestry Through Church and State Records at http://bit.ly/ChrisPaton-Scotland1. Further news published daily on The Scottish GENES Facebook page, and on Twitter @genesblog.

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