Friday 13 March 2020

FindmyPast adds Galways and Waterford records

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

Waterford Poor Law Union Board Of Guardians Minute Books
Over 163,000 records from the Dungarvan and Lismore Unions have been added to this exclusive collection. If your family came from County Waterford, use the records to discover how local workhouses or poor relief efforts played a part in their lives.

With records from the Waterford Union already online, these latest additions from Dungarvan and Lismore Unions bring the collection to almost 400,000 entries. You can also explore exclusive resources from Dublin, Clare, Donegal and Sligo.

Galway Poor Law Union Records
In partnership with Galway County Council, we've published a range of fascinating records from the Irish county online for the first time, only at Findmypast. Included are board of guardian minute books and poor rate collection lists dating from 1849 to 1921.

The records cover seven of Galway's ten poor law unions;

Ballinasloe
Clifden
Glenamaddy
Gort
Mountbellew
Portumna
Tuam

Galway County Burials
Burial plot books and registers of internments make up this useful resource for tracing family members from Galway. Specifically, the records cover burials in the area of Tuam between 1882 and 1920. They include transcripts with the most vital genealogy details and copies of the original documents that provide even more insight.

Galway, St George Mansergh Estate Records
Richard St George was an Irish landlord with estates in counties Galway and Clare. These records are from his St George Mansergh Estate in Headford, County Galway and date from 1832 all the way back to 1775.

Newspapers
New this week in our newspaper archive, six papers from England and Wales, as well updates to existing publications. The brand new titles are;

Welshman covering the years 1832-1835, 1840, 1842-1843, 1845-1846, 1854, 1859, 1877, 1879, 1889-1890, 1895 and 1912
Nuneaton Observer covering the years 1904-1912
Batley Reporter and Guardian covering the years 1869-1897 and 1899-1907
Batley News covering the years 1883-1907
Call (London) covering the years 1916 and 1918-1920
Barnsley Independent covering the years 1855-1871, 1873-1875, 1877, 1882, 1888, 1897, 1912, 1916, 1918-1919, 1921, 1926 and 1928

We've also extended the coverage of the following newspapers;

Western Evening Herald and Surrey Advertiser have both been updated with editions from 1898
Aberdeen Press and Journal has been updated with editions from 1972-1974

For further details and links visit https://www.findmypast.co.uk/blog/new/exclusive-irish-records


Chris

You can pre-order my new book, Tracing Your Scottish Family History on the Internet, at http://bit.ly/ChrisPaton-Scottish2 (out April). Also available, 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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