Friday 12 June 2020

FindmyPast adds Scottish Roman Catholic and electoral records

From FindmyPast (www.findmypast.co.uk):

Scotland Roman Catholic Parish Baptisms
We’ve added almost 69,000 additional records to this collection, covering 11 parishes across Scotland.

Scotland Roman Catholic Parish Congregational Records
We’ve added over 55,000 congregational records to our Scottish Roman Catholic collection. Congregational records include registers of confirmations and communion recipients, as well as parish lists, seat rentals, and lists of people who converted to Catholicism.

Scotland Roman Catholic Marriages
Over 27,000 new marriage records across 11 parishes.

Scotland Roman Catholic Parish Burials
The Scottish Roman Catholic collection is rounded off with brand new burial records from eight parishes, nearly 9,000 of them.

All of the latest additions to our Scottish Roman Catholic parish record collection have been provided by the Catholic National Endowment Trust Charity No. SCO 16650 (known as The Bishops' Conference of Scotland) and form part of our groundbreaking Catholic Heritage Archive.

Scotland, Linlithgowshire (West Lothian), Electoral Registers 1864-1931
We've added over a million names to this collection in partnership with the British Library. Published as searchable PDF documents, using keywords and wildcard searches can help you pinpoint the record you're looking for.

Scotland BillionGraves Cemetery Index
More than 59,000 records have been added to our cemetery index for Scotland.

Newspapers
This week, we've added five brand new titles to our newspaper collection:

  • Wakefield and West Riding Herald covering the years 1839, 1844, 1853-1871, 1873-1896 and 1898-1913
  • South Yorkshire Times and Mexborough & Swinton Times covering the years 1877-1897, 1899-1942 and 1956-1959
  • Link covering the years 1915-1921
  • Wakefield Free Press covering the years 1860-1891 and 1894-1900
  • Wakefield Advertiser & Gazettecovering the years 1906-1925

As well as those brand new editions, Cricket has been updated with pages from 1882-1913.

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


Chris

My next 5 week Scottish Research Online course starts June 8th - see www.pharostutors.com/details.php?coursenumber=102. 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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