American records and Yorkshire baptisms added to FindmyPast

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

United States Marriages
Over 16 million new records join this collection, essential for the American branches of any family tree. Covering the States of Indiana, Massachusetts and Oregon

United States, Pennsylvania, Civil War Veterans' Card File
This new collection of military records includes the names of over 432,000 Civil War veterans from Pennsylvania. The records include transcripts and digitised copies of the original documents.

United States, New Jersey, Military Records Index
Over 192,000 records covering the American Revolutionary War, Civil War and the First World War are available in this collection. Within the record set, you'll find:

• Revolutionary War Damage Claims, 1776-1782
• Civil War Service Records 1861-1865
• Civil War Payment Vouchers, 1861-1865
• World War 1 Deaths, Descriptive Cards, Photographs and Correspondence Index

United States, Rolls Of The Soldiers In The Revolutionary War
Our new United States record releases are rounded-off with over 14,000 records from the Revolutionary War. The collection features several historical publications relating to the War of Independence including;

• Colonel Joseph Badger's regiment muster rolls
• Rolls of the soldiers in the Revolutionary War, 1775 to 1783
• Hartland in the Revolutionary War
• Massachusetts soldiers and sailors of the Revolutionary War
• Revolutionary documents of New Hampshire
• Pennsylvania in the War of the Revolution, battalions and line, 1775-1783
• Pennsylvania in the War of the Revolution, battalions and line, 1775-1783, Part 2
• Pennsylvania in the War of the Revolution, The Connecticut Settlement
• Pennsylvania in the War of the Revolution, battalions and line, 1775-1783, Second Series
• Vermont, Rolls of the Soldiers in the Revolutionary War, 1775 to 1783
• New Hampshire, Soldiers in the Revolutionary War, embracing some of the Indian and French War rolls
• New Hampshire, Soldiers in the Revolutionary War, 1775-1777
• New Hampshire, Soldiers in the Revolutionary War, 1629-1725
• New Hampshire, Soldiers in the Revolutionary War, 1777-1780

Published as searchable PDF documents, using keywords and wildcard searches can help you pinpoint the record you're looking for.

Yorkshire Baptisms
We’ve added over 59,000 brand new records from 13 parishes to our exclusive collection of baptism records from Yorkshire. The records consist of transcriptions of the original baptism certificate and cover the following Yorkshire parishes:

Kirkheaton, St John the Baptist from 1822-1878
Lindley, St Stephen from 1830-1902
Lindley, Thorncliffe Street from 1828-1918
Lindley, Zion (Methodist New Connection) from 1887-1919
Lindley, Zion (United Methodist) from 1793-1858
Linthwaite, Christ Church from 1828-1913
Liversedge, Christ Church from 1816-1919
Liversedge, St Barnabas from 1847-1919
Lockwood, Emmanuel from 1830-1906
Longwood, St Mark from 1797-1882
Marsden, St Bartholomew from 1734-1812
Meltham, St Bartholomew from 1669-1919
Sheffield, St Matthias, Summerfield Street from 1877-1920

Newspapers
This week, we've added five brand new titles to our ever-growing newspaper collection along with updates to five existing titles. Brand new to the site are:

• Lisburn Standard covering 1878, and 1884-1959
• Lynn Advertiser covering 1842-1890, and 1909-1910
• Alderley & Wilmslow Advertiser covering 1874-1896, and 1898-1924
• Cannock Chase Courier covering 1889-1910, and 1912-1913
• Saint James’s Chroniclecovering 1801-1820, and 1822-1850

While our updated titles this week are:

• Burton Chronicle covering 1860-1865, 1907-1908, and 1910-1911
• Halifax Guardian covering 1877
• Huddersfield Daily Chronicle covering 1872
• Chester Courant covering 1896-1897, and 1900
• Barnsley Independent covering 1889

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

Chris

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