Banffshire records and Scottish burgessess & guild records join FindmyPast

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

Scotland, Burgess & Guild Brethren Index

This fascinating collection of occupation records has grown with over 60,000 additions. They include exclusive portrait photos you won’t find elsewhere online. These amazing records date from the 1200s all the way up to the 1970s. In them, you can unlock details about Scotland's medieval burgesses - a minority of powerful merchants and craftsmen who controlled their burghs.

Scotland, Banffshire & Moray Life Events

Explore over 250,000 birth, baptism, marriage, death and burial records in three new collections from North East Scotland. As well as searching all three vital collections at once, you can delve into each one separately:

• Scotland, Banffshire & Moray Births & Baptisms
• Scotland, Banffshire & Moray Marriages
• Scotland, Banffshire & Moray Deaths & Burials

Newspapers
Brand new to the site are:

• Middleton Albion from 1893-1895
• Newmarket Journal from 1897 and 1912
• Patriot; or, Political, Moral, and Philosophical Repository Consisting of Original Pieces from 1792-1793
• Bootle Times from 1887
• Ashbourne Telegraph from 1926
• Shetland News from 1885-1887, 1903 and 1919
• Kirkcaldy Times from 1879, 1883, 1886 and 1892
• Northman and Northern Counties Advertiser from 1881 and 1884
• Helensburgh News from 1877, 1886 and 1892
• Kelso Mail from 1869, 1881-1882 and 1885
• Bolton Free Press from 1835 and 1842-1846

Meanwhile, we've added thousands of new pages to the following papers:

• Daily Mirror from 1921
• Huddersfield Daily Chronicle from 1897
• Middlesex Chronicle from 1990
• Luton Times and Advertiser from 1889
• Kilmarnock Weekly Post and County of Ayr Reporter from 1864-1865
• Leicester Chronicle from 1917

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

Chris

My next 5 week Scottish Research Online course starts August 31st - see https://www.pharostutors.com/details.php?coursenumber=102. My book Tracing Your Scottish Family History on the Internet, at http://bit.ly/ChrisPaton-Scottish2 is now out, 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.