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Saturday, 6 September 2025

FindmyPast updates British Armed Forces and Overseas BMD records

FindmyPast (www.findmypast.co.uk) has added about 100,000 new birth, marriage and death records last week to two overseas British collections from the 19th and 20th centuries. 

British Armed Forces and Overseas Deaths and Burials
5,827 searchable records are from a non-Catholic cemetery in Rome.

British Armed Forces and Overseas Browse
95,472 images added to this browse-only set of birth, marriage and death records. 

I assume the "non-Catholic cemetery" is Testaccio Cemetery, Rome, Italy, also known as the "Protestant Cemetery". The source list on FMP's page at https://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-records/british-armed-forces-and-overseas-deaths-and-burials notes two Rome collections as sources from TNA (England), which I assume are for the same facility: FO 170/1222 - Testaccio Cemetery, Rome, Italy, and FO 45/731 - Protestant Cemetery at Rome, Italy. 

Further recent releases are noted at https://www.findmypast.co.uk/blog/new, although there is very little for Scotland and Ireland released recently, beyond newspaper additions carried over from the British Newspaper Archive.

Chris 

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