Ulster Historical Foundations adds new records to database

The Ulster Historical Foundation (https://ulsterhistoricalfoundation.com) has added 14,000 new records to its database, comprised of the following:

1) 4900 Roman Catholic birth records from Belfast and County Antrim, for the following areas: 

• Sacred Heart Parish, Belfast - 1916-1929
• Hannahstown, Co. Antrim - 1899-1929
• Holy Cross, Belfast - 1867-1899

2) 8,700 freeholder records, showcasing those registered to vote across various Irish counties from 1747 to 1837.

The databases are acessible at https://ulsterhistoricalfoundation.com/genealogy-databases/list.

(With thanks to Gillian Hunt)

Chris

Order Tracing Your Belfast Ancestors in the UK at https://bit.ly/BelfastAncestors. Also available - Tracing Your Irish Ancestors Through Land Records, Sharing Your Family History Online, Tracing Your Scottish Family History on the Internet, Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet (2nd ed), and Tracing Your Scottish Ancestry Through Church and State Records - to purchase, please visit https://bit.ly/ChrisPatonPSbooks. For purchase in tthe USA visit https://www.penandswordbooks.com. Further news published daily on The Scottish GENES Facebook page, on Threads at @scottishgenesblog and via Mastodon at https://mastodon.scot/@ScottishGENES.

FindmyPast adds historic Jamaican parish records

FindmyPast (www.findmypast.co.uk) has added the following records this week:

Jamaica Baptisms, 1664-1880

This week's first new set consists of 404,465 Jamaican baptism records, which cover churches across the island between 1664 and 1880.

Jamaica Marriages, 1664-1880

We've also bolstered our Jamaican marriage records - there are 89,180 transcriptions for you to discover. These new records also cover from 1664 to 1880.

Jamaica Burials, 1664-1880

If your ancestor was buried in Jamaica between 1664 and 1880, their name may appear within these 196,146 brand-new burial records.

For further details on this and other releases, please visit https://www.findmypast.co.uk/blog/new/jamaica-baptisms-burials-marriages-daily-express.

Chris

Order Tracing Your Belfast Ancestors in the UK at https://bit.ly/BelfastAncestors. Also available - Tracing Your Irish Ancestors Through Land Records, Sharing Your Family History Online, Tracing Your Scottish Family History on the Internet, Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet (2nd ed), and Tracing Your Scottish Ancestry Through Church and State Records - to purchase, please visit https://bit.ly/ChrisPatonPSbooks. For purchase in tthe USA visit https://www.penandswordbooks.com. Further news published daily on The Scottish GENES Facebook page, on Threads at @scottishgenesblog and via Mastodon at https://mastodon.scot/@ScottishGENES.

More Kerry parish records transcriptions join RootsIreland

From RootsIreland (www.rootsireland.ie):

New Kerry Records Added!

We are delighted to announce the addition of 6,226 new baptismal and marriage records for Sneem parish, Kerry.

• Baptisms - 5497 records (1813-99);
• Marriages - 729 records (1858-1900).

For an up to date list of sources for Kerry and to search these records, go to kerry.rootsireland.ie and login or subscribe as required.

Chris

Order Tracing Your Belfast Ancestors in the UK at https://bit.ly/BelfastAncestors. Also available - Tracing Your Irish Ancestors Through Land Records, Sharing Your Family History Online, Tracing Your Scottish Family History on the Internet, Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet (2nd ed), and Tracing Your Scottish Ancestry Through Church and State Records - to purchase, please visit https://bit.ly/ChrisPatonPSbooks. For purchase in tthe USA visit https://www.penandswordbooks.com. Further news published daily on The Scottish GENES Facebook page, on Threads at @scottishgenesblog and via Mastodon at https://mastodon.scot/@ScottishGENES.

FindmyPast updates Irish Roman Catholic Parish Marriages collection

FindmyPast (www.findmypast.co.uk) has updated its Irish Roman Catholic Parish Marriages collection with a furtehr 19,000 marriage entries.  

For further details visit https://www.findmypast.co.uk/blog/new/northampton-roman-catholic-records

Chris

Order Tracing Your Belfast Ancestors in the UK at https://bit.ly/BelfastAncestors. Also available - Tracing Your Irish Ancestors Through Land Records, Sharing Your Family History Online, Tracing Your Scottish Family History on the Internet, Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet (2nd ed), and Tracing Your Scottish Ancestry Through Church and State Records - to purchase, please visit https://bit.ly/ChrisPatonPSbooks. For purchase in tthe USA visit https://www.penandswordbooks.com. Further news published daily on The Scottish GENES Facebook page, on Threads at @scottishgenesblog and via Mastodon at https://mastodon.scot/@ScottishGENES.

RootsIreland adds records to South Tipperary

From RootsIreland (www.rootsireland.ie):

We are delighted to announce the addition of 2227 marriage records in County Tipperary for the Roman Catholic parish of Boherlahan & Dualla, 1810-1900. For an up to date list of sources for South Tipperary and to search these records, go to tipperarysouth.rootsireland.ie and login or subscribe as required. 

Chris

Order Tracing Your Belfast Ancestors in the UK at https://bit.ly/BelfastAncestors. Also available - Tracing Your Irish Ancestors Through Land Records, Sharing Your Family History Online, Tracing Your Scottish Family History on the Internet, Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet (2nd ed), and Tracing Your Scottish Ancestry Through Church and State Records - to purchase, please visit https://bit.ly/ChrisPatonPSbooks. For purchase in tthe USA visit https://www.penandswordbooks.com. Further news published daily on The Scottish GENES Facebook page, on Threads at @scottishgenesblog and via Mastodon at https://mastodon.scot/@ScottishGENES.

TheGenealogist releases Roman Catholic parish records indexes for County Laois

From TheGenealogist (www.thegenealogist.co.uk):

Over Half a Million Irish Parish Records newly released by TheGenealogist

Another whole county’s worth of Irish parish records now bolsters the record collections of TheGenealogist! Today, one of the leading providers of family history resources has added the records of 510,007 individuals from County Laois to its site in their latest release.

County Laois, once known as Queen's County from 1556 to 1922, is a double landlocked county in the Eastern and Midland Region of the Republic of Ireland. As the Irish diaspora has spread out across the globe, especially during the terrible events of the Great Famine of 1845–49 which devastated the county at the time, many people from across the world will be able to trace their roots back to this part of Ireland.

Searching TheGenealogist’s transcriptions provides an easy way to find records which then provides a handy link to the National Library of Ireland (NLI) in order to see the digitised image of the actual register. TheGenealogist’s transcription greatly benefits from its powerful SmartSearch that can be used to identify possible siblings, as well as parent’s potential marriage details.

To find out more about how to use these records see TheGenealogist’s article: Searching for ancestors in the Laois parish records at https://www.thegenealogist.co.uk/featuredarticles/2023/searching-for-ancestors-in-the-laois-parish-records-5099/

Comment: These are Roman Catholic records indexes for Laois, from the records held at the national Library of Ireland's platform at https://registers.nli.ie/. 

(With thanks to Nick Thorne)

Chris

Order Tracing Your Belfast Ancestors in the UK at https://bit.ly/BelfastAncestors. Also available - Tracing Your Irish Ancestors Through Land Records, Sharing Your Family History Online, Tracing Your Scottish Family History on the Internet, Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet (2nd ed), and Tracing Your Scottish Ancestry Through Church and State Records - to purchase, please visit https://bit.ly/ChrisPatonPSbooks. For purchase in tthe USA visit https://www.penandswordbooks.com. Further news published daily on The Scottish GENES Facebook page, on Threads at @scottishgenesblog and via Mastodon at https://mastodon.scot/@ScottishGENES.

Inverness and Fermanagh records added to FindmyPast

FindmyPast (www.findmypast.co.uk) has added two collections very relevant to my own personal research this week - parish records for Magheraculmoney in Fermanagh, Ireland, and poor law records indexes from Inverness:

Fermanagh Parish Records

This week, we added 15,629 parish register records from the parish of Magheraculmoney in Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. Fermanagh is a Northern Irish county located within the province of Ulster - it borders Tyrone, Monaghan, Cavan, Leitrim, and Donegal.

These records are updates to existing baptism, marriage, and burial sets, and the addition of an entirely new set of congregational records from Fermanagh.


Scotland, Poor Law & Poor Lists, Inverness

We've added 2,554 records from Inverness to the Scotland, Poor Law & Poor Lists collection this week.

These records are incredibly detailed, with all sorts of information about your ancestors included.

Alongside the usual name and birth year, you may be lucky enough to find details on their religious denomination, the names and ages of any spouses or children, their mother's maiden name, a brief history of the previous assistance they've received, and more.

COMMENT: I have ancestors both from Magheraculmoney (Morrow, Mitchell) and Inverness (Fraser, MacGillivray, MacFarlane), so look forward to exploring these later.

Further details, and links, at https://www.findmypast.co.uk/blog/new/fermanagh-parish-poor-law-inverness.

Incidentally, in the Inverness record set, there's a note in FMP's description stating "They take the form of minutes taken by Guardians during poor law and relief hearings.". No, they don't. Scotland didn't have Boards of Guardians...! (We had parochial boards answerable to a Board of Supervision in Edinburgh, with Inspectors of the Poor doing the localised investigations in each parish or combination parish). I've raised this with FindmyPast and they are going to update it.

Chris

Order Tracing Your Belfast Ancestors in the UK at https://bit.ly/BelfastAncestors. Also available - Tracing Your Irish Ancestors Through Land Records, Sharing Your Family History Online, Tracing Your Scottish Family History on the Internet, Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet (2nd ed), and Tracing Your Scottish Ancestry Through Church and State Records - to purchase, please visit https://bit.ly/ChrisPatonPSbooks. For purchase in tthe USA visit https://www.penandswordbooks.com. Further news published daily on The Scottish GENES Facebook page, on Threads at @scottishgenesblog and via Mastodon at https://mastodon.scot/@ScottishGENES.

Scotland 1750-1850 genealogy course starts October 17th

The next 5 week long Scotland 1750-1850: Beyond the Old Parish Registers course from Pharos Teaching and Tutoring Ltd commences on October 17th 2022 :

Scotland 1750-1850: Beyond the Old Parish Registers

This is an intermediate level course in Scottish family history for those who are going back beyond 1850. You should have some experience with research in the Old Parish Registers (OPRs) of the Church of Scotland and in using major websites for Scottish research.

This course discusses sources that fill the gap when the OPRs are uninformative or missing, such as the kirk session and presbytery courts records generated by the Kirk (Church of Scotland), as well as the records of dissenting and seceding Presbyterian congregations. From the forerunners of Scotlands modern towns and cities are the administrative records of the burghs, and the trades incorporations and merchant guilds, as well as other professions, which can enhance our understanding of our ancestors lives. And in the final two lessons the course turns up a notch and tackles two areas where the Scottish records, as generated through the feudal system, are truly unique, namely the various registers of land records known as sasines, and the separate legal processes in Scotland for the inheritance of both moveable and heritable estate.

Whilst some of the records discussed in the course are available online, many are available only in the archives, or in private hands; a strong focus of this course will be in how to successfully employ the relevant catalogues and finding aids to locate such treasures.

Whilst not compulsory, it is strongly recommended that you complete the Pharos course Scottish Research Online before studying Scotland 1750-1850: Beyond the Old Parish Registers, as it will be assumed that you are already familiar with the more basic resources available online for Scottish ancestral research.

Lesson Headings:

* Kirk Sessions records and parish poor
* Burgh records and town poor
* Occupations, taxation and early lists
* Land transfer and the value of sasines
* Land, inheritance and estates

Each lesson includes exercises and activities; a minimum of 1 one-hour chat session per week. (See How the Courses Work at https://www.pharostutors.com/howcourseswork.php.)

Relevant Countries: Scotland
Course Length: 5 Weeks
Start Date: 9 May 2022
Cost: £58

Student feedback from the most recent run of the course in Noivember 2021:

"The exercises helped you to explore new lesson concepts right away. Especially by directing students to apply new research aids to their own work."

"Very clear explanations of terminology and legal processes Really helpful exercises and comprenesive list of useful catalogues and other references Chat sessions very helpful and engaging."

"This being the second genealogy course I have taken, and the second with Pharos, I found these were detailed foundation courses which will permit me to search better and with less effort in my future research work."

"Great subject-matter and excellent tutor/written materials. It could not have been better."

The following video also gives a bit more of a flavour about what to expect:

(Available also at https://youtu.be/1vX6GZtwZJ0)

For further details, and to sign up, please visit https://www.pharostutors.com/details.php?coursenumber=302.

I'll hopefully see you online soon! 

Chris

My new book Tracing Your Irish Ancestors Through Land Records is now available to buy at https://bit.ly/IrishLandRecords. Also available - Sharing Your Family History Online, Tracing Your Scottish Family History on the Internet, Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet (2nd ed), and Tracing Your Scottish Ancestry Through Church and State Records - to purchase, please visit https://bit.ly/ChrisPatonPSbooks. Further news published daily on The Scottish GENES Facebook page, and on Twitter @genesblog.

TheGenealogist adds Wexford Catholic parish records and Dublin probate books

From TheGenealogist (www.thegenealogist.co.uk):

TheGenealogist launches Irish records containing nearly a million individuals

TheGenealogist has just released records of baptisms, marriages and burials from Wexford Catholic Parish Records and new Dublin Will and Grant Books to provide a valuable resource for those researching Irish ancestry.

The Dublin wills are from the Deputy Keeper Of Ireland, Index To The Act or Grant Books, and To Original Wills, of The Diocese Of Dublin 1272 -1858 (26th, 30th, and 31st Report) and cover an area that is bigger than the current County of Dublin as the diocese included a sizeable part of County Wicklow, some substantial parts of southern and eastern County Kildare, as well as smaller portions of Counties Carlow, Laois (Queen’s County) and Wexford.

The Wexford Parish records, which are being released at the same time, have been newly transcribed by TheGenealogist and also benefit from their SmartSearch that enables subscribers to look for the parent’s potential marriage records from baptism records and also potential siblings. Each result also has a link to view the registers on the National Library of

Ireland’s website should the researcher wish to see an image of the actual page of the Catholic parish register.

This new release, now available to all Gold and Diamond subscribers of TheGenealogist will be a useful resource for those researchers who wish to find out more about their Irish ancestors.

Read TheGenealogist’s article: George Harrison’s Wexford ancestors found in the Irish Parish Records https://www.thegenealogist.co.uk/featuredarticles/2021/george-harrisons-wexford-ancestors-found-in-the-irish-parish-records-1473/

(With thanks to Nick Thorne)

Chris

My new book Tracing Your Irish Ancestors Through Land Records is now available to buy at https://bit.ly/IrishLandRecords. Also available - Sharing Your Family History Online, Tracing Your Scottish Family History on the Internet, Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet (2nd ed), and Tracing Your Scottish Ancestry Through Church and State Records - to purchase, please visit https://bit.ly/ChrisPatonPSbooks. Further news published daily on The Scottish GENES Facebook page, and on Twitter @genesblog.

FindmyPast updates New York Catholic records and Victoria births in Australia

FindmyPast (www.findmypast.co.uk) has updated some overseas records vcollections in the US and Australia, which may help with tracing emigrant ancestors:

New York Roman Catholic Parish Baptisms
45,000 more from 1920 and covering over 200 churches.

New York Roman Catholic Parish Marriages
36,000 additional records.

A full list of available Roman Catholic records from New York parishes is accessible at www.findmypast.co.uk/articles/world-records/full-list-of-united-states-records/birth-marriage-and-death/new-york-roman-catholic-parish-list

Victoria Births
Over 100,000 records between 1918 and 1920.

For relevant links, news of additional records (including the Irvine Express newspaper pages from 1884), visit www.findmypast.co.uk/blog/new/new-york-catholic-records

Chris

Pre-order my next book, Sharing Your Family History Online, at https://bit.ly/SharingFamHist. My book Tracing Your Scottish Family History on the Internet, at http://bit.ly/ChrisPaton-Scottish2 is also out, as 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.

Ancestry adds Welsh parish records

In addition to TheGenealogist and MyHeritage, I've just noticed that Ancestry (www.ancestry.co.uk) has also added Welsh parish records to its, site, albeit as collections for individual counties:

• Brecknockshire, Wales, Anglican Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1994
• Cardiganshire, Wales, Anglican Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1633-1993
• Carmarthenshire, Wales, Anglican Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1560-1994
• Denbighshire, Wales, Anglican Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1994
• Flintshire, Wales, Anglican Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1994
• Glamorganshire, Wales, Anglican Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1570-1994
• Merionethshire, Wales, Anglican Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1568-1994
• Monmouthshire, Wales, Anglican Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1551-1994
• Montgomeryshire, Wales, Anglican Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1569-1994
• Pembrokeshire, Wales, Anglican Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1599-1994
• Radnorshire, Wales, Anglican Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1994
• Caernarvonshire, Wales, Anglican Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1541-1994
• Anglesey, Wales, Anglican Church Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1547-1994
  

A particularly good month if you have Welsh ancestry!

Chris

My next 5 week Scotland 1750-1850: Beyond the Old Parish Registers course starts November 2nd - see https://www.pharostutors.com/details.php?coursenumber=302. 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.

TheGenealogist adds parish records for Worcestershire, England

From TheGenealogist (www.thegenealogist.co.uk):

TheGenealogist Launches New Parish Records
TheGenealogist has added over 85,500 individuals to their Parish Records for Worcestershire to increase the coverage of this English county.

Released in association with Malvern Family History Society this is an ongoing project where high quality transcripts of Parish Records are made available for family history researchers to find their ancestors.

54,948 individuals have been added to the Worcestershire baptism records
8,703 new individuals join the marriage records for this county
3,558 individuals newly released for Worcestershire banns of marriages records
18,293 individuals added to the burials records for Worcestershire

These new records can be used to find your ancestors’ baptisms in fully searchable records that cover parishes from this part of the English midlands. With records that reach back to the mid 16th century, this release allows family historians to find the names of ancestors, their parents’ forenames, the father’s occupation where noted, and the parish where the event took place.

Parishes in this release include Abberton, Abbots Morton, Acton Beauchamp, Alderminster, Alstone, Alvechurch, Areley Kings, Bayton, Belbroughton, Bewdley St Anne’s, Oldberrow, Shipston-on-Stour, Tidmington and Tredington.

This is an ongoing project where family history societies transcribe records for their areas to be released on both TheGenealogist and FHS-Online, the website that brings together data from various Family History Societies across the UK while providing a much needed extra source of funds for societies.

These new records are available as part of the Diamond Subscription at TheGenealogist.

If your society is interested in publishing records online, please see www.fhs-online.co.uk

You can read TheGenealogist’s article: ‘Worcestershire parish records trace family events back through the centuries.’ which confirms a teenager transported to Australia on the First Fleet had Worcestershire roots, at www.thegenealogist.co.uk/featuredarticles/2020/worcestershire-parish-records-trace-family-events-back-through-the-centuries-1272/

(With thanks mto Nick Thorne)

Chris

My next 5 week Scotland 1750-1850: Beyond the Old Parish Registers course starts July 6th - see https://www.pharostutors.com/details.php?coursenumber=302. My next 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.

Latest additions to FindmyPast

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

Kent Baptisms
Over 490,000 new records covering 71 parishes have been added to our Kent baptismal collection.

Kent Marriages and Banns
Over 360,000 additional transcripts of marriage records to our Kent parish collection. 70 new parishes have been added to this record set.

Kent Burials
New burial records from 54 parishes across the county, over 378,000 of them.

Newspapers
Our newspaper collection continues to grow every week. This week, we have added 68,516 brand new pages, including one new title. The new paper covers British colonial governance in India:

Bombay Gazette from 1792, 1813-1814, 1816-1841, 1850-1856, 1858 and 1860-1868

As well as that, the following five papers have had more pages added from the listed years:

Sport (Dublin) from 1880-1896
West Bridgford Advertiser from 1915-1930
Meath Herald and Cavan Advertiser from 1885 and 1888
Beds and Herts Pictorial from 1919-1927, 1929, 1931-1935 and 1951-1958
Smethwick Telephone has been updated with editions from 1889

For further information and links, visit https://www.findmypast.co.uk/blog/new/kent-parish-records

Chris

My next 5 week Scotland 1750-1850: Beyond the OPRs course starts May 4th - see www.pharostutors.com/details.php?coursenumber=302. 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.

Northumberland and Durham records added to FindmyPast

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

Northumberland and Durham Memorial Inscriptions
The parishes covered in this latest release are:

Croxdale, St Bartholomew with records dating 1847-1986
Easington, St Mary with records dating 1698-1934
East Rainton, St Cuthbert with records dating 1863-1994
Gateshead, St Mary with records dating 1632-1898
Heworth, St Mary with records dating 1654-2017
Lamesley, St Andrew with records dating 1621-1992
Seaham, St Mary the Virgin with records dating 1696-1993
Bedlington, St Cuthbert with records dating 1699-1994
Beltingham, St Cuthbert with records dating 1760-1993
Haltwhistle, Holy Cross with records dating 1742-1908
Hebron, St Cuthbert with records dating 1718-1993
Hexham, St Andrews Cemetery with records dating 1675-1940
Ingram, St Michael & All Angels with records dating 1675-1994
Jesmond, St Andrew's Cemetery with records dating 1831-2002
Longhirst, St John the Evangelist with records dating 1864-1994
Ovingham, St Mary the Virgin with records dating 1631-1963
Rothbury, All Saints with records dating 1688-1978
Ulgham, St John the Baptist with records dating 1621-1994

All of this week's new additions have been provided by our partners at the Northumberland and Durham Family History Society.


Northumberland Baptisms
Thousands of additional transcripts of baptism records from seven Northumberland parishes have joined this collection as follows:

Bywell, St Andrew with records dating 1668-1901
Corbridge, St Andrew with records dating 1716-1747
Swinburne, St Mary with records dating 1828-1859
Widdrington, Holy Trinity with records dating 1698-1912
Wooler, St Mary with records dating 1764-1812


Northumberland Marriages
Marriage records from St Peter's Church, Cambois have been added to the site and you won’t find them elsewhere online.

Durham Baptisms
We’ve also added over 4,400 exclusive baptism records covering these four Durham parishes:

Denton, St Mary with records dating 1813-1839
Hurworth, All Saints with records dating 1561-1799
Kirk Merrington, St John the Evangelist with records dating 1579-1602
Pittington, St Laurence with records dating 1574-1622


Newspapers
Brand new to the collection::

Englishman's Overland Mail covering the years 1864-1905, 1907-1922 and 1926-1928
Halifax Guardian covering the years 1843-1844, 1847-1850, 1852-1854, 1868-1869, 1884, 1889, 1894, 1900-1902, 1912, 1918 and 1921
Midland Tribune covering the years 1881-1912

The Halifax Express has also been updated with issues from 1835-1837.

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

Ancestry offers free week's access to curated records

Ancestry (www.ancestry.co.uk) is offering a free week's access to curated collections. Here's the blurb:

Access to the records in this week’s featured collections will be free until Sunday 5th April 12pm GMT.

To view these records you will need to register for free with Ancestry.co.uk with your name and email address. We will then send you a user name and password to access the records.

After the free access period ends, you will only be able to view the records in the featured collections using an Ancestry.co.uk paid membership.

This week's collections are as follows:

• Bristol, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1918 Updated
• Bristol, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812 Updated
• Bristol, England, Church of England Burials, 1813-1994 Updated
• Bristol, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1935 Updated
• Bristol, England, Non-Conformist Baptism, Marriage and Burial Registers, 1644-1981 New
• Ireland, Dog Licence Registrations, 1810-1926 New
• Ireland, Encumbered Estates, 1850-1885 New
• Ireland, Petty Session Court Registers, 1818-1919 New
• Ireland, Prison Registers, 1790-1924 New
• London, England, Royal Holloway and Bedford College Student Registers, 1849-1931 New

Have fun!

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.

Family Tree April 2020 edition now on sale

The latest issue of Family Tree magazine (www.family-tree.co.uk) is now on sale in the UK, and includes a parish records masterclass from yours truly.

In the April 2020 issue of Family Tree, learn how to:

- Write your family history

- Take an online course

- Learn more about genealogy software

- Get started researching for FREE!

The question of how best to write our family history is one that’s right at the heart of all that we do, isn’t it? So this issue we’ve gathered together advice from an inspiring selection of ‘storytellers’ for you, each of whom has a unique take on how to help you write that must-read family history. You just need to make that start, and soon you’ll be turning that dream of writing up your family history into a reality.

Keen to learn more about the hobby you love? Of course you are. And we are delighted to announce that the Family Tree growing video collection is now available free of charge to all subscribers to Family Tree – perfect for learning about family history in your own time, at your own pace.

Wishing your research was more organised? Don’t worry we’ve got that covered too – and in the brand new digital family tree help desk we will be showing you how to get more from your family history software and your online family trees for rock solid orderly research.

Plus we have 20 helpful hints on how to begin searching for your family tree clues for FREE!

Available via https://www.family-tree.co.uk/store/latest-issue/family-tree-magazine/ and at all great newsagents providing a service to genealogy!

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.