Findmypast Weekly Update

Focus this week is on Derbyshire, with 450,00 new parish records. They are mainly transcripts, a few include images. They are not only from the Established Church (CofE). Baptist, various Methodist, Presbyterian and Independant congregations are included.

Baptisms
231,270 new records from across the county for the years 1524 to 1991. The total is now 1,237,175 records for 324 parishes

Marriages
114,294 added records, now totalling 776,313. Many of the early records have no last name for the bride.

Burials
108,015 new records, from 1539 to 1997.

These collections are published in partnership with Derbyshire Family History Society, the Family History Federation and FamilySearch.

Newspapers
The week also saw 155,862 pages added to eight titles.
Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette, 1780, 1794
Croydon Express, 1912
Huddersfield Daily Examiner, 1970, 1972, 1977-1979
Lichfield Post, 1991
Liverpool Echo, 1968
London Daily Chronicle, 1886, 1889, 1923, 1926, 1929
South Wales Echo, 1912
Wexford and Kilkenny Express, 1900

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