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Ireland, Irish Memorials Association Published Baptisms
Ireland, Irish Memorials Association Published Marriages
From the Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead in Ireland: transcribed baptism (942 records) and marriage (3,704 records) taken from parish registers and newspaper announcements. Collected between 1892 and 1934.

England & Wales, Crime, Prisons & Punishment
Improvements mean you can now explore these 6,954,719 records with new place of conviction and court martial search fields.

Newspapers
The most substantial new titles are the Wiltshire News (1913-1962) with 23,162 pages, the Coventry Reporter and General Advertiser (1886-1911) with 8,312 pages, followed by the Walsall Football News (1920-1939) with 6,996 pages, and the Fireside Companion (1879-1888) with 5,462 pages.
Updates with more than 10,000 pages are:

Title Pages Year Range
Bedford Record 33,428 1924-1965
Wiltshire News (new title) 23,162 1913, 1916, 1918-1929, 1938-1945, 1949, 1960, 1962
Irish News and Belfast Morning News 14,896 1896, 1912-1916, 1918
Home News for India, China and the Colonies 14,192 1871-1878
Weekly Times & Echo (London) 12,352 1868-1885, 1902-1907
Illustrated Berwick Journal 12,324 1928-1957
Northern Chronicle and General Advertiser for the North of Scotland 12,092 1920-1929, 1940-1949, 1953-1969

 

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