Findmypast Weekly Update

Findmypast has added 5,827 new records to the British Armed Forces and Overseas Deaths and Burials collection, bringing the total to over 2.7 million. These records are a consolidation of over 200 series from The National Archives (TNA) and 29 from the GRO. A related browse collection has also been expanded.

A quarter-million pages have been added to the newspaper collection this week. FMP no longer details these additions, but according to The British Newspaper Archive, the source for FMP, there are five new titles and updates to 11 existing publications.

Titles with over 10,000 pages added this week:

Newspaper Title Pages Added Year Range
Banffshire Advertiser 13,836 1920-1923, 1925-1929, 1939-1949, 1960-1969, 1980
Wolverhampton Express and Star 21,432 2004
Coalville Times 18,346 1918-1949, 1952-1961
Linlithgowshire Gazette 11,840 1990, 1994-1999
Pawnbrokers’ Gazette 19,474 1838, 1840-1849, 1860-1868, 1870-1894, 1929
Banffshire Herald 21,264 1919-1969
Brighton Standard and Fashionable Visitors’ List 11,348 1878, 1880-1881, 1886, 1888-1889

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