Dorset Poll Cards
This Dorset collection from the mid-1800s, 671 poll cards, is FMP’s headline addition this week. Sourced from the Dorset FHS, these are partial transcripts, with more on the images of the original. You won’t find a Mary, Joan or Ann.
Kent Parish Registers: Over 21,666 baptism records and 996 marriage records added to this extensive Kent collection. The totals are now over 3.6 million baptism records and over 3.2 million marriage and banns records.
National Burial Index (England & Wales)
An additional 13,181 records from 1580 to 1851, bringing the total to over 17 million.
Fermanagh Cemetery Records
For Irish researchers, 1,170 new records have been added for a total of 20,768 records with transcriptions and headstone images.
The Newspaper Archive
The newspaper holdings have grown by 200,872 pages this week, with three completely new titles and updates to 27 existing publications.
New Titles:
• Anglo-Celt (1846–1849, 1858, 1864–1870)
• Glasgow Argus (1844–1846)
• Hawick Advertiser and Roxburghshire Gazette (1889–1891)
Updates
• Monmouthshire Merlin
• Montgomeryshire Express
• Pick-me-up
• Pontefract & Castleford Express
• Yorkshire Evening Press
• Aberdeen Free Press
• Arbroath Guide
• Banffshire Herald
• Border Standard
• Buteman
• Falkirk Express
• Glasgow Free Press
• Glasgow Gazette
• Greenock Advertiser
• Hamilton Herald and Lanarkshire Weekly News
• Northern Warder
• Orcadian
• Peterhead Sentinel and General Advertiser for Buchan District
• Portobello Advertiser
• Stirling Journal and Advertiser
• Stonehaven Journal
• The Glasgow Sentinel
• The Reporter (Stirling)
• Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette