Month: July 2026

Here’s what’s new at Findmypast for the week ending 3 July.

Philadelphia County, Civil Marriages, 1804-1895, 7,758 records
Philadelphia County, Civil Deaths, 1793-1918, 382,968 records

Women’s Land Army Service Cards, 1939-1950, 176,224 records
1939 Register, 36,688,004 results, although some officially closed records are not displayed.

Newspapers
A total of 207,356 new pages added, from 1833 to 2005. The Young Soldier, under its current title, Kid’s Alive, published by the Salvation Army, is the longest-running children’s periodical in continuous publication in the world.

New Titles

Updated Titles with Over 10,000 Pages Added

If you have Colonial America ancestors, a new collection of early American historical and genealogical books, bringing more than 200,000 names into the searchable records at TheGenealogist, may be of interest.

Among the records are settlers, soldiers, sailors, landowners, officials, prisoners, emigrants and ordinary families whose lives formed part of a much larger national story. The new release includes material from the Pennsylvania Archives, with records relating to the Revolutionary War, including British prisoners held in Pennsylvania, officers and men of the
Pennsylvania Navy, sick soldiers in Philadelphia in December 1776, and first-hand journals connected to the Battle of Long Island.
Also included are Passenger Lists to Boston and the Bay Colony 1620 to 1640, featuring a study of the settlers, alongside the New Jersey Index of Wills 1705-1901 and Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts.

These resources are also available elsewhere, just Google.

Ancestry has been drawing on data collected by GreyPower Deceased Data, compiled by Wilmington Millennium, West Yorkshire, since 2019. The latest updates with a focus on recent years, are:

England and Wales, Death Index, 1989-2025, 8,575,941 records, about 80% of deaths in recent years.
Scotland and Northern Ireland, Death Index, 1989-2025, 1,002,447 records, about 45% of deaths in recent years.

Wiltshire, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1975
Electoral registers are great sources to fill in between census years, except for war years when registers were kept, and if the person of interest was entitled to vote. That’s 3,785,767 entries for a county which now has a population of a little over half a million. The original documents are held by the Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre in Chippenham, Wiltshire, England.

There have been no updates for Canada since June’s Find A Grave Index update.