Findmypast Weekly Update

This week’s update features over 6,600 new photographic records, additions to monumental inscriptions for Middlesex and Yorkshire, and more than 200,000 newspaper pages.

Passenger Ship Photographs: 5,528 photographs, prints, paintings and photos of models covering the years 1870-1960. Ships in this set include Maurentania, Aquitania, Titanic, Athenia, Olympic, and Britannic. Many are not the large trans-Atlantic liners. There are many photos of the same ship.

Findmypast Photo Collection: 1,465 photos of England, Wales, and Scotland have been added for the period 1880-1900. There are now 14,112 photos in the collection

Yorkshire Monumental Inscriptions: 2,702 new inscriptions from 1635-2009. The total of transcriptions is now 341,589

Middlesex Monumental Inscriptions: 1,541 new inscriptions from 1653-2007. The total for the collection is now 87,469, many with linked images.

Newspaper Archive Expansion: 202,203 additional pages.

New titles are:

  • Dean Forest Mercury, 1889
  • Evening Journal, 1890
  • Harrogate and Claro Times and Knaresborough Guardian, 1907
  • Leyland Guardian, 1986-2004
  • Life, 1879-1905
  • Provincial News (Lydney), 1910
  • St. Andrews Gazette, 1914-1915
  • Trade Unionist, 1892

Updated titles are:

  • Cambridge Daily News, 1905
  • Cheltenham Journal and Gloucestershire Fashionable Weekly Gazette, 1824
  • Cork Examiner, 1856, 1877–1880, 1887–1893
  • Faringdon Advertiser and Vale of the White Horse Gazette, 1862–1865, 1867, 1869, 1873, 1877, 1897, 1900, 1923–1942
  • Glasgow Evening Times, 1882–1883, 1885–1887, 1889–1893
  • Grays & Tilbury Gazette, 1884–1888, 1890–1896, 1898, 1909–1911, 1913–1920
  • Illustrated Police Budget, 1893–1896, 1908–1909, 1911–1912
  • Maidstone Telegraph, 1930–1938, 1958
  • Morning Advertiser, 1873–1876, 1892–1895, 1899
  • Salisbury Times, 1910–1937, 1940–1949, 1960–1962

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