Findmypast Weekly Update

This week, FMP’s burial and baptism collections receive a boost with over 250,000 new records, plus more than 200,000 fresh newspaper pages.

Nottinghamshire Monumental Inscriptions
Years covered: 1317–2022
Records added: 151,459

The content depends on the inscription. A few also have images of the monument. About half are from Nottingham.  From the work of the Nottinghamshire Family History Society.

Middlesex Baptisms, Harleian Society
Years covered: 1539–1837
Records added: 101,348

The total for all Middlesex Baptisms is now 656,651 records. About the Harleian Society.

Newspapers
FMP gets its newspapers from the sister site, the British Newspaper Archive. This week’s additions include four new titles. The earliest starts in 1826; most recent is 2004..

Title Date Range
Highland News and Football Times 16658 pages, new title 1907-1917, 1920-1935, 1937-1938, 1940-1949
Peterborough Evening Telegraph 43386 pages 1988, 1990, 1998
Montrose Review10220 pages 2000-2004
English Gentleman 794 pages, new title 1826-1827
Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 9896 pages 1888-1896
Heckmondwike Herald 14594 pages 1997-2002
Yorkshire Evening Post 35742 pages 1991-1992, 1998
Croydon Review and Railway Time Table 7444 pages new, title 1880-1883, 1885, 1887, 1889, 1891-1895
Bicycling News 2944 pages, new title 1886, 1893
Midland Athlete 1852 pages 1883, 1886
Building News 3020 pages 1892
Southern Times and Dorset County Herald 3754 pages 1921-1929
Hunts Post 2148 pages 1893-1896, 1898-1899
Cannock Advertiser 12146 pages 1894-1896, 1898-1899, 1910-1913, 1925-1950
Voice of the People (Glasgow) 104 pages, new title 1883
Blaydon Courier 8770 pages 1910-1913, 1930-1939, 1950-1955
Football Echo (Sunderland)294 pages 1950
Lincolnshire Free Press 26220 pages 1851, 1853-1854, 1856, 1858-1870, 1872-1873, 1882-1893, 1900-1907, 1915-1918, 1921-1929, 1934-1938, 1940-1942
Athletic News 2030 pages 1914-1920

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