Britain, Phillimore Atlas and Index of Parish Registers
Now available to search and view, with a zoom capability, the Phillimore Atlas is a classic resource. It is specifically designed to help genealogists locate the precise church parishes where ancestors lived before the 1832 Victorian boundary reforms. If you don’t see the map with boundaries or the index listing years available at different locations, click “filmstrip” and move to the adjacent images.
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Coverage: England, Wales, and Scotland.
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Details: Includes parochial and topographical maps showing ancient boundaries, probate jurisdictions, and the starting dates of surviving registers.
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Records added: 13,696.
Monumental Inscriptions and Burials
Three distinct collections of death and burial records have been expanded, providing details often missing from civil registration, such as family members listed on the same headstone.
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Scotland Monumental Inscriptions: 2,249 records added (1807–2009). These transcripts often include the “Inscription” field, which can reveal military service, causes of death, and multiple generations buried in the same plot.
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Yorkshire Monumental Inscriptions: 8,080 records added (1706–2024). This update includes a significant number of records from the Heaton Baptist Highgate Cemetery in the West Riding.
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Kent Burials: 17,226 records added (1934–2000). These records, provided in association with local archives and family history societies, include images and transcripts for various parishes within the Archdeaconry of Canterbury.
Newspapers
Unusually, just two updates this past week. Maybe they took time off to celebrate reaching the 100-million-page milestone.
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Dundee Courier: Over 206,000 pages added covering 1956–1985 and 1998–2004.
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New Observer (Bristol): New pages added for 1972.