Findmypast Weekly Update

Ireland, Defence Forces’ Military Archives Nominal Rolls 
487,575 records added for 1921-1922

These records, created for Irish Volunteers, Irish Republican Army, Cumann na mBan, and Na Fianna Éireann, are a mix of document types, many handwritten.

The collection comprises approximately 600 files for the IRA (this includes material on the Hibernian Rifles and the Irish Citizen Army), 165 for Cumann na mBan, and 41 for Fianna Éireann. They supported pension claims from veterans.

Guernsey, Identity Registration Forms (German Occupation)
8,958 records added for 1800-1925

New, online for the first time, are Guernsey German occupation ID and order documents, evacuee return forms, and the Channel Islands Monthly Review newsletter. ID documents include photographic portraits.

Newspapers
Six new titles and 52 updates to existing publications; altogether 298,344 new pages to discover?

New Titles Added

Title Pages Added Date Range
Tetbury Advertiser 2,882 1885–1892, 1894, 1896–1911
Oldham Evening Express 1,940 1869, 1871, 1889
North London Guardian, Stoke Newington Chronicle 14,182 1888–1916
Middlesbrough Temperance Visitor and Monthly Advertiser 1,026 1871, 1873, 1875–1883
Liverpool Citizen 1,648 1887, 1889, 1891
Hornsea Gazette 8,198 1869–1871, 1874–1884, 1886–1895, 1897–1901

Titles with More Than 10,000 Pages Added

Title Pages Added Date Range
Stamford Mercury 14,544 1912–1915, 1917–1919, 1922, 1926, 1928–1929, 1931–1936, 1938–1945
North London Guardian, Stoke Newington Chronicle 14,182 1888–1916
Sunday Post 63,686 1986–2005
Lancashire Evening Post 30,238 1993, 2005
Dundee Evening Telegraph 21,730 1996, 1999–2000
Caterham Mirror 27,328 2002–2005
Cambridge Daily News 57,976 2000–2002

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