This week’s focus is Roman Catholic records from England, Scotland and Philadelphia.
The 22,586 English Catholic BMBs, all from 1914, are for Birmingham, London, Northampton and Nottingham.
For Scotland, there are 1,829 birth, marriage and death records from 1934, 1949 and 1974.
For Philadelphia, there are “a handful of brand-new images and transcriptions for you to explore.”How many is a handful? 38!
The week saw the addition of over 300,000 digitized newspaper pages from the British Newspaper Archive initiative—pre-1950 additions are highlighted below.
New titles:
- Whitley Bay Guardian, 1987-1990, 1992, 1996, 1998-1999
Updated titles:
- Bexhill-on-Sea Observer, 1942
- Bicester Review, 1995, 2001-2002
- Bucks Advertiser & Aylesbury News, 1995, 1998-1999, 2002-2003
- Crawley and District Observer, 1996-1999
- Football Echo (Sunderland), 1907-1910, 1912-1915, 1924-1939, 1949, 1951-1955
- Halifax Evening Courier, 1999-2002
- Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail, 1978-1979, 1998-2000
- Hastings and St Leonards Observer, 1996
- Hebden Bridge Times, 1883, 1897, 1911, 1978, 1992-1993, 1996-1997
- Horncastle News, 1996, 1998-2002
- Lincolnshire Standard and Boston Guardian, 1984, 1999, 2001-2002
- Littlehampton Gazette, 1940-1954, 1978, 1987, 1993-1997, 2000, 2002-2003
- Morecambe Guardian, 1961-1963, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1998
- Spilsby Standard, 1997-1999, 2001-2002
- West Sussex County Times, 1998, 2003
- West Sussex Gazette, 1967-1968, 1996-1997, 1999, 2001-2003
- Worthing Herald, 1998-1999, 2002