Findmypast Weekly Update

A bit tardy with this as I catch up with developments.

Britain, Baptist Handbooks 1832-1955

22,594 images and transcriptions taken from British Baptist handbooks. Britain is in the title, but listings and statistics for international congregations are included.

British West Indies Regiment war diaries, WW1

5,026 new images added to the collection of war diaries from the British West Indies Regiment.

Women’s Land Army

An additional 12,096 new Women’s Land Army service records are added for women born in 1925.

New and Updated Newspaper Pages

375,410 new pages joined the newspaper archive this week.  updates to 28 existing publications.

New titles:

 16 new titles. The earliest is from 1806, and 11 are from the 19th century. Some cover special interests like fashion and gardening.

  • Cavalry Journal, 1906-1913
  • Charity Organisation Reporter, 1881, 1883-1884
  • Clacton Graphic and East Coast Illustrated News, 1899, 1902-1938, 1940, 1953-1956
  • Clare Champion, 1917
  • Gardener’s Magazine, 1826-1843
  • Irish Homestead, 1911-1913, 1915, 1917-1919
  • La Belle Assemblée, 1806-1823, 1825-1827, 1830-1840, 1842-1846, 1848-1862, 1864-1865, 1867, 1869
  • Local Preachers Magazine, 1856-1870, 1872-1874, 1876-1877
  • London City Mission Magazine, 1841-1848, 1851-1854, 1857-1864
  • Pall Mall Budget, 1870-1879, 1889-1894
  • Peel City Guardian, 1890-1896, 1898-1909, 1912-1918
  • Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art, 1870-1879, 1882, 1884-1885, 1890-1899, 1901, 1904-1908, 1910-1921, 1924-1926, 1929-1938
  • The Garden, 1900-1901, 1904-1911, 1913-1915
  • Time & Tide, 1930-1935, 1937-1938
  • To-day, 1894-1899
  • Vanity Fair, 1869-1887, 1889-1913

Updated titles:

Updates to 28 existing, mostly local publications from Scotland, England and Ireland, with 11 having 19th-century content.

  • Aberdeen Evening Express, 2001
  • Aberdeen Herald, 1832-1843
  • Banffshire Journal, 1950-1951
  • Bell’s Weekly Messenger, 1873-1883, 1890-1895
  • Brechin Advertiser, 1983, 1988
  • Bucks Standard, 1920-1922
  • Caithness Courier, 1988-1989
  • Cork Examiner, 1918-1919
  • Cumberland and Westmorland Advertiser, and Penrith Literary Chronicle, 1880-1881, 1883, 1887-1888
  • Eastern Evening News, 1889
  • Folkestone Daily News, 1906-1909
  • Hampshire Chronicle, 1871-1879, 1891-1894, 1911
  • Howdenshire Chronicle, 1890-1891
  • Illustrated Police Budget, 1897-1898, 1901-1902, 1904-1907, 1910
  • Irish Independent, 1927
  • Leighton Buzzard Observer and Linslade Gazette, 1987
  • Londonderry Standard, 1902, 1904, 1909, 1924, 1960-1962
  • Louth Standard, 1970, 1976, 1980
  • Montrose Review, 1989
  • Morayshire Advertiser, 1870-1877
  • Oxford Times, 1871, 1913-1918
  • Poor Law Unions’ Gazette, 1866-1867
  • Smethwick Telephone, 1932-1933, 1935-1938
  • The Queen, 1961, 1963
  • Warder and Dublin Weekly Mail, 1910, 1914, 1931, 1933
  • Western Daily Mercury, 1884
  • Wexford Independent, 1903
  • Wokingham Times, 1996-1997

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