18 April 2020

Findmypast digs for new records

It's all about burials and graves this week from Findmypast.

Surrey Burials
Major additions, over 450,000 new records from the West Surrey Family History Society. There are now 141 parish burial locations in this collection which has 506,899 total burials.

Greater London Burial Index
The new records cover 10 parishes across Greater London.

ParishYearsNumber of records
Edmonton1557 - 16768,926
Enfield, St Andrew1813 - 18666,710
Southwark, St Thomas1614 - 185420,918
St Andrew By The Wardrobe1726 - 18524,426
St Andrew Undershaft1808 - 18492,042
St Anne & St Agnes1813 - 1853569
St Benet Paul's Wharf1619 - 185310,046
St Dunstan in the West1726 - 185616,752
St Mary Magdalen Old Fish Street1540 - 18535,289
St Michael Wood Street (including St Mary Staining)1813 - 1820923

The total collection now has over 2 million records in 314 locations. Some of the larger and better-known burial grounds are: Bermondsey, St Mary Magdalen 1549 - 1932 (107,723 records), St Andrew Holborn 1726 - 1929 (104,685 records), Newington, St Mary 1620 - 1878 (102,966 records), Spa Fields Burial Ground 1778 - 1849 (91,232 records), Bunhill Fields 1788 - 1853 (47,621 records).

Canada Billion Graves Cemetery Index
Almost 100,000 additional records — there are now over 900,000 entries. For each there's a transcript with a link to an image of the headstone with GPS details. 

United States Billion Graves Index
A further 2.2 million GPS tagged cemetery records.


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