15 August 2020

Go Get Gazette Gold

You can now search and view the UK official Gazettes for London, Edinburgh, Belfast and Dublin from Findmypast. If you haven't searched them chances are there's something of interest for your UK family history.

London Gazette 1665-2018
35 million pages charting 350 years of Government notices from the oldest continuously published newspaper in the UK.

Scotland, Edinburgh Gazette 1797-2018
Scotland’s newspaper of record for notices on insolvency, estates, deaths, companies, legal affairs, matters of state and more.

Ireland, Belfast Gazette 1922-2018
Nearly century of Belfast newspaper stories, including business notices and the Queen’s annual honours lists.

Ireland, Dublin Gazette 1750-1800
Step back into 18th-century Ireland with records covering 50 years of news from the British government at Dublin Castle.

Gazettes have been available free online for years. Search those here. Now you can search them directly from Findmypast. Note that the searches lead to an image of the printed page but the search term isn't highlighted.



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