Findmypast Weekly Update

 For St Andrew's Day on the 30th, FMP adds

Scotland Monumental Inscriptions

Exclusive, over 600,000 records added to this collection for over 800 burial grounds across every county in Scotland. This collection now has over 1 million records. 
The bar chart shows the number of records for each 40 year period centred on the year shown, Time takes its toll, an estimated 15% of the records have no death date and many of those no last name.

Caribbean First World War Rolls of Honour

New records added from rolls of honour from The Bahamas, Barbados, St Kitts & Nevis, and Bermuda.

Many of the men listed in this collection served in the British West Indies Regiment. These records,  5,944 in total, can reveal their names, service numbers and, sometimes, how, when, and where they died.

United States, World War II Casualty Lists

A collection of 139,757 U.S. Navy records sourced from printed records at the US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). Find out names, ranks, and parents' details. This is an initial release, records for other arms of the military services will be added over time.

British Army, Coldstream Guards 1800-1947

Now these 128,628 records for this elite regiment are in their own standalone set. Each record features a transcript and a full-color, digitized copy of the original record. The sources are:

• Casualties 1939-1947
• Courts Martials 1800-1815
• Decorations and Rewards 1914-1918
• Decorations and Rewards 1939-1948
• Discharges 1884-1947
• Enlistments 1884-1947 (lacking 1915)
• Missing in Action 1939-1945
• Nominal Roll of 1st Battalion men serving in Sudan 1932-1933
• Officers’ Record of Services 1861-1915
• Shanghai Defence Force 1927-1928
• South African Campaign 1899-1902
• Succession Book of 2nd Battalion officers 1797-1926
• Succession Book of Officers 1826-1936
• Record of Campaigns 1854 to 1895