26 December 2020

Findmypast Weekly Update

New records this week

1939 Register

Over 69,000 previously redacted records added keep FMP home to the biggest and most up-to-date version of the 1939 Register for England and Wales. Records get opened up as people pass the age of 100 years or are reported as deceased. The register includes 1,607,029 entries for people born in 1920 — compare that to 971,806 births registered in England and Wales in that year according to the FreeBMD birth index!

Northamptonshire Baptisms

This latest tranche of over 36,000 records covers 40 Northamptonshire parishes between 1538 and1866 are from transcriptions by the Northamptonshire Family History Society. The largest addition is 3,528 records for Crick, St Margaret. The total collection is now 151,554 transcription records from 1538 to 1901 for 200 parishes.

Northamptonshire Burials

Over 51,000 new burial records, covering 80 parishes dating from 1538 to 1922. The total collection has 431,637 transcript records from 1440 to 2006 for 312 parishes. Peterborough St John has over 18,000 entries from 1559 to 1881.

Devon Burials

Unique to Findmypast, over 19,000 new records from Drake Memorial Park, Plymouth; Dolvin Road Cemetery, Tavistock; and Plymouth Road Cemetery. The total collection is 2,126,823 records from 1320 to 1995. Stoke Damerel has over 130,000 records.

1 comment:

Old Census Scribe said...

"The register includes 1,607,029 entries for people born in 1920 — compare that to 971,806 births registered in England and Wales in that year according to the FreeBMD birth index!"

This might just show one task people put off during a pandemic, even without a lockdown.