Findmypast Weekly Update

Over 3.4 million additions from the Family History Federation make for a new total of over 16.7 million burials in the National Burial Index For England & Wales (and the Isle of Man.) These are unique to FMP.

You can search by first and last name, birth and burial year, place and county.

Three counties include more than one million burials, Yorkshire (West Riding), Suffolk and Essex.

County or Region	Burials
Bedfordshire	355,839
Berkshire	40,878
Breconshire	14,112
Buckinghamshire	80,010
Cambridgeshire	871,239
Cardiganshire	183,952
Cheshire	242,968
Cornwall	111,191
Cumberland	36,526
Derbyshire	143,143
Devon	3,602
Dorset	319,503
Durham	795,990
Essex	1,277,853
Glamorganshire	399,575
Gloucestershire	169,887
Hampshire	11,354
Herefordshire	93,949
Hertfordshire	137,737
Huntingdonshire	260,228
Isle Of Man	7,152
Kent	204,668
Lancashire	414,101
Lincolnshire	886,242
Middlesex	62,416
Monmouthshire	11,582
Montgomeryshire	7,785
Norfolk	143,845
Northamptonshire	319,228
Northumberland	540,343
Nottinghamshire	259,589
Oxfordshire	213,096
Radnorshire	15,743
Shropshire	175,950
Somerset	858,030
Staffordshire	788,531
Suffolk	1,317,469
Surrey	573,519
Sussex	40,108
Warwickshire	591,072
Wiltshire	809,405
Worcestershire	542,444
Yorkshire (Ainsty & City Of York)	42,431
Yorkshire (East Riding)	27,466
Yorkshire (North Riding)	641,807
Yorkshire (West Riding)	1,688,205

Also new this week, over 21,500 new Lincolnshire Monumental Inscription records from over 60  parishes. Boston has the largest addition, over 7,000 records. 

The new total is 169,624 transcription records from the Lincolnshire Family History Society.

Finally this week, 1,040 records of Caribbean, 1st Bn Royal Regiment Of Foot Deaths 1801-1811

These unique records reveal names, ranks and death details of British Army soldiers stationed in the West Indies in the early 19th century. There's an error as these are associated with the First World War subcategory.