Aug 6, 2021

Findmypast Adds New School and Parish Records

The following announcement was written by FindMyPast:

Search new school and parish records

Where will your past take you this Findmypast Friday? Find out with Findmypast’s latest new additions.

Findmypast have added over 9,000 new records from Halifax, Yorkshire to their collection of National School Admission registers. This vast collection spans the years 1870 to 1914 and contains over 9.3 million transcripts and images from 41 counties across England and Wales

Search these records to discover where your ancestor went to school, their birth date, admission year and the name of the school they attended. You may also be able to discover their parents’ names, father’s occupation, exam results and any illnesses that led to absence from school.

Staffordshire Parish Registers

Explore thousands of new baptism, marriage, banns and burial registers from four parishes in Staffordshire, including;

Caverswall, St Peter

Chebsey, All Saints

Checkley, St Mary & All Saints

Tipton, St Mary

Revealing essential names, dates, locations and family details, these new Staffordshire resources form part of the largest collection of UK parish records available anywhere online.

Newspapers

15 new papers have just joined the site along with updates to seven existing titles. Brand new to the Findmypast archives are:

Aurora Borealis covering 1821

Constitution (London) covering 1818-1819

Empire News & The Umpire covering 1884-1895 and 1897-1911

General Evening Post covering 1801-1813 and 1818-1822

Instructor and Select Weekly Advertiser covering 1810-1811 and 1813-1814

London Evening Post covering 1805-1806

London Journal and Pioneer Newspaper covering 1845-1846

London Moderator and National Adviser covering 1813, 1818-1819

London Phalanx covering 1841-1843

Observer of the Times covering 1821-1822