Dig Into Your Transatlantic Roots This Findmypast Friday

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Explore new records from Peterborough to Pennsylvania.

If you have East Coast branches on your family tree, you may find a familiar name or two within over 36,000 Huguenot Society Application Papers, or within the 195,000 Roman Catholic baptism and marriage records from New York that we added this week.

Women’s Land Army Service Cards, 1939-1950

We added 36,438 Women’s Land Army service cards this week. These images and transcriptions may reveal new information about your wartime ancestors.

Huguenot Society of Pennsylvania Application Papers

Was your relative a member of the Huguenot Society of Pennsylvania? Explore these 36,438 new records to find out.

New York Roman Catholic Parish Baptisms and Marriages

Researching your New York ancestors just got easier, as we’ve added 170,637 baptisms and 125,977 marriages from the city’s Roman Catholic parishes.

Explore over 80 million pages from across the globe

We added two new English titles to our newspaper archive this week. We also updated a further existing 20 publications, taking our total page count to over 80 million. With so many fascinating titles to explore, what will you discover?

Boston Independent.

Here’s everything that’s been added this week. 

New titles:

Boston Independent and Lincolnshire Advertiser, 1879-1891, 1899-1908 

Lancing Herald, 1987-1991, 1997, 1999 

Updated titles:

Alnwick Mercury, 2003

Belfast News-Letter, 1801, 1805, 1807-1809

Birmingham Daily Post, 1983

Birmingham Mail, 1958, 1965

Bucks Herald, 1996, 1999

Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail, 1996

Huntly Express, 1918-1920

Inverness Courier, 1932-1938, 1942, 1957-1967

John o’ Groat Journal, 1952

Leamington Spa Courier, 1971-1976, 1996, 1998, 2002

Leven Mail, 1964-1965

Lincolnshire Standard and Boston Guardian, 1915, 1917, 1919, 1958, 1962, 1966-1970, 1975, 1977, 1980-1982

Liverpool Daily Post (Welsh Edition), 1991

Mid Sussex Times, 1977-1978, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2003

Newcastle Evening Chronicle, 1996

Northern Chronicle and General Advertiser for the North of Scotland, 1918-1919

Peterborough Evening Telegraph, 1953

Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette, 1995-1999, 2001, 2003

Walsall Observer, 1983

Witness (Edinburgh), 1850-1851, 1853

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