The following is an announcement written by Findmypast:

There are over 20,000 parish and workhouse records for you to explore this week.

Our collection of English birth, marriage and death (BMD) records grew this Findmypast Friday. We added almost 10,000 BMDs for Leicestershire spanning a century, as well as 395 baptism, marriage and burial records for Rutland in the East Midlands. 

There are also 11,213 new Lincolnshire workhouse records for you to explore – these fascinating transcriptions and images cover 64 years.

From records to newspapers, read on to see everything that we’ve added this week.

Lincolnshire, Workhouse Guardians’ Minutes

This week’s biggest update consists of 11,213 workhouse records from the English county of Lincolnshire.

These new additions cover the years 1837 to 1901, so may help to shed light on the lives of your 19th-century ancestors.

Leicestershire baptism, marriage and death records

There are also 9,595 Leicestershire parish records for you to discover. 

These new additions span 100 years of England’s history.

Rutland baptism, marriage and burial records

Rounding off this week’s trio of updates we have new baptism, marriage and burial records from the ceremonial county of Rutland.

Rutland baptism record from 1924.

There are both images and transcriptions available for these 395 new records.

New pages from the Lancashire coast

A brand new Blackpool title – the West Lancashire Evening Gazette – has joined our newspaper archive this week. 

West Lancashire Evening Gazette, 28 April 1986.

We also updated 20 existing publications, with a total of 289,279 exciting new pages added.

Here’s everything we added this Findmypast Friday: 

New titles:

West Lancashire Evening Gazette, 1983, 1985-1986, 1993-1998, 2001-2003

Updated titles: 

Belper News, 1912, 1990, 1997-1998, 2000-2003

Bexhill-on-Sea Observer, 1936-1938, 1970-1971, 1996-1997, 1999

Bicester Review, 1987, 1993

Bridlington Free Press, 1997, 2002

Buxton Advertiser, 1858, 1860, 1894, 1968, 1990, 1997-1998, 2000-2003

Cycling, 1920

Eastwood & Kimberley Advertiser, 1897

Halifax Evening Courier, 1996

Harrogate Advertiser and Weekly List of the Visitors, 1997

Hucknall Dispatch, 2001

Lancing Herald, 1993, 1998

Leighton Buzzard Observer and Linslade Gazette, 1998

Littlehampton Gazette, 1998-1999

Melton Mowbray Times and Vale of Belvoir Gazette, 1897, 1966-1968, 1970

Morecambe Visitor, 1896, 1899

Newton and Earlestown Guardian, 1973-1978

Ripley and Heanor News and Ilkeston Division Free Press, 1889, 1970-1971, 1974, 1992, 1999, 2002-2003

South Yorkshire Times and Mexborough & Swinton Times, 1981

Todmorden & District News, 1992-1994, 1996

Whitby Gazette, 1993, 1997