The following announcement was written by Findmypast:
This week there are over 58,556 new additions to check out.
There’s no better way to connect with the lives of your ancestors than by finding them within our school and occupation records. This week we’ve updated our collection of Staffordshire school admission registers and our Scottish Occupations & Professions
to make it easier than ever to glean fascinating insights.
We’ve also added over 13,000 First World War records and 272,757 newspaper pages.
National School Admission Registers & Log-books 1870-1914
We improved this set with new images spanning over 150 years.
Shugborough Tunnel, Staffordshire Wikimedia Commons
Browse these new additions from Staffordshire today and find images you’ve never seen before.
Scotland, Occupations & Professions
There are 38,123 brand-new Scottish occupational records for you to discover. These unique new additions span back as far as the 17th century.
British Rolls Of Honour and Nominal Rolls
We also added 13,948 new First World War records from Leicestershire and Rutland.
The River Soar West of Cossington in Leicestershire – Wikimedia Commons
These transcriptions document wartime Honour and Nominal Rolls.
Over 270,000 new pages to discover…
This week we added 272,757 new newspaper pages that’s taken our total page count up to a huge 77 million – explore new additions from Blyth to Ballymena now.
New titles:
Peterborough Evening Telegraph 1949-1965, 1967, 1987
Updated titles:
Ballymena Weekly Telegraph 1990
Banffshire Herald 1918
Blyth News 1974-1981
Bridlington Free Press 1987-1989
Buchan Observer and East Aberdeenshire Advertiser 1985, 1987-1989, 1993
Buckingham Advertiser and Free Press 1986
Eastbourne Gazette 1994
Fleetwood Weekly News 1999
Gainsborough Evening News 1988
Halifax Daily Guardian 1910, 1913-1914, 1918-1921
Halifax Evening Courier 1966-1967, 1986
Hemel Hempstead Gazette and West Herts Advertiser 1985, 1987, 1989
Hucknall Dispatch 1984, 1997, 1999
Lincolnshire Standard and Boston Guardian 1986
Littlehampton Gazette 1982-1984, 1986, 1988-1989
Retford, Worksop, Isle of Axholme and Gainsborough News 1986-1987, 1996
Scarborough Evening News 2001
Join us on Friday at 4pm
For a very special Fridays Live, Findmypast’s research specialist Jen Baldwin is joined by Helen Antrobus, Assistant National Curator at the National Trust, to delve into the incredible stories unearthed during Findmypast’s collaboration with National Trust.
Last week, we added 30,587 brand new records – explore the full release for yourself today.