Genealogy Snippets 11 July 2012

Genealogy Snippets are short news items that I think you would want to hear about sooner rather than later. 1. Family Search has just put online 76 million new records, those guys never do things in small numbers !! Amongst … Continue reading

Birmingham Burials now online

FindMyPast has announced that they have added 12,000 new burial records to their collection. The records come from Handsworth Cemetery, Birmingham and they span 1909 – 2010. www.findmypast.co.uk   Technorati Tags: Findmypast,Handsworth,Cemeteries,Birmingham,Genealogy,Family History … Continue reading

Docklands Parish Records Online

Here are the last of todays additions from Find My Past. This time it is 2 parishes added to the Docklands Collection. St Dunstan Stepney 1680-1689 10,027 entries and St Matthew’s 1790-1799 4,159 entries. So lots to look at this … Continue reading

Yorkshire Parish Records Online

Christening transcripts for the Yorkshire parishes of Oughtibridge, Norton Lees, Ecclesfield, Ecclesal, Netherthorpe, Attercliffe, Sheffield and St Pauls 1599 to 1996 have been added to FindMyPast’s parish collection. These records amount to an addition of 86,806 records. These records are … Continue reading

Dorset Parish Records Online

Gosh FindMyPast has been busy !! Today they have released parish register transcripts for Dorset. Here is what is now available. 7,169 Christenings 1559 – 1894  Whitchurch Canonicorum, Lydlinch, Morden, Portesham, Frampton, Dorchester St Peter and Hamoon. 704 Marriages 1560 … Continue reading