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BRAND NEW RECORDS

 

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1939 Register Update

 

Over 37,000 “closed records” have been opened up and are now available to search. Search today and find out what your ancestors were doing on the eve of WW2. Discover exactly what they did for a living, maps of where they lived and even who their neighbours were.

 

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Cheshire Registers & Records

 

Explore registers and records from the English county of Cheshire. This collection currently comprises five titles including parish registers, local histories and funeral certificates.

 

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Cumberland Registers & Records

 

This collection currently comprises one title: Monumental Inscriptions in the Graveyards of Brigham & Bridekirk, 1666-1876. This title was published in 1878. The preface notes that ‘the whole of these inscriptions were copied with great care, and the same care has been extended to the printing of them’.

 

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Derbyshire Registers & Records

 

This collection currently comprises one title: The Brave Men of Eyam, 1665-1666. The preface of this title states that the statistics regarding deaths, dates, and some leading incidents are historical, although ‘the object of the book is to tell, in a popular form, the tale of a “mighty woe”’.

 

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Devon Registers & Records

 

This collection currently comprises one title: Parish Registers of Hemyock, 1635-1837. Published in 1923, the registers Include baptisms, marriages, and burials, as well as bishop’s transcripts from 1602, 1606, 1609-11, 1617, 1625, 1626, 1633, and 1636. Additionally, a list of the parish’s rectors and chaplain priests is included.

 

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EXTRA! EXTRA!
Did your ancestors make headlines?

 

Historical newspapers hot off the press this week:

Newspapers Oxfordshire Weekly News covering the years 1869-1895 and 1898-1926

We’ve added even more coverage to these papers:

Newspaper Years added
Irish Independent 1995-1997, 2000
Belfast Telegraph 1915-1916, 1918-1919
Liverpool Echo 1987-1988

 

 

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Brand new site features

 

Our 1939 register search results now show potential related death records as well as census returns.

 

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1939 Register: The Perfect Place to Start Your Family History

 

The 1939 Register is the perfect jumping off point for your British family history research. This easy-to-follow masterclass explains exactly what the Register is and how it can help you discover your hometown and family in wartime England and Wales.

 

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From the archives

 

Search more than 6.7 million indexed electoral registers covering England & Wales. These records from 1920 will include the men and women who first gained the right to vote in 1918 and will reveal your ancestor’s name, address and occasionally their age or occupation.

 

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Resurfaced Records