Celebrating Yorkshire Day with over 19,000 new records
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By Daisy Goddard | August 2, 2024
Explore new baptisms, monumental inscriptions and newspaper pages this Findmypast Friday.
To celebrate Yorkshire Day, we've added 19,990 new records from God's Own Country to our collection. If you've got Yorkshire ancestors, these 3,853 baptism records and 16,137 monumental inscriptions may help you unlock a mystery within your family tree.
But that's not all - we've also added over 360,000 pages to our newspaper archive, with a brand new Sussex title for you to explore. Read on for a full rundown of everything that's been added.
Yorkshire Monumental Inscriptions
These 16,137 unique transcriptions span an impressive 407 years, meaning they may help you to trace Yorkshire ancestors as far back as the 17th century.
Yorkshire Baptisms
We also added 3,853 baptism records from parishes across Yorkshire.
These new additions span from 1859 to 1924.
New pages from Sheffield to Sunderland
Our newspaper collection grew by 360,841 pages this week.
We added intermittent years between 1861 and 1917 of a brand-new Sussex title, the South Eastern Advertiser.
We also updated 29 of our existing publications, with fascinating new pages spanning back as early as 1767.
Here's everything we added to our newspaper archive this week.
New titles:
- South Eastern Advertiser, 1861-1896, 1898-1902, 1907-1915, 1917
Updated titles:
- Aberdeen Press and Journal, 2002-2003
- Arbroath Herald, 1993
- Belfast News-Letter, 1767
- Berwick Advertiser, 1960-1971
- Beverley Guardian, 1856-1857, 1995-1996, 1998-1999, 2003
- Bexhill-on-Sea Observer, 1941-1945, 1963-1964, 1967-1969, 1978-1985, 2003
- Bognor Regis Observer, 1883, 1961-1969
- Bucks Herald, 2001-2002
- Driffield Times, 1987, 1989-1990, 1998-1999
- Falkirk Herald, 1991
- Fife Free Press, 1994
- Halifax Evening Courier, 1998, 2003
- Hastings and St Leonards Observer, 1992, 1999
- Lancaster Guardian, 1853-1854, 1856, 1909, 1911-1912, 1957-1967, 1975, 1988-1990, 1992, 1998
- Leamington Spa Courier, 1999, 2001
- Louth Standard, 1963-1969
- Market Rasen Weekly Mail, 1875
- Mid-Ulster Mail, 2003
- Montrose Review, 1992
- Musselburgh News, 1992-1993
- Nelson Leader, 1992
- Peterborough Advertiser, 1991, 1993
- Rugby Advertiser, 1873, 1900, 1994-1995, 1999, 2002
- Sheffield Independent, 1909-1910, 1913
- Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette, 2000, 2002
- Sussex Express, 1981-1984
- Thame Gazette, 1876, 1983-1985, 1987-1994, 2001-2003
- The Sketch, 1925
- West Sussex County Times, 1973-1976, 1992-1994, 1996-1997, 2002
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