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New Scottish Records Available To Search This Findmypast Friday
Findmypast is home to the fastest-growing collection of Scottish family records online.
If you’ve got Scottish ancestors, you’ll want to see what’s new this Findmypast Friday. These latest record releases are only available online at Findmypast.
We’ve added almost 69,000 additional records to this collection, covering 11 parishes across Scotland. Baptism records can reveal excellent details for your family tree including:
- Your ancestors' names
- Their birth and baptism dates
- Their parents’ names
- Where they were baptised
- The names of their godparents or sponsors
- Whether they were classed as legitimate or not. If the baptised child's parents were not married, the church listed them as illegitimate
- Additional remarks about them – this may include notes highlighting if they were converted to or from another religion or when they were confirmed or married
Once you’ve found your ancestor’s baptism record, it’s time to find the next milestone event in their life. To help with this, we’ve added over 55,000 congregational records to our Scottish Roman Catholic collection. Congregational records include registers of confirmations and communion recipients, as well as parish lists, seat rentals, and lists of people who converted to Catholicism. The records can reveal even more details for your family tree including:
- Your ancestors' names
- The event date, year and event type
- Where the event took place
With over 27,000 new marriage records across 11 parishes, there's never been a better time to find out more about your Scottish Catholic ancestors. Who did they marry and where did they marry? Marriage records tell the stories, with revealing details like:
- Your ancestors’ names
- Their ages and birth years
- Their spouses' names
- Where and when they were married
- Their fathers' names
The Scottish Roman Catholic collection is rounded off with brand new burial records from eight parishes, nearly 9,000 of them. Burial records provide details on the final resting place of your ancestors including:
- Their names
- Their birth, death and burial dates
- Their ages when they died
- Their occupations
- Where they were buried
We've added over a million names to this collection in partnership with the British Library. As voting lists were compiled annually, you're likely to find your ancestor featured more than once. Your search could reveal:
- Your relatives' names and addresses
- A description of their property
- Their occupations or ages (sometimes)
- The names and addresses of their landlords
More than 59,000 records have been added to our cemetery index for Scotland. Cemetery records not only help you discover where and when your ancestor died, they can also provide you with important information on birth and marriage dates.
Our partnership with BillionGraves aims to save you time and money as you search for your family's gravesites. BillionGraves is the largest resource of its kind online, with over 12 million GPS-tagged headstone and burial records.
This week, we've added five brand new titles to our newspaper collection:
- Wakefield and West Riding Herald covering the years 1839, 1844, 1853-1871, 1873-1896 and 1898-1913
- South Yorkshire Times and Mexborough & Swinton Times covering the years 1877-1897, 1899-1942 and 1956-1959
- Link covering the years 1915-1921
- Wakefield Free Press covering the years 1860-1891 and 1894-1900
- Wakefield Advertiser & Gazette covering the years 1906-1925
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