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Findmypast Friday: Search over 18 million US Obituary Notices, Irish Cemetery records and Yorkshire Monumental Inscriptions
This week’s Findmypast Friday sees substantial updates to collections from the United States, Ireland and England, including;
United States Obituary Notices
This mammoth index has recently been updated with over 18.2 million new entries covering all 50 American states. Now containing over 50 million records, each result consists of a transcript that will reveal a combination of the deceased’s
- Name
- Birth year
- Birth date
- Death year
- Death date
- Obituary text
- Place
- Source link
Ireland Billion Graves Cemetery Index
New additions from all 32 Irish counties have been added to the Ireland Billion Graves Cemetery Index. BillionGraves is the largest online resource for GPS-tagged headstone and burial records. Each transcript will reveal the birth date, death date and burial location of your ancestor. Images links to the Billion Graves website are also included.
By partnering with BillionGraves, Findmypast aim to make all the cemetery records held on their site available to subscribers. Indexes covering England, Scotland, Wales, the USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand are also available and, all of which are updated regularly.
Yorkshire Monumental Inscriptions
Over 28,000 new records covering over 300 years of Yorkshire history are now available to search. The new additions date from 1663-2008 and cover the following West Riding parishes;
- Greetland, Methodist Chapel
- Mytholmroyd
- Norland
- Northowram
- Ogden
- Ovenden
- Pecket Well
- Queensbury
- Ripponden
- Rishworth
- Scammonden
- Shelf
- Sowerby
- Sowerby Bridge
Newspapers
With five brand new papers and additional pages for a further nine, Findmypast’s newspaper collection continues to grow. Titles published online for the first time include:
- Cotton Factory Times covering 1885-1888, 1891-1895, 1897-1899, 1902-1911 and 1913-1920
- Blackpool Gazette & Herald covering 1881-1886, 1888 and 1890-1893
- Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette covering 1881-1886
- Kenilworth Advertiser covering 1900
- Bridgend Chronicle, Cowbridge, Llantrisant, and Maesteg Advertiser covering 1888
Findmypast have also added thousands on new pages to the following titles;
- Civil & Military Gazette (Lahore) from 1889-1890
- Leicester Evening Mail from 1946-1954, 1956-1959 and 1963
- Kinematograph Weekly from 1945, 1950 and 1952
- Widnes Examiner from 1883-1884, 1891, 1899, 1903, 1905, 1907, 1912-1914 and 1916
- Runcorn Examiner from 1883-1884
- Warrington Examiner from 1904
- St. Helens Examiner from 1883, 1900
- Oxford Chronicle and Reading Gazette from 1871, 1874-1892, 1894-1895, 1900-1902, 1904-1906, 1908-1909, 1912, 1914, 1916 and 1927-1929
- Fulham Chronicle from 1888-1904, 1907-1912 and 1923-1933
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