Findmypast Friday: Discover New Wartime Records and More

 I received this information from Findmypast today:

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There are over 40,000 new additions to explore this week.

We've added a brand new collection of British Baptist records covering 122 years this week, and updated two existing record sets.

Uncover untold military stories with First World War Diaries, and highlight women's contributions with new Women's Land Army records.

We also added some exciting titles to our newspaper archive this Findmypast Friday.

Britain, Baptist Handbooks 1832-1955

This week's new record sets consists of 22,594 images and transcriptions taken from British Baptist handbooks.

British West Indies Regiment war diaries, WW1

Covering 1914 to 1918, we added 5,026 new images to our collection of war diaries from the British West Indies Regiment.
Women's Land Army

Uncover your ancestors' wartime contributions with 12,096 new Women's Land Army service records - these records all feature women born in 1925.

New pages from Clacton to County Clare

375,410 new pages joined our newspaper archive this week.

There are 16 new titles and updates to 28 existing publications for you to explore.

New titles:

• Cavalry Journal, 1906-1913
• Charity Organisation Reporter, 1881, 1883-1884
• Clacton Graphic and East Coast Illustrated News, 1899, 1902-1938, 1940, 1953-1956
• Clare Champion, 1917
• Gardener’s Magazine, 1826-1843
• Irish Homestead, 1911-1913, 1915, 1917-1919
• La Belle Assemblée, 1806-1823, 1825-1827, 1830-1840, 1842-1846, 1848-1862, 1864-1865, 1867, 1869
• Local Preachers Magazine, 1856-1870, 1872-1874, 1876-1877
• London City Mission Magazine, 1841-1848, 1851-1854, 1857-1864
• Pall Mall Budget, 1870-1879, 1889-1894
• Peel City Guardian, 1890-1896, 1898-1909, 1912-1918
• Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art, 1870-1879, 1882, 1884-1885, 1890-1899, 1901, 1904-1908, 1910-1921, 1924-1926, 1929-1938
• The Garden, 1900-1901, 1904-1911, 1913-1915
• Time & Tide, 1930-1935, 1937-1938
• To-day, 1894-1899
• Vanity Fair, 1869-1887, 1889-1913

Updated titles:

• Aberdeen Evening Express, 2001
• Aberdeen Herald, 1832-1843
• Banffshire Journal, 1950-1951
• Bell’s Weekly Messenger, 1873-1883, 1890-1895
• Brechin Advertiser, 1983, 1988
• Bucks Standard, 1920-1922
• Caithness Courier, 1988-1989
• Cork Examiner, 1918-1919
• Cumberland and Westmorland Advertiser, and Penrith Literary Chronicle, 1880-1881, 1883, 1887-1888
• Eastern Evening News, 1889
• Folkestone Daily News, 1906-1909
• Hampshire Chronicle, 1871-1879, 1891-1894, 1911
• Howdenshire Chronicle, 1890-1891
• Illustrated Police Budget, 1897-1898, 1901-1902, 1904-1907, 1910
• Irish Independent, 1927
• Leighton Buzzard Observer and Linslade Gazette, 1987
• Londonderry Standard, 1902, 1904, 1909, 1924, 1960-1962
• Louth Standard, 1970, 1976, 1980
• Montrose Review, 1989
• Morayshire Advertiser, 1870-1877
• Oxford Times, 1871, 1913-1918
• Poor Law Unions’ Gazette, 1866-1867
• Smethwick Telephone, 1932-1933, 1935-1938
• The Queen, 1961, 1963
• Warder and Dublin Weekly Mail, 1910, 1914, 1931, 1933
• Western Daily Mercury, 1884
• Wexford Independent, 1903
• Wokingham Times, 1996-1997

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