Findmypast Friday: Uncover Stories of Service Overseas

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Explore new military birth, marriage and death records this Findmypast Friday.

We bolstered our collection with over 100,000 new birth, marriage and death records this week. These new additions will help you to understand the lives of military ancestors who served abroad in the 19th and 20th centuries.

British Armed Forces and Overseas Deaths and Burials

Spanning two centuries, these 5,827 searchable records are from a non-Catholic cemetery in Rome.

British Armed Forces and Overseas Browse

We've also added 95,472 images to this browse-only set of birth, marriage and death records. Is your ancestor featured within these overseas military additions?

New pages from Brighton to Birmingham

247,238 pages joined our newspaper collection this week, with five new titles and updates to 11 existing publications. Here's everything that's been added.

New titles:

• Birmingham Pictorial and Dart, 1892-1895, 1897-1900
• Brighton Times, 1878-1880, 1885-1886, 1894, 1964
• Edmonton and Tottenham Weekly Guardian, 1884-1886, 1888-1906
• Le Follet, 1846-1900
• Nowlen’s Weekly Chronicle, 1859-1862, 1864-1871, 1873-1876, 1878-1879, 1881-1883

Updated titles:

• Antigua Standard, 1891-1908
• Dewsbury Reporter, 2003
• Ladies’ Field, 1898
• Londonderry Standard, 1888-1900, 1921-1922, 1926, 1963-1964
• Morecambe Visitor, 1986
• Preston Pilot, 1856, 1862-1864, 1867-1870
• Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art, 1856, 1900
• West Ham and South Essex Mail, 1901-1915
• Wetherby News, 1990-1992, 1994-1996, 1998, 2002-2004
• Wiltshire News, 1914-1915, 1917, 1930-1937, 1946-1948, 1950, 1952-1955, 1957-1959, 1961
• Woodford Times, 1882-1889

More on this topic:  english records  military records   historical newspapers

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