Findmypast Friday: Discover Medical Professionals In Your Family Tree

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Thousands more records from University College London and over 211,000 newspaper pages are waiting for you to explore this week.

Is the medical profession rooted deep in your family tree? Published in partnership with University College London, two new, extensive resources can help you trace and understand the doctors and other medical figures who practised in Britain generations ago. We've also expanded our newspaper archive with over 211,000 new pages.

Britain, The Medical Registers

Did your ancestor work in the medical field during the Victorian era? Following the landmark Medical Act of 1858, which sought to distinguish qualified practitioners from "quacks," these registers provide a definitive annual account of every person legally entitled to practice medicine, surgery, and midwifery in the United Kingdom.

Explore this brand-new set of 393,288 records to uncover more about their qualifications and career, and find out more about the world of medicine in Victorian Britain. The records span 1859-1895.

London (and Provincial) Medical Directory 1847-1869

This new set of fascinating medical directories, comprising 511,311 records, contains the names, addresses, qualifications, and appointments of every surgeon, physician, and general practitioner residing in London and its immediate vicinity.

Nine more newspaper titles now online

Bolton Guardian, Linlithgow Advertiser, and Times Illustrated are among the latest publications to join our ever-growing newspaper collection.

New titles:

• Burnham Gazette and Visitors’ List & Highbridge Advertiser, 1896–1897, 1903–1904, 1948–1949, 1951–1974, 1983
• Bolton Guardian, 1871
• Hexham Herald and Northumbrian Gazette, 1868–1879, 1889, 1896, 1910
• Linlithgow Advertiser, 1989–1997, 1999–2004
• Illustrated Travelling World, 1890
• People’s Journal (Argyll and the Isles), 1988
• Times Illustrated, 1897–1898, 1904
• Stafford & Stone Chronicle, 1987
• Vanity, 1915

Updated titles:

• Aberdeen Evening Express, 2005
• Boston Guardian, 1872–1873
• Brackley Advertiser, 1950
• Bromley & West Kent Mercury, 1954
• Buxton Advertiser, 1876, 1888, 1893, 1912
• Cornish Telegraph, 1868, 1912
• Dewsbury Reporter, 1910, 1912
• Dunstable Gazette, 1877
• Eltham & District Times, 1917–1919
• Evening Gazette (Aberdeen), 1890
• Evesham Journal, 1912
• Exeter Flying Post, 1779–1781
• Galway Observer, 1965
• Glasgow Herald, 1917
• Govan Chronicle, 1878
• Haverfordwest & Milford Haven Telegraph, 1875
• Hertfordshire Express, 1874–1876, 1880, 1907
• Howdenshire Chronicle, 1889, 1892, 1896, 1912, 1939
• Hunts Guardian, 1870, 1884, 1886
• Irish Weekly and Ulster Examiner, 1900, 1966
• Jedburgh Gazette, 1887, 1964
• Knaresborough Post, 1879, 1986
• Leamington, Warwick, Kenilworth & District Daily Circular, 1920–1929, 1932–1959
• Leighton Buzzard Observer and Linslade Gazette, 1909
• Liverpool Weekly Courier, 1911
• Llais Y Wlad, 1877
• Louth Standard, 2001
• Macclesfield, Stockport, & Congleton Chronicle, 1842
• Montgomery County Times and Shropshire and Mid-Wales Advertiser, 1952
• National Reformer, 1860, 1892
• Newcastle Courant, 1813, 1817, 1875
• North Devon Gazette, 1910–1911, 1913, 1919
• North West Evening Mail, 1912, 1915, 1919
• Rotherham Advertiser, 1893, 1897
• Scarborough Mercury, 1873, 1875, 1877, 1880, 1885
• Selby Times, 1918–1919
• Sleaford Standard, 2003
• South Notts Echo, 1924–1926
• Southport Independent and Ormskirk Chronicle, 1861, 1871–1872
• Staffordshire Advertiser, 1871, 1874, 1880–1881, 1884–1890
• Stalybridge Reporter, 1918–1919
• Suffolk Chronicle, 1899–1911, 1913–1950, 1952–1965
• The Queen, 1965–1966
• The Referee, 1919
• Totnes Weekly Times, 1910–1915
• Vigilance Record, 1932
• Wakefield Express, 1992–1995
• Wellingborough News, 1879–1880, 1889
• Western Daily Mercury, 1860, 1876
• Widnes & Runcorn Chronicle, 1920, 1930, 1955
• Wolverhampton Chronicle and Staffordshire Advertiser, 1829, 1873–1874, 1877, 1889, 1896–1897
• Wood Green and Southgate Weekly Herald, 1966
• Yorkshire Evening Post, 1955

Why do women rarely appear in the records?

In this bonus episode of A Family History of Wartime Women, host and expert genealogist Jen Baldwin explores how those small clues — a line in the 1939 Register, a registrar‑office marriage, a maternity home address — can reveal the pressures shaping a woman’s life during war.

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