Friday, March 20, 2026

Findmypast Friday -- Discover Your Ancestor's University Days With Our Latest Releases

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This week, we're bringing you scholarly records and Irish newspapers for St Patrick's Day.


Find ancestors who attended University College London in our latest record releases, and delve deeper into their higher education. Search student registers, diploma examinations, and more, alongside more brand new newspaper pages from across Ireland to mark St Patrick's Day.

College of Preceptors, Student Registers and Diploma Examinations, 1881-1931

If your ancestor trained as a teacher during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, you may find them listed in this unique collection of student registers and diploma examination records. Spanning 1881-1931, these detailed records can help you find out more about teacher training, including examination dates and results, schools attended, and the dates diplomas were awarded.

University of London School Register 1831-1890

Delve into this unique collection of 19th-century school registers for the University of London (later University College London) to learn more about your ancestors who attended school at this pioneering academic institution. School registers can help you to uncover new details about your scholarly ancestors, such as their age, the dates they attended school, their father's name and their address.

Celebrate St Patrick's Day with new newspapers

Four new Irish titles, updates to a further 29 titles, and over 215,000 more pages are ready for you to explore.

New titles:
  • Blarney — 1886
  • Kilkenny People — 1895, 1898, 1905–1919
  • Magee’s Weekly Packet — 1777–1785, 1787–1790, 1792–1793
  • PAT — 1881–1882
  • World (Dublin) — 1840–1851
Updated titles:
  • Anglo-Celt — 1850–1857, 1871–1873, 1890–1896
  • Belfast Linen Trade Circular — 1852–1856, 1858–1877, 1880–1884
  • Belfast Telegraph — 2015–2018
  • Catholic Standard — 1963
  • Cork Free Press — 1910–1915
  • Cork Weekly Herald — 1874–1881, 1883–1884, 1887–1896
  • Dublin Evening Telegraph — 1883–1885
  • Dublin Hospital Gazette — 1845–1846, 1854
  • Eastern Post — 1926
  • Evening Irish Times — 1918
  • Evening News (Dublin) — 1863–1864
  • Galway Weekly Advertiser — 1830–1839
  • Irish Field — 1870–1880, 1888–1896, 1911
  • Irish Textile Journal — 1886–1892, 1895–1896
  • Larne Reporter and Northern Counties Advertiser — 1885
  • Morning Mail (Dublin) — 1871–1879, 1896
  • Nenagh Guardian — 1878–1879, 1885–1899
  • North Antrim Standard — 1890–1906, 1908–1920, 1922
  • Northern Standard — 1872–1880, 1882–1884, 1887–1890, 1892–1896, 1914, 1916–1919
  • Peterborough Advertiser — 1975
  • Saturday Record (Ennis) — 1898–1929, 1931–1936
  • Skibbereen & West Carbery Eagle — 1870, 1872–1874, 1876–1882, 1884–1885, 1887–1921
  • Tuam Herald — 1873–1878, 1883–1909, 1911
  • Warder and Dublin Weekly Mail — 1902–1909
  • Waterford Mail — 1870, 1872–1896
  • Waterford Mirror and Tramore Visitor — 1808–1809, 1813, 1827–1836, 1841–1843
  • Waterford News — 1872–1880, 1882, 1884, 1886–1896
  • Western People — 1913–1920
  • Westmeath Guardian and Longford News-Letter — 1835–1840
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