Dublin street directories and English wills added to FindmyPast

As a consequence of the recent purchase of Origins.net by FindmyPast (www.findmypast.co.uk), a major new collection for those with Dublin ancestry is now available on the site, in the form of Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory, from 1845-1900. The collection is available at http://search.findmypast.com/search-world-Records/ireland-thoms-directory-1844-1900.

The full collection of directories from Origins is listed at www.origins.net/help/aboutio-irishdirs-coll.aspx, so expect to see further additions in due course.

Several more English wills databases have also been added from the Origins site:

• Oxfordshire Wills index 1516-1857
• York Peculiars Probate Index 1383-1883
• Somerset Medieval Will abstracts 1385-1558
• Hertfordshire Probate records index 1415-1858
• England & Wales Published Wills & Probate Indexes, 1300-1858
• Surrey, Prerogative Court of Canterbury will abstracts 1736-1794
• London & Middlesex Will Abstracts 1700-1704
• Lancashire Wills Proved at Richmond 1457-1812,
• London, Court of Husting will abstracts 1258-1688

Full details on these at http://blog.findmypast.com/2014/over-256000-new-wills-and-probate-records-as-well-as-over-86000-pages-of-irish-directories-and-social-history-records/

Chris

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