Ancestry adds Newcastle upon Tyne electoral registers and German records

Ancestry (www.ancestry.co.uk) has added the following collection to its English records holdings:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England, Electoral Registers, 1741-1974
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=60918
Original data: Newcastle electoral registers. Tyne & Wear Archives, Newcastle upon Tyne, England.

Please note that no registers were produced during the war years 1916, 1917 and 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943 and 1944. In this collection, the registers for the years 1960-1964 are also missing.
Note: This index was created using text recognition software. Records were not transcribed.

For further details please visit the collection's web page.

If you have German ancestry, the following datasets have also been added:

• Teltow-Fläming, Germany, Marriages, 1874-1923
• Schwäbisch Hall, Germany, Deaths, 1876-1950
• Mittweida, Germany, Marriages, 1876-1921
• Altenburg, Germany, Births, 1874-1901
• Teltow-Fläming, Germany, Births, 1874-1903
• Mittweida, Germany, Births, 1876-1905
• Schwäbisch Hall, Germany, Marriages, 1876-1922
• Altenburg, Germany, Marriages, 1876-1920
• Mittweida, Germany, Deaths, 1876-1950
• Teltow-Fläming, Germany, Deaths, 1874-1968
• Schwäbisch Hall, Germany, Church Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1559-1829
• Mittweida, Germany, Residence Registers, 1895-1905
• Schwäbisch Hall, Germany, Births, 1876-1903

Further details at http://www.ancestry.co.uk/cs/recent-collections

Chris

For details on my genealogy guide books, including A Beginner's Guide to British and Irish Genealogy, A Decade of Irish Centenaries: Researching Ireland 1912-1923, Discover Scottish Church Records (2nd edition), Discover Irish Land Records and Down and Out in Scotland: Researching Ancestral Crisis, please visit http://britishgenes.blogspot.co.uk/p/my-books.html.