Durham Bishops Transcripts updated on FindmyPast

The latest additions to FindmyPast (www.findmypast.co.uk):

Durham Bishop's Transcripts Baptisms
Over 741,000 records have been added to our collection of Durham Bishop's Transcripts of Baptisms. Bishop's transcripts are contemporary copies of parish registers and usually contain the same vital details found in parish registers such as baptism place, baptism date, residence, patent's names and father's occupation.

Durham Bishop's Transcripts Marriages
More than 296,000 transcripts of marriages are now available to search. Including both images and transcripts, these records can provide you with your ancestor's marriage date, marriage place, father's name, witness's names and corresponding details for their spouse.

Durham Bishop's Transcripts Burials
Over 554,000 new burial records have been added to our collection of Durham Bishops transcripts. Search these records to discover your ancestor's burial place, year of death and religious denomination. The records are copies of original parish registers and contain records of both Anglican and Quaker burials.

National Burial Index for England & Wales
The National Burial Index continues to grow with over 410,000 additional records. This latest update includes new records covering a variety of locations across Essex, Bradford, Durham and North Yorkshire. Each record consist of a transcript that will reveal your ancestor's birth year, death year, burial date, burial place and denomination.

International Records Update – Jamaica
Jamaica is the latest country to join or rapidly expanding collection of international records. This week's update includes five new sets encompassing over 2.4 million parish and civil register entries for births, baptisms, marriages, deaths and burials dating back to the mid-17th century. The Jamaican collections currently available to search include:

• Jamaica Birth and Baptism Index 1752-1920
• Jamaica, Church of England Parish Baptisms 1664-1880
• Jamaica, Civil Birth Registrations
• Jamaica, Civil Death Registrations
• Jamaica, Civil Marriage Registrations

British & Irish Newspaper Update
This week we have added 121,734 new pages to our collection of historical British newspapers. We have three new titles covering the west London area, the Ealing Leader, the Hayes & Harlington Gazette and the Hammersmith & Shepherds Bush Gazette. The publication of these titles is made possible thanks to our ongoing partnership with Reach plc (formerly Trinity Mirror). We also have extensive updates to the Reading Evening Post this week, with just under 40,000 pages added. We have also added the year 1986 to the Staines & Ashford News.

Further details and links at https://blog.findmypast.co.uk/findmypast-friday-april-19th-2634977647.html

Chris

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Lincoln born Jamaican planter and slave owner papers digitised

Beinecke Library has digitised diaries and papers of Thomas Thistlewood, a Jamaican planter and slave owner, who was born in Lincolnshire, England, in 1721. From the library's blog (http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/collections/highlights/thomas-thistlewood-papers), the following is the material that has been digitised:

The papers consist of diaries, weather journals, commonplace books, reading notes and other material documenting the life, work, and intellectual interests of the Jamaican planter and slaveowner Thomas Thistlewood. Thistlewood's 37 diaries contain daily entries dating between 1750 and 1786. Topics include Thistlewood's work as an overseer, and later owner, of slaves, including his methods of assigning work, alloting provisions, and discipline; his personal and sexual relationships with several, including his lengthy relationship with Phibbah; and slave rebellions and rumors of rebellions, including Tacky's Revolt (1760). Thirty-four annual weather journals containing daily summaries, including precipitation measurements. Diaries from 1764 through 1767 also contain separate lists of daily Fahrenheit temperatures and rainfall amounts.

To access the material, visit http://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Search/Results?lookfor=OSB_MSS_176&type=CallNumber&sort=title

(With thanks to Cyndi Ingle)

Chris

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Several new releases on Ancestry

Ancestry's been a bit busy - the following may be of use for your ancestors in Norfolk, or in various countries across the world:

• U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S. Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil, 1942-1949
• Jamaica, Church of England Parish Register Transcripts, 1664-1879
• England, Norfolk Non-conformist Records, 1613-1901
• Canada, South African War Land Grants, 1908-1910
• New South Wales, Australia, Passengers Arriving at Port Phillip

Full details via http://www.ancestry.co.uk/cs/reccol/default

Chris

Now available for UK research is the new second edition of the best selling Tracing Your Family History on the Internet: A Guide for Family Historians, whilst my new book British and Irish Newspapers is also now out. And please consider purchasing the great new version of Caledonia by The Libations at 79p via www.caledonia2014.com - all profits go to help fund Scottish foodbanks

Kabristan Archive - Ireland, Ceylon and India gravestone indexes

I came across a website earlier that was new to me, entitled The Kabristan Archives: Ireland - Ceylon - India Genealogy, which may be of interest.

Located at http://kabristan.org.uk, it has a section called the Kabristan Indexes, which carries a series of indexed cemetery transcriptions from India, Ireland, Jamaica and Sri Lanka - to access a full transcript you need to place an order at £4 per look up. The site is run by Eileen Hewson, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and area representative for Ceylon/Sri Lanka and Kashmir on behalf of the British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia.

The Irish indexes, my main interest in the site, cover counties Cavan, Donegal, Fermanagh, Leitrim, Mayo, Meath, Monaghan, Sligo, Tyrone, as well as indexes of the memorial inscriptions detailed in The Forgotten Irish - Memorials of the Raj. The details returned in the Irish indexes is name and cemetery only, but that's half the battle dealt with!

Have fun!

Chris

Now available for UK research is the new second edition of the best selling Tracing Your Family History on the Internet: A Guide for Family Historians, whilst my new book British and Irish Newspapers is also now out. And FindmyPast - please reinstate the original Scottish census citations on your new site.

Jamaican Church of England records

Family Search has recently added a Jamaican Church of England parish registers index from 1664-1880 to its databases - previously the records were available as waypointed digitised images only.

Search the collection at https://familysearch.org/search/collection/show#uri=http://hr-search-api:8080/searchapi/search/collection/1827268

(With thanks to the FamilySearch Wiki site on Facebook at www.facebook.com/familysearchwiki?sk=wall)

Chris