Explore family records you won’t find elsewhere

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By Niall Cullen | November 13, 2020

We've just released unique wartime records and added to our Yorkshire collections.

Where will your past take you this Findmypast Friday? Here's everything you need to know about our latest releases.

Warwickshire, Coventry Blitz, German Air Raids 1940-1941

This week marks the 80th anniversary of the Coventry Blitz. These records list the casualties’ names, their addresses and more.

On 14 November 1940, the centre of Coventry was devastated by the Blitz. View full-size.

You’ll find incredible images of the Coventry Blitz in the Findmypast Photo Collection. Get closer to the rubble, rescue efforts and survivors in these sometimes-shocking snapshots.

British Armed Forces, First World War Soldiers' Medical Records

We’ve added more records to this important collection. Discover the names of injured soldiers, their military details and where they were treated.

Held by The National Archives and only available online at Findmypast, the collection includes admission and discharge records from over 20 hospitals, field ambulances and casualty clearing stations during the First World War.

National School Admission Registers & Log-Books 1870-1914

We’ve released over 17,000 more Yorkshire school records. This latest tranche comes to us from our partners in Calderdale Family History Society and covers the following schools from their area:

Brighouse National
Brookfoot
Clifton
Elland Edge
Greetland
Rastrick
Southowram

Use them to find out new details about your ancestor’s childhood.

Yorkshire Baptisms

Unique to Findmypast, over 6,000 new baptism records from St Simon’s Church, Sheffield are now available to search.

Baptism records are essential for getting back further in your family tree. Many date as far back as the 1500s.

Yorkshire Monumental Inscriptions

Over 4,600 more church records from the West Riding of Yorkshire round off our new releases from ‘God’s Own County’. The churches covered are:

Charlestown, Hebden Bridge, Mount Olivet Chapel
Langfield, Mankinholes Chapel
Luddenden Foot, St Mary
Lumbutts, Free Methodist Chapel
Midgley, Methodist Providence Chapel
Mount Tabor, Moor End United Reform Church

Monumental inscriptions can reveal your ancestors' names, ages and when and where they died. Check the parish list to see all of the locations included in this extensive collection.

Newspapers

We’ve just released Somerset Guardian and Radstock Observer.

Somerset Guardian and Radstock Observer archives

Somerset Guardian and Radstock Observer, 11 November 1949.

Plus, six papers’ archives have grown with new editions as follows;

Halifax Evening Courier covering 1926-1930, 1932-1934 and 1938-1939
Kinematograph Weekly covering 1923-1925 and 1927-1930
Western Morning News covering 1894
Birmingham Daily Gazette covering 1864
Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer covering 1947
Eddowes’s Journal, and General Advertiser for Shropshire, and the Principality of Wales covering 1853

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