Find your Welsh family this St David’s Day

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By Alex Cox | February 28, 2020

More Welsh burial records and Hampshire parish records are now online to help you in your family history quest.

We’ve added over 100,000 new records to Findmypast this week to help you journey back in time.

Wales Billion Graves Cemetery Index

Are your ancestors buried in Wales? There are over 36,000 new records to this existing collection, ideal for helping you find where your forebears were buried, in addition to birth and death dates. Each entry comprises a transcript and a link to the headstone with the GPS location of the burial. Sometimes a headstone includes other family members’ names too, so be sure to check the link.

Hampshire Baptisms

We’ve got over 31,000 new baptisms for you to explore from 5 additional parishes. There’s a transcript and an accompanying image, provided by Surrey County Council. A perfect place to start searching for your Hampshire family.

Is your relatives’ church included? Check our updated parish lists.

Hampshire Marriages

With over 26,000 new marriage records across 4 new parishes, now is the time to find out more about your Hampshire ancestors. Who did they marry? Where did they marry? They can yield further information too, such as parents’ names, witnesses and occupations.

Hampshire Burials

At journey’s end, you may find your ancestors’ final resting place in the Hampshire Burials. We’ve added over 24,000 new records across 5 new parishes. You could discover their age at the time of death and the parish they were buried in.

Newspapers

We’ve expanded our collection this week to include four new political titles and a brand new Irish paper. Our latest additions are:

Freedom (London) covering the years 1886-1905
Communist (London) covering the years 1920-1922
Meath Herald and Cavan Advertiser covering the years 1845-1850, 1852-1853, 1857-1859, 1861-1871, 1873-1884, 1886-1887, 1889-1896

We’re continuing to add pages to existing titles too, with more coverage for England, Scotland, Ireland, India and Canada:

Wakefield Express has been updated for the years 1870 and 1910
Leinster Reporter has been updated for the years 1859-1877, 1879 and 1889-1896
Kilkenny Moderator has been updated for the years 1841, 1845, 1852-1880, 1882-1884, 1886-1899
Hamilton Daily Times has been updated for the years 1873-1874, 1876-1878, 1880, 1883, 1885, 1916, 1919
Toronto Daily Mail has been updated for the years 1882-1883, 1885, 1889, 1891-1893, 1895
Chester Chronicle has been updated for the years 1872-1879, 1881-1882, 1897
Friend of India and Statesman has been updated for the years 1864, 1877-1883
Dumfries and Galloway Standard has been updated for the year 1890
Richmond & Ripon Chronicle has been updated for the years 1856 and 1858
Fife News has been updated for the year 1882
Sport (Dublin) has been updated for the year 1929
Madras Courier has been updated for the year 1817
Somerset Standard has been updated for the years 1900-1914, 1971-1976
Kent & Sussex Courier has been updated for the years 1951-1965
Daily Herald has been updated for the years 1962-1964
Aberdeen Press and Journal has been updated for the year 1985
Toronto Saturday Night has been updated for the years 1899 and 1910
Westminster Gazette has been updated for the year 1909