Brand new birth, marriage, death and burial records

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By Niall Cullen | October 30, 2020

Explore new family records from London and The Bahamas this Findmypast Friday.

Do you have family connections in London or the Caribbean? This week's new releases can help you find out.

Greater London Burial Index

Spanning 1583-1665, the latest additions to this useful collection come from St Olave's, Southwark. Many of those listed would have died during the Great Plague of London.

These records can reveal useful information for your family tree. You can discover your London ancestors' names, ages, occupations, addresses and more. Check the parish list to see which other churches and timeframes are covered.

Bahamas life events

We’ve just released over 470,000 new birth, marriage and death records from The Bahamas. You can explore the entire collection or focus on each record set separately:

Bahamas Birth Index 1850-1959 - over 291,000 new records added
Bahamas Marriage Index 1868-1959 - brand new with over 80,000 records
Bahamas Death Index 1850-1958 - brand new with over 99,000 records

Covering over a century of history, discover important details for the Caribbean branches of your family tree with these essential resources.

3 top tips for searching Bahamian records

Civil registration began in The Bahamas in 1850. Before then, you’ll need parish records
Beware of name changes. San Salvador was known as Watling’s Island until 1926
Race is included in some early 20th-century records. Look out for notations of A (African), E (European) or M (Mixed)

For more useful advice, take a look at Sharon Hintze's guide to tracing Caribbean family history.

Newspapers

This week, we've added four new papers and thousands more pages to five others. Brand new to the site are:

British Australasian covering 1884-1900
Retford and Worksop Herald and North Notts Advertiser covering 1889, 1893-1897, 1899-1902, 1904-1911 and 1913-1929
Winsford Chronicle covering 1942-1958 and 1960-1963
Kinematograph Weekly covering 1904-1914

Kinematograph Weekly, 3 January 1918.

Meanwhile, we've updated the following newspapers with more coverage:

Daily Mirror from 1946, 1976 and 1997
Sunday Mirror from 1946, 1953, 1956, 1964, 1976 and 1986
Halifax Evening Courier from 1931
Eastbourne Chronicle from 1932-1949 and 1951
Cork Daily Herald from 1901

If any of our records or newspapers have helped you unlock new chapters in your family's story, we want to hear about it. Reach out to us on social media using #FindmypastFeatured to share your amazing discoveries.