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Search new school and parish records

Where will your past take you this Findmypast Friday? Find out with Findmypast’s latest new additions.

National School Admission Registers

Findmypast have added over 9,000 new records from Halifax, Yorkshire to their collection of National School Admission registers. This vast collection spans the years 1870 to 1914 and contains over 9.3 million transcripts and images from 41 counties across England and Wales

Search these records to discover where your ancestor went to school, their birth date, admission year and the name of the school they attended. You may also be able to discover their parents’ names, father’s occupation, exam results and any illnesses that led to absence from school.

Staffordshire Parish Registers

Explore thousands of new baptism, marriage, banns and burial registers from four parishes in Staffordshire, including;

• • Caverswall, St Peter
  • Chebsey, All Saints
  • Checkley, St Mary & All Saints
  • Tipton, St Mary

Revealing essential names, dates, locations and family details, these new Staffordshire resources form part of the largest collection of UK parish records available anywhere online.

Newspapers

15 new papers have just joined the site along with updates to seven existing titles. Brand new to the Findmypast archives are:

• • Aurora Borealis covering 1821
  • Constitution (London) covering 1818-1819
  • Empire News & The Umpire covering 1884-1895 and 1897-1911
  • General Evening Post covering 1801-1813 and 1818-1822
  • Instructor and Select Weekly Advertiser covering 1810-1811 and 1813-1814
  • London Evening Post covering 1805-1806
  • London Journal and Pioneer Newspaper covering 1845-1846
  • London Moderator and National Adviser covering 1813, 1818-1819
  • London Phalanx covering 1841-1843
  • Observer of the Times covering 1821-1822
  • Public Cause covering 1811-1812 and 1814-1816
  • Standard of Freedom covering 1850-1851
  • Tailor & Cutter covering 1866-1868 and 1879-1918
  • True Sun covering 1832-1837
  • Wooler’s British Gazette covering 1819

While year coverage has been expanded in:

• • Boxing from 1913
  • Englishman from 1803-1809, 1812-1813, and 1816-1834
  • Morning Herald (London) from 1853 and 1863
  • Oxford Chronicle and Reading Gazette from 1918 and 1920
  • Press (London) from 1860
  • Sporting Chronicle from 1874, 1891, 1897, 1902, 1904-1905 and 1921
  • Swindon Advertiser from 1913