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New Release: Northumberland Parish Records MAJOR NEW RELEASE

We have just added over 1,363,000 individuals to our Northumberland Parish Record Collection. These fully searchable records, that cover the ancient parishes of the northernmost county of England, make it easier to find your ancestors' baptisms, marriages and burials. Some of the records can take you as far back as 1560.

This release includes 903,314 individuals in Baptisms, 157,329 individuals in Marriages, and 302,378 individuals in Burials.

Within these records you can find Grace Horsley Darling, the famous lighthouse keeper’s daughter who saved a shipwrecked paddle steamer. She was born in 1815 at her grandfather's cottage in Bamburgh in Northumberland. Read more in our press release.

Find out more by reading our press release.

New War Memorials Added

New Release: Doctor & Dentist Records

We have just added over 100,000 records to our occupational collection that will allow you to find ancestors with a medical background. These records list all qualified Doctors/Dentists in the U.K. at the time, including their name, address, date of registration and qualifications.

These new releases include:

• The Medical Directory 1848
• The Medical Register 1861
• The Medical Register 1873
• The Medical Register 1875
• The Medical Register 1891
• The Medical Register 1903
• The Dentists Register 1888
• The Dentists Register 1937
• The Royal College of Physicians List of Fellows 1908
• St Thomas's Hospital List of Old Students, June 1936

New Release: York Colour Tithe Maps & Yorkshire Directories

We have just released the colour tithe maps that cover the City of York and Ainsty to its National Tithe Records collection to compliment the grayscale maps and apportionment books that are already available. In addition, we have added 23 new residential and commercial directory books to our ever expanding collection of Trade, Residential and Telephone Directories to help those with Yorkshire ancestors find their addresses. Here is a list of the new directories:

• N and E Ridings Yorkshire Directory, 1921
• The Post Office Bradford Directory, 1921
• Yorkshire, West Riding 1936 Kellys Directory
• Bradford Trade Directory 1920-1921
• Bradford District Trade Directory 1920-1921
• Kelly's Directory of Bradford 1927
• Yorkshire - Leeds & Bradford Directory circa 1861
• Hull Directory 1872
• Leeds Directory 1907
• Leeds Trade Directory 1837
• Yorkshire, History, Directory and Gazetteer 1822 (Vol.1 West Riding)
• Yorkshire, History, Directory and Gazetteer 1823 (Vol.2 East and North Ridings)
• Gent's History of Hull 1735
• Huddersfield County Borough Directory 1937
• York Directory 1897
• Kelly's Directory of North Riding Yorkshire 1897
• Sheffield and District Directory 1912
• 1822 Yorkshire North Riding Directory
• The East Riding of Yorkshire Directory 1897
• Huddersfield Directory 1937
• Hull Directory 1897
• Historic Sketch of the Town of Sheffield 1822
• Yorkshire & the Northern Province Phone Book [1900-01]
• Halifax, Huddersfield and Dewsbury 1863-1864 Mercantile Directory

You can read Nick Thorne's article on finding out more about your Yorkshire ancestors here.

New Passenger Lists go online for the 1920s era

TheGenealogist has just released four and a half million BT27 records for the 1920s. These Outbound Passenger Lists are part of the growing immigration and emigration record sets on TheGenealogist and contain the historical records of passengers who departed by sea from U.K. ports in the years between 1920 and 1929. With the addition of this decade of records, the already strong Immigration, Emigration, Naturalisation and Passenger List resources on TheGenealogist have been significantly expanded.

The fully searchable records released today will allow researchers to:

• Identify potential family members travelling together with SmartSearch. TheGenealogist's unique system can recognise family members together on the same voyage. In this case it will display a family icon which allows you to view the entire family with one click.
• Find people travelling to America, Canada, India, New Zealand, Australia and elsewhere in the Passenger lists of people leaving the United Kingdom by sea.
• See images of the original documents which were kept by the Board of Trade's Commercial and Statistical Department and its successors.
• Discover the ages, last address and where the passenger intended to make their permanent residence.
• These fully indexed records enable family historians to search by name, year, country of departure, country arrival, port of embarkation and port of destination.

Those with ancestors who travelled out of Britain will welcome this fascinating new release from TheGenealogist. It adds to their Immigration and Emigration record set which already includes passenger lists from as far back as 1896 and the valuable Naturalisation and Denization records.

In our latest article, Nick Thorne investigates these new records and finds many well known names from the time, including actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr, war poet Siegfried Sassoon, founder of the Boy Scouts Lt General Robert Baden-Powell, Liberal Politican and Prime Minister David Lloyd George and the one time leader of the Suffragette movement Emmeline Pankhurst, among others.

Read Nick Thorne's article - Ancestral Voyage

New War Memorials Added

New Release: The Sphere Newspaper

We have expanded our Newspaper and Magazine collection with the release of more editions of The Sphere that cover August 1914 to June 1919.

Using the historical newspapers and magazines resource on TheGenealogist enables researchers to follow current affairs that may have affected or concerned our ancestors at the time. Because the articles were written as events were occurring, they provide contemporary accounts of the world that our ancestors lived in and can furnish us with great insights into opinions of the time. In the case of the First World War years, covered by this release of The Sphere, we can gain information about individuals or read about situations that are similar to ones that our ancestors may have found themselves in.

The Sphere was an illustrated paper founded by Clement Shorter (1857-1926), who was also responsible for establishing the Tatler, and it covered general news stories from the UK and around the world.

Click here to read Nick Thorne's article, "The Sphere: Providing Insights into Your Ancestor's Lives"