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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"

New Poll Books & Electoral Registers

The new records cover 35 different registers of people who were entitled to vote in Wakefield, West Yorkshire and other constituencies situated in Hampshire, Gloucestershire, Somerset and New Westminster in Canada. They are taken from the official lists produced to record who was entitled to vote in the various parliamentary elections. These records have been added to our Poll and Electoral Roll collection which covers millions of records.

Also being released is The Roll of Mayors of the Borough and Lord Mayors of the City of Leicester, which can take the researcher all the way back to ancient times! It records the names of men holding that office from the 10th year of the reign of King John in 1209, all through history to 1935.

You can read our latest article on the evolution of parliament and election eligibility here.

Over 100,000 new Parish Records

We have added over 100,000 individuals to our Parish Record Transcripts for Worcestershire in partnership with Malvern Family History Society. This expands our coverage and brings the total to over 1.8 million individuals for Worcestershire.

Durham Parish Records MAJOR NEW RELEASE