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Jewish ancestral vital records from Gibraltar have been added to JewishGen: Births 1808-1894, Marriages 1810-1883, Deaths 1829-1932.

A great database for researching old Irish villages and towns.

Online database covering both Ballarat Old and New cemeteries. Searches include Pre 1856, Cemetery Records, Book of Rememberance and Cemetery Trivia.

New website - A searchable catalogue of more than 14,000 cause papers relating to cases heard between 1300 and 1858 in the Church Courts of the diocese of York.

New website - Ireland's Military Archives covers Defence Force, Department of Defence and Army Pension Board. (Both online and offline collections available).

Findmypast.co.uk - Release of the 'Infirmity' Column for the 1911 UK Census.
Napoleonic War Records 1775-1817. (Army of Reserve 1803, Regimental Indexes 1806, Foot Guards attestation papers 1775-1817).
1861 & 1871 Scottish census indexes added (now 1841-1871 inclusive).
The 'Cheshire Collection,' comprising 10 million records covering PRs, BTs, Electoral Registers, Marriage Bonds, Nonconformist and Workhouse records 1538-1910.
Findmypast.ie - Irish Prison Registers 1790-1920. A variety of custodial institutions are covered in this 3.5 million entry database, giving comprehensive details of each prisoner.
Findmypast.com.au - Parliamentary Papers for the Colony of Victoria 1852-1869 (AIGS Index of names of ordinary people not normally shown in other sources).
New Zealand Electoral Rolls 1853-1864.
Findmypast.co.uk - The Manchester Collection. Includes apprentices, school records, prison registers, baptism, birth, death and cemetery records. Year range from 1700 to 1968.
One million Merchant Navy Seaman Records (Index cards 1918-1941) added.
Business Index Collection 1892 - 1987. An index to British shopkeepers, businessmen and women and their companies, throughout the British Isles. (From books published in the 1890s).
Militia Attestation Papers - service records 1806 - 1915.
London Probate Index Records 1750 - 1858.
New Military records: Royal Navy Officers WWI Campaign Medal Roll 1914 -1920.
Cambridgeshire Baptisms, Marriages, Burials and Banns 1538 -1950.
40,000 new Yorkshire Parish Records added.
Chelsea Pensioners British Army Service Records 1760-1913 - now complete.
Findmypast.com.au - An index to 288,526 New Zealand service personnel and reserves.
(Free for AIGS patrons and visitors to the library).

Queensland Cemetery Records 1802 -1990 (Indexed images of Cemetery transcriptions).
Tasmania Miscellaneous records 1829-1961 (images only). Includes Correctional, Court, Gaol, Occupation and Guild records.
New Zealand Probate Records 1850-1960 (images only). Note: Index available at
Archives New Zealand.
Additional Cornwall Parish Registers added 1538-1900 (images only)
Germany Births and Baptisms index, 1558-1898.
Wales, West Glamorgan Electoral Registers 1839-1925 (images only).
United States Social Security Death Index 1875 -2010.
United States Census index for years 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930.
California, San Francisco Passenger Lists 1893 -1953 (images only)
Essex Parish Registers Index, 1538-1900.
Warwickshire Parish Registers Index, 1538-1900.
1901 census index added. FamilySearch now have census indexes for 1841, 1851, 1861, 1881, 1891, 1901 and 1911 census.
Bristol Parish Register indexes 1538 -1900.
Wales Probate Extracts 1773 - 1780 (images only).
Italy - Civil Registration 1806 - 1940 (index & images).
Arizona, Arkansas, Louisiana, Missouri and South Carolina Civil War records added.
United States Civil War Soldiers Index; Vermont Militia records 1861-1867.
Norfolk BTs, Marriage Bonds, MIs, Poor Law (images only).
1901, 1891, 1861 & 1841 England & Wales Census.
England - Marriage indexes 1538 - 1973.
New Zealand Immigration Passenger Lists 1871 - 1915.
Wales BDMs.
Bishop's Transcripts for Co. Durham and Northumberland (browse images).
Ireland, Civil Registration indexes, 1845 - 1958.

Tombstone photographs from Vermilion and Champaign counties in Illinois, as well as cemeteries from other counties.

TROVE - latest additions: The Capricornian (Rockhampton 1875-1929) The Inquirer and Commercial News (Perth 1855-1901) Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate (NSW 1892-1927).
A Treasure Trove of Digitised newspapers, pictures and photos, diaries, letters, maps and more .
London, Edinburgh and Belfast Gazettes added. (Reader card needed for access).

British newspapers from 1700-1949 launched in collaboration with the British Library and Brightsolid. Searches are free but pay to view - 2 day, 30 day and 1 year subs.

Updated - Outward Passenger Lists from Melbourne to interstate and overseas (years 1908-1913 added - coverage now 1852-1913).
Index to Wills, Probate and Letters of Administration 1841 to 1925 have been digitised and can be searched and viewed/saved (PDF) through PROV online catalogue.

Free to view, Census Street Index Books for all Scottish census - 1841 to 1911.
The 1911 Scottish census (Pay to view) with free index searching.

Indexes and images for 70,000 burials from 140 local cemeteries in Kerry, Ireland.

Index (and images) of Wills and letters of administration from 1824 to 1989/99 have now been digitised and can be viewed/saved online as GIF files.

The National Library of Scotland now have 694 Scottish directories for the period 1773 - 1911. Images viewable online (searchable) or as PDF.

The 1911 Irish Census is available (with images) at The National Library of Ireland. (Searchable with free PDF images).

A selection of digitised images from photographs taken in the 1800s and early 1900s.

Nine thousand records of burials at Ryde Cemetery, Isle of Wight. Includes photos.

A Free online portal for Scottish family history records.

Now covers the counties of Durham, Kent, London & Middlesex, Surrey and East, West and North Ridings of Yorkshire (Michaelmass and Lady Day 1666 - 1672).

A searchable database of 123,000 of estimated 160,000 convicts transported to Australia.

A website listing community archives: covers England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

A new website that searches across databases that include British Newspapers, British Museum images and Charles Booth Archive (1500 - 1900).

An online source of current and historical digitised Singapore and Malaya newspapers published between 1831 and 2006.

Randy Majors has set up an AncestorSearch facility utilising the Google Custom Search.

WWI pictorial honour rolls of Australians who served in the First World War.

Covers New Zealand Newspapers from 1839 - 1945.

Hundred of thousands of individuals from all over the world participated in the American 'War Between the States.' This website is a dedication to the Australian Union and Confederate Veterans of the American Civil War of 1861 – 1865 (includes Descendants' list).

Hearth Tax indexes for London City 1662, London & Middlesex City for 1666 and Westminster 1664.

Tech Tips for Genealogists - includes managing data, researching online, photographic tips, collaborating with others etc.

Griffith's Valuation 1847-1864, Dublin City census 1851, Tithe Defaulters 1831, Electoral registers 1832-1838, Dublin Will and Grant books 1270-1858, Indexes to Irish Wills 1484 -1858, Militia Attestation Index 1872-1915 and much more . . .
Surrey Marriage Index 1500-1846.
York Marriage Bonds and Allegations Index 1613-1839.
Oxfordshire Wills Index. This dataset indexes all the surviving probate records of the bishop and archdeacon of Oxford for the period 1733 to 1857, and of the Oxfordshire Peculiars for 1547-1856. It can be searched in the National Wills Index section of British Origins.
(Free for AIGS patrons and visitors at the library).

NSW State Records shipping lists (Reels 2134-2145) have been digitised, covering the years 1838-1896. (Includes persons on bounty ships arriving at Port Phillip 1839-51).
Publicans' Licences online index 1830-1861.

Online burials from Sale Public Cemetery in Gippsland from 1855.

The Irish Archives Resource is new website which will, for the first time in Ireland, enable catalogues of many of Ireland's archival collections to be searched online in one place.

90,000 Donegal, Ireland Civil Death Records go online. (Free index access to many

Index to Immigrants Landed at Brisbane 1885 - 1917.
Queensland Wills Index 1857-1925, compiled from the original Supreme Court files.

The Clergy of the Church of England Database 1540-1835 (CCEd), launched in 1999, makes available and searchable the principal records of clerical careers from over 50 archives in England and Wales, with the aim of providing coverage of as many clerical lives as possible from the Reformation to the mid-nineteenth century.

Provides links to churchyards, graveyards and cemeteries for the benefit of those genealogists who live some distance away (worldwide).

Digitised newspapers, pictures and photos, diaries, letters, maps and more . . . .
Latest additions - newspapers from SA, WA, TAS, NSW, VIC, QLD and ACT.
London, Edinburgh and Belfast Gazettes added. (Reader card needed for access).

The Royal Glasgow Sick Children’s Hospital, covering the period 1883 to 1903. This database offers insight into the health of the poor child in the Scottish city of Glasgow, complementing databases already available for three London hospitals: the Hospital for Sick Children at Great Ormond Street, the Evelina Hospital and the Alexandra Hospital for Children with Hip Disease.

This database of about 15,000 deaths of South Australian returned servicemen from the Boer War, the World Wars and later conflicts has been extracted from 'The Last Post' section of RSL (SA) periodicals (1947 to present).

FreeCEN provides a 'free-to-view' online searchable database of the 19th century UK census returns. Latest addition, Sussex 1861 census.

UK BMD Indexes provides links to all known BMD websites, including Local Register Offices.
(Select a ' County' to see what is available).

A series of free books have been made available from Ancestry Ireland in pdf format.

Over 5000 maps from around the world representing many different time frames.

Search over 13,501,000 old New York State Historical Newspapers.