Explore new global records this Findmypast Friday
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By Daisy Goddard | May 30, 2025

This week's new additions cover over 350 years.
This week, delve into stories of military service with new Anglo-Boer records, and understand the working lives of your ancestors with new apprenticeship additions.
City of London, Goldsmiths Apprentices and Freemen
This brand-new set contains over 30,000 workplace records, spanning 1578 to 1933.
Anglo-Boer War Records, 1899-1902
10,896 new records have been added to this existing collection of Anglo-Boer war records.
New pages from Belfast to Berwick
We added five new titles to our newspaper archive this week, and updated eleven existing publications.
New titles
- Baptist Times, 1906-1907, 1940-1947
- Derby and Chesterfield Reporter, 1831-1835, 1837-1840, 1843-1865, 1869-1870, 1872-1876, 1878-1886, 1890-1929
- Falmouth News Slip, 1881, 1889
- Halifax and District Labour News, 1909
- Isle of Axholme & Thorne Advertiser, 1877, 1889, 1894
Updated titles
- Ardrossan and Saltcoats Herald, 1911-1918
- Belfast News-Letter, 1738-1740, 1746-1747, 1750, 1752-1770, 1772, 1775-1780, 1782, 1784-1785, 1787-1800, 1802-1803, 1806, 1816-1825, 1827, 1959-1961
- Belfast Telegraph, 1893-1896
- Belfast Weekly News, 1903
- Devizes and Wiltshire Gazette, 1891-1896, 1898-1899
- Driffield Times, 1950, 1997
- Illustrated Berwick Journal, 1873, 1875-1879, 1890-1896, 1898-1899, 1910, 1912-1919, 1928
- Newry Telegraph, 1910-1915, 1950, 1954-1955, 1957-1959
- Salisbury Times, 1938-1939, 1950-1958
- Tottenham and Edmonton Weekly Herald, 1915-1916, 1918
- Wigan Examiner, 1865, 1867-1868, 1881-1883, 1885-1888, 1914-1920