Explore new poll card records and more this Findmypast Friday

With brand-new poll cards and updates to existing baptism, marriage, burial, and cemetery collections, endless discoveries await with our latest Findmypast Friday record releases. Plus, we've added three more newspapers to our archives - perfect for a weekend full of family history research.

Dorset Poll Cards

If your ancestors lived in Dorset in the mid-1800s, this unique collection of poll cards can help you uncover more information about their occupations, homes, and faiths.

Fermanagh Cemetery Records

We've added 1,170 more records to this Irish collection. They can reveal where and when your relatives were buried in County Fermanagh, their ages, and how to locate their graves in the listed cemetery.

National Burial Index for England and Wales

Dating from 1580 to 1851, we've added 13,181 new records to this valuable collection. Published in partnership with the Family History Federation, this bumper resource now includes over 17 million records.

Kent Baptisms, Marriages and Banns

Our Kent parish records collection has grown again, with 996 new marriage records and 21,666 new baptism records now available. If you have Kent branches in your family tree, these latest additions may unlock more discoveries.

A trio of new newspaper titles

We added 200,872 pages to our newspaper archive this week, including three brand-new titles and updates to 27 others.

New titles:

• Anglo-Celt, 1846-1849, 1858, 1864-1870
• Glasgow Argus, 1844-1846
• Hawick Advertiser and Roxburghshire Gazette, 1889-1891

Updated titles:

• Aberdeen Free Press, 1890, 1893
• Arbroath Guide, 1963-1965
• Banffshire Herald, 1970-1979, 1981-1982, 1986
• Border Standard, 1880, 1882-1885
• Buteman, 1855, 1857-1870, 1872-1874, 1876-1878, 1893-1894
• Cork Constitution, 1879-1883
• Falkirk Express, 1883-1884, 1889
• Glasgow Free Press, 1852, 1854-1855, 1857
• Glasgow Gazette, 1844, 1846-1848, 1854, 1858, 1861
• Greenock Advertiser, 1860, 1869
• Hamilton Herald and Lanarkshire Weekly News, 1911-1913
• Inverness Courier, 1986
• Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette, 1876-1887
• Monmouthshire Merlin, 1885-1891
• Montgomeryshire Express, 1871-1874, 1879
• Northern Warder, 1864, 1867, 1873
• Orcadian, 1889-1900
• Peterhead Sentinel and General Advertiser for Buchan District, 1874-1881, 1908-1913
• Pick-me-up, 1888-1908
• Pontefract & Castleford Express, 1986-2004
• Portobello Advertiser, 1885
• Stirling Journal and Advertiser, 1879-1880, 1884, 1886, 1888, 1890
• Stonehaven Journal, 1874-1879, 1903
• The Glasgow Sentinel, 1866-1868
• The Reporter (Stirling), 1864, 1880, 1882-1884
• Yorkshire Evening Post, 1983-1986, 1990
• Yorkshire Evening Press, 1886

About the author

Niall Cullen