Explore new records from Scotland and New Zealand
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By Daisy Goddard | February 7, 2025
There are over 200,000 additions to discover this week.
Remembering the lives of your global ancestors got easier this week, as we've added 207,233 cemetery records from across New Zealand and 27,070 Scottish monumental inscriptions.
From Christchurch to Glasgow, these new additions may reveal key details about the lives and deaths of your ancestors.
A new South London title also joined our newspaper collection this Findmypast Friday.
New Zealand Cemetery Records
If you've got Kiwi roots, there are cemetery records from nine New Zealand districts - including Tasman, Christchurch and Clutha - for you to discover.
Scotland Monumental Inscriptions
We added records from two Glasgow cemeteries to this set.
Whether they lived to an old age or had their life cut short by war, your ancestor may be commemorated in these records.
From Bromley to Ballymena...
We've added 307,800 new pages to our newspaper archive this week, with a brand new Bromley addition and updates to 67 existing titles.
New titles:
Bromley Local Guide and Advertiser, 1910-1919, 1930
Updated titles:
Ampthill & District News, 1947–1959
Ballymena Weekly Telegraph, 1993, 2004
Banbridge Chronicle, 1876, 1968
Banbridge Leader, 1994, 2003–2004
Batley News, 2004
Bedfordshire Times and Independent, 1986, 1993–1995
Belper News, 2004
Berwick Advertiser, 1983, 1986, 2004
Beverley Guardian, 1889
Bridlington Free Press, 1859–1860, 1890–1896, 1899–1905, 1914–1923, 1991, 2004
Buckingham Advertiser and Free Press, 1984
Bucks Advertiser & Aylesbury News, 1996, 2004
Buxton Advertiser, 2004
Campbeltown Courier, 1989
Carrick Times and East Antrim Times, 2003–2004
Chorley Guardian, 2004
Coalville Times, 1950
Coleraine Times, 2003
Commercial Daily List (London), 1868
Cumberland Pacquet, and Ware’s Whitehaven Advertiser, 1873, 1875–1876, 1894
Daventry and District Weekly Express, 2004
Derbyshire Times, 1995
Dewsbury Reporter, 2004
Durham County Advertiser, 1831, 1834–1837, 1854, 1856
Edinburgh Courant, 1705–1708
Evening News (Waterford), 1915–1916
Farmer’s Gazette and Journal of Practical Horticulture, 1897–1899, 1910–1919
Fleetwood Weekly News, 2004
Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail, 1981
Hawick News and Border Chronicle, 1952
Hemel Hempstead Gazette, 1980
Horncastle News, 2004
Inverness Courier, 1981
John o’ Groat Journal, 1994
Kinematograph Weekly, 1949, 1961–1965
Kirkintilloch Herald, 1986
Lancing Herald, 2003
Leamington Spa Courier, 1980
Lincolnshire Standard and Boston Guardian, 1992
Littlehampton Gazette, 1981
Liverpool Courier and Commercial Advertiser, 1911–1912
London Daily Chronicle, 1855
Londonderry Sentinel, 1984, 1986, 2004
Luton News and Bedfordshire Chronicle, 1987
Matlock Mercury, 1989, 2003–2004
Mirror (Trinidad & Tobago), 1903
Motherwell Times, 1988
North London News, 1865
Northampton Mercury, 1991, 2004
Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph, 1989
Northern Warder and General Advertiser for the Counties of Fife, Perth and Forfar, 1873
Oban Times and Argyllshire Advertiser, 1989
Pontypool Free Press, 1865–1866
Portadown Times, 2004
Portsmouth Evening News, 1977
Public Ledger and Daily Advertiser, 1830, 1912–1915, 1917–1918
Retford, Worksop, Isle of Axholme and Gainsborough News, 1991, 2004
Skegness Standard, 1989, 1991–1992
South Eastern Advertiser, 1903–1906
Stratford-upon-Avon Herald, 1973
Swindon Advertiser, 1915
Warrington Examiner, 1910–1911
Warwick Courier, 2003–2004
Watford Observer, 1910, 1917–1918
Wellington Journal, 1871–1875, 1910, 1912–1915, 1918–1964
Wiltshire Times and Trowbridge Advertiser, 1957–1963
Worthing Herald, 1981
