Trace your ancestors' travels with new photographs

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By Daisy Goddard | July 11, 2025

Explore snapshots of Britain's past this Findmypast Friday.

We've added over 6,600 photographs this week, including a brand new collection from British and US passenger ships. We've also updated our Monumental Inscriptions for Middlesex and Yorkshire.

Passenger Ship Photographs

Get a fascinating insight into the nation's nautical past with 5,528 photos in this new collection, spanning from the 1870s to the 1960s.

That's not all in terms of new photographs this week - we've also added 1,465 photos of England, Wales and Scotland to the Findmypast Photo Collection. These new additions are from the late 19th century, covering 1880 to 1900.

Yorkshire Monumental Inscriptions

We also updated our Yorkshire church records, with 2,702 monumental inscriptions covering 1635 to 2009.

Middlesex Monumental Inscriptions

Our Middlesex monumental inscriptions collection also grew this week, with 1,541 new records covering over 350 years.

Delve deeper with 202,203 new pages

We added eight new publications - including Life and Trade Unionist - to our newspaper archive this week. Here's a rundown of everything that's been added.

New titles:

Dean Forest Mercury, 1889
Evening Journal, 1890
Harrogate and Claro Times and Knaresborough Guardian, 1907
Leyland Guardian, 1986-2004
Life, 1879-1905
Provincial News (Lydney), 1910
St. Andrews Gazette, 1914-1915
Trade Unionist, 1892

Updated titles:

Cambridge Daily News, 1905
Cheltenham Journal and Gloucestershire Fashionable Weekly Gazette, 1824
Cork Examiner, 1856, 1877–1880, 1887–1893
Faringdon Advertiser and Vale of the White Horse Gazette, 1862–1865, 1867, 1869, 1873, 1877, 1897, 1900, 1923–1942
Glasgow Evening Times, 1882–1883, 1885–1887, 1889–1893
Grays & Tilbury Gazette, 1884–1888, 1890–1896, 1898, 1909–1911, 1913–1920
Illustrated Police Budget, 1893–1896, 1908–1909, 1911–1912
Maidstone Telegraph, 1930–1938, 1958
Morning Advertiser, 1873–1876, 1892–1895, 1899
Salisbury Times, 1910–1937, 1940–1949, 1960–1962