Trace your ancestor's working life in new records

This week, delve deeper into your ancestors' world with brand new family history records. Discover if your gran was a 1920s trailblazer with a new directory of teachers, or if your ancestor converted to Christianity with new baptism records. Plus, descend into the mining industry with the newly-added The Mining Journal.

Britain, Directory of Women Teachers, 1927

Did a woman in your family tree teach classics and history, lecture in education or become a Senior Mistress in mathematics? This directory of women teachers for 1927 can reveal more about her teaching career.

London Society for Promoting Christianity, 1885-1889

This small but historically significant collection comes from the historical records of the 'London Society for Promoting Christianity Amongst the Jews'. It contains baptism records and declaration records, which document the vaccination of children and enrolment in schools established by the society.

Three new newspaper titles and more

Delve into the underground world of the mining industry and cross the water to 19th-century Antigua with this week's newspaper releases.

New titles:

• Antigua Times — 1863–1864, 1870–1876
• Mining Journal — 1857–1894
• The Star — 1893–1918

Updated titles:

• African Times — 1870–1874
• Allen’s Indian Mail — 1848–1849, 1861–1862, 1871, 1883, 1886
• Bicycling News — 1891
• Blackburn Times — 1911, 1916–1918, 1922, 1944, 1950
• Bromyard News — 1883–1888, 1890–1898
• Christian News — 1850–1851, 1853, 1857, 1859–1867, 1869–1870
• Church in the West — 1891
• Dundee Courier — 1860 (completing the 1956–1985 run)
• Evening Herald (Dublin) — 1903–1906
• Grantham Journal — 1972–1975, 1987–1988
• Herapath’s Railway Journal — 1837–1838, 1849–1851
• Jersey Times and British Press — 1870–1873, 1875, 1877, 1879, 1899, 1910
• Orcadian — 1919
• Pawnbrokers’ Gazette — 1839, 1850–1856, 1858–1859, 1895–1899, 1903, 1910–1913
• Redcar and Saltburn News — 1904–1916
• Redcar and Saltburn-by-the-Sea Gazette — 1880–1895, 1898–1899
• Southport Guardian — 1910–1911
• Wexford Independent — 1875–1896, 1906
• Wicklow News-Letter and County Advertiser — 1858–1859, 1875–1876, 1879–1884, 1887–1896, 1901, 1922

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