We've gone old school for this week's Findmypast Friday releases

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By Niall Cullen | October 15, 2021

Discover your ancestors’ school days in thousands of new records. Plus, explore the latest updates to our newspaper archives.

Findmypast remains the only family history website with brand new releases every week. It's just one of the reasons our subscriptions are the best value around. There's always a new piece of your past to unpick. Read on for everything you need to know about our latest additions.

National School Admission Registers

Spanning 1859-1922, we’ve added thousands of school records from Halifax, Yorkshire. Uncover details about your relatives’ formative years you won’t find anywhere else.

This latest tranche of school records is published in partnership with the Family History Federation and Calderdale Family History Society. The schools and years covered are:

Haugh Shaw, 1892-1922
Akroyd Place Board School, 1896-1919
Heath Grammar School, 1874-1875
Halifax School Board, 1859-1884
Halifax Technical College, 1902-1910

Halifax Technical School, 1896. View full-size in the Francis Frith Collection.

Does your heritage lie in the UK’s largest county? Findmypast’s Yorkshire collection is second to none. Delve into millions of parish records, 90 regional newspapers and so much more.

Newspapers

Hot off the press, the latest papers to join the site include:

Dial covering 1860-1864
Finsbury Free Press covering 1868-1869
Illustrated Times 1853 covering 1853-1854
Orr’s Kentish Journal covering 1860-1866
Sport (London) covering 1880
Surrey Mercury covering 1845-1847
Wellington Gazette and Military Chronicle covering 1869-1878, 1880
York House Papers covering 1879-1881

Plus, we’ve expanded 18 other publications as follows:

Bolton Free Press from 1836-1841 and 1847
Bury Free Press from 1995-1996
Diss Express from 1991
Fenland Citizen from 1990-1992
Fleetwood Chronicle from 1846-1849, 1851-1873, 1875-1876, 1889-1894, 1925 and 1948
Flintshire Observer from 1857-1895, 1897, 1904-1911, and 1913-1914
Glossop-dale Chronicle and North Derbyshire Reporter from 1872-1894, 1911
Grantham Journal from 1994
Kent Messenger from 1912
Lynn Advertiser from 1989, 1991-1992
New Milton Advertiser from 1991
Newark Advertiser from 1991
Newmarket Journal from 1976-1977, 1994-1996
Oxford Chronicle and Reading Gazette from 1873, 1896, 1899, 1903, 1907, 1913, 1915
Saffron Walden Weekly News from 1996
Shetland News from 1888-1892
Spalding Guardian from 1881-1884, 1887, 1890, 1892
Suffolk and Essex Free Press from 1995-1996

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