Archive for April, 2010
You can now find the complete records for Lavendon Village, Buckinghamshire, on the 1851 census.
There are a total of 795 records for Lavendon on the census for you to search. The Latter Day Saints provided the data for this update.
Search the 1851 census for your Buckinghamshire ancestors today.
You can now find 12,000 more Chelsea Pensioners British Army Service Records for 1883-1900 on findmypast.co.uk. This brings the total to 302,052 records and 2,141,182 images on the site.
This is the latest in a series of updates to these records and there will be plenty more in the future.
Get searching our Chelsea Pensioners British Army Service Records for your military ancestor.
You can now find the complete Great Western Railway Shareholders Index 1835-1932 on findmypast.co.uk.
This is not an index of railway staff, but of shareholders in the railway.
The index lists names, dates, places and the event or role of the person listed. Some people appear on two or more occasions, for instance those solicitors who acted as professional executors to estates.
A record is an entry for an individual in the database, including not just shareholders but executors, beneficiaries and others involved in the transfer of shareholdings. An event is a disposal of a shareholder under a will or an intestacy following death, or otherwise than by simple sale during the lifetime of the shareholder.
The number of events, records and individuals in the index are:
| Number of events | Number ofrecords | Approximate number of individuals |
| 153,569 | 570,464 | 440,000 |
These records have been provided by the Society of Genealogists.
Start searching the GWR records today and visit our GWR knowledge base for more information.
We have added a total of 204,501 new baptism and burial records for Wiltshire, Manchester and Dorset to findmypast.co.uk.
These records were provided by the Wiltshire Family History Society, the Manchester and Lancashire Family History Society and the Dorset Family History Society.
See the table below for a breakdown of the records:
|
Area
|
Type of
record |
Number of
records |
|
Chippenham, St Andrew
- Wiltshire |
Baptisms
|
25,002
|
|
Manchester
|
Burials
|
148,040
|
|
Dorset
|
Burials
|
31,459
|
Visit our parish baptisms and parish burials pages to search these records.
