You can now search 2,145,957 new birth, marriage and death records for Derbyshire on findmypast.co.uk

This substantial release of new records will really benefit those with Derbyshire ancestors.

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If you’ve previously been unable to find your Derbyshire ancestors, try searching these records again - there’s a good chance you’ll find who you’re looking for.

The Derbyshire Family History Society provided us with these records, in association with the Federation of Family History Societies.

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The Federation of Family History Societies is carrying out a new and exciting transcription project to help trace missing ancestors, in partnership with findmypast.co.uk: the Lost Ancestors project.

The FFHS would like to invite family history societies and any family historians to help with this project. It involves indexing information from a collection of UK strays, kindly donated to the FFHS by Dennis Pearce and many other collectors.

A stray is someone who is described in a record as being from, or connected with, a place outside the area in which they normally lived or were born. Examples of strays include a girl who went into service then married many miles away from her parish, a soldier serving in the West Indies or in India, or one killed in action, a family awaiting removal from one parish back to their original birth place and many, many more interesting records that cover all dates to the present century.

This project could help to solve the problems of disappearing ancestors for so many family historians. This is a fantastic opportunity to produce a good financial boost for your family history society and provide high quality work for any family historians searching for that elusive family or ancestor.

To transcribe and index, the information will be placed online as excellent, clear images of each original card from the UK Strays collection. Using findmypast.co.uk’s specially adapted transcription tool, volunteers can type up the entries online no matter where they live. Full instructions and help are on hand to give assistance whenever needed - no experience is necessary.

If you would like to get involved in this valuable project and can volunteer a few hours, days or even weeks to help, please contact projects@ffhs.org.uk by 28 February 2011, giving a society name, your personal name, email address and telephone number (optional).

There’s more information on the FFHS website.

You can now search 447,108 new parish baptism records for Durham, Yorkshire, Cumberland, Northumberland and Westmorland on findmypast.co.uk

These records cover 324 parishes in total – click here to view a list of these parishes (PDF). The records cover the period 1600-1997.

The Northumberland & Durham Family History Society provided us with these records, in association with the Federation of Family History Societies.

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You can now search 126,967 new parish baptism and marriage records for Durham, Yorkshire, Cumberland, Northumberland and Westmorland on findmypast.co.uk

The Northumberland & Durham Family History Society provided findmypast.co.uk with these records, in association with the Federation of Family History Societies.

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We have just published 154,074 new parish burial records for Birmingham, Warwickshire on findmypast.co.uk

The Birmingham and Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry provided us with these records, in association with the Federation of Family History Societies.

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We have just published 14,105 new parish baptism and burial records for Warwickshire on findmypast.co.uk

The Rugby Family History Group provided findmypast.co.uk with these records, working in association with the Federation of Family History Societies.

Here are further details about each set of records:

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We have just published 22,989 new parish records for Dorset on findmypast.co.uk: 1,533 baptisms, 8,084 marriages and 13,372 burials.

The Dorset Family History Society provided us with these records, in association with the Federation of Family History Societies.

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We have just published 233,160 burial records for Rookwood Cemetery in Sydney, Australia, on findmypast.co.uk

These records cover the period 1798 to 1999. This information has been made available online thanks to a mammoth project by the Society of Australian Genealogists, a member of the Federation of Family History Societies.

In 1981, SAG began a project to publish online the details from all the gravestones in Rookwood Cemetery. The scale of this task can be appreciated by the fact that the cemetery covers more than 777 acres and is widely regarded as the largest cemetery in the southern hemisphere.

Find your ancestors in these records by searching our parish burials search page. Select ‘New South Wales’ from the county list.

What will these records tell me?

When you search these records, in most cases you will be provided with the following information about your ancestors:

• First and last names
• Date of death
• Age at death
• Inscription on gravestone
• Plot
• Plot No
• Size
• Cemetery, place, county and country

A bonus feature of these records is that in many cases, your results will show you any associated records. This means that you can often find other family members and make family connections that may not otherwise have been possible.

In most cases, the associated records will comprise the following information: name, date of death, age at death and inscription on the gravestone.

Find out more about these Rookwood Cemetery records, including the history of the cemetery and the records.

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We have just published 23,984 new parish records for Montgomeryshire on findmypast.co.uk

These records were provided by the Montgomeryshire Genealogical Society.

The Montgomeryshire Genealogical Society works in association with the Federation of Family History Societies.

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Find your ancestors in 223,395 new burial records for Devon on findmypast.co.uk

The records cover the period 1813-1837 and were supplied by the Devon Family History Society.

We add thousands of new records each month to our exclusive parish records collection.

This unique record set has been made available on findmypast.co.uk in association with the Federation of Family History Societies member societies and other organisations and contributors.

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