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:

Visit our parish baptisms and parish burials pages to search these records.

We’ve just published around 77,000 new parish records for Lincolnshire from the Lincolnshire Family History Society. There are around 51,000 new marriage index records, 23,000 marriage bond records and 3,000 settlement certificate records. This makes a total of around 220,750 parish records for Lincolnshire. We are expecting more updates from Lincolnshire Family History Society in the future.

See the table below for the amount of Lincolnshire records now on our site:

Hot on the heels of our recent five-county 1851 census update, we’ve added seven more complete counties.

These newly-transcribed records give you the chance to search for those ancestors you can’t find on other versions of the census. And all the ancestors you’ve already discovered can be viewed again on our new high-quality images – probably the clearest and most faithful online reproductions available.

The new counties are:

• Kent
• Shropshire
• Staffordshire
• Cornwall
• Lincolnshire
• Leicestershire
• Westmorland

Discover your ancestor’s precise age

1851 was the first census to reveal the precise age of each householder – on the 1841 census everyone over 15 had their age rounded down. This ‘rounding down’ policy has proven a perpetual source of frustration for family historians the world over. If an ancestor was alive in 1851 but had perished by 1861, our new records could well be the only way you’ll track down their birth record.

Find your forebears on our high-quality 1851 census images

More counties coming soon.

Seven complete counties, comprising 3.8 million records, have been added to the 1901 census and are ready for you to search.

The new additions are:

• Warwickshire
• Cheshire
• Nottinghamshire
• Lincolnshire
• Derbyshire
• Leicestershire
• Rutland

Search the new 1901 census counties today

19.7 million 1901 census records

We now have over 19.7 million 1901 census records, each one freshly and faithfully transcribed from original documents, and made available alongside newly scanned high-quality images. This means that well over half the census is now online. The remaining counties will follow soon.

Find your ancestors in the 1901 census now

Findmypast.com, in partnership with the Federation of Family History Societies (FFHS), has added nearly a million new memorial inscriptions to its Parish Records Collection. These records are the fruits of decades of transcription work by family historians nationwide.

Volunteers from different societies have visited graveyards and cemeteries in England and Wales, pulling back weeds, uncovering buried headstones and patiently deciphering weathered inscriptions.

In some cases the transcription is the only record that is left, as the headstone has completely weathered away or been destroyed.

The newly added records cover the following counties:

• Dorset
• Essex
• Glamorgan
• Lincolnshire
• Cheshire
• Northumberland
• Somerset
• Warwickshire
• Wiltshire

It is an ongoing project and there is still lots more work to do. If you would like to get involved, then contact your local family history society.

The records contain inscriptions from the 1600s to the twentieth century and will appear as part of the results when you search for a burial within the Parish Records Collection.

Some contain basic information such as parish and date of death, whereas others may contain much more information, depending on what was written on the headstone, and how much has survived the ravages of time.

Pricing for inscriptions for those with PayAsYouGo credits is either six, eight or 12 credits, depending on the amount of detail they contain.