Billions of family history records at your fingertips. Millions more added every month. Inside History discovers the latest genealogical and historical collections available online to keep you up to speed. This instalment picks up from where our last ‘What’s New Online?’ column, in the Autumn 2017 issue of Inside History magazine, left off. Happy researching!
Latest Paid Resources
Ancestry
Australia and New Zealand, Find A Grave Index, 1800s-Current
Australia and New Zealand, Obituary Index, 2004-2015
Australia, Newspaper Vital Notices, 1841-2001
Bedfordshire, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1986
Birmingham, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812
England & Scotland, Select Cemetery Registers, 1800-2016
Global, Find A Grave Index for Burials at Sea and other Select Burial Locations, 1300s-Current
Ireland, Poor Law Union Removals From England, 1859-1860
Ireland, School Masters and Mistresses, 1826
London, England, City of London and Tower Hamlets Cemetery Registers, 1841-1966
London, England, Metropolitan Police Pension Registers, 1852-1932
New South Wales, Australia, Sheriff’s Papers, 1829-1879
New South Wales, Australia, St Peters Cooks River Select Births, Marriages and Burials, 1839-1963
UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current
UK and Ireland, Obituary Index, 2004-2017
UK, Military Discharge Indexes, 1920-1971
UK, Royal Navy Registers of Seamen’s Services, 1848-1939
Victoria, Australia, Wills and Probate Records, 1841-2009
Web: Jersey, Alien Registration Cards, 1920-1953
Wiltshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812
Wiltshire, England, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-1916
Findmypast
1881 British Census, Crew and Passengers On Ships Arriving In New South Wales
Australia, Boer War Contingents (updates)
Australian Capital Territory Deaths (updates)
City Of London, Ironmongers, Apprentices and Freemen 1511-1939 (updates)
City Of York Apprentices and Freemen 1272-1930 (and various other City of York record sets)
Devon, Plymouth & West Devon Parish Registers Browse (updates)
Easter Rising & Ireland Under Martial Law 1916-1921 (updates)
England & Wales, Crime, Prisons & Punishment, 1770-1935 (now complete)
Lincolnshire, Kesteven Militia Ballot List 1824
New South Wales Parish Registers, Christ Church Cathedral Newcastle
New South Wales, Closer Settlement and Returned Soldiers Transfer Files (updates)
Norfolk Marriage Bonds 1557-1915 Image Browse
Nottinghamshire Baptisms Index 1538-1917 (updates)
PERiodical Source Index (updates) — including miscellaneous New Zealand Genealogist volumes
Queensland School Pupils (updates)
Scotland, Post Office Directories (updates)
Surrey Institutional Records 1788-1939
Sussex, Eastbourne Gazette Newspaper Notices (updates)
Various British newspapers (updates)
Various Irish newspapers (updates)
British Newspaper Archive
Hackney and Kingsland Gazette, 1902-1909
Kentish Mercury, 1872-1884, 1898-1910
Watford Observer, 1879-1886, 1898-1900
Irish Newspaper Archive
Belfast Newsletter, 1900 -1938
Forces War Records
First World War military hospital admission and discharge registers (updates)
TheGenealogist
Hampshire Parish Records (Bishop’s Transcripts)
Outbound Passenger Lists, 1920-1929
Parish Record Transcripts for Worcestershire (updates)
Poll Books & Electoral Registers (updates)
The Sphere Newspaper Collection
Trade, Residential and Telephone Directories collection, 1735-1937
War Memorials records (updates)
MyHeritage
Netherlands, Church Baptisms, 1580-1811 (updates)
Netherlands, Church Burials, 1601-1811 (updates)
Netherlands, Church Marriages, 1580-1811 (updates)
Netherlands, Civil Births, 1811-1915 (updates)
Netherlands, Civil Deaths, 1811-1965 (updates)
Netherlands, Civil Marriages, 1811-1940 (updates)
Netherlands, Population Registers, 1810-1936 (updates)
The National Archives (UK)
RootsIreland
Galway East Family History Society database (updates)
Kildare genealogy database (updates)
Mayo South Gravestone Inscription Records (updates)
ScotlandsPeople
Presbyterian Church Records, 1744-1855 (updates)
Latest Free Resources
Atlas of Hillforts
Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland
Australian Society of WW1 Aero Historians
Australian Airmen of the Great War 1914-1918
Boots Pharmacy, UK
Walgreens Boots Alliance Digital Archive
Buried in Fingal, Ireland
FamilySearch
Australia, Tasmania, Civil Registration (District Registers), 1839-1938
England, Cambridgeshire Bishop’s Transcripts, 1599-1860 (updates)
England, Durham Diocese, Marriage Bonds & Allegations, 1692-1900
England, Essex, Bishop’s Transcripts, 1779-1892
England, Manchester, Parish Registers, 1603-1910
England, Norfolk, Parish Registers (County Record Office), 1510-1997
England, Northumberland, Cumberland, Durham, Miscellaneous Records, 969-2007
England, Northumberland, Non-conformist Records, 1708-1982
England, Northumberland, Parish Registers, 1538-1950
Ireland Civil Registration, 1845-1913 (updates)
Scotland Church Records and Kirk Session Records, 1658-1919 (updates)
Families in British India Society (FIBIS)
Registers of Bengal Army European Soldiers, 1790-1839
Female Factory Online
Searchable database for Parramatta Female Factory, c.1802-1948
Genealogical Society Victoria
Miscellaneous family history records (scanning and indexing project ongoing)
Heritage Maps Ireland
Atlas of Hillforts
Atlas of Hillforts Atlas of the UK and Ireland
National Archives of Australia
Destination Australia (updates)
National Library of Scotland
Curious Travellers map, 1769 and 1772
Parliament of New South Wales
First Legislative Council archives documents, 1824-1855
Public Records Office Victoria
Victoria Roads photographs, 1913-1936
Registry of Deeds Index Project
Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales
Two digital maps of medieval Wales
Royal Irish Academy
Irish Historic Towns Atlas (updates)
State Archives and Records NSW
Gaol Inmates Index (Gaol Photographic Description Books)
State Library of NSW
Sydney subdivision plans and city maps (recently georeferenced through crowdsourcing)
State Library of Queensland
Colin Douglas McCowan World War I Collection
Morris Hawkins World War I Collection
Signaller Charles William Arthur Johnstone World War I diary
Tipperary Studies
Gravestone Inscriptions (from 58 locations around Tipperary
Tom Burnell’s Tipperary War Graves Database
Trove
National
Australian Government Gazette (Periodic), 1974-1977
Commonwealth of Australia Gazette (Periodic), 1977-2011
NSW
The Burrangong Chronicle and Young and Lachlan District Advertiser (NSW), 1901
Co-operator (Sydney, NSW), 1910-1917
Construction : Weekly Supplement to Building (Sydney, NSW), 1909-1914
The Corowa Free Press (NSW), 1875-1954
Daily News (Sydney, NSW), 1938-1940
The Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW), 1883-1923
The Kyogle Examiner (NSW), 1912; 1914-1915; 1917-1954
The Labor Daily (NSW), 1924-1938
The Propeller (Hurstville, NSW), 1911-1954
The Queanbeyan Observer (NSW), 1894-1908; 1910-1915
Quirindi Herald and District News (NSW), 1906-1907; 1913-1923
Weekly Supplement to Building (Sydney, NSW), 1908-1909
Western Sydney Women’s Oral History Project audio recordings
QLD
Millthorpe Post (NSW), 1900-1901
SA
The Citizen (Port Adelaide, SA), 1938-1940
The Gateway (Port Adelaide, SA), 1946
Port Adelaide District Pictorial (SA), 1952-1954
The Progressive Times (Largs North, SA), 1952-1954
Seaport News Review (SA), 1954
UCD Digital Library
G. & T. Crampton Photograph Archive, Dublin
Hermes journal (University College, Dublin), 1907-1908