Our biggest record release of the year has arrived

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By Niall Cullen | September 24, 2021

We've just added over 32.6 million names and 14 million addresses to the site. Find your family in them today.

Record releases don't come much bigger than this. Read on for all the details on a major release of searchable electoral registers, plus all of our other new additions.

England & Wales, Electoral Registers 1910-1932

Spanning 1910-1919, we’ve added a massive 32 million names and 14 million addresses to this exclusive collection. Use them to trace ancestors, house history, and more.

Famous suffragette Constance Lytton is among the women listed on this 1911 electoral register. View the full record.

To bring you fully searchable electoral registers, our data specialists use a sophisticated technique to extract details from the original British Library records. This allows you to discover rich information you don’t get from a simple keyword search.

3 quick tips for exploring electoral registers

The entire indexed collection covers 1910-1932, making it a valuable census substitute
Narrow your search by polling district and constituency to pinpoint an address
The codes on the records represent voting eligibility. You’ll find the meanings on the search page

These newest electoral registers are the perfect precursor to the much-anticipated release of the 1921 Census of England and Wales. Use them to bridge the gaps in your family tree before the census arrives in early 2022.

Scotland Monumental Inscriptions

Discover your relatives' final resting places in Scotland with this unique resource. It has grown again with thousands of new records.

Check the burial ground list for the date ranges and number of records included for each location in this extensive collection. It's a must-search if any of your relatives died in Scotland.

Newspapers

Hot off the press, what family stories will you uncover in our latest newspaper updates? Brand new publications include:

Australian and New Zealand Gazette covering 1850-1882
Borough of Greenwich Free Press covering 1855-1856 and 1858-1865
British Banner 1848 covering 1852
British Banner 1856 covering 1857
Clerkenwell Dial and Finsbury Advertiser covering 1862 and 1864-1865
Hammersmith Advertiser covering 1861-1866
Islington Times covering 1857, 1859-1862, 1864-1865, and 1871-1874
Lynn News & County Press covering 1871-1873, 1875-1889, 1891-1892, 1913, 1915, 1918, 1924, 1938-1939 and 1942
North Londoner covering 1874-1875
Palladium 1825 covering 1825
South London Times and Lambeth Observer covering 1856-1865
Southwark Mercury covering 1879-1881

And we've added thousands more pages to these papers:

Age from 1852
British Mercury or Wednesday Evening Post from 1822
Brockley News, New Cross and Hatcham Review from 1891
Bury Free Press from 1988
Chelsea & Pimlico Advertiser from 1864
Croydon Times from 1948-1949
Daily News (London) from 1924, 1926, 1928-1938, 1940-1949, 1951-1954 and 1957-1960
Diss Express from 1986
Eastern Counties’ Times from 1913
Faversham News from 1900 and 1904
Fleming’s British Farmers’ Chronicle from 1827
Grantham Journal from 1986
Kingsland Times and General Advertiser from 1861
Liverpool Telegraph from 1837
Lynn Advertiser from 1990
Metropolitan from 1857
Sheerness Times Guardian from 1878-1882
West London Times from 1862 and 1865
Westminster Times from 1864-1866

Will this week's colossal record release change the way you see your family or even how you see yourself? We love hearing about your discoveries. Get in touch on discoveries@findmypast.com or post your finds to social media tagging @findmypast.