Uncover American ancestors with new birth and baptism records

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By Daisy Goddard | July 4, 2025

An old photo of women on a beach with an American flag

We've added records from Maine and Indiana this Findmypast Friday.

To celebrate 4 July, we've added records from across the United States. These key additions may illuminate the milestones in your US ancestors' lives.

Indiana births & baptisms

We added 4,465 birth and baptism records for the state of Indiana, spanning 1854 to 1911.

Maine baptisms

We also added 2,956 baptism records from Maine this week, covering the 18th and 19th centuries.

Explore eight new titles

168,930 new pages joined our newspaper archive this week, with eight additions from England and Ireland.

New titles:

Bolton Daily Chronicle, 1884-1895
Chester Record, 1857-1866
Daylight, 1880-1881, 1888
Irish Church Advocate, 1876-1878
Mark Lane Express, 1854-1855
North Cheshire Reformer, 1836-1842
Norwich Argus, 1893-1895, 1898-1913
Stockport Chronicle, 1891-1892, 1894-1896, 1898-1906

Updated titles:

Ascot Times, 1986
Bath Journal, 1803, 1809
Birmingham Mail, 1956
Bracknell Times, 1983
Bradford Daily Argus, 1895, 1903–1904, 1909, 1917
Cambridge Chronicle and Journal, 1791, 1793
Crowthorne Times, 1984
Frome Journal, 1989
Gloucestershire Echo, 1986–1989
Highland News, 1963–1977, 1979–1985, 1987–1990
Hinckley Echo, 1948
Holyhead Mail and Anglesey Herald, 1932
Horsham Advertiser, 1992–1995, 2002–2003
Hyde & Glossop Weekly News, and North Cheshire Herald, 1889, 1897
Kentish Weekly Post or Canterbury Journal, 1768–1788, 1791–1793
Louth and North Lincolnshire Advertiser, 1908, 1920–1925, 1940–1949
Lynn News & County Press, 1870
Middlesex Chronicle, 1970
Midland Reporter and Westmeath Nationalist, 1897–1910, 1916, 1920–1927, 1937–1939
Monmouthshire Beacon, 1878–1887, 1901–1908
Newry Telegraph, 1923, 1926, 1929, 1945–1949
Northwich Guardian, 1914–1918
Norwich Mercury, 1827
Nottinghamshire Guardian, 1890–1891, 1901–1904
Ormskirk Advertiser, 1923, 1948, 1973
Oxford Journal, 1921–1928
Saunders’s News-Letter, 1800–1801, 1847–1850, 1872
Sherborne Mercury, 1773, 1806
Sutton & Epsom Advertiser, 1949, 1951, 1957
West Surrey Times, 1920
Widnes Weekly News and District Reporter, 1927, 1969
Yarmouth Independent, 1874
Yarmouth Mercury, 1890–1892, 1897, 1899