These regular summaries of recent releases are designed primarily to help family historians whose ancestors and extended family emigrated from Ireland to North America. But any researchers can use them!Unless otherwise stated, the figures in paranthesis reflect the number of records uploaded to a new collection or, for updated collections, the revised total number of records.
NEW COLLECTIONS
Ancestry
AmericanAncestors
- Society of Colonial Wars in Massachusetts Membership Applications, 1560-1970The database contains the first one thousand applications to the Society of Colonial Wars in Massachusetts (CSWMA) and offers more than 4,100 pages and 97,000 indexed names.
FamilySearch
- Alabama, Church Records, 1831-1994 11,048
- Connecticut, Church Records, 1660-1955 (16,710)
- Delaware, Church Records, 1707-1939 (75,282)
- Hawaii, Tax Assessment Rolls, 1847-1903 (48,133)
- Illinois, Church Records, 1837-1995 (28,599)
- Indiana, Church Records, 1743-1966 (17,982)
- Iowa, Church Records, 1839-2004 (19,075)
- Kansas, Church Records, 1826-1992 (6,975)
- Kentucky, Church Records, 1818-1995 (9,536)
- Louisiana, Parish Voter Registration Records, 1867-1905 (132,854)
- Louisiana, Church Records, 1836-1938 (3,727)
- Maine, Church Records, 1734-1907 (57,125)
- Massachusetts, Church Records, 1630-1943 (6,606)
- Minnesota, Church Records, 1798-1991 (4,977)
- Mississippi, Church Records, 1910-1919 (2,869)
- Missouri, Church Records, 1827-2004 (30,739)
- New Hampshire, Church Records, 1771-1905 (404)
- New York, Church Records, 1660-1954 (106,989)
- Ohio, Clermont County Tax Records, 1816-1900 (116,184)
- Oregon, Church Records, 1853-1874 (543)
- Tennessee, Church Records, 1816-1995 (3,909)
- Texas, Church Records, 1852-1994 (6,109)
- Utah, Church Records, 1915-1972 (848)
- Utah,Latter-Day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia (52,829)
FindMyPast
- Pennsylvania Cemetery & Burial 1700-1950 Browse More than 276,000 new and exclusive burial records, published online for the first time in partnership with the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
- New Jersey Vital Records This collection of more than 356,019 records spanning 1600 to 1990 has been put together in partnership with the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
- New Jersey Vital records Browse collection. See lists of counties, year span and type of records here.
MyHeritage
- United States and Canada, Index of Obituaries, 1900–2019This collection of 16.5 million records contains an index of obituaries published in various newspapers in the United States and Canada from 1900 to 2019. Index includes the name of the deceased, place of birth, place of death, age and the publication source, including locality information.
UPDATED COLLECTIONS
American Ancestors
- Massachusetts: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1789-1920 More than 70,400 records added with more than 225,400 names to search from the parishes of Gate of Heaven in South Boston, Sacred Heart in Lowell, St. Joachim in Rockport and Immaculate Conception in Revere.
Ancestry
- 1920 United States Federal Census No details of what update involved. Total records: 107,684,837.
- Massachusetts, Boston Archdiocese Roman Catholic Sacramental Records, 1789-1900 Index to AmericanAncestors.org's collection (2,920,985 entries)
FamilySearch
- Kansas State Census, 1905 (30,672)
- Kentucky, Church Records, 1818-1995 (9,536)
- Louisiana, Church Records, 1836-1938 (3,727)
- Maine, Church Records, 1734-1907 (57,125)
- Maryland, Church Records, 1668-1995 (88,574)
- Mississippi, State Archives, Various Records, 1820-1951 (687,271)
- Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991 (1,346,115)
- New Jersey Naturalization Records, 1796-1991 (396,373)
- New Jersey, Church Records, 1675-1970 (59,467)
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