Below are the latest United States additions to major genealogy databases between 11 September and 2 October. The previous update was on 10 September (see blogpost).
NEW COLLECTIONS
American Ancestors
- Lowell, MA: High School Students, 1837-1878 (25,000+ names)
Ancestry
- Newspapers.com Obituary Index, 1800s-current (55million records)
MyHeritage
- New York City Death Index, 1862-1948 (5,317,387 records)
- New York City Birth Index, 1878–1909 (2,233,470 records)
FamilySearch
- Alabama, County Birth Registers, 1881-1930 (109,570 records)
- Kansas, Grant County, Census Records, 1895-1982 (87,928 records)
- Members of LDS Military Servicemen WWI, 1919 (4,736 records
- Louisiana, Orleans Parish, Birth Records, 1819-1906 (30,061 records)
- Minnesota Deaths, 1887-2001 92,536 records
- Virginia, Slave Birth Index, 1853-1866 (153,037 records)
UPDATES
FindMyPast
- United States Directories & Almanacs 110 Ohio directories, 1700s to 1900s, added.
Ancestry
- North Carolina, Death Indexes, 1908-2004 Now holds 4.1million records.
American Ancestors
- Massachusetts: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1789-1920 Additions from three parishes: St. Mary in Marlborough, Mary Immaculate of Lourdes (Newton) 1871-1920, and Our Lady of the Holy Rosary (South Boston).
Family Search
- Alabama, Jefferson County Circuit Court Papers 1870-1916
- California, LA, Evergreen Memorial Pk Cem., Deceased Card File Index, 1877-1989
- Delaware, Vital Record Index Cards, 1680-1934
- GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014
- Maine, Kennebec County, Togus National Cemetery Records
- North Carolina, Wake County, Death Records, 1900-1909
- Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Allegheny Cemetery Records, 1845 – 1960
- South Carolina, Charleston County, Charleston, Birth Registers, 1901-1926
- Virginia, Lynchburg, Diuguid Funeral Home records, 1820-1971
- World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
- United States Deceased Physician File (AMA), 1864-1968
- United States, Cemetery Abstracts
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