The previous listing was published on Thursday 31 October (see blogpost.)
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 they will be of use to any genealogists researching in the USA.
Unless otherwise stated, the figures in parenthesis reflect the number of records uploaded to a new collection.
NEW COLLECTIONS
Ancestry
- US, National Register of Scientific and Technical Personnel, 1921-1970 (320,835)
- U.S., Navy and Marines Awards and Decorations, 1942-1994 (1,804,597)
- U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files, 1942-1954 (7,219,371)
- U.S., Veterans Administration Master Index, 1917-1940 (5,678,476)
FamilySearch
- Iowa, Black Hawk County, Waterloo, World War I Pledge Cards, 1917-1918 (44,057)
- Idaho Naturalization Records, 1892-1990 (15,751)
- North Dakota, Naturalization Records, 1868-1924 (1,864)
- Oklahoma, Church Records, 1897-1984 (934)
- South Carolina, Charleston District, Bill of sales of Negro slaves, 1774-1872 (245,755)
- South Carolina, Charleston District, Estate inventories, 1732-1844 (398,496)
- South Dakota, Church Records, 1875-1993 (3,759)
- New York City GEOGRAPHICAL birth index, 1880-1917 (Reclaim the Records)
FindMyPast
- United States, Official Army Register 1861-1865 pdf collection
- United States, Massachusetts: Index Of Casualties, World War II (9,000)
MyHeritage
- North Carolina, Mecklenburg County Birth Index, 1913-2019 (882,189)
- North Carolina, Mecklenburg County Marriage Index, 1884-2019 (548,948)
- North Carolina, Mecklenburg County Death Index, 1916-2019 (345,224)
- Pennsylvania, Lawrence County Index of Obituaries, 1871-2016 (345,728)
- Pennsylvania, Lawrence Co. Index of Marriage Announcement, 1858-2006 (232,655)
Reclaim the Records
- New York City GEOGRAPHICAL Birth Index (also at FamilySearch)
UPDATED COLLECTIONS
AmericanAncestors
- Massachusetts: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1789-1920
- St Michael's, Lowell, 1884–1908. (12,000 records; 46,400+ names)
- St. Stephen's, Framingham 1877-1920. (9,900 records; 40,000+ names)
Ancestry
- U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942 (15,292,577)
- U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947 (35,600,493)
- U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current (148,768,351)
- U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014 (94,331,839)
- Washington, Divorce Index, 1969-2017 (2,606,871)
- Washington, Marriage Index, 1969-2017 (3,988,953)
- New York, State Census, 1925 (11,117,985)
- Washington, Marriage Records, 1854-2013 (13,315,117)
- U.S. Public Records Index, 1950-1993, Volume 2 (402,475,896)
FamilySearch
- Alabama Deaths, 1908-1974
- Alabama, County Birth Registers, 1881-1930
- California, Lassen County, State Board of Health, Burial Permits, 1931-1988
- Georgia, County Delayed Birth and Death Records, 1870-1960
- Hawaii, Board of Health, Marriage Record Indexes, 1909-1989
- Iowa, Monroe County, Card Index of BMDs from Newspaper Clippings, 1898-2015
- Kentucky Death Records, 1911-1965
- Louisiana, New Orleans, Interment Registers, 1836-1972
- Louisiana, Orleans Parish, Birth Records, 1819-1906
- Louisiana War of 1812 Pension Lists;
- Maryland, Kent County, Voter Registration Records, 1853-1898
- Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001
- Mississippi, Adams County, Natchez Death Index, 1835-1905
- Montana Naturalization Records, 1868-1999
- New Mexico, County Death Records, 1907-1952
- North Carolina, Wake County, Death Records, 1900-1909
- Rhode Island, Vital records, 1846-1898, 1901-1953
- South Carolina, Charleston County, Charleston, Birth Registers, 1901-1926
- Tennessee, Shelby County, Memphis, Board of Health Death Records, 1848-1913
- Texas, Harrison County Delayed Birth Records, 1860-1933
- United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011
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