My regular summaries are designed to help family historians whose Irish ancestors emigrated, temporarily or permanently, to the United States. By default, they should also be useful to anyone carrying out research in the US, regardless of the origin of their ancestors.
The figures in parenthesis in the New Collections section are the numbers of records/images in each new record set. Please note that I have omitted updates of fewer than 1,000 records to any one record-set.
Unless otherwise stated, the figures in parenthesis in the Updated Collections section reflect the number of records added to the collection in the recent update, if a number has been clearly noted by the supplier.
NEW COLLECTIONS
Ancestry
- Web: US Congressional Medal of Honor Society Recipients, 1839-2012 (3,506)
- Irish Emigrants in North America,1775-1825 (5024)
- New York, Episcopal Diocese of Central New York Church Records, 1800-1970 (76,334)
- South Carolina Probate Records, Files and Loose Papers, 1732-1964 (Browse only)
- South Carolina, Chesterfield County, Original Marriage licenses, 1911-1951 (94,856)
FamilySearch
- Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wanderer's Rest Cemetery Records, 1880-1979 269
- California, Sonoma County, Sebastopol, Evergreen Lawn Cemetery Burial Records 30
My Heritage
- Minnesota, Birth Index, 1900-1934 (3,406,802)
- Minnesota, Death Index, 1904-2001 (4,460,579)
UPDATED COLLECTIONS
AmericanAncestors
- Massachusetts: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1789-1920. Additions from:
* Immaculate Conception, Lawrence (5 volumes/32,100 records/107,900 names)
* Sacred Heart, Brockton (3 volumes/2,900 records/11,200 names)
* St Patrick, Brockton (6 volumes/23,700 records/93,200 names)
* St Mary, Holliston (with St Patrick Lawrence: 8 vols/23,300 records/87,000 names)
* St Patrick, Lawrence (see St Mary Holliston)
Ancestry
- Ohio, Birth Index, 1908-1998 (26,217,929)
- Ohio, Death Records, 1908-1932, 1938-2018 (14636739)
- Montana, Birth Records, 1897-1988 (3,307,652)
- Montana, Marriage Records, 1943-1988 (1,863,913)
- Montana, Divorce Records, 1943-1988 (274,724)
- US, Northern Pacific Railway Company Personnel Files, 1890-1963 (315,594)
- South Carolina, Death Records, 1821-1968 (3,770,656)
FamilySearch
- Alabama Births & Christenings, 1881-1930 (7,778)
- California County Naturalizations, 1831-1985 (5,012)
- California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994 (181,676)
- California, Sonoma Co., Sebastopol, Evergreen Lawn Cemetery Burials (10,310)
- California, Tulare County, Visalia Cemetery Records, 1875-1990 (35,404)
- California, WW2 Draft Registrations 1940-1945 (2,083,701 records/2,112,990 images)
- District of Columbia Deaths, 1874-1961 (10,034)
- Hawaii, Board of Health, Marriage Record Indexes, 1909-1989 (119,610)
- Hawaii, WW2 Draft Registration Cards,1940-1945 (138,956 records/141,735 images)
- Illinois, Cook County Marriages, 1871-1920 (3,368)
- Iowa, Tama County, Tax Records, 1865-1939 (3,620)
- Kansas, Crawford Co., Frontenac funeral home records, 1905-2014 (6,617)
- Louisiana, Orleans Parish Death Records/Certificates, 1835-1954 (8,074)
- Louisiana Confederate Pensions, 1898-1950 (74,563)
- Louisiana, Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving New Orleans, 1820-1875 (76,841)
- Maine, Cumberland Co., Westbrook, Woodlawn Cem. Burials, 1914-1992 (5,512)
- Maryland, Baltimore Passenger Lists Index, 1897-1952 (379,863)
- Massachusetts, Boston Crew Lists, 1917-1943 (8,713)
- Minnesota, WW2 Draft Registration Cards,1940-1947 (693,535 records/694,725images)
- Mississippi, County Marriages, 1858-1979 (3,430)
- North Carolina, CHS, Vital Records Unit, County Births, 1913-1922 (32,887)
- South Carolina Deaths, 1915-1965 34,893
- South Carolina, Charleston Poorhouse/Correctional House Records, 1803-1916 (5,866)
- Tennessee, Davidson County, Death Records, 1900-1913 (1,339)
- Texas, Dallas County, Oakland Cemetery Interment Cards, 1891-1999 (42,623)
- Texas, Manifests of Arrivals at the Port of El Paso, 1905-1927 (237,471)
- Texas, Gonzales County, School Records, 1910-1970 (6,788)
- Deceased Physician File (AMA), 1864-1968 (16,594)
- GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011 (1,959,373)
- US Deceased Physician File (AMA), 1864-1968 (7,958)
- Utah, Brigham City FH Center, Obituary Collection, 1930-2015 (2,666)
- Utah, WW2 Draft Registration Cards,1940-1947 (144,519 records/145,062 images)
- Virginia, Bureau of Vital Stats, County Marriage Registers, 1853-1935 (2,224)
- Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wanderer's Rest Cemetery Records, 1880-1979 (26,424)
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