New & updated US genealogy records: 2-week summary

Below is a summary of US family history collections that have been either newly released or updated by the major genealogy databases in the last two weeks. (The last summary list was published on 14 August, see blogpost).

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.

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. I do not include updates of fewer than 1,000 records.


NEW COLLECTIONS

Ancestry

• Georgia, Fulton County Cemetery Records, 1857-1933 (324,225)
• WEB: Maryland State Archives, Index to Deaths and Burials, 1697-1800 (5,988)

FamilySearch

• Arizona, Cochise County, Voting Records, 1882-1932 (235,487)
• Arizona, Graham County, Voting Records, 1882-1920 (64,429)
• Iowa, Dallas County, Violet Hill Cemetery, Lot Records, 1846-1988 (6,002)
• Texas, Hardin County Clerk, Death Records, 1908-1948 (18,875)
• California, San Francisco Chinese passenger lists, 1882-1947 (62,291)
• Kansas, Lawrence City Cemetery Records, 1850-1988 (7,883)
• Virginia, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Death Records, 1853-1912 (26,837)

UPDATED COLLECTIONS

AmericanAncestors

• Massachusetts: (Image-Only) Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1789-1920:

          St. Catherine of Siena, and St. Mary, both in Charlestown. (4,000+ names to browse)
          Sacred Heart in the North End of Boston (16,700 new pages to browse)

• Massachusetts: Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1789-1920

          St. Anthony of Padua, (11,100 records = 42,300 names to search)

Ancestry

• New York, Clinton Prison Admission Ledgers, 1851-1866, 1923-1939 (5,332)
• Web: Western States Marriage Index, 1809-2016 (1,826,319)
• 1860 U.S. Federal Census - Slave Schedules
• New York State, U.S., Death Index, 1957-1969
• Pennsylvania, Deaths, 1852-1854 (New records for Adams County. Total now 28,785)
• Pennsylvania, Births, 1852-1854 (No info on update. Total now 62,855)

FamilySearch

• Alabama, Confederate Pension Applications, ca. 1880-1930's  (1,620)
• Arizona, Birth Certificates and Indexes, 1855-1930   (1,256)
• Arizona, Mohave County, Voting Records, 1876-1920   (23,515)
• California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994 (36,165)
• California, LA, Angelus-Rosedale Cem./Crem. Records, 1884-2002 (4,727)
• Hawaii, Hawaiian Islands Newspaper Obits, 1900-ca.2010 (41,320)
• Idaho, County Naturalizations, 1861-1974  (1,114)
• Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007 (544,802)
• Mississippi, County Marriages, 1858-1979 (78,219)
• New York, County Naturalization Records, 1791-1980 (33,045)
• North Carolina, CHS, Vitals, County Births, 1913-1922 (89,836)
• Pennsylvania Cemetery Records, ca. 1700-ca. 1950 (100,102)
• Pennsylvania Delayed Birth Records, 1941-1976 (11,470) (5,713)
• Texas, Confederate Army/Commanding Officer Card Index, c1861-c1865 (2,820)
• Texas, Eagle Pass Arrival Manifests and Indexes, 1905-1954 (118,882)
• Texas, Washington County, Birth Records, 1903-1991 (2,441)
• Utah, Brigham City FHS, Obituary Collection, 1930-2015 (58,243)
• Utah, County Birth and Death Records,1892-1951 (2,909) 
• Washington, County Birth Registers, 1873-1965 (11,508)
• Washington, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957 (100,021)

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