2-week summary of updates to US genealogy collections

Below is a summary of US family history collections that have been released or updated by the major genealogy databases in the first half of October. (The last summary list was published on 2 October, 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

AmericanAncestors

• Boston, MA: Provident Institution for Savings, 1817-1882 (54,000)

Ancestry

• Massachusetts, Boston Tax Records, 1822-1918 Browse only
• Massachusetts, Worcester County, Probate Files, 1731-1925 Browse only
• New York, New York, Riverside Church Records, 1841-1969 (16,236)
• Iowa, Poweshiek County, School Records, 1895-1941 (209,343)
• Pennsylvania, Historical Society of Pennsylvania Card Catalog, 1553-2015
• Massachusetts, Boston RC registers, 1789-1920, Index (876,881 new. Total 5,306,456)

FamilySearch

• Hawaii, Honolulu, Voter Registration Applications, c1920-1966 (89,900)
• Ohio, Voter Records, 1893-1960 (1,582,448)
• Virginia, Rockingham County, Marriages, 1864-1926 (7,020)

Zooniverse American WWI Burial Cards Project

• Death and Burial of American Soldiers in World War I (78,000+)

UPDATED COLLECTIONS

AmericanAncestors

• Massachusetts: (Image-Only) RC Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1789-1920
Our Lady Help of Christians (Newton), Sacred Heart (Lynn), St Jean Baptiste (Lynn), St John the Evangelist (Newton), St. Leonard of Port Maurice (Boston), St. Mary (Lynn), St. Patrick (Lynn), and St Theresa of Avila (West Roxbury). (12,700 new pages)

• Massachusetts: RC Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1789-1920
St Columbkille, Brighton and St Mary, Boston. (19,800 records)

Ancestry

• Newspapers.com Marriages Index, 1800s to 1999 (209m added. Total 220,784,630)
• Pennsylvania, Passenger/Crew Lists, 1800-1962 Landing Reports/Aliens 1798-1828.
• U.S., Baseball Questionnaires, 1945-2005 (154,732)
• USA WWI Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 (Performance update only)
• Wyoming, Divorce Index Cards, 1941-1969 (131,944)
• Pennsylvania, Death Certificates, 1906-1968 (24,438,709)
• Wyoming, Marriage Records, 1941-1966 (309,380)
• 1890 Veterans Schedules of the U.S. Federal Census (990,276)
• US Headstone Applications for Military Veterans, 1925-1970 (2,905,615)
• US Southeast Coastwise Inward/Outward Slave Manifests, 1790-1860 (77,894)

FamilySearch

• California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994 (63,114)
• California, LA, Angelus-Rosedale Cem/Crem, 1884-2002 (10,013)
• District of Columbia Birth Returns, 1874-1897 (86,413)
• District of Columbia Deaths, 1874-1961 (45,163)
• Hawaii, Hawaiian Islands Newspaper Obituaries, 1900-ca.2010 (25,387) 28,592)
• Kansas, Riley County, Sunset Cemetery, Burial Index Cards, 1856-1998 (2,313)
• Louisiana, Orleans/St. Tammany Parish, Voter Registrations 1867-1905 (87,466)
• Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital & Town Records, 1626-2001 (7,185)
• Mississippi, County Marriages, 1858-1979 (51,738) (48,786)
• New Jersey, County Naturalization Records, 1749-1986 (76,846)
• New Jersey, Death Index, 1901-1903; 1916-1929 (143,418)
• New Jersey, Newark, Mount Olivet Cemetery Records, 1871-1984 (1,415)
• New York, Southern Dist., US District Ct Naturalizations, 1824-1946 (300,335)
• Oklahoma, Noble Co., Parker Funeral Home, Funeral Records, 1908-1982 (2,859)
• Texas, Hardin County, Registers of Births, 1882-1939 (1,219)
• Texas, Indexes/Manifests of Arrivals at Port of Del Rio, 1906-1953 (73,690)
• Virginia, Bureau of Vital Statistics, County Marriages, 1853-1935 (27,203)
• Virginia, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Deaths, 1853-1912 (47,373)
• Washington, County Birth Registers, 1873-1965 (38,387)

MyHeritage

• Minnesota, Veteran Grave Index, 1857-1975 (72,102)
• US National Register of Scientific and Technical Personnel, 1953-1956 (125,515)

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