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 19 October, see blogpost).
My regular summaries are designed to help family historians whose Irish ancestors emigrated, temporarily or permanently, to the United States.
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 Provident Institution of Savings Signature Book 10, 17 May 1854 – 9 Jun 1858
Waste Book 1D, 1 Mar 1821 – 5 Jun 1822
Ancestry
- Colorado, Select County Marriages, 1863-2018(1,589,549)
Family Search
- Alabama Voter Registration & Poll Tax, 1834-1981 (118,597)
- Arizona, Apache County, Voting Records, 1882-1920 (21,690)
- Arizona, Gila County, Voting Registers, 1881-1920 (26,653)
- Arizona, Military Discharge Records, ca.1918 - ca.1989 (19,460)
- Arizona, Santa Cruz County, Voting Records, 1900-1920 (12,391)
- Arizona, Yuma County, Voting Records, 1902-1918 (18,140)
- Iowa, Church and Civil Births and Baptisms, 1837-1987 (62,950)
- Massachusetts Town Births Index, ca. 1630-1905 (149,990)
- Massachusetts Town Deaths Index, ca. 1640-1961 (429,176)
- Massachusetts, Births, 1636-1920 (27,147)
UPDATED COLLECTIONS
AmericanAncestors
- Massachusetts: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1789-1920 St. Joseph in Boston (Adds 15,800 records/59,400 names)
St. Joseph in Wakefield (Adds 66,000 names)
Ancestry
- U.S. Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934 (3,404,743)
- South Dakota, Marriages, 1905-2018 (1,426,781)
- South Dakota, Birth Index, 1856-1918(982,416)
- United Nations Relief/Rehab Admin (UNRRA) Records, 1943-1947
Family Search
- California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994 (1,362)
- California, LA, Angelus-Rosedale Cem/Crem records, 1884-2002 (26,475)
- Hawaii, Customs, Ships & Passenger Manifests, 1843-1900 (43,200)
- Hawaii, Hawaiian Islands Newspaper Obituaries, 1900-ca.2010 (59,212)
- Louisiana, Orleans and St Tammany, Voter Registrations 1867-1905 (130,542)
- Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital & Town Records, 1626-2001 (2,767,222)
- Michigan Obituaries, 1820-2006 (17,515)
- Mississippi, County Marriages, 1858-1979 (61,874)
- Missouri Births, 1817-1939 (7,136)
- Oklahoma, Noble Co. Parker Funeral Home Records, 1908-1982 (3,077)
- Texas, Hardin County, Registers of Births, 1882-1939 (2,561)
- Texas, Passenger & Crew Lists arriving various ports, 1896-1951 (16,308)
- United States Bureau of Land Management Tract Books, 1800-c. 1955 22,637
- New Jersey, Naturalization records, various counties, 1905-1944 (22,338)
- Utah, Tooele County Records, 1855-1956 (35,642)
- Virginia, Bureau of Vital Statistics, County Marriage Registers, 1853-1935 (37,007)
- Virginia, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Death Records, 1853-1912 (58,546)
- Washington, County Birth Registers, 1873-1965 (37,565)
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