Below is a summary of US family history collections that have been released or updated by the major genealogy databases in the last fortnight. (The previous summary list was published on 17 September, see blogpost).
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, if provided by the database.
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
- Mesa City, Arizona, U.S., Cemetery Records, 1885-1960 (14,627)
- Arizona, Obituary Index to Arizona Newspapers, 1993-1994 (277,636)
- Gila County, Arizona, Cemetery Records 1927-1994 (6,019)
- North Dakota State Death Certificates, 1908-2007 (1,857,111)
- Missouri Death Records, 1968-2015 (2,598,482)
UPDATED COLLECTIONS
AmericanAncestors
- Massachusetts: (Image-Only) Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1789-1920
66 register volumes/12,400 pages added to browse collection. Parishes:
St George, Norwood | Immaculate Conception, Revere | St Joachim, Rockport | Immaculate Conception, Salem | St Anne, Salem | St Mary, Salem | Our Lady of Sorrows, Sharon | St Anthony of Padua, Shirley | St Ann, Somerville | St Benedict, Somerville | St Catherine of Genoa, Somerville | St Lawrence, Brookline | St John the Evangelist, Cambridge | St Mary of the Annunciation, Cambridge | St Patrick, Cambridge | St Clement, Somerville | Patronage of St Joseph, Somerville | St John the Evangelist, Swampscott | St Charles Borromeo, Waltham - Massachusetts: Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1789-1920
22 register volumes/24,200 records and over 94,000 searchable names. Parishes:
Immaculate Conception, Weymouth | Our Lady of Lourdes, Jamaica Plain | St Charles Borromeo, Waltham | St Charles Borromeo, Woburn | St Francis Xavier, Weymouth | St John the Evangelist, Swampscott.
Ancestry
- U.S., Find a Grave Index, 1600s-Current (New total 164,549,712)
- Texas, Select County Marriage Records, 1837-1965 McLennon County added
- New Hampshire Birth Records, 1631-1920
- US Newspapers.com obituary index, 1800s-current (9,224,797/843,651,119)
- Iowa, Birth Records, 1856-1944 (new total 4,826,448)
- Iowa, Death Records, 1880-1904, 1920-1967 (new total l2,674,617)
- Missouri Birth Registers, 1847-1999 (new total 1,986,085)
- Missouri Death Records, 1968-2015 (new total 2,598,482)
- United Nations Relief and Rehab. Admin (UNRRA) Records, 1943-1947 (new total 4,608)
FamilySearch
- Alaska, Vital Records, 1816-2005 (1,349)
- Massachusetts, Boston Tax Records, 1822-1918 (401,603)
- US Bureau of Land Management Tract Books, 1800-c. 1955 (19,533)
- Georgia, Tax Digests, 1787-1900 (164,904)
- Montana, County Voting Records, 1884-1992 (73,431>
FindMyPast
- United States Marriages
5.7million records added from 4 states: California 1850-1945 | Indiana 1811-2007 | Iowa 1809-1992 | Massachusetts 1841-1915.
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