Three-week summary of new & updated USA genealogy collections

Below is a summary of US family history collections that have been released or updated by the major genealogy databases in the last three weeks. (The previous summary list was published on 19 November 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, 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

• Texas, RC Archdiocese of San Antonio Sacramental Records, 1700-1995 (1,008,815)

FamilySearch

• Hawaii, Anti-Annexation Petitions, 1897 (21,057)
• Oregon, Naturalization Records, 1868-1991 (3,562)

UPDATED COLLECTIONS

Ancestry

• Nevada, U.S., Naturalization Petitions, 1956-1991
• 1860 United States Federal Census
• U.S. Newspapers.com Obituary Index, 1800s-current (873,029,013)
• Index to Alien Case Files at the National Archives at Kansas City, 1944-2003
• Global, Find a Grave Index for Burials at Sea / other Select Burial Locations

AmericanAncestors

• Massachusetts: RC Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1789-1920 11 parishes:
  St Hedwig, Cambridge | Immaculate Conception, Stoughton | St Philip, Roxbury | St Monica, South Boston | St William, Tewksbury | Sacred Heart, Weymouth | Immaculate Conception, Marlborough | St Bridget, Maynard | St Joseph, Holbrook | St Mary, Foxborough | St Vincent de Paul, South Boston. (Total 70,900+ names addded.)
• Boston, MA: Provident Institution for Savings, 1817-1882 (40,000 names added)
• Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850 (36,000 records added from 9 new towns)

FamilySearch

• California, San Francisco Chinese passengers, 1882-1947 (107,953)
• Minnesota, Brown County, Obituaries, 1855-1990 (124,806)
• Minnesota, Douglas County, Obituaries, 1860-1990 (58,932)
• New Jersey, Death Index, 1901-1903; 1916-1929 (1,565)
• Virginia, County Marriage Records, 1771-1989 (44,280)
• Washington, County Death Registers, 1881-1979 (21,019)
• Georgia, Tax Digests, 1787-1900 (325,883)

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