Below is a summary of US family history collections that have been released or updated by the major genealogy databases in the last five weeks. (The previous summary list was published on 10 December 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
AmericanAncestors
- Dartmouth, MA: Quaker Records, 1699-1920 (5,500 records in launch package) Free.
Ancestry
- Oregon, County Births and Deaths, 1855-1970 (415,484)
- Wisconsin, Birth Records, 1812-1921 (441,036)
- Wisconsin Marriage Records, 1820-2004 (4,836,848)
- Wisconsin, Death Records, 1959-2004 (1,930,365)
FindMyPast
UPDATED COLLECTIONS
AmericanAncestors
- Massachusetts: RC Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1789-1920 (84,500 names added)
Parishes: Immaculate Conception, Everett (prev. St Mary's | St Cecilia, Ashland | St James the Apostle, Arlington | St Mary, Franklin. - MA Catholic Cemeteries Association, Archdiocese of Boston, 1833-1940 (177,000/760,000)
Ancestry
- Arkansas, Naturalization Records, 1907-1968 (Performance improved. No new records)
- Wyoming, Territorial Census 1869 + City of Cheyenne Censuses 1875 & 1878 (13,099)
- South Carolina, Birth records, 1915-1919 (new total 726,942)
FamilySearch (added records)
- Alaska, Vital Records, 1816-2005 (5,987)
- Georgia, Tax Digests, 1787-1900 (332,438)
- Hawaii, Registrar of Bureau of Conveyances, Deed Records, 1846-1900 (2,452)
- Illinois, Cook County, Birth Certificates, 1871-1949 (20,511)
- Iowa, Delayed Birth Records, 1850-1939 (679,673)
- South Carolina, Charleston Dist. Bill of sales of Negro slaves, 1774-1872 (2,284)
- Virginia, County Marriage Records, 1771-1989 (40,385)
- Washington, County Death Registers, 1881-1979 (7,551)
- Missouri, Phelps, Crawford, Dent, Washington Counties, Obits, 1880-1990 (514,832)
- Texas, Grimes County, Deed Records, 1869-1917 (1,377)
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