Added and Updated FamilySearch Record Collections - Week of 13 to 19 June 2026

 Each week, I try to keep track of the number of Full-Text Search collections (indexed, searchable) and the Images collections (browsable but not searchable) -- see Sections 1) and 2) below. In addition, I list the genealogy historical record collections (often name-indexed) that are added, removed, and/or updated on FamilySearch and listed on the Historical Record Collection list  --  See Section 3.

1)  As of 19 June 2026, there are now 6,664 searchable and full-text transcribed image collections on FamilySearch Full-Text Search this week, an increase of 1 from last week. There are over 1.99 BILLION "results" in the collections.  It is not possible to see which collections are new.

 2)  As of 19 June 2026, there are now 24,818 browsable (some indexed, none transcribed) image lections on FamilySearch Images this week, a decrease of 1 from last week. There are over 6.065 BILLION images in these collections.  There are 2,118 collections from the United States, 7,076 from Europe and 221 from Canada.  It is not possible to see which collections are new.

3)  As of 19 June 2026, there are 3,435 Historical Record Collections (many indexed, browsable) on FamilySearch (an increase of 1 from last week):

The Deleted, Added and Updated Historical Record Collections this week include:

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--- Collections Added ---

*  Palau, Death Records, 1958-1984 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/5000629); 206 indexed records with 370 record images, ADDED 15-Jun-2026

--- Collections Updated ---

Argentina, Buenos Aires, Catholic Church Records, 1635-2017 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1972912); 134,084 indexed records with 978,396 record images (was 2,815,879 records with 978,396 images), UPDATED 13-Jun-2026
Argentina, Capital Federal, Catholic Church Records, 1640-1978 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1974184); 175,308 indexed records with 998,148 record images (was 175,308 records with 998,148 images), UPDATED 13-Jun-2026
Argentina, Córdoba, Catholic Church Records, 1557-1974 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1974182); 137,383 indexed records with 419,985 record images (was 1,005,459 records with 419,985 images), UPDATED 13-Jun-2026
Argentina, Santa Fe, Catholic Church Records, 1634-2003 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1974196); 176,332 indexed records with 424,329 record images (was 759,932 records with 424,329 images), UPDATED 13-Jun-2026
Arizona, Santa Cruz, Nogales, Index and Manifests of Alien Arrivals, 1905-1952 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/3041280); 502,961 indexed records with 496,243 record images (was 502,795 records with 496,137 images), UPDATED 14-Jun-2026

Australia, Births and Baptisms, 1792-1981 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1770729); 411,266 indexed records with 390,468 record images (was 412,571 records with 418,870 images), UPDATED 17-Jun-2026
Australia, Deaths and Burials, 1816-1980 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1770857); 89,956 indexed records with 66,515 record images (was 90,137 records with 67,803 images), UPDATED 17-Jun-2026
Australia, Marriages, 1810-1980 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1770858); 129,689 indexed records with 96,365 record images (was 130,519 records with 119,060 images), UPDATED 17-Jun-2026
Australia, Tasmania, Civil Registration, 1803-1933 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2125029); 414,523 indexed records with 73,580 record images (was 419,986 records with 73,580 images), UPDATED 17-Jun-2026
Brazil, Cemetery Records, 1799-2024 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2137269); 1,527,342 indexed records with 150,972 record images (was 2,161,969 records with 150,972 images), UPDATED 18-Jun-2026
Colombia, Catholic Church Records, 1576-2019 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1726975); 1,027,753 indexed records with 12,659,776 record images (was 27,314,987 records with 12,659,776 images), UPDATED 13-Jun-2026

Colombia, Migration Records, 1885-2014 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/5000159); 6,802,274 indexed records with 6,594,865 record images (was 6,802,274 records with 6,576,246 images), UPDATED 16-Jun-2026
Colorado, Naturalization Records, 1876-1990 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2285702); 158,496 indexed records with 259,357 record images (was 3,594 records with 259,357 images), UPDATED 16-Jun-2026
Costa Rica, Catholic Church Records, 1595-2022 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1460016); 2,627,282 indexed records with 962,203 record images (was 320,205 records with 962,203 images), UPDATED 13-Jun-2026
England Marriages, 1538–1973 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1473015); 10,303,063 indexed records with 2,429 record images (was 10,303,121 records with 2,429 images), UPDATED 16-Jun-2026
England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1473014); 39,141,633 indexed records with 529,095 record images (was 39,146,412 records with 529,095 images), UPDATED 16-Jun-2026

Italy, Vicenza, Census Records, 1806-1870 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/5000476); 8,828 indexed records with 259 record images (was 8,828 records with 222 images), UPDATED 17-Jun-2026
Michigan, Naturalization Records, 1837-1997 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2546149); 2,146,151 indexed records with 1,672,379 record images (was 2,142,941 records with 1,672,379 images), UPDATED 16-Jun-2026
Minnesota, Naturalization Card Index, 1930-1988 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2120721); 71,366 indexed records with 86,132 record images (was 69,090 records with 86,132 images), UPDATED 16-Jun-2026
Nebraska, Naturalization Records, 1855-1989 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/3241361); 169,085 indexed records with 158,606 record images (was 167,681 records with 158,606 images), UPDATED 16-Jun-2026
New Mexico, Naturalization Records, 1882-1983 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2187007); 27,104 indexed records with 29,163 record images (was 27,042 records with 29,163 images), UPDATED 16-Jun-2026

Pennsylvania, Births and Christenings, 1709-1950 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1681005); Index only (2,512,643 records), no images (was 2,512,971 records with 0 images), UPDATED 16-Jun-2026
Pennsylvania, Marriages, 1709-1940 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1681011); Index only (661,399 records), no images (was 661,437 records with 0 images), UPDATED 16-Jun-2026
Peru, Arequipa, Catholic Church Records, 1660-2020 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/4447275); Index only (80,367 records), no images (was 65,525 records with 0 images), UPDATED 13-Jun-2026
Peru, Catholic Church Records, 1556-2023 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1877097); Index only (120,461 records), no images (was 3,447,829 records with 0 images), UPDATED 15-Jun-2026
Philippines Civil Registration (National), 1945-1996 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1852584); 525,402 indexed records with 20,274,621 record images (was 1,651 records with 20,274,621 images), UPDATED 19-Jun-2026

Puerto Rico, Naturalization Records, 1897-1985 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2774942); 91,998 indexed records with 67,302 record images (was 91,927 records with 67,302 images), UPDATED 16-Jun-2026
United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages, 1980-2015 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2333694); 28,662,174 indexed records with 46,919,022 record images (was 28,662,176 records with 46,919,022 images), UPDATED 13-Jun-2026
Uruguay, Catholic Church Records, 1726-2000 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/4134697); 1,065,845 indexed records with 308,677 record images (was 1,065,597 records with 293,845 images), UPDATED 13-Jun-2026
Venezuela, Archdiocese of Caracas, Catholic Church Records, 1638-2020 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/4465438); 383,085 indexed records with 164,371 record images (was 349,539 records with 130,870 images), UPDATED 13-Jun-2026
Venezuela, Catholic Church Records, 1577-2022 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1951777); 932,555 indexed records with 1,899,876 record images (was 17,400,769 records with 1,899,876 images), UPDATED 13-Jun-2026

Venezuela, Diocese of San Cristóbal, Catholic Church Records, 1601-1962 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2173966); 671,313 indexed records with 128,484 record images (was 670,233 records with 128,484 images), UPDATED 13-Jun-2026

--- Collections with new images ---

Argentina, Buenos Aires City, Civil Registration, 1811-1980 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/5000077); 1 indexed records with 10,193 record images (was 1 records with 10,192 images), last updated 26-Nov-2024
Brazil, Alagoas, Civil Registration, 1876-2023 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/4469403); 1 indexed records with 454,226 record images (was 1 records with 454,223 images), last updated 07-Jun-2024
Colombia, DAS Civil Registration Alphabetic Cards, 1914-2011 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/5000074); 1 indexed records with 26,272,983 record images (was 1 records with 26,272,981 images), last updated 25-Nov-2024
Georgia, Wills and Deeds, ca. 1700s-2017 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/3158836); 1 indexed records with 5,474 record images (was 1 records with 5,472 images), last updated 07-Jun-2024
United States, Census, 1950 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/4464515); 157,892,854 indexed records with 52,748,723 record images (was 157,892,854 records with 52,746,265 images), last updated 16-Jun-2024

United States, Obituary Records, 2014-2023 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/5000145); 1 indexed records with 28,205,712 record images (was 1 records with 28,204,736 images), last updated 22-Jul-2024

--- Collections with images removed ---

United Kingdom, British Armed Forces and Overseas Vital Records, 1761-2005 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/4324570); 2,878,200 indexed records with 2,767,444 record images (was 2,878,200 records with 2,801,913 images), last updated 22-Sep-2021
United Kingdom, Funeral Notices, 1914-2023 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/5000184); 4,987,936 indexed records with 4,972,609 record images (was 4,987,936 records with 4,972,610 images), last updated 28-Oct-2023
United States, Google, United States Inventors Index (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/5000136); 1,048,575 indexed records with 1,046,402 record images (was 1,048,575 records with 1,046,568 images), last updated 21-Nov-2023

--- Collections with new records ---

--- Collections with records removed ---

United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2013 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2860782); 1,906,589 indexed records with 4,918,255 record images (was 31,807,550 records with 4,918,255 images), last updated 13-May-2025
United States, Public Records, 1970-2009 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2199956); Index only (875,600,588 records), no images (was 875,600,596 records with 0 images), last updated 23-Dec-2025
United States, Residence Database, 1970-2024 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/5000290); Index only (413,858,194 records), no images (was 413,858,224 records with 0 images), last updated 22-Jun-2024

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My friend and SDGS colleague, Marshall, has come up with a way to determine which collections are ADDED, DELETED or UPDATED, and to alphabetize the entries in each category. Thanks to Marshall for helping me out here!

Marshall notes that there are:

• 3,435 Historical Record Collection entries
• 0 removed entries
• 1  added entries 
• 32 updated entries
• 9 entries with more or fewer images 
• 3 entries with more or fewer records

Marshall's list shows 3,435 Historical Record Collections this week, an increase of 1 collections. The image above shows 3,435 collections, so the website number is in sync with Marshall's list number.

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Added and Updated Ancestry.com Record Collections - Week of 13 to 19 June 2026

  The following genealogy record collections were added to the Ancestry.com Card Catalog page by "Date Updated" during the period from 13 to 19 June 2026: 

The ADDED and Updated collections include:

• Geneanet Community Trees Index; 2,028,505,061 indexed records without record images, Updated 6/18/2026. This collection contains an index of more than 2 million family trees created by members of Geneanet, the #1 genealogy site in France and the biggest community of genealogists in Europe. 
• New York City, Ellis Island Oral Histories, 1892-1976; 1,900 indexed records without record images, Updated 6/18/2026. This collection contains some 2,000 oral histories collected by the Ellis Island Oral History Program through the Ellis Island Immigration Museum. 
• London, England, Selected Poor Law Removal and Settlement Records, 1698-1922; 1,413,959 indexed records with record images, Updated 6/16/2026. These records put a new spin on the place your ancestors were allowed to call home.

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The complete Ancestry.com Card Catalog is at https://search.ancestry.com/search/CardCatalog.aspx.

By my count, there are 0 NEW record collections ADDED this past week, per the list above. There are now 33,942 collections available as of 19 June, an INCREASE of 0 from last week. 

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Ask AI: "Describe the 'Skittles' Game in 1830s England"

 After reading Ask AI: "Describe the Life Of James Richman in 1835 At Age 14 in Hilperton, Wiltshire" yesterday, I was curious about the game of "Skittles" mentioned.  I had no clue what it was, but I knew that the OpenAI ChatGPT5 LLM could tell me.

1)  Here is the ChatGPT5 response:

Describe the "Skittles" Game in 1830s England

Skittles was one of the most popular pub and village games in England during the 1830s. It was the ancestor of modern bowling, though it was usually played on a much smaller scale and often indoors.

What the Game Looked Like

The game used:

• Nine wooden pins (skittles) arranged in a diamond or square pattern.
• A wooden ball, usually smaller than a modern bowling ball and often without finger holes.
• A wooden alley or lane, commonly 20 to 40 feet long.
• Sometimes a raised wooden platform or enclosed alley attached to a tavern.

The objective was simple: knock down as many pins as possible.

How It Was Played

• A player stood at one end of the alley and rolled or threw the ball toward the pins.
• Scoring varied by region, but generally:
• Each pin knocked down counted as one point.
• Players took turns.
• A game might be played to a predetermined score, such as 51 or 100 points.
• In team matches, players' scores were added together.

Unlike modern ten-pin bowling, there was no universally accepted set of rules. Different counties and villages often had their own traditions.

Variations Common in the 1830s

England had many local forms of skittles:

• Long Alley Skittles: Popular in northern England. Players rolled a ball down a long wooden lane toward nine pins.
• Table Skittles:  Played indoors on a table-sized board. A suspended ball swung into the pins rather than being rolled.
• Aunt Sally: A related pub game in which players threw sticks at a target mounted on a stand. Though not technically skittles, it was often found in the same settings.
• Devon and West Country Skittles: In southwest England, players often used heavier balls and larger pins. These regional forms survive today.

Where People Played

In the 1830s, skittles was strongly associated with:

• Village inns and alehouses
• Agricultural fairs
• Holiday celebrations
• Friendly society gatherings
• Working-class recreation

A skittle alley was a common feature behind many country pubs. Men would often gather after work to play while drinking ale and socializing.

If Your Ancestor Played Skittles

If you have English ancestors from the 1830s, especially laborers, craftsmen, farmers, or tradesmen, skittles was probably one of the most accessible recreational activities available to them. It required little equipment, could be played year-round, and provided an important social outlet in an era before organized sports became widespread.

For a family historian, mentioning skittles in an ancestor's story can help bring everyday life to life. You might write something like:

"After a day's work in the fields, James might have walked to the village inn, where neighbors gathered to play skittles on the wooden alley behind the alehouse while discussing local news and sharing a pint."

That scene would have been very familiar across much of rural and small-town England in the 1830s.

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2)  Well, I didn't stop there.  I asked ChatGPT5:  "Describe American bowling when my father bowled in Massachusetts in the 1930s and then in California in the 1940s."

And ChatGPT5 told me:

If your father bowled in Massachusetts during the 1930s and later in California during the 1940s, he would have participated in a game that looked very much like modern bowling, but with some notable differences in equipment, scoring practices, and social atmosphere.

Bowling Had Become a Major American Sport

By the 1930s, ten-pin bowling was firmly established across the United States. The rules had been standardized by the American Bowling Congress, founded in 1895, and bowlers from Massachusetts to California generally played the same game.

The basic format would be familiar today:

• Ten pins arranged in a triangular formation.
• Ten frames per game.
• Strikes and spares scored much as they are now.
• Teams competing in leagues and tournaments.

Massachusetts Bowling in the 1930s

One interesting wrinkle is that in parts of New England, especially Massachusetts, candlepin bowling was extremely popular.

Candlepins use:

• Tall, thin pins.
• Smaller hand-sized balls.
• Three balls per frame instead of two.

If your father said simply that he "bowled" in Massachusetts, he may have meant either:

• Traditional ten-pin bowling, or
• Candlepin bowling, which remains a distinctive New England game today.

The clue is often found in family stories, newspaper accounts, or photographs. If he used finger holes and large pins, it was ten-pin. If he rolled a small ball held entirely in one hand, it was probably candlepins.

The Bowling Alley Experience

A 1930s bowling alley was often smoky, noisy, and full of activity.

Before automatic pinsetters:

• Boys called pin boys stood behind the pins.
• They cleared fallen pins.
• Returned balls manually.
• Reset the pins after every frame.

Many pin boys were teenagers earning extra money.

A bowler would hear:

• The crash of pins.
• Pin boys shouting to one another.
• Spectators cheering.
• Radios broadcasting baseball games.

California Bowling in the 1940s

When your father moved to California in the 1940s, he entered what would soon become the golden age of American bowling.

During and after World War II:

• Military personnel bowled on bases.
• Defense workers joined leagues.
• Bowling became one of America's fastest-growing recreational activities.
• Large commercial bowling centers began appearing throughout California.

Southern California, in particular, became a center of bowling culture.

Equipment of the Era

Bowling balls were generally:

• Hard rubber or dense composition material.
• Black or dark colored.
• Much less sophisticated than today's reactive-resin balls.

Shoes were simple leather rental shoes.

Wooden lanes were carefully maintained and oiled by hand.

Scores tended to be lower than many modern bowlers achieve because equipment technology was less forgiving.

League Bowling

For many men of your father's generation, bowling was primarily a social activity.

A typical week might involve:

• Working during the day.
• Meeting teammates one evening each week.
• Bowling three games.
• Sharing coffee, sandwiches, beer, or soft drinks afterward.
• Comparing averages and discussing sports.

League standings were often published in local newspapers.

The Pinsetter Revolution

The biggest technological change came in the late 1940s.

In 1946, the AMF began developing automatic pinsetters. During the 1950s they rapidly replaced pin boys across the country.

If your father bowled in Massachusetts during the 1930s, he almost certainly bowled with pin boys. In California during the early-to-mid 1940s, he likely still bowled with pin boys. By the 1950s, however, he would have witnessed the transition to automatic machinery.

A Family-History Perspective

For a family story, you might picture your father this way:

"On league night in the 1940s, he changed into his bowling shoes, selected a heavy black ball from the rack, and stepped onto the polished wooden approach. Behind the pins, a pin boy waited for the crash of the ball. Teammates kept score with pencils on paper score sheets while cigarette smoke drifted through the bowling alley and conversations centered on work, baseball, and family. Bowling was more than a sport—it was one of the principal social activities of working Americans in the years before television became dominant."

For someone born in the early 20th century, bowling was often as important socially as golf or pickleball are for many retirees today. It was a place where friendships were maintained, business contacts were made, and community life unfolded week after week.

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3)  From that point, ChatGPT5 and I discussed Duckpins (smaller and fatter pins with smaller balls) and more.  That was a fun discussion!

Note that ChatGPT5 offered me sample text for a bowling story about my father!

4)  My father was a very good ten-pin bowler in San Diego  He played in travel leagues and went to local and State tournaments during the 1950s and 1960s, and carried a 190-200 average in those years.  I don't think he ever bowled a perfect 300 game.  

5)  Me?  Well, I tried. I bowled in leagues from age 10 or so to 25 -- and it's how I met my wife Linda.  My best league average was 178 for several years in the late 1960s.  

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Ask AI: "Describe The Life Of James Abraham Kemp at Age 14 in 1845 in Prince Edward County, Canada West"

I wondered if the FREE AI tools could provide me with information about a teenage boy's life in  Prince Edward County, Canada West in 1845.  My 2nd great-grandfather, James Abraham Kemp (1831-1902) was age 14 in 1845.  The ABC Biography for James is in ABC Biography of #30 James Abraham Kemp (1831-1902) of Ontario.

My Prompt for Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.6 was:  "Please describe the life of 14-year-old James Abraham Kemp in Prince Edward County, Canada West in 1845, based on the attached biography. Consider family, work, education, community activities, entertainment, fun?"

(AI NotebookLM infographic -- James Abraham Kemp at Age 14 in 1845)

Here is the Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.6 response:

The Life Of James Abraham Kemp at Age 14 in

 1845 Prince Edward County, Canada West

Based on the genealogical information and historical context, here's what life would have been like for 14-year-old James Abraham Kemp in 1845:

Family Situation

James Abraham was living in Prince Edward County, Canada West (now Ontario), likely in or near Consecon (where his sister Sarah Jane was born in June 1843). He was the seventh child in the family, with an older sibling already pursuing their own lives - his sister Waity Catherine had married in 1842, sister Mary Ann at age 22, brother Stephen J. at age 19 and brother William Henry at age 16. His father Abraham was 49, an established farmer with significant Crown land holdings from his War of 1812 service, and his mother Sarah Fletcher was 43.

James Abraham had younger siblings: John L. (10 years old), Peter Evans (7 years old), Andrew Hait (4 years old), Sarah Jane (2), and baby Charles W., born just in September 1845;. Wesley would arrive in 1847. The household would have been bustling with activity, with his mother Sarah managing the care of infants and toddlers while also maintaining the domestic work of the farm.

Work and Labor

At fourteen, James Abraham would have been doing substantial farm work - this was the age when a boy transitioned from childhood tasks to nearly-adult responsibilities. He would have been:

• Helping with plowing and harrowing fields in spring

• Assisting with planting and weeding crops

• Helping with the harvest in late summer and fall

• Caring for livestock - feeding cattle, pigs, and chickens, mucking out barns

• Splitting firewood and stacking it for winter

• Mending fences and doing general farm repairs

• Perhaps driving the team of oxen or horses for plowing

His father Abraham, now in his late 40s, would have relied increasingly on his older sons' labor. James Abraham was strong enough to do real work, but still young enough to need direction and supervision. Working alongside his father and older brothers would have been his primary education in the skills needed to become a farmer himself.

Chores and Domestic Work

Beyond farm labor, James Abraham would have had regular domestic chores:

• Bringing in water from the well for drinking and washing

• Chopping and stacking firewood for cooking and heating

• Tending the kitchen garden alongside his mother

• Helping care for younger siblings -- watching them, teaching them, perhaps disciplining them

• Helping with food preservation -- salting meat, storing vegetables in the root cellar, helping with canning/preserving (though this was primarily women's work)

Education

Formal schooling would have been minimal. In rural Prince Edward County in 1845, schools were few and far between, and farm children attended only sporadically -- mainly during winter months when farm work was lighter. James Abraham likely had basic literacy and numeracy skills, enough to read, write simple sentences, and handle basic accounting for farm business.

Any "schooling" he received would have been practical: learning to read weather signs, judge soil conditions, understand animal husbandry, and manage farm economics. His mother Sarah would have taught him basic arithmetic and perhaps some reading. The Wesleyan Methodist ministers who circuit-rode through the settlements might have emphasized the importance of reading Scripture, so Bible literacy would have been encouraged.

Religious Life

The Kemp family were Wesleyan Methodists, and religion would have been central to James Abraham's life. Regular attendance at Methodist meetings when circuit riders came through the settlement, family prayers before meals and at bedtime, and reading from Scripture would have been routine. At fourteen, he might have been beginning to think seriously about his own faith and whether he would formally join the church - an important milestone for Methodist youth.

Community Activities

In rural Prince Edward County, community gatherings were important social events:

• Barn raisings and work bees: When a neighbor needed to build a barn or clear land, the community gathered to help. James Abraham would have participated, learning community bonds and solidarity while doing necessary work.

• Church gatherings: Beyond regular services, there would be quarterly meetings, camp meetings, and social gatherings at the church or meetinghouse.

• Militia drills: Though only fourteen, James Abraham might have begun attending local militia training. Upper Canada required military service, and young men his age would start learning basic drill and discipline.

• Market days and fairs: Occasional trips to larger settlements would provide opportunity to see other people and learn about wider commerce.

• Neighborly visits: Without modern transportation or communication, neighbors visited each other, and James Abraham would have accompanied his parents on these social calls.

Entertainment and Fun

Entertainment for a fourteen-year-old farm boy in 1845 was simple but real:

• Hunting and fishing: Upper Canada still had abundant game and fish. In free moments, boys would hunt rabbits, deer, and waterfowl, or fish in streams and rivers. This was both recreation and a way to supplement the family's food supply.

• Swimming: In summer, the rivers and creeks would have provided swimming holes where boys gathered to cool off and play.

• Games: Simple games like marbles, tops, hoops, and ball games would have been played in spare moments.

• Reading: If he had access to books beyond the Bible (not guaranteed), he might read them by firelight in winter evenings.

• Music: The family likely gathered in evenings for singing, especially hymns. If someone in the family played an instrument, music would be part of home life.

• Social gatherings: Barn dances, church socials, and quilting bees provided opportunity for young people to gather, flirt, and have fun within supervised settings.

• Exploration and adventure: The wilderness around the settlement offered plenty of opportunity for a boy to explore, build forts, and have adventures with other boys.

His Future Taking Shape

At fourteen in 1845, James Abraham couldn't have known that in sixteen years he would marry Mary Jane Sovereen in 1861 and settle in Middleton, Norfolk County. He couldn't have known he would eventually move to Delhi and become an innkeeper and a farmer of some standing in that community. He couldn't have known he would marry twice or live to age 71, dying in 1902.

What he knew in 1845 was the daily rhythm of farm life in Prince Edward County: the seasons turning, the work never quite finished, the gathering of family around the hearth in the evenings, the expectation that he would become a farmer like his father, and perhaps a vague awareness that the world beyond his settlement was changing rapidly - railways were coming, cities were growing, and the Canadian colonies were growing more settled and civilized.

James Abraham Kemp at fourteen was on the cusp of manhood, learning the skills and values that would sustain him through a long life of farming, family-building, and community participation in 19th-century Ontario.

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3)  The Google NotebookLM Video Overview of this post is below. 

4)  As genealogists, we can usually find the 19th century church records, and the later census and civil records, for Canadian families, and we may find occupation, military, land and probate records. In addition, there are books and websites about the daily lives of people in those times.  The AI tools have been pre-trained on historical events, social history, geography, literature and other disciplines so they can provide information for questions like this one, and by 2025 they have the ability to search the Internet.  

5)  After I read these types of social history summaries, I wish that I could be a time traveler for one day to visit the Kemp family in Canada West and witness their daily lives.  I'm glad that the general lifestyles and occupations are known from historical records and witness accounts.

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Findmpast Friday: Over 40,000 New Railway and Canal Records

 I received this information from Findmypast today:

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Glimpse everyday life in years gone by with new transport records and early censuses.

In partnership with The National Archives, we've published over 40,000 fascinating new railway and canal records this week. Including images and fascinating ephemera, these additions chart the life of Britain's transport systems in the 19th and 20th centuries.

We've also added early census records from Dorset to our collection.

Britain, Retired Railway Officers' Society

This brand new collection consists of 25,330 railway records, spanning 1902 to 1963.

England, Ludlow and Clee Hill Railway Company

This week's second new set contains 1,338 records from Ludlow and Clee Hill's railway company, covering three decades in the late 19th century.

England, Cromford Canal Company

Rounding off our trio of new transport records, we've added over 8,200 canal company records, spanning 1789 to 1908.

Dorset Early Census Returns

We've also added 2,140 new census records, which make it easier than ever to trace Dorset ancestors back to the 18th and 19th centuries.

New pages from Sunderland to Southport

338,158 pages joined our newspaper archive this week, with seven brand new titles and updates to 19 existing publications.

A Family History of... Gallipoli

Gallipoli is over. But its effects ripple on. Join host Jen Baldwin and naval historian Charlotte Ward-Kelly for the final episode of the series, as they trace how the aftershocks of Gallipoli shaped identity long after the guns fell silent.

Watch:  But what happens when the battle is over? | A Family History Of... Gallipoli - Part 3

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Added and Updated MyHeritage Record Collections - Week of 12 to 18 June 2026

  The following Record Collections were ADDED or Updated in the MyHeritage Collections Catalog during the week of  12 to 18 June 2026:

• Ireland, Names & Stories in Newspapers from OldNews.com (Newspapers), Updated June 16 2026, 35,124,848 records
• Greece, Thessaloniki, Death Certificates, 1914-1942 (Death, Cemetery, Burial & Obituaries), ADDED June 16 2026, 315,763 records
• 1926 Ireland Census (Census), ADDED June 16 2026, 2,966,709 records
• Names & Stories in Newspapers from OldNews.com (Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi) (Newspapers), Updated June 16 2026, 850,646,369 records
• United Kingdom, Names & Stories in Newspapers from OldNews.com (Newspapers), Updated June 16 2026, 855,652,970 records
• United Kingdom Newspapers from OldNews.com  (Newspapers), Updated June 14 2026, 15,956,531 pages in 782 newspaper titles
• Canada Newspapers from OldNews.com  (Newspapers), Updated June 14 2026,   2,746,835 pages in 243 newspaper titles
• Baltic Newspapers from OldNews.com (Newspapers), Updated June 14 2026,   2,838,174 pages in 618 newspaper titles
• Ireland Newspapers from OldNews.com  (Newspapers), Updated June 14 2026,   246,317 pages in 3 newspaper titles
• United States Newspapers from OldNews.com  (Newspapers), Updated June 12 2026,   118,984,327 pages in 6500 newspaper titles

The number of collections at the top of the list shows 1,689 collections (an increase of 2) with  39,775,244,206 records (an increase of over 426 million records - it was 40,399,469,537 three weeks ago!).

Four weeks ago, the "Last Updated" list showed 7,550 collections.  What happened to over 5,800 collections that are not on any collection list?  See the list for three weeks ago in 

Added and Updated MyHeritage Record Collections - Week of 8 to 14 May 2026.

Something is very wrong with the "Last Updated" collection list!!!  Or did MyHeritage remove or combine over 5,800 record collections?

The Family Tree collections are not on the "Last Updated" list at all.  I collected the latest numbers for the Family Tree collections from the "Number of Records" list which does have the Family Tree collections (and a total of 1,689 collections).

• MyHeritage Family Trees (Family Trees), Updated Jun 17 2026, 6,958,563,904  entries 
• FamilySearch Family Tree (Family Trees), Updated Jun 17 2026, 1,213,819,317  entries  
• Search Connect™ - Searches by MyHeritage Members (Family Trees), Updated Jun 17 2026, 506,601,606 entries
• MyHeritage photos & docs (Images), Updated Jun 17 2026, 471,611,302 entries 
• Geni World Family Tree (Family Trees), Updated Jun 17 2026, 375,013,658  entries.
• Filae Family Trees (Family Trees), Updated Jun 17 2026, 335,929,311 entries
• MyHeritage Family Sites (Family Trees), Updated Jun 17 2026, 72,673,648 entries
• MyHeritage members (Family Trees), Updated Jun 17 2026, 53,099,792 entries  

 The number of entries in the family tree collections were last updated this week.  

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Ask AI: "Describe the Life Of James Richman in 1835 At Age 14 in Hilperton, Wiltshire"

 I wondered if the FREE AI tools could provide me with information about a young boy's life in  Hilperton, Wiltshire in 1835.  My 2nd great-grandfather, James Richman (1821-1912) was age 14 in 1835.  The ABC Biography for James is in ABC Biography of #20 James Richman/Richmond (1821-1912) of Wiltshire and New England.

My Prompt for Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.6 was:  "Please describe the life of 14-year-old James Richman in Hilperton, Wiltshire in 1835, based on the attached biography. Consider family, work, education, community activities, entertainment, fun?"

(AI NotebookLM infographic -- James Richman at Age 14 in 1835)

Here is the Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.6 response:

James Richman in 1835: 

A Portrait of a Young Man in Hilperton, Wiltshire

The World James Richman Knew 

In 1835, James Richman was fourteen years old and very nearly a man by the standards of Hilperton Marsh. He had grown up in a crowded cottage on Marsh Lane, in the low-lying ground between the village of Hilperton and the town of Trowbridge, where the land was wet and the lanes became muddy rivers in winter. It was a landscape shaped by water — the River Biss ran nearby, the Kennet and Avon Canal cut through the valley to the south, and the seasonal flooding of the marsh was as familiar and inevitable as the turning of the seasons.

Hilperton itself was not a grand place. It was a working village of perhaps three or four hundred souls, clustered around St. Michael's Church on the hill and spreading down into the marsh below. The Kennet and Avon Canal, completed in 1810 — the year before James's parents married — had brought new commerce to the area, carrying coal from the Somerset coalfields and connecting the local wool trade to the wider markets of Bristol and London. The towpaths along the canal were as familiar to Hilperton children as the church lane, and the slow passage of the narrowboats was one of the rhythms of daily life. 

Family Life 

James was the fifth of eight children born to John and Ann Richman, and in 1835 the cottage on Marsh Lane was still full of family. His eldest sister Elizabeth, at twenty-four, was an experienced weaver who had likely been at the loom since she was ten or twelve; Sarah, twenty-one, was still at home and probably working as well. His brother John, nineteen, may already have been setting up his own household — he would marry Maria Matthews that very October. James's sister Ann, seventeen, and his younger brother Thomas, twelve, completed the household.

The cottage would have been small — two or perhaps three rooms, with a loom or looms taking up considerable space. The smell of wool and damp stone was the smell of home. Privacy was not a concept the Richmans could afford; sleeping arrangements meant sharing beds, and conversations could not be kept secret in such close quarters. Yet the Richmans were not an isolated family. They were woven into the fabric of the community, connected by blood, work, and worship to dozens of other families in the marsh and the village above.

John Richman, James's father, was at this point age 46 and likely still working as both a weaver and a laborer — by 1841 he would be listed as a coal hauler, suggesting that sometime in the later 1830s he moved away from the declining handloom trade and toward the heavier work of hauling coal from the canal wharves to local homes and businesses. Ann (Marshman) Richman, James's mother, was a weaver throughout her adult life and almost certainly had her loom working every day that the wool trade would sustain it. For working-class families in Hilperton Marsh, every pair of hands was an economic asset, and James was old enough to be contributing meaningfully to the household. 

Work and Labor 

By 1835, James Richman was almost certainly working. The census of 1841 would describe him as an agricultural laborer, and it is likely he was already doing such work by his mid-teens, if not before. In the Wiltshire of the 1830s, boys from laboring families typically began full-time or near-full-time work by the age of twelve or thirteen. The notion of childhood as a protected time of learning and play was a luxury belonging to the middle and upper classes; for families like the Richmans, children were economic participants from an early age.

Agricultural labor around Hilperton and Trowbridge involved a broad range of seasonal tasks. In 1835, a boy of James's age might have been employed in bird-scaring in the early spring — a monotonous but necessary task of keeping rooks and pigeons off newly sown grain. As the year progressed, he would have moved on to weeding, hoeing, and tending livestock, and in summer and autumn to the heavy work of haymaking and harvest, when every able body in the village was pressed into service. The harvest was not merely labor but also a social event, with gangs of workers moving across the fields together, the work punctuated by shared food and conversation, and the end of harvest marked by the traditional Harvest Home supper, often provided by the farmer.

He may also have assisted his father with coal hauling, helping to manage a cart or carry sacks. The physical demands of such work would have built the strength that later sustained him through long years of labor in both England and America. He may occasionally have helped his mother at the loom, performing the preparatory work of winding bobbins or stretching warps — tasks that were traditionally assigned to children in weaving households.

What is important to understand about the textile trade in 1835 is that it was under severe pressure. The great steam-powered factories of Trowbridge, just a mile or two from Hilperton Marsh, were expanding rapidly, their power looms capable of producing cloth at a fraction of the cost of a cottage handloom. Trowbridge already had fourteen large steam-powered factories by 1820, and the pace of mechanization only accelerated through the 1820s and 1830s. For families like the Richmans who had depended on handloom weaving, wages were falling and work was becoming increasingly scarce. The family's gradual shift away from weaving — John toward coal hauling, the children toward agricultural labor — reflects this painful economic transformation as clearly as any historical document could.

Education

James Richman probably could not write his name in 1835. This is not documented fact for James specifically, but it is a reasonable inference: neither of his parents could sign their names, as the X marks on their 1811 marriage register demonstrate, and formal schooling was extremely limited for working-class children in Hilperton in the 1820s and 1830s. However, by his 1845 marriage, he signed his own name in the record.

By 1835, a small village school may have existed in Hilperton, where children could receive basic instruction in reading, writing, and arithmetic — the 1833 Factory Act had prompted renewed attention to elementary education, and church-run schools were spreading through the countryside. Sunday schools, run under the auspices of St. Michael's Church, were almost certainly available, and these provided at least some exposure to reading, primarily through the Bible and prayer books. James may have attended such a school intermittently in his younger years, perhaps learning to read simple texts, though his ability to write is uncertain.

What he knew with far more certainty was practical knowledge: how to judge the weather, how to handle a horse and cart, how to manage the soil and the seasons, how wool went from raw fleece to finished cloth. This was a different kind of education — transmitted not through books but through observation and apprenticeship — and it was the knowledge that actually sustained his life and his family's lives.

Community and Church

St. Michael's Church stood at the center of James Richman's community life, as it had stood at the center of every significant moment in his family's history. He had been baptized there. His twin siblings Thomas and the first Mary had been baptized there in 1823, and the second little Mary had been buried there in 1825. The church was not merely a place of worship but the register of lives — the institution that marked birth, marriage, and death, that gave shape and meaning to the passage of time.

Sunday services were a fixture of village life, and the Richman family, like their neighbors, would have attended regularly. The Church of England provided both spiritual sustenance and social structure, with the congregation organized by the visible hierarchies of pew and position. The Richmans, as laborers and weavers, would have sat toward the back, among the working poor, while the farmers, tradesmen, and gentry occupied the more prominent positions. Yet the church was a shared space, and the rhythms of the church calendar — Advent, Christmas, Easter, Whitsuntide, harvest festival — were the rhythms of the year itself.

Methodism was also making inroads in Wiltshire by the 1830s, offering working-class people a more emotionally direct form of worship and, often, stronger ties to community self-help and mutual aid. Whether the Richmans had any connection to the Methodist chapels that were springing up in nearby Trowbridge and the surrounding villages is not known, but the possibility is worth noting.

The village also had its secular community structures. The Kennet and Avon Canal brought carters, boatmen, and tradespeople through the area, and the inns and alehouses of Hilperton and nearby Trowbridge served as gathering places for working men. For young James, these were the spaces in which the adult world of male community was conducted — the exchange of news and opinion, the settling of disputes, the making of informal economic arrangements.

The Shadow of the New Poor Law

James turned fourteen in April 1835, just one year after Parliament passed the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 — one of the most controversial pieces of legislation of the era. The new Poor Law replaced the older system of parish relief with a harsh regime centered on the workhouse, deliberately designed to be so unpleasant that only the truly desperate would accept it. The message it sent to laboring families was stark: work or face the workhouse, with its regimented misery, its separation of husbands from wives and parents from children.

For a family like the Richmans — perched on the edge of economic stability, dependent on declining cottage industries and irregular agricultural labor — the new Poor Law was not an abstraction. It was a threat that hung over every period of unemployment, every illness, every failed harvest. That John Richman would eventually be listed as a pauper in the 1861 census shows how real that threat was. In 1835, as the new legislation was just beginning to reshape the parish relief system, James would have heard the adults around him talking about it — in the cottage, at the church, in the lanes — with a mixture of fear and anger that was entirely justified.

Entertainment and Recreation

Despite the hardships of his life, James Richman was fourteen years old in 1835, and boys of fourteen find their pleasures wherever they can. The countryside around Hilperton was the playground of his childhood and youth — the fields and hedgerows, the towpath of the canal, the streams and water meadows of the Biss valley. He and his friends and siblings would have fished in the river, swum in the canal in summer (to the probable dismay of their parents), climbed trees, and ranged across the farmland in the way that boys have always ranged across open country.

Village games and sports were a significant part of community life. Cricket was already well established as a popular summer game in Wiltshire, played on village greens with improvised equipment by teams that crossed all social boundaries. Skittles was a favorite in the alehouses, and various forms of football — rough, uncodified, and energetic — were played in the streets and fields. Wrestling and cudgel-play, traditional rural sports, were features of the local fairs and festivals that punctuated the year.

The fairs themselves were among the great pleasures of working-class life. Trowbridge, just a mile or two away, held regular markets and occasional fairs, and the larger fairs at nearby towns would have drawn the Richman children with their noise and spectacle — traveling entertainers, animal shows, stalls selling gingerbread and ribbons, and the sheer pleasure of crowds and color in lives that were otherwise defined by monotonous work. May Day celebrations, Midsummer fires, and the Harvest Home supper were seasonal highlights that gave structure to the year and provided legitimate occasions for communal joy.

Music and song were woven through daily life. Wiltshire had a rich tradition of folk song, and the evenings in the Richman cottage — especially in winter, when darkness fell early and the loom was still — were likely filled with the songs that working people had always used to make labor bearable and leisure sweet. James would have known the old ballads and hymns, the drinking songs and harvest songs, by heart from his earliest years.

Looking Ahead

In 1835, James Richman was at the threshold of adult life. He was a working boy in a working family, in a village undergoing the slow upheaval of industrialization, in a country that was changing faster than any generation before him had experienced. Within ten years he would marry Hannah Rich, a girl from another Hilperton weaving family who was growing up in the same lanes and attending the same church. Within twenty years he would make the extraordinary decision to uproot his family and emigrate to America, crossing the Atlantic to build a new life in Connecticut.

The boy of 1835 could not know any of this. He knew Marsh Lane and St. Michael's Church and the muddy towpath along the canal. He knew the smell of wool and the weight of a coal sack and the sound of the loom. He knew his parents' worn hands and the faces of his brothers and sisters. He knew the particular quality of the Wiltshire light on a summer morning, and the cold that crept under the door in January. That world — modest, rooted, and real — was the foundation on which the rest of his long life would be built.

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James Richman married Hannah Rich on 7 September 1845 in Hilperton. They had nine children, emigrated to the United States in 1855, and settled in Putnam, Windham County, Connecticut, where James died on 20 December 1912 at the age of 91.

Author's Note

The documented facts about James Richman in 1835 are few. We know from parish records that he was born on 22 April 1821 in Hilperton, making him fourteen years old in 1835. We know his parents were John Richman (a weaver, laborer, and later coal hauler) and Ann Marshman Richman (a weaver). We know his siblings: Elizabeth (age 24), Sarah (21), John Jr. (19), Ann (17), and Thomas (12) were all living at home in Hilperton Marsh; his twin siblings Thomas and Mary had been born in 1823, and two infant sisters named Mary had died in 1823 and 1825. We know the family lived on Marsh Lane in Hilperton Marsh. We know that by 1841, James was listed in the census as an agricultural laborer. We know he later married Hannah Rich in 1845 signing his own name, had nine children, and emigrated to America in 1855.

Everything else in this portrait — his daily routines, schooling, work, friendships, and recreations — is historically informed inference, grounded in what is well documented about rural working-class life in Wiltshire in the 1830s. It is clearly so presented throughout.

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3)  The Google NotebookLM Video Overview of this post is below.

4)  As genealogists, we can usually find the 17th to 19th century church records, and the later census and civil records, for English families, and we may find occupation, land and probate records. In addition, there are books and websites about the daily lives of people in those times.  The AI tools have been pre-trained on historical events, social history, geography, literature and other disciplines so they can provide information for questions like this one, and by 2025 they have the ability to search the Internet.  

5)  After I read these types of social history summaries, I wish that I could be a time traveler for one day to visit the Richman family in Wiltshire and witness their daily lives.  I'm glad that the general lifestyles and occupations are known from historical records and witness accounts.

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Links to my blog posts about using Artificial Intelligence are on my Randy's AI and Genealogy page.  Links to AI information and articles about Artificial Intelligence in Genealogy by other genealogists are on my AI and Genealogy Compendium page.

Copyright (c) 2026, Randall J. Seaver

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