Wednesday, February 10, 2010

New Databases on FamilySearch Record Search

The FamilySearch.org Record Search Pilot site continues to add new databases to their collection. All of these collections have been imaged from microfilm and many of them have been indexed by volunteers in the FamilySearch Indexing project.

The latest newly added databases on the Record Search site include (defined 8 February 2010 here):

Collection Name -- Indexed Records -- Digital Images -- Comments

* Argentina , Buenos Aires City—1855 National Census -- 132,765 -- 7,630 -- New index and image collection.

* Argentina, 1869 National Census -- 1,082,686 -- 157,133 -- Updated collection. Project is now complete!


* Australia, N.S.W. —Index to Bounty Immigrants Arrivals, 1828–1842 -- 50,981 -- 41,805 -- New index and image collection and the second Australia collection.

* England, Cheshire—Parish Records, 1530–1900 -- 2,857,105 -- Updated index.

* England, Cheshire—Bishop Transcripts, 1598–1900 -- 1,896,348 -- Updated index.

* England—Non Conformist Records, 1671–1900 -- 164,627 -- Updated index.


* Germany, Baden, Bonndorf— Church Book Duplicates, 1810–1869 -- 5,691 -- New index only collection.

* Guatemala, Guatemala, Ciudad de Guatemala—1877 National Census -- 21,173 1844 -- New index and image collection.


* U.S. 1920 Federal Census -- 13,202,233 -- Added indexes for Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Maryland, Wisconsin, South Dakota, and Maine

* U.S., Arkansas—County Marriages, 1837–1957 -- 688,863 -- 313,341 -- Updated collection. Joint project with the Arkansas Genealogical Society.


* U.S., Florida—State Census, 1935 -- 1,599,085 -- 36,019 -- New index and image collection.

* U.S., Florida—State Census, 1945 -- 2,249,138 -- 52,025 -- New index and image collection.


* U.S., Georgia—Deaths, 1914–1930 -- 41,681 -- New index only collection; ongoing project.

* U.S., Indiana—Marriages, 1811–1959 -- 28,935 -- 66,511 -- Updated collection. Joint project with the Indiana Genealogical Society.


* U.S., Massachusetts—Marriage Records, 1842–1915 -- 30,509 -- Updated index.

* U.S., Washington—County Marriages, 1858–1950 -- 48,385 -- 42,732 -- New index and image collection; ongoing project.

However, the RecordSearch Pilot database list on 6 February indicated that these databases are newly added (not on the above list):

o New Zealand Immigration Passenger Lists, 1871-1915 (images only)

o Cemetery inscriptions in Sydney Branch Library, 1800-1960

o Guatemala Civil Registrations (images only)

o Argentina Catholic Church Records (images only)

o Luxembourg Civil Registration, 1793-1923 (images only)

o Netherlands, Noord-Brabant Province Population Registers, 1820-1930 (images only)

o US 1920 Census (index only, no images, 88% complete)

You can see the list of current imaging and indexing projects being done by FamilySearch Indexing here, and by Partner organizations here. There are some good ones coming soon! There are lots more to do!

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