Monday, April 18, 2016

Added or Updated Record Collections at FamilySearch.org - Week of 10 to 16 April 2016

I'm trying to keep up with the new and updated record collections at FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/list).  

As of 17 April 2016, there were 2,088 record collections on FamilySearch (an increase of 1 from last week):

The added or updated collections are:


*  Nebraska Marriages, 1855-1995; 193,370 indexed records with no record images, Updated 15 Apr 2016

*  Vermont, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1732-2005; 6,910 indexed records with record images, Updated 14 Apr 2016

*  Peru, Lambayeque, Civil Registration, 1873-1998; 514,796 indexed records with record images, Updated 13 Apr 2016

*  Argentina, National Census, 1869; 1,791,970 indexed records with record images, Updated 13 Apr 2016

*  Paraguay, Catholic Church Records, 1754-2015; 397,638 indexed records with record images, Updated 12 Apr 2016

*  Iowa, Church and Civil Marriages, 1837-1989; 12,747 indexed records without record images, ADDED 12 Apr 2016

*  Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934; 2,272,286 indexed records without record images, Updated 12 Apr 2016

The asterisk used by FamilySearch is for "Recently added or updated."  I am particularly interested in new collections, for the obvious reasons.  FamilySearch does provide a listing of which collections are new or updated several days after my post.
 
My friend, Marshall, has come up with a way to determine which collections are ADDED or UPDATED, in addition to which collections were removed.  My thanks to Marshall for helping me out here! 

In order to select a specific collection, go to https://familysearch.org/search/collection/list and use the "Filter by collection name" feature in the upper left-hand corner.

Each one of the collections listed above has a Research Wiki page (use the "Learn more" link).  It would be very useful if the Wiki page for each collection listed the dates for when the collection was added as a new collection and the dates for major updates also.

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