Betty and Fred’s Story: Building a Life Together – The First Week Apart, Late August 1944

  Here is the latest chapter in the story of the married life and times of my parents, Fred and Betty (Carringer) Seaver, who married in July 1942. The background information and the list of chapters of their life together are listed at the end of this post.  This is historical fiction with real people and real events, and is how it might have been.

And now we are up to  late-August 1944, two years plus into World War II.  Betty and Randy have gone to live with Betty's parents, and Fred reported for enlistment and training in the U.S. Navy.  Their first week after he enlisted was eventful.

                (AI NotebookLM Infographic - Betty and Fred's Story, The First Week Apart)

Based on the biographies and the earlier stories, I asked Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5 to tell another story - what happened next (I offered some suggestions!)?  

Betty and Fred’s Story; Building a Life Together 

– The First Week Apart

Fern Street, Late August 1944

Betty's childhood bedroom had never been meant to hold three people's worth of living, and by the second night it was clear it was going to have to learn how. The double bed took up most of the far wall, and her old dresser stood where it always had, drawers now doing double duty for her things and Randy's both. His crib had been wedged in near the window, close enough that she could reach it without getting out of bed, and what closet space remained after her dresses went in was stacked to the shelf with diapers, tins of formula, and the small mountain of supplies a ten-month-old required. There was no changing table, so she changed him on the bed itself, a folded towel under him and a practiced economy of motion that came from a week of doing it exactly that way — Randy kicking and grabbing for whatever was nearest while she worked.

It was crowded, and it was loud in the particular way a full house is loud, and Betty found, somewhat to her own surprise, that she didn't mind it nearly as much as she'd expected to. There was something steadying about not being alone with the quiet.

Randy, for his part, had decided the whole house was his to conquer. He crawled the length of the hallway with a determination that made Lyle laugh out loud the first time he saw it, and within a few days he'd worked out that the legs of the dining room table and the arms of the good chairs were things a person could pull himself up on, and so he spent long stretches of every afternoon hauling himself upright, wobbling, sitting down hard, and starting the whole business over again. Emily and Georgia took to trailing him from room to room with the patient, unhurried attentiveness of women who had raised children of their own and knew there was no rushing this particular kind of progress.

Some mornings Emily and Georgia took him out into the garden after Lyle went off to work, propping him in the grass near the flower beds while they worked, and he'd sit there contentedly pulling up fistfuls of grass and inspecting them with enormous seriousness before Georgia gently redirected his attention to something less dirt-covered. Other evenings it was the greenhouse with Lyle, Randy propped on a stool or held against Lyle's hip while his grandfather went about the business of the seedlings, narrating what he was doing in the same even, patient voice he used for everything, as though a ten-month-old were entirely capable of following a discussion of soil and light.

Betty took her sketchbook out to the garden on some mornings and sat in the shade with it open on her knee, drawing while she watched — Randy's fat little hand closing around a fistful of grass, Emily bent low beside him pointing at something in the flower bed, Georgia's profile against the hydrangeas, Lyle's careful hands among the seedlings with Randy propped against his shoulder. They weren't polished drawings. She didn't have the time or the stillness for that this week. But there was something in the act of putting pencil to paper that let her hold onto the morning a little longer than the morning itself would allow, and by the end of the week she had a small stack of pages that amounted, without her quite planning it, to a record of exactly how her son was spending his days without his father.

Lyle, of course, had his own way of keeping a record. The camera came out constantly — the still camera for Randy standing at the coffee table with his knees not quite trusting themselves yet, the 8mm for the longer business of him crawling the length of the hall or sitting in the grass with Georgia — and Lyle handled all of it with the same unhurried care he brought to his garage inventory, cataloguing his grandson's small triumphs the way he catalogued everything else that mattered to him.

In the evenings, once Randy was down, the house settled into a different kind of business — Lyle at his desk, Emily and Georgia with mending or the radio, Betty often just sitting, tired in the particular way that comes from a day spent chasing a child who has only recently discovered his own legs. She thought about Fred more in those quiet hours than she let on to anyone. There was no way yet to know what his days looked like, and the not-knowing had its own particular weight to it.

Naval Training Center San Diego, Late August 1944

Fred's days, had Betty been able to see them, would not have looked like anything from their life together.

Mornings began before the sun was properly up, and from the moment his feet hit the deck — he was already correcting himself, floor to deck, without quite meaning to — the day moved in a sequence that left no room for hesitation: make the bunk to the exacting Navy standard, shave, wash, dress, square away his locker and gear, fall in with the rest of his company, and report for whatever the day held. He learned quickly that the Navy had very little patience for a man who did any of this slowly, and by the third morning he'd shaved his routine down to something close to what was expected of him, moving through it half-asleep and entirely by habit.

The bunk alone had taken some getting used to — blankets pulled tight enough, he was told more than once, that a coin ought to bounce clean off them, corners folded to a precision that had nothing to do with comfort and everything to do with discipline. He thought, more than once, of how differently a bed got made at home, and put the thought away each time before it could get too comfortable in his head.

The language of the place came almost as fast as the routine did. Port and starboard replaced left and right; the ceiling was the overhead, the kitchen was the galley, the floor was the deck, and a rumor was a scuttlebutt, and Fred found himself, without quite noticing when it happened, starting to think in the new words rather than simply repeating them for the instructors' benefit. He learned to stand at attention until his back ached, to salute an officer without having to think first about which hand, to march in formation and correct his own stride to match the man beside him. He stood his first watches too, short stretches around the barracks and the company area, and understood well enough that these were rehearsals for something larger — the watches he'd stand someday aboard a ship, when the stakes would be considerably higher than a rumor passed down the line.

None of it, he came to understand, was really about obedience for its own sake. It was about becoming the kind of man who could be trusted to take care of himself, and by extension the men around him, in a place where there wouldn't be room or time for anyone to do it for him.

Partway through the week he sat down with a classification specialist, a man with a clipboard and a list of questions that felt, after the last few days, almost startlingly ordinary. What had Fred done before the Navy? Material control engineer, he said. Rohr Aircraft Corporation. Aircraft manufacturing. The specialist wrote it down without much visible reaction, and Fred understood, even as he answered, that his years of experience might carry him toward a technical assignment or might carry him nowhere near one — that the Navy would decide what it needed from him, and his own preferences would be, at best, one factor among several.

He thought about that a good deal in the days after, turning it over the way a man turns over anything he can't control. He'd built a career on being useful in one particular way. He had no idea yet whether the Navy would want that from him, or something else entirely.

Saturday Night

By Saturday night, one week in, Fred had a little time — not much, but enough — and a sheet of paper and a pencil, and he sat on the edge of his bunk after lights-were-nearly-out and wrote to his wife.

Dear Betty,

It's been one week today, which hardly seems possible — it feels both longer and shorter than that all at once. I won't pretend the first few days weren't rough. They cut my hair down to nothing and I hardly recognized myself in the mirror after, and my arm's still a little sore from all the shots they gave me. The bunk is too short. But I'm getting the hang of things faster than I expected to. I can make a bunk now that would probably pass inspection at Fern Street, if you can believe that.

They ask you a lot of questions here about what you did before — I told them about Rohr, the engineering work, all of it, though I gather it's mostly up to them what they do with that information. I don't know yet where I'll end up or what they'll have me doing, and I've decided there's not much use worrying over it until they tell me.

I think about you and Randy more than I probably should admit, especially at night when the barracks finally quiets down. I keep picturing him pulling himself up on furniture — is he still at it? Give him a kiss for me, and tell your mother and dad and Georgia thank you for everything they're doing. I don't know what we'd have done without the room at Fern Street, or without all of them.

Write and tell me everything — I mean it, everything, even the small things. It's the small things I find myself missing most.

All my love, Fred

Betty wrote hers that same night, after Randy was finally down and the house had gone quiet around her, sitting up in the crowded little bedroom with the lamp turned low so as not to wake him.

Dear Fred,

One week! It hardly seems real that you've only been gone seven days — it feels like so much longer, and also like no time at all, which I know doesn't make sense, but I think you'll understand it anyway.

Randy is doing wonderfully, though "doing wonderfully" mostly means pulling himself up on every piece of furniture in this house and looking enormously pleased with himself every time he manages it without falling. My father thinks he's going to be walking within the month, and I think he's probably right, and I don't know quite how I feel about that. He spends his mornings out in the garden with Mother and Georgia, or in the afternoon in the greenhouse with my father, who talks to him about the seedlings as though Randy has any idea what a seedling is. I've been sketching them together when I get the chance — I'll have quite a lot to show you when you're home.

We're settled in here, though "settled" is a generous word for how crowded this room is with the two of us and everything the three of us left behind — I mean everything of his, and mine, all of it. I don't mind it, though. It's good not to be alone in the quiet, especially at night.

Everyone here is being so good to us — I don't know what we'd have done otherwise. But it's you I want to hear about. Tell me everything about what your days are like, the things you're learning, the men you're meeting — don't leave anything out just because you think it's dull. I want to be able to picture exactly where you are and what you're doing.

Randy and I both miss you terribly. Come home to us as soon as they'll let you.

All my love, Betty

Both letters went into the Monday mail, hers carried down to the box on Fern Street and his handed over at the base post office along with a hundred others just like it, and by Tuesday afternoon each had found its way to the other — Fred's letter arriving at the Carringer house while Betty was out in the garden with Randy, Betty's reaching Fred during a rare quiet stretch between drills. Neither of them had any way of knowing, reading the other's words for the first time, that this — waiting for a letter, writing one back, waiting again — was going to be the shape of their marriage for a good while yet. But it was a start, and it was theirs, and for the moment it would have to be enough.

To be continued...

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Here is the Google Notebook Video Overview about this time in Betty, Fred and Randy's life in late August 1944 (also on my YouTube channel):  

This story is historical fiction based on real people -- my parents and me -- and a real event in a real place. I don't know the full story of these events -- but this is how it might have been. I hope that it was at least this good! Claude is such a good storywriter! I added some details and corrected some errors in Claude's initial version.

Stay tuned for the next chapter in this family story.

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The AI-assisted ABC Biography of my mother, Betty Virginia (Carringer) Seaver, is in ABC Biography of #3 Betty Virginia (Carringer) Seaver (1919-2002) of San Diego, California. I also  wrote Betty's Story: The First-Year Art Teacher about the start of her teaching career.

The AI-assisted ABC Biography of my father, Frederick Walton Seaver, is in ABC Biography of #2 Frederick Walton Seaver Jr. (1911-1983) of Massachusetts and San Diego, California.  I also wrote Fred's Story: The Three-Day Cross-Country Escape  and Fred's Story: "I Need A Girl" about him coming to San Diego, and wanting a girlfriend.

Here are the previous chapters in this story:

•  Betty's Story: "The Dinner That Changed Everything" 
• Betty and Fred's Story: "The First Date"
• Betty and Fred's Story: "New Beginnings"
• Betty and Fred's Story: "Late Summer, Early Fall 1941"
• Betty and Fred's Story: "Autumn Into Winter 1941"
• Betty and Fred's Story: Winter 1941/2 ... and Waiting
• Betty and Fred's Story: "Winter Into Spring 1942"
• Betty and Fred's Story: "The Big Moment"
• Betty and Fred's Story: "Racing Toward Forever"
• Betty and Fred's Story: "The Days Before 'I Do' "
• Betty and Fred's Story: "The Wedding Day" 
• Betty and Fred's Story: "The Honeymoon" 
• Betty and Fred's Story:  "A Home and Planning Ahead." 
• Betty and Fred's Story: "Building a Life Together" 
• Betty and Fred's Story: "Celebrations and War Worries" 
• Betty and Fred's Story: Married Life in December 1942
• Betty and Fred's Story - New Year 1943 
• Betty and Fred's Story: February to April 1943
• Betty and Fred's Story: Late Spring 1943
• Betty and Fred's Story: Early Summer 1943
• Betty and Fred's Story: Late July and August 1943 
• Betty and Fred's Story: September to Mid-October 1943
• Betty and Fred's Story: October, 1943 -- Baby Randy Is Born 
• Betty and Fred’s Story: Betty and Randy Come Home
• Betty and Fred’s Story: Baby Randy at One Month
• Betty and Fred’s Story: Thanksgiving 1943 -- celebration and concern.
• Betty and Fred's Story: Building a Life Together -- December 1943 
• Betty and Fred’s Story: Building a Life Together – Christmas Day 1943 
• Betty and Fred’s Story: Building a Life Together – Fred’s Christmas 1943 Letter
• Betty and Fred’s Story: Building a Life Together – Late December 1943 to Early January 1944
• Betty and Fred’s Story: Building a Life Together -- January and February 1944
• Betty and Fred’s Story: Building a Life Together -- February To April 1944 
• Betty and Fred’s Story: Building a Life Together -- Two Letters, May 1944 
• Betty and Fred’s Story: Building a Life Together -- The Waiting, Early June 1944 
• Betty and Fred’s Story: Building a Life Together - The Ship Comes In, Late June 1944

• Betty and Fred’s Story: Building A Life Together -- Fourth of July 1944

• Betty and Fred’s Story: Ed’s Family Arrives, Early July 1944
• Betty and Fred’s Story: Building a Life Together – Ed’s Family Visits Chula Vista, July 1944 (Part 1)
• Betty and Fred’s Story: Building a Life Together – Ed’s Family Visits Chula Vista, July 1944 (Part 2)
• Betty and Fred’s Story: Building a Life Together – Liberty Sundays, Late July, 1944
• Betty and Fred’s Story: Building A Life Together – Early August 1944
• Betty and Fred’s Story: Building a Life Together – The Selective Service Calls – August 1944
• Betty and Fred’s Story: Building a Life Together – Ed's Ship Sails and Fred Prepares To Enlist
• Betty and Fred’s Story: Building a Life Together – The Last Week on Twin Oaks Avenue
• Betty and Fred’s Story: Building a Life Together – Fred Reports For Duty - August 1944

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Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Serendipity!

 Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: 

 It's Saturday Night again - 

time for some more Genealogy Fun!!

Here is your assignment if you choose to play along (cue the Mission Impossible music, please!):

1)  Serendipity! What happened when you went looking for an ancestor or a genealogical record and were pleasantly surprised to find someone else or something else you didn't expect while you were doing that search?

2)  Please share an instance when you had a serendipitous experience.

3)  Share your serenditous experience in a your own blog post, or in a comment on this blog post, or put it in a Substack post, Facebook Note, or some other social media system.  Please leave a comment with a link on this post so others can find it.

Thank you to Marian B. Wood for suggesting this topic.

Here's mine:

I've had so many serendipity experiences over the years and now I can't remember the details of most of them.  So I will recount my latest experience from this past week.

While I was writing my blog post about the life of my 3rd great-grandmother Elizabeth (Dill) Smith (1791-1869) in 1845 in Medfield, Massachusetts, I reviewed my research for her and her husband Alpheus B. Smith (1802-1840).  I checked all my notes for them, which are in my RootsMagic profiles and genealogical sketches, and realized that I had searched, many years ago, for probate records for Alpheus Smith.  I had found the affidavit noting that Lucy Butterfield had bought Elizabeth's dower thirds (one-third of the personal estate, about one acre of land including the house and barn) from her in the FamilySearch Catalog, and I knew that the other 15 acres were sold to pay the debts of the Alpheus Smith estate.  

However, I found that I had not searched the land records at all for Elizabeth.  I searched for "Elizabeth H. Smith" on FamilySearch Full-Text Search and up popped not only the deed for Lucy Butterfield buying Elizabeth's dower rights, but also a deed (on the same image) for Lucy Butterfield buying the other 15 acres from the estate administered by Hinsdale Fisher. 

 I will transcribe the deeds in coming Amanuensis Monday posts so that I have a proper transcription and also a proper source citation.  I also need to update the genealogical sketch and ABC Biography for Elizabeth (Dill) Smith.  

I'm not sure this is all Serendipity but if it hadn't been on the same page in the Deed Book I'm not sure I would have found it.  When I searched for "Alpheus Smith" in Full-Text Search, this second deed did not appear in the results for some reason (Smith records are very common, perhaps I failed to search more than 100 deed matches?). 

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The Birth of Devier David Carringer in National City, California on 31 August 1889

 After writing The Letter From Della (Smith) Carringer Arrives in Nebraska in August 1889, asking her mother to come help with her first baby, I asked Anthropic Claude to write the story of Abbey Smith's train trip from McCook, Nebraska to San Diego, California in 1889, based on Abbey's biography. That story is in Abbey Smith’s Journey West To San Diego In 1889.

Della's baby was born on 31 August 1889 in her National City home and Abbey was there to help.  I asked Anthropic Claude to tell this baby birth story from three perspectives -- Della Carringer's, Abbey Smith's and Austin Carringer's.

(AI Google Notebook Infographic -- Devier David Carringer's Birth Day, 31 August 1889)

Here is the story:

A Carringer Son is Born

National City, California — August 31, 1889

Della

The pains had started in the night, low and dull at first, easy enough to mistake for the ordinary discomfort she'd carried the last month of this endless summer. By the time the sky had gone gray at the window she knew better, and lay very still for a while, counting, before she woke Austin at all.

"How long," he said, already half out of the bed, "how long have you been lying there not telling me?"

"Not long. Go for your mother — no, go for Mrs. Halloway first, then wake Mother, she'll only fuss less if she hears it from you and not from me hollering."

He went, and Della lay alone a few minutes in the graying light, one hand spread over the great tight mound of her belly, feeling it draw up hard and then ease, and thought, with something between terror and a strange calm she hadn't expected to feel: today, then. Today I meet you.

By the time her mother came in — hair still loose from sleep, wrapper thrown on over her nightdress, moving with a speed Della hadn't seen from her since she arrived — the pains had drawn closer together, and Della found she was glad, more glad than she could have said, simply to see her mother's face bent over her.

"There now," Abbey said, taking her hand, "there now, I've done this six times myself, you'll manage it. How close are they coming?"

"I don't — I can't rightly say. Close."

"Close enough. Good." Her mother's hand was cool and steady on her forehead. "Breathe through it, don't fight it, it does its work faster if you let it."

The morning went on that way, in a haze of pain that came and went and came again, closer each time, her mother's voice a low steady thread through all of it — breathe, there, it's easing now, rest while you can — until the words themselves stopped meaning much and became only sound, only her mother's voice, the one constant thing in a room that had otherwise narrowed down to nothing but her own body and its terrible, necessary work.

When Mrs. Halloway arrived — a broad, capable woman with graying hair and forearms like a washerwoman's, who'd midwifed half of National City by her own account — she took one look and one touch and said, with the flat certainty of long experience, "Well before noon, I'd say. This one's in a hurry."

Della, between pains, thought she might have laughed if she'd had the breath for it, and it seemed fitting enough that her own child should be in such a hurry to arrive.

By midmorning the room had narrowed to almost nothing — her mother on one side, Mrs. Halloway at the foot of the bed, low murmured instruction passing between them that Della only half heard, riding each wave as it came and finding, somewhere past the point where she'd have said she couldn't bear another one, that she bore it anyway, because there was nothing else to be done and because her mother's hand never once let go of hers.

"There's the head," Mrs. Halloway said at last, in a voice gone suddenly bright with purpose. "One more good push now, Mrs. Carringer, just the one—"

And then, all at once, the terrible tightness broke and there was a sound in the room that hadn't been there before — thin and outraged and entirely new — and Della lay back against the pillow with tears running sideways into her hair, laughing and crying at once, while her mother's face above her broke into an expression Della had not seen on it before, not once in her whole life, something unguarded and shining.

"A boy," Mrs. Halloway said, working quick and sure. "A fine big boy, and loud with it, which is only good news."

"Let me see him," Della said, or tried to say, her voice not quite her own. "Mother — let me see—"

And then he was there, red and furious and impossibly small, laid against her chest, and Della forgot the whole of the last twelve hours in the single fact of him.

Abbey

Abbey had sat at enough bedsides in her life — her own six times over, and her sisters', and neighbor women's in every county they'd ever lived — that she thought she had grown past being frightened by it. She discovered, sitting beside Della through that long morning with her daughter's hand gripped tight in her own, that this was not entirely true. There was a particular fear reserved for watching your own child labor that nothing in her own confinements had prepared her for.

"Breathe through it," she said, over and over, because it was true and because it gave her something to say besides the fear. "Don't fight it, Della, let it do its work. There now. There now."

She remembered — could not help remembering, sitting there — her own first labor, Della's own birth, twenty-seven years gone now, in Devier's father's home -- an inn -- in Rolling Prairie with her own mother sitting beside her, and a neighbor woman she'd known scarcely a year helping. She had sworn to herself then, young and frightened and far from home, that if she ever had a daughter of her own who labored, she would be there for it, whatever the distance. She had crossed near two thousand miles this past week to keep that promise, though she had not put it to herself in quite those words until this morning.

Mrs. Halloway was competent — Abbey approved of her within the first quarter hour, the particular quick, unhurried competence of a woman who had done this a great many times and did not waste effort on anything but what the moment required — and this eased something in Abbey's chest, to have a steady hand in the room besides her own.

"You're doing well," she told Della, again and again, smoothing the damp hair back from her daughter's forehead. "You are doing just exactly as you ought."

When the child finally came — quick, as these things went, Mrs. Halloway said, though it had not felt quick sitting through it — and that thin outraged cry filled the room, Abbey felt something break open in her own chest that she had not expected, a rush of feeling too large and too many-sided to properly name. Relief, first and foremost, that Della had come through it well. Joy, plain and uncomplicated, at the sound of a new voice in the world. And underneath both of those, something else — the sudden, vivid memory of holding this same daughter as a newborn herself, in a different house, a different life ago, and the strange doubled feeling of watching that circle close.

"A grandson," she said, and found her voice was not quite steady. "Della, look what you've done."

Austin

Austin had been banished from the room entirely — Mrs. Halloway's doing, firm and immovable on the point, and Abbey had backed her without hesitation — and so he spent the morning doing the only thing left to a man in his situation, which was to wear a groove in the boards of his own front porch and listen, with his stomach in a knot the whole while, to the sounds coming from the bedroom.

He had known, in an abstract way, that childbirth was hard on a woman. He had not understood, until he stood outside that closed door hearing Della's voice go from ordinary to strained to something he'd never heard from her before, what that abstraction actually meant, and he found himself, more than once that morning, gripping the porch rail hard enough that his knuckles went white, praying in a rough, wordless way to a God he did not often trouble in the ordinary run of things.

His neighbor Tom Hargrove came by midmorning, saw the state of him, and had the good sense to simply sit down on the porch step beside him without much conversation, which Austin was grateful for in a way he didn't have words to express at the time.

"First one's always the longest wait," Tom said eventually. "Mine took the better part of two days, my Sarah. You've nothing to complain of yet."

"I'm not complaining," Austin said, though his voice came out tighter than he meant it. "I just don't know what a man's meant to do with himself, sitting out here."

"Nothing to be done. That's the whole of it. Nothing to be done but wait and let the women get on with it, same as they always have."

The waiting stretched on, each hour longer than the last, until somewhere near noon the sounds from within changed again — a rising urgency he could hear even through the closed door and the thin walls — and Austin came up off the porch step without quite deciding to, standing at the door with his heart going hard in his chest, not knowing whether to knock or simply wait.

And then he heard it: a new sound, thin and sharp and utterly unlike anything that had come before, and every hair on his arms stood up at once.

He did not remember crossing the porch or opening the door, only that he was suddenly in the doorway of the bedroom, and Mrs. Halloway was saying something about giving them just a moment more, and Abbey was turning toward him with tears standing plain in her eyes and something in her face he had never seen there before, and past her, in the bed, Della was looking up at him with an expression of such pure, exhausted joy that it undid him entirely.

"Austin." Her voice was hoarse but steady. "Come see your son."

He crossed the room on legs that did not feel entirely his own, and looked down at the small red furious face against Della's chest, and felt something in his own chest simply give way.

"Devier David," Della said, watching his face. "For your father, and for mine. Is that — will that suit?"

Austin could not, for a moment, manage any words at all. He knelt by the bed instead and put his hand, very carefully, against the impossibly small curl of his son's fist, and felt the tiny fingers close around one of his own with a grip that seemed, absurdly, already strong.

"That suits," he finally managed, his voice not entirely steady either. "That suits just fine."

Behind him, in the doorway, Abbey stood watching the three of them — her daughter, her son-in-law, and the newest small stranger who carried both grandfathers' names into a family that had crossed half a continent to be gathered, for this one morning, all in a single room — and thought that whatever else this long westward journey had cost the family over the years, it had brought them, at last, to this.

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Author’s Note: This is a work of historical fiction imagining the birth, grounded in the documented fact of Devier David Carringer's birth on August 31, 1889, and the family's presence in National City at that time. The specifics of the labor, the midwife, and the conversations are invented, as no firsthand account survives.

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The AI Google NotebookLM Video Overview of this story is in (and on my YouTube channel):  

This is historical fiction based on known events in the lives of my ancestors -- it might have been this way. Abigail (Vaux) Smith is my 2nd great-grandmother through her daughter Della (Smith) Carringer (1862-1944), and I have significant information about this family from the available records, but I know nothing about their day-to-day lives.

As always, I am amazed at what life was like in any place over 130 years ago. This description of the birth of Devier David Carringer in National City in 1889 is interesting and so different from our current daily activities.

After I read these types of social history summaries, I wish that I could be a time traveler for one day to visit this Carringer family in 1889 San Diego 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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Added and Updated FamilySearch Record Collections - Week of 5 to 11 September 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 11 September 2026, there are now 6,730 searchable and full-text transcribed image collections on FamilySearch Full-Text Search this week, an increase of 0 from last week. There are over 2 BILLION "results" in the collections.  It is not possible to see which collections are new, although a clue would be the Last Updated column. 

 2)  As of 11 September 2026 there are now 26,155 browsable (some indexed, none transcribed) image collections on FamilySearch Images this week, an increase of 100 from last week. There are over 6.159 BILLION images in these collections.  There are 2,163 collections from the United States, 7,303 from Europe and 219 from Canada.  It is not possible to see which collections are new. Note that the listing now indicates the indexed percentage of some collections.

3)  As of 11 September 2026, there are 3,479 Historical Record Collections (many indexed, many browsable) on FamilySearch (an increase of 1 from last week):

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

--- Collections Deleted ---

Italy, Brindisi, Civil Registration (State Archive), 1809-1955 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2328379); 132,503 indexed records with 827,146 record images, DELETED
Italy, Grosseto, Census, 1776-1921 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/5000450); 115,574 indexed records with 13,215 record images, DELETED
Italy, Piacenza, Civil Registration (State Archive), 1662-1930 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/4117582); 14,431 indexed records with 641,969 record images, DELETED
Peru, Lima, Civil Registration, 1683-1998 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1430936); Index only (101 records), no images, DELETED

--- Collections Added ---

*Australia, School Admission Registers, 1817-1995 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/5000652); 1 indexed records with 1 record images, ADDED 10-Sep-2026
*  Mauritius (Île de France), Civil Registration, 1780-1820 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/5000640); 11,713 indexed records with 6,029 record images, ADDED 29-Jul-2026
*  Michigan, Grand Army of the Republic Membership Records, 1876-1945 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2351035); Index only (61,796 records), no images, ADDED 10-Sep-2026
*  Romania, Civil Registration, 1865-1903 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/4325043); 759 indexed records with 394 record images, ADDED 10-Sep-2026
*  Ukraine, Poltava, Confession Lists, 1758-1923 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/5000399); 3,928,929 indexed records with 115,583 record images, ADDED 13-Jul-2026

--- Collections Updated ---
Australia, Cemetery Inscriptions, 1802-2005 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2115584); 1,137,204 indexed records with 329,238 record images (was 1,137,765 records with 329,238 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Australia, Queensland, Cemetery Records, 1802-1990 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1927198); 2,139,862 indexed records with 1,121,438 record images (was 2,147,363 records with 1,121,438 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Australia, Tasmania, Civil Registration (District Registers), 1824-1939 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2514003); 70,861 indexed records with 21,141 record images (was 70,861 records with 21,141 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Australia, Tasmania, Civil Registration, 1803-1933 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2125029); 414,523 indexed records with 73,580 record images (was 414,523 records with 73,580 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Australia, Tasmania, Miscellaneous Records, 1829-2001 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1935075); 120,158 indexed records with 366,600 record images (was 120,158 records with 366,600 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Australia, Victoria, Wills, Probate and Administration Files, 1841-1926 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2207846); 346,706 indexed records with 3,998,555 record images (was 346,706 records with 3,998,555 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Brazil, Bahia, Passenger Lists, 1855-1964 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1928179); 697,049 indexed records with 38,990 record images (was 653,345 records with 38,990 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Brazil, Bahía, Catholic Church Records, 1598-2007 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2177272); 1,654,256 indexed records with 368,634 record images (was 1,651,206 records with 368,634 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Brazil, Cemetery Records, 1799-2024 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2137269); 2,243,502 indexed records with 150,972 record images (was 1,023,506 records with 150,972 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Brazil, Mato Grosso, Civil Registration, 1845-2014 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2001286); Index only (8,389 records), no images (was 8,389 records with 0 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026

Brazil, Minas Gerais, Catholic Church Records, 1706-2018 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2177275); 2,157,936 indexed records with 930,569 record images (was 2,170,193 records with 930,569 images), UPDATED 11-Sep-2026
Brazil, Paraíba, Catholic Church Records, 1731-2016 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2177286); 728,626 indexed records with 788,492 record images (was 1,261,403 records with 788,492 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Brazil, Paraíba, Civil Registration, 1879-2021 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2015754); 1,456,112 indexed records with 852,268 record images (was 1,455,710 records with 852,268 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Brazil, Pernambuco, Civil Registration, 1804-2023 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2016195); 1,340,846 indexed records with 5,387,756 record images (was 1,338,653 records with 5,387,756 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Brazil, Piauí, Civil Registration, 1875-2015 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2001150); 375,629 indexed records with 1,295,575 record images (was 375,010 records with 1,295,575 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Brazil, Rio Grande do Norte, Catholic Church Records, 1755-2019 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2177294); 1,655,700 indexed records with 54,182 record images (was 1,654,447 records with 54,182 images), UPDATED 11-Sep-2026
Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Civil Registration, 1804-2013 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1582573); 6,328,974 indexed records with 5,100,470 record images (was 6,321,369 records with 5,100,470 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Brazil, Santa Catarina, Civil Registration, 1850-1999 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2016197); 425,059 indexed records with 1,037,638 record images (was 415,937 records with 1,037,638 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Brazil, Sergipe, Catholic Church Records, 1785-1994 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2177298); 889,065 indexed records with 273,847 record images (was 887,166 records with 273,847 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Brazil, São Paulo, Catholic Church Records, 1640-2013 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2177299); 3,897,154 indexed records with 1,610,067 record images (was 3,886,323 records with 1,610,067 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026

Brazil, São Paulo, São Paulo, Burial Records, 1858-1977 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1639714); Browse 128,839 Images only, no index (was 0 records with 128,839 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
California, Passenger and Crew Lists at Various Ports, 1907-1957 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/3477653); 383,373 indexed records with 292,412 record images (was 346,972 records with 292,412 images), UPDATED 11-Sep-2026
Canada, Prince Edward Island Church Records, 1777-1985 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1937794); Browse 22,448 Images only, no index (was 0 records with 22,448 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Canada, Quebec, Catholic Parish Registers, 1621-1979 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1321742); 79,535 indexed records with 1,398,741 record images (was 79,535 records with 1,398,741 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Canada, Quebec, Notarial Records, 1800-1920 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1471015); Browse 4,956,093 Images only, no index (was 0 records with 4,956,093 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Cape Verde, Catholic Church Records, 1787-1957 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2246703); 346,391 indexed records with 105,781 record images (was 127,954 records with 105,781 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Georgia, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1880573); 836,654 indexed records with 1,682,137 record images (was 836,136 records with 1,682,137 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Germany, Prussia, Posen, Catholic and Lutheran Church Records, 1430-1998 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/4116415); 11,671,064 indexed records with 1,872,814 record images (was 11,663,948 records with 1,872,814 images), UPDATED 11-Sep-2026
Germany, Saxony, Leipzig, Miscellaneous City Records, 1701-1922 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2040001); Browse 91,076 Images only, no index (was 0 records with 91,076 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026

Hawaii, Honolulu, Passenger Lists, 1900-1954 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2141044); 1,448,458 indexed records with 191,701 record images (was 1,201,312 records with 191,701 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Hungary, Civil Registration, 1895-1980 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1452460); 12,945,746 indexed records with 5,864,285 record images (was 12,665,993 records with 5,864,285 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Idaho, Boundary, Eastport, Arrival Manifests, 1924-1956 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2072140); 238,729 indexed records with 436,334 record images (was 230,214 records with 436,334 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Illinois, Chicago, Catholic Church Records, 1833-1925 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1452409); 302,566 indexed records with 295,723 record images (was 302,566 records with 295,723 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Indiana, Marriages, 1811-2019 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1410397); 5,338,731 indexed records with 1,259,299 record images (was 5,338,731 records with 1,259,299 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Ireland, Petty Sessions Court Registers, 1828-1912 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2487287); 21,821,540 indexed records with 1 record images (was 21,821,540 records with 1 images), UPDATED 11-Sep-2026
Italy, Agrigento, Agrigento, Civil Registration (Tribunale), 1866-1942 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1946817); 209,419 indexed records with 852,371 record images (was 209,419 records with 852,371 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Italy, Agrigento, Civil Registration (State Archive), 1820-1865 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2480962); 33,815 indexed records with 1,218,927 record images (was 33,815 records with 1,218,927 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Italy, Agrigento, Sciacca, Civil Registration (Tribunale), 1861-1929 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2043548); 19,928 indexed records with 226,482 record images (was 19,928 records with 226,482 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Italy, Ancona, Ancona, Civil Registration (Tribunale), 1862-1929 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2046896); 1,029,480 indexed records with 2,361,451 record images (was 147,091 records with 2,361,451 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026

Italy, Arezzo, Civil Registration (State Archive), 1314-1934 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2146184); 4,533 indexed records with 68,721 record images (was 4,533 records with 68,721 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Italy, Ascoli Piceno, Civil Registration (State Archive), 1740-1880, 1915-1919 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2068340); 2 indexed records with 75,928 record images (was 2 records with 75,928 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Italy, Asti, Civil Registration (State Archive), 1803-1814, 1911-1935 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2146198); 62,432 indexed records with 279,461 record images (was 62,432 records with 279,461 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Italy, Avellino, Civil Registration (State Archive), 1809-1947 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2484771); 105,657 indexed records with 3,099,458 record images (was 105,657 records with 3,099,458 images), UPDATED 11-Sep-2026
Italy, Bari, Bari, Civil Registration (Tribunale), 1866-1929 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2043445); 104,150 indexed records with 1,626,044 record images (was 104,150 records with 1,626,044 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Italy, Bari, Civil Registration (State Archive), 1809-1908 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1968511); 611,636 indexed records with 2,870,392 record images (was 611,636 records with 2,870,392 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Italy, Belluno, Civil Registration (State Archive), 1806-1815 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1939239); 4,765 indexed records with 43,302 record images (was 4,765 records with 43,302 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Italy, Benevento, Benevento, Civil Registration (Comune), 1861-1929 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1482870); 2,798 indexed records with 35,560 record images (was 2,798 records with 35,560 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Italy, Benevento, Civil Registration (State Archive), 1810-1942 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2475030); 356,098 indexed records with 1,827,400 record images (was 356,098 records with 1,827,400 images), UPDATED 11-Sep-2026
Italy, Bergamo, Civil Registration (State Archive), 1866-1903 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1986789); 656,729 indexed records with 2,514,754 record images (was 658,071 records with 2,514,754 images), UPDATED 11-Sep-2026

Italy, Biella, Borriana, Catholic Church Records, 1740-1938 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1477247); 8,482 indexed records with 4,648 record images (was 10,165 records with 4,648 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Italy, Births and Baptisms, 1806-1900 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1708706); 205,484 indexed records with 1,317,907 record images (was 205,484 records with 1,317,907 images), UPDATED 11-Sep-2026
Italy, Bologna, Bologna, Civil Registration (Tribunale), 1866-1943 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1947797); 987,872 indexed records with 5,914,917 record images (was 3,317 records with 5,914,917 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Italy, Brescia, Civil Registration (State Archive), 1797-1943 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2158242); 157,049 indexed records with 620,801 record images (was 157,049 records with 620,801 images), UPDATED 11-Sep-2026
Italy, Cagliari, Cagliari, Civil Registration (Tribunale), 1866-1934 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2043426); 108,422 indexed records with 1,791,108 record images (was 108,422 records with 1,791,108 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Italy, Caltanissetta, Civil Registration (State Archive), 1820-1935 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1986780); 403,003 indexed records with 470,099 record images (was 403,003 records with 470,099 images), UPDATED 11-Sep-2026
Italy, Campobasso, Civil Registration (State Archive), 1809-1918 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1968528); 371,139 indexed records with 2,171,605 record images (was 371,139 records with 2,171,605 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Italy, Caserta, Civil Registration (State Archive), 1809-1866 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2718545); 1,603 indexed records with 4,543,698 record images (was 1,603 records with 4,543,698 images), UPDATED 11-Sep-2026
Italy, Caserta, Sant'Arpino, Civil Registration (Comune), 1876-1980 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1860760); 7,531 indexed records with 2,900 record images (was 7,531 records with 2,900 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Italy, Caserta, Santa Maria Capua Vetere, Civil Registration (Tribunale), 1866-1929 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2043630); 1,302,094 indexed records with 1,097,228 record images (was 1,241,591 records with 1,097,228 images), UPDATED 11-Sep-2026

Italy, Catania, Caltagirone, Civil Registration (Tribunale), 1861-1941 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1483039); 277,025 indexed records with 1,252,189 record images (was 275,003 records with 1,252,189 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Italy, Catania, Catania, Civil Registration (Tribunale), 1866-1929 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2043496); 824,250 indexed records with 434,962 record images (was 350,193 records with 434,962 images), UPDATED 11-Sep-2026
Italy, Catania, Civil Registration (State Archive), 1820-1900 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2821289); Browse 2,852,068 Images only, no index (was 0 records with 2,852,068 images), UPDATED 11-Sep-2026
Italy, Catania, Diocesi di Acireale, Catholic Church Records, 1560-1950 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2016233); 513,377 indexed records with 283,415 record images (was 513,399 records with 283,415 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Italy, Catania, Diocesi di Caltagirone, Catholic Church Records, 1502-1942 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1493344); 811,350 indexed records with 554,541 record images (was 528,169 records with 554,541 images), UPDATED 11-Sep-2026
Italy, Catanzaro, Civil Registration (State Archive), 1809-1865 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1937913); 753,725 indexed records with 436,534 record images (was 753,725 records with 436,534 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Italy, Chieti, Civil Registration (State Archive), 1809-1931 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2419833); 328,767 indexed records with 3,714,370 record images (was 328,767 records with 3,714,370 images), UPDATED 11-Sep-2026
Italy, Como, Civil Registration (State Archive), 1806-1951 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1939355); Browse 15,667 Images only, no index (was 0 records with 15,667 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Italy, Cremona, Civil Registration (State Archive), 1744-1942 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1987747); 425,341 indexed records with 1,325,362 record images (was 425,341 records with 1,325,362 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Italy, Cuneo, Alba, Civil Registration (Tribunale), 1866-1941 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1483030); 8,723 indexed records with 373,052 record images (was 8,723 records with 373,052 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026

Italy, Cuneo, Saluzzo, Civil Registration (Tribunale), 1866-1942 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2068332); Browse 1,604,444 Images only, no index (was 0 records with 1,604,444 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Italy, Deaths and Burials, 1806-1910 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1708705); 76,671 indexed records with 423,299 record images (was 76,671 records with 428,973 images), UPDATED 11-Sep-2026
Italy, Enna, Civil Registration (State Archive), 1866-1944 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2068343); 2,585 indexed records with 836,855 record images (was 2,585 records with 836,855 images), UPDATED 11-Sep-2026
Italy, Firenze, Census, 1808-1871 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/5000441); 748,485 indexed records with 49,117 record images (was 748,485 records with 49,117 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Italy, Forlì-Cesena, Forlì, Civil Registration (State Archive), 1800-1815, 1866-1930 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2068333); 139,112 indexed records with 2,090,185 record images (was 139,112 records with 2,090,185 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Italy, Frosinone, Settefrati, Civil Registration (Comune), 1866-1929 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1483015); 4,634 indexed records with 3,930 record images (was 4,634 records with 3,930 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Italy, Genova, Census, 1626-1926 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/5000448); 13,295 indexed records with 1,089 record images (was 32,074 records with 1,089 images), UPDATED 11-Sep-2026
Italy, Genova, Chiavari, Civil Registration (Tribunale), 1866-1941 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1482818); 694,880 indexed records with 650,745 record images (was 697,605 records with 650,745 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Italy, Genova, Civil Registration (State Archive), 1796-1812, 1838-1859, 1866-1899 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1928859); 249,878 indexed records with 445,302 record images (was 249,878 records with 445,302 images), UPDATED 11-Sep-2026
Italy, Genova, Genova, Civil Registration (Tribunale), 1866-1929 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2046914); 1,803,065 indexed records with 871,669 record images (was 1,795,434 records with 871,669 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026

Italy, Grosseto, Civil Registration (State Archive), 1866-1942 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2015751); 113,911 indexed records with 393,814 record images (was 74,903 records with 393,814 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Italy, Isernia, Civil Registration (State Archive), 1809-1914 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/3049866); 1,195 indexed records with 1,021,993 record images (was 1,195 records with 1,021,993 images), UPDATED 11-Sep-2026
Italy, L'Aquila, Civil Registration (State Archive), 1809-1944, 1911-1943 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1937372); 134,489 indexed records with 2,754,472 record images (was 134,489 records with 2,754,472 images), UPDATED 11-Sep-2026
Italy, L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Civil Registration (Tribunale), 1824-1910 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2043786); Browse 483,804 Images only, no index (was 0 records with 483,804 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Italy, La Spezia, Catholic Church Records, 1838-1857 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2477523); Browse 66,288 Images only, no index (was 0 records with 66,288 images), UPDATED 11-Sep-2026
Italy, La Spezia, Civil Registration (State Archive), 1780-1865 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2477527); 17 indexed records with 3,588 record images (was 17 records with 3,588 images), UPDATED 11-Sep-2026
Italy, Lecce, Civil Registration (State Archive), 1901-1941 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2310702); 20,203 indexed records with 3,307,040 record images (was 20,203 records with 3,307,040 images), UPDATED 11-Sep-2026
Italy, Lecco, Lecco, Civil Registration (Tribunale), 1866-1929 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2046897); 378,249 indexed records with 646,060 record images (was 298,052 records with 646,060 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Italy, Lucca, Lucca, Civil Registration (Tribunale), 1866-1929 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2043811); 135,338 indexed records with 1,335,192 record images (was 128,224 records with 1,335,192 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Italy, Macerata, Civil Registration (State Archive), 1808-1814 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2152678); 31,014 indexed records with 93,143 record images (was 31,014 records with 93,143 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026

Italy, Macerata, Macerata, Civil Registration (Tribunale), 1866-1929 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2043838); 692,052 indexed records with 792,563 record images (was 141,950 records with 792,563 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Italy, Mantova, Census, 1714-1910 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/5000460); 1,180 indexed records with 50,773 record images (was 1,180 records with 1,427 images), UPDATED 08-Sep-2026
Italy, Mantova, Civil Registration (State Archive), 1496-1906 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1934580); 802,442 indexed records with 855,316 record images (was 802,442 records with 855,316 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Italy, Mantova, Mantova, Censuses (Comune), 1750-1900 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2212671); 287,582 indexed records with 50,245 record images (was 0 records with 50,245 images), UPDATED 08-Sep-2026
Italy, Marriages, 1809-1900 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1711678); 76,565 indexed records with 304,927 record images (was 76,565 records with 304,927 images), UPDATED 11-Sep-2026
Italy, Matera, Civil Registration (State Archive), 1809-1925 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2819382); Browse 1,323,614 Images only, no index (was 0 records with 1,323,614 images), UPDATED 11-Sep-2026
Italy, Matera, Matera, Civil Registration (Tribunale), 1866-1929 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2043814); 235,762 indexed records with 237,814 record images (was 180,912 records with 237,814 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Italy, Messina, Civil Registration (State Archive), 1820-1865 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1935770); 940,311 indexed records with 1,076,443 record images (was 940,311 records with 1,076,443 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Italy, Messina, Mistretta, Civil Registration (Tribunale), 1866-1942 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2120739); Browse 160,530 Images only, no index (was 0 records with 160,530 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Italy, Messina, Patti, Civil Registration (Tribunale), 1823-1941 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1946858); 148,561 indexed records with 891,170 record images (was 148,561 records with 891,170 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026

Italy, Milano, Civil Registration (State Archive), 1866-1942 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2537277); 2,517 indexed records with 1,064,144 record images (was 2,517 records with 1,064,144 images), UPDATED 11-Sep-2026
Italy, Modena, Civil Registration (State Archive), 1806-1942 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1968527); 602,255 indexed records with 2,114,742 record images (was 601,917 records with 2,114,742 images), UPDATED 11-Sep-2026
Italy, Napoli, Castellammare di Stabia, Civil Registration (Comune), 1809-1936 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1482813); 153,916 indexed records with 194,835 record images (was 153,916 records with 194,835 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Italy, Napoli, Civil Registration (State Archive), 1809-1866 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1937990); 1,178,892 indexed records with 12,795,172 record images (was 1,178,892 records with 12,795,172 images), UPDATED 11-Sep-2026
Italy, Napoli, Ischia, Civil Registration (Comune), 1809-1929 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1488369); Browse 24,442 Images only, no index (was 0 records with 24,442 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Italy, Napoli, Marano di Napoli, Civil Registration (Comune), 1839-1929 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1483025); Browse 18,199 Images only, no index (was 0 records with 18,199 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Italy, Napoli, Sant'Angelo, Parrocchia di San Michele Arcangelo, Catholic Church Records, 1905-1929 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2068329); Browse 77 Images only, no index (was 0 records with 77 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Italy, Padova, Padova, Civil Registration (Tribunale), 1871-1929 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1946877); 1,442,646 indexed records with 1,745,536 record images (was 56,883 records with 1,745,536 images), UPDATED 11-Sep-2026
Italy, Palermo, Civil Registration (State Archive), 1820-1947 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2608509); 4,683 indexed records with 4,331,932 record images (was 4,683 records with 4,331,932 images), UPDATED 11-Sep-2026
Italy, Parma, Census Records, 1545-1923 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/5000453); 163,338 indexed records with 28,554 record images (was 163,338 records with 28,554 images), UPDATED 11-Sep-2026

Italy, Pavia, Pavia, Civil Registration (Tribunale), 1806-1812, 1866-1935 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2043830); 310,614 indexed records with 306,382 record images (was 124,855 records with 306,382 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Italy, Pavia, Voghera, Civil Registration (Tribunale), 1866-1929 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2057676); 50,712 indexed records with 165,651 record images (was 46,798 records with 165,651 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Italy, Pesaro e Urbino, Urbino, Civil Registration (State Archive), 1866-1942 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1977027); 141,568 indexed records with 709,381 record images (was 141,568 records with 709,381 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Italy, Pescara, Civil Registration (State Archive), 1809-1929 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2013532); 630,886 indexed records with 2,022,109 record images (was 630,886 records with 2,022,109 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Italy, Pisa, Pisa, Civil Registration (Tribunale), 1866-1935 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2043812); 138,763 indexed records with 618,446 record images (was 131,962 records with 618,446 images), UPDATED 11-Sep-2026
Italy, Pistoia, Pistoia, Civil Registration (Tribunale), 1866-1937 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1493462); 49,323 indexed records with 834,726 record images (was 45,380 records with 834,726 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Italy, Pola and Trieste, Catholic Church Records, 1593-1941 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2152685); Browse 13,143 Images only, no index (was 0 records with 13,143 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Italy, Potenza, Civil Registration (State Archive), 1697-1923 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2450876); 6,604 indexed records with 3,139,547 record images (was 6,604 records with 3,139,547 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Italy, Prato, Civil Registration (State Archive), 1866-1923 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2057689); 45,813 indexed records with 227,429 record images (was 45,813 records with 227,429 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Italy, Ragusa, Civil Registration (State Archive), 1900-1940 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2068330); 7,104 indexed records with 1,460,681 record images (was 0 records with 1,460,681 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026

Italy, Ragusa, Modica, Civil Registration (Tribunale), 1866-1942 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2094181); Browse 305,633 Images only, no index (was 0 records with 305,633 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Italy, Ravenna, Ravenna, Civil Registration (Tribunale), 1866-1943 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1947700); 764,496 indexed records with 1,759,182 record images (was 119,454 records with 1,759,182 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Italy, Reggio Calabria, Civil Registration (State Archive), 1784-1943 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2068331); 108,490 indexed records with 2,245,171 record images (was 0 records with 2,245,171 images), UPDATED 11-Sep-2026
Italy, Rieti, Civil Registration (State Archive), 1840-1945 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2146202); 136,327 indexed records with 448,819 record images (was 136,327 records with 448,819 images), UPDATED 11-Sep-2026
Italy, Roma, Civil Registration (State Archive), 1863-1930 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2390532); 825,269 indexed records with 5,066,067 record images (was 825,269 records with 5,066,067 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Italy, Rovigo, Rovigo, Civil Registration (Tribunale), 1871-1937 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1482864); 826,900 indexed records with 1,082,856 record images (was 825,502 records with 1,082,856 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Italy, Salerno, Civil Registration (State Archive), 1806-1949 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1935404); 1,201,430 indexed records with 5,930,229 record images (was 1,201,430 records with 5,930,229 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Italy, Salerno, Padula, Civil Registration (Comune), 1809-1940 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1920307); 3,352 indexed records with 52,664 record images (was 3,352 records with 52,664 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Italy, Saluzzo, Civil Registration (Tribunale), 1809-1949 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/5000604); 90,055 indexed records with 76,212 record images (was 45,874 records with 76,212 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Italy, Savona, Civil Registration (State Archive), 1806-1813, 1838-1936 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2016218); 156,670 indexed records with 1,279,025 record images (was 156,670 records with 1,279,025 images), UPDATED 11-Sep-2026

Italy, Siracusa, Siracusa, Civil Registration (Tribunale), 1900-1942 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2110810); 334,705 indexed records with 275,840 record images (was 334,705 records with 275,840 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Italy, Sondrio, Sondrio, Civil Registration (Tribunale), 1866-1929 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2043841); Browse 279,212 Images only, no index (was 0 records with 279,212 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Italy, Taranto, Civil Registration (State Archive), 1809-1926 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1937541); 297,383 indexed records with 1,413,905 record images (was 297,383 records with 1,413,905 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Italy, Teramo, Teramo, Civil Registration (Tribunale), 1866-1940 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1947829); 148,395 indexed records with 425,736 record images (was 148,644 records with 425,736 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Italy, Terni, Civil Registration (State Archive), 1513-1900 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/3335348); 249,328 indexed records with 90,218 record images (was 249,328 records with 90,218 images), UPDATED 11-Sep-2026
Italy, Terni, Orvieto, Civil Registration (Tribunale), 1861-1910 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2043538); 129,959 indexed records with 44,289 record images (was 128,767 records with 44,289 images), UPDATED 11-Sep-2026
Italy, Torino, Civil Registration (State Archive), 1802-1816 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1935457); 22,013 indexed records with 58,319 record images (was 22,013 records with 58,319 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Italy, Torino, Ivrea, Civil Registration (Tribunale), 1865-1937 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1475996); Browse 722,302 Images only, no index (was 0 records with 722,302 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Italy, Torino, Torino, Civil Registration (Tribunale), 1866-1899 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1967801); Index only (3,679,588 records), no images (was 3,542,652 records with 0 images), UPDATED 11-Sep-2026
Italy, Torino, Torino, Military Conscriptions (Comune), 1790-1886 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2052403); Browse 23,904 Images only, no index (was 0 records with 23,904 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026

Italy, Toscana, Civil Registration (State Archive), 1804-1874 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1932364); Browse 3,042,917 Images only, no index (was 0 records with 3,042,917 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Italy, Trapani, Civil Registration (State Archive), 1906-1928 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2052404); 105,614 indexed records with 1,371,292 record images (was 105,614 records with 1,371,292 images), UPDATED 11-Sep-2026
Italy, Trento, Diocesi di Trento, Catholic Church Records, 1548-1937 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1430983); 1,982,368 indexed records with 86,924 record images (was 1,968,517 records with 86,924 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Italy, Treviso, Civil Registration (State Archive), 1806-1815 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1928857); Browse 300,678 Images only, no index (was 0 records with 300,678 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Italy, Treviso, Treviso, Civil Registration (Tribunale), 1871-1941 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1947831); 31,698 indexed records with 427,232 record images (was 31,698 records with 427,232 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Italy, Trieste, Trieste, Civil Registration (Tribunale), 1924-1939 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1947830); Browse 787,569 Images only, no index (was 0 records with 787,569 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Italy, Udine, Civil Registration (State Archive), 1806-1815, 1871-1911 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1939238); 497,987 indexed records with 1,262,279 record images (was 497,987 records with 1,262,279 images), UPDATED 11-Sep-2026
Italy, Venezia, Civil Registration (State Archive), 1806-1817 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1928858); Browse 254,674 Images only, no index (was 0 records with 254,674 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Italy, Venezia, Venezia, Civil Registration (Tribunale), 1871-1930 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2043809); 1,177,702 indexed records with 628,744 record images (was 453,230 records with 628,744 images), UPDATED 11-Sep-2026
Italy, Vicenza, Bassano del Grappa, Civil Registration (State Archive), 1871-1942 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2141952); 167,671 indexed records with 1,637,660 record images (was 167,671 records with 1,637,660 images), UPDATED 11-Sep-2026

Italy, Vicenza, Casoni, Parocchia di San Rocco, Catholic Church Records, 1597-1941 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1788836); 31,189 indexed records with 6,310 record images (was 31,190 records with 6,310 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Italy, Vicenza, Vicenza, Civil Registration (State Archive), 1800-1947 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2143120); 77,006 indexed records with 126,664 record images (was 77,006 records with 126,664 images), UPDATED 11-Sep-2026
Italy, Viterbo, Civil Registration (State Archive), 1870-1943 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2016212); 654,809 indexed records with 936,472 record images (was 654,809 records with 936,472 images), UPDATED 11-Sep-2026
Louisiana, Ascension, Index of Marriages, 1773-1963 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/3021712); 39,973 indexed records with 361 record images (was 39,970 records with 361 images), UPDATED 09-Sep-2026
Louisiana, First Registration Draft Cards, 1940-1945 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1916286); 211,397 indexed records with 792,451 record images (was 211,896 records with 792,451 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Maryland, Births and Baptisms, 1665-1995 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2384981); 10,635 indexed records with 655 record images (was 13,305 records with 655 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Maryland, Births and Christenings, 1650-1995 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1674912); 150,035 indexed records with 850 record images (was 153,174 records with 154,291 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Maryland, Church Records, 1660-1996 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2385204); 76,519 indexed records with 26,267 record images (was 80,545 records with 26,267 images), UPDATED 11-Sep-2026
Maryland, Marriages, 1666-1970 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1675199); 178,981 indexed records with 1,704 record images (was 169,741 records with 180,689 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1675197); 2,528,543 indexed records with 423 record images (was 2,528,578 records with 2,579,342 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026

Massachusetts, Deaths and Burials, 1795-1910 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1675350); 366,543 indexed records with 1,594 record images (was 366,620 records with 377,246 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Massachusetts, Index to Boston Passenger Lists, 1848-1891 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2304666); 1,139,732 indexed records with 1,143,577 record images (was 1,136,062 records with 1,143,577 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Massachusetts, Revolutionary War, Index Cards to Muster Rolls, 1775-1783 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2548057); 606,557 indexed records with 641,406 record images (was 244,534 records with 641,406 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2061550); 7,098,182 indexed records with 1,962,488 record images (was 7,088,711 records with 1,962,488 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Mexico, Veracruz, Catholic Church Records, 1590-1978 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1883382); 4,001,945 indexed records with 2,563,917 record images (was 4,001,945 records with 2,563,917 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Michigan, Births and Christenings, 1775-1995 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1675348); Index only (899,505 records), no images (was 899,178 records with 0 images), UPDATED 11-Sep-2026
Michigan, Church Records, 1819-1991 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2787825); 47,038 indexed records with 2,670 record images (was 47,038 records with 2,670 images), UPDATED 11-Sep-2026
Michigan, Marriages, 1822-1995 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1675359); Index only (1,128,807 records), no images (was 1,128,410 records with 0 images), UPDATED 11-Sep-2026
Michigan, Obituaries, 1820-2006 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2215693); 8,912,502 indexed records with 1,093,937 record images (was 8,895,324 records with 1,093,937 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Moldova, Church Books, 1811-1936 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1943763); Browse 3,386,730 Images only, no index (was 0 records with 3,386,730 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026

Moldova, Poll Tax Census (Revision Lists) and Census Lists 1796-1917 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1985804); Browse 395,954 Images only, no index (was 0 records with 395,954 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Netherlands, Noord-Brabant, Church Records, 1473-1965 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2037960); Browse 2,113,313 Images only, no index (was 0 records with 2,113,313 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
New York, County Marriages, 1778-1848; 1908-1937 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1618491); 1,371,329 indexed records with 955,515 record images (was 1,371,570 records with 955,515 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
New Zealand, Cemetery Transcriptions, 1835-2006 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2780088); 2,167,900 indexed records with 103,037 record images (was 2,169,283 records with 103,037 images), UPDATED 11-Sep-2026
Philippines Civil Registration (National), 1945-1996 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1852584); 7,641,086 indexed records with 20,274,621 record images (was 7,614,865 records with 20,274,621 images), UPDATED 08-Sep-2026
Poland, Church Books, 1568-1990 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/4135958); 5,179,396 indexed records with 1,150,410 record images (was 5,145,060 records with 1,150,410 images), UPDATED 11-Sep-2026
Portugal Passport Registers and Application Files, 1800-1946 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1925427); Browse 228,417 Images only, no index (was 0 records with 228,417 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Portugal, Braga, Catholic Church Records, 1530-1912 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1913410); 735,825 indexed records with 857,376 record images (was 738,523 records with 857,376 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Portugal, Braga, Priest Application Files (Genere et Moribus), 1596-1911 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2125025); Browse 969,918 Images only, no index (was 0 records with 969,918 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Portugal, Bragança, Catholic Church Records, 1541-1985 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1976616); 145,180 indexed records with 960,435 record images (was 415,324 records with 960,435 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026

Portugal, Coimbra, Catholic Church Records, 1459-1999 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1928593); 2,016,191 indexed records with 490,922 record images (was 2,016,996 records with 490,922 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Portugal, Coimbra, Passport Registers and Application Files, 1835-1938 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1928596); Browse 866,980 Images only, no index (was 0 records with 866,980 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Portugal, Guarda, Catholic Church Records, 1459-1982 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1928588); 258,079 indexed records with 815,966 record images (was 391,051 records with 815,966 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Portugal, Lamego, Diocesan Records, 1529-1963 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1928591); 80 indexed records with 953,079 record images (was 80 records with 953,079 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Portugal, Leiria, Catholic Church Records, 1534-1973 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1976101); 657,080 indexed records with 639,166 record images (was 676,559 records with 639,166 images), UPDATED 11-Sep-2026
Portugal, Lisbon, Catholic Church Records, 1334-1998 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/4449050); 3,120,218 indexed records with 869,405 record images (was 3,193,845 records with 869,405 images), UPDATED 11-Sep-2026
Portugal, Portalegre, Catholic Church Records, 1532-1928 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2014755); 1,020,643 indexed records with 178,927 record images (was 1,962,662 records with 178,927 images), UPDATED 11-Sep-2026
Portugal, Porto, Catholic Church Records, 1535-2006 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1913408); 1,544,628 indexed records with 1,207,157 record images (was 2,757,191 records with 1,207,157 images), UPDATED 11-Sep-2026
Portugal, Santarém, Catholic Church Records, 1544-1952 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2128189); 785,918 indexed records with 647,938 record images (was 1,475,144 records with 647,938 images), UPDATED 11-Sep-2026
Portugal, Setúbal, Catholic Church Records, 1555-1912 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1935451); 1,086,280 indexed records with 829,309 record images (was 1,086,711 records with 829,309 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026

Portugal, Viana do Castelo, Catholic Church Records, 1537-1912 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1976095); 183,849 indexed records with 785,939 record images (was 532,918 records with 785,939 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Portugal, Vila Real, Catholic Church Records, 1533-1953 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1976140); 563,247 indexed records with 396,243 record images (was 762,513 records with 396,243 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Portugal, Vila Real, Diocesan Records, 1575-1992 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1928592); Browse 1,126,975 Images only, no index (was 0 records with 1,126,975 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Portugal, Viseu, Catholic Church Records, 1523-1989 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1928589); 1,590,363 indexed records with 1,034,661 record images (was 1,934,666 records with 1,034,661 images), UPDATED 11-Sep-2026
Portugal, Évora, Civil Registration and Miscellaneous Records, 1554-1938 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2146190); Browse 243,079 Images only, no index (was 0 records with 243,079 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Slovakia, Church and Synagogue Books, 1592-1935 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1554443); 19,059,457 indexed records with 1,615,473 record images (was 19,040,243 records with 1,615,473 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Switzerland, Catholic and Reformed Church Records, 1418-1996 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/4138674); 19,773,456 indexed records with 2,024,045 record images (was 19,762,820 records with 2,024,045 images), UPDATED 11-Sep-2026
Switzerland, Church Records, 1277-1992 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1640373); Browse 517,510 Images only, no index (was 0 records with 517,510 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Texas, Daughters of the Republic of Texas, Membership Applications, 1892-2010 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1918480); Browse 386,880 Images only, no index (was 0 records with 386,880 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Texas, Manifests of Permanent and Statistical Alien Arrivals at El Paso, 1924-1954 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2526188); 81,002 indexed records with 79,900 record images (was 80,992 records with 79,890 images), UPDATED 07-Sep-2026

Texas, Webb, Laredo, Arrival Manifests, 1903-1955 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2038112); 1,098,170 indexed records with 1,322,540 record images (was 637,124 records with 1,322,540 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
United Kingdom, World War I Service Records, 1914-1920 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2125045); 4,219,495 indexed records with 43,542,691 record images (was 4,215,127 records with 43,542,691 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
United States Census (Mortality Schedule), 1850-1880 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1420441); 1,356,791 indexed records with 8,724 record images (was 1,352,040 records with 8,724 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
United States, Cemetery Abstracts, 1949-1969 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2579610); 665,301 indexed records with 69,360 record images (was 665,301 records with 69,360 images), UPDATED 07-Sep-2026
United States, Census, 1920 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1488411); 107,660,183 indexed records with 2,387,416 record images (was 107,608,209 records with 2,387,416 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
United States, Census, 1930 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1810731); 125,179,950 indexed records with 2,957,015 record images (was 125,179,950 records with 2,957,015 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
United States, World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1968530); 32,587,072 indexed records with 24,999,338 record images (was 877,975 records with 24,999,338 images), UPDATED 10-Sep-2026
Wales, Brecknockshire, Parish Registers, 1538-1912 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2075043); 202,792 indexed records with 22,467 record images (was 202,792 records with 22,467 images), UPDATED 11-Sep-2026
Wales, Denbighshire, Parish Registers, 1538-1912 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1419318); 692,616 indexed records with 718,898 record images (was 692,437 records with 718,898 images), UPDATED 11-Sep-2026

Wales, Glamorganshire, Parish Registers, 1538-1912 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2075047); 736,069 indexed records with 753,761 record images (was 734,794 records with 753,761 images), UPDATED 11-Sep-2026
Wales, Pembrokeshire, Parish Registers, 1538-1912 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1419323); 320,072 indexed records with 378,652 record images (was 317,650 records with 378,652 images), UPDATED 11-Sep-2026
Washington, Native American, Census Records, 1880-1952 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2790178); 140,868 indexed records with 8,302 record images (was 140,867 records with 8,302 images), UPDATED 05-Sep-2026

--- Collections with new images ---

Argentina, Buenos Aires City, Civil Registration, 1811-1980 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/5000077); 1 indexed records with 10,198 record images (was 1 records with 10,196 images), last updated 26-Nov-2024
Argentina, Buenos Aires, Civil Registration, 1861-2018 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/5000041); 1 indexed records with 111,739 record images (was 1 records with 111,734 images), last updated 07-Jun-2024
Argentina, Military Records, 1911-1936 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/5000280); 2,929,239 indexed records with 2,932,106 record images (was 2,929,239 records with 2,932,105 images), last updated 03-Apr-2026
Brazil, Alagoas, Civil Registration, 1876-2023 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/4469403); 1 indexed records with 454,249 record images (was 1 records with 454,246 images), last updated 07-Jun-2024
Colombia, DAS Civil Registration Alphabetic Cards, 1914-2011 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/5000074); 1 indexed records with 26,272,986 record images (was 1 records with 26,272,985 images), last updated 25-Nov-2024

England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1473014); 39,143,624 indexed records with 612,061 record images (was 39,141,633 records with 529,095 images), last updated 16-Jun-2026
Indiana, Deaths and Burials, 1750-1993 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/3559081); 145,186 indexed records with 4,361 record images (was 145,186 records with 2,704 images), last updated 15-Jun-2024
Kentucky, Marriages, 1785-1979 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1674849); 1,175,936 indexed records with 4,847 record images (was 1,175,936 records with 5 images), last updated 29-May-2024
Philippines, Central Visayas, Church Records, 1737-2005 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/5000324); 596,566 indexed records with 393,301 record images (was 596,566 records with 389,018 images), last updated 02-Sep-2026
Philippines, Eastern Visayas, Church Records, 1716-2014 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/5000329); 737,166 indexed records with 421,971 record images (was 737,166 records with 398,278 images), last updated 11-Mar-2026

Philippines, Ilocos, Church Records, 1718-2007 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/5000330); 2,021,539 indexed records with 459,316 record images (was 2,021,539 records with 448,585 images), last updated 12-Mar-2026
United States, Census, 1950 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/4464515); 157,892,854 indexed records with 52,756,962 record images (was 157,892,854 records with 52,755,598 images), last updated 16-Jun-2024
United States, Obituary Records, 2014-2023 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/5000145); 1 indexed records with 28,206,750 record images (was 1 records with 28,206,749 images), last updated 22-Jul-2024
West Virginia, Marriages, 1780-1970 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1408729); 190,572 indexed records with 1,504,148 record images (was 190,572 records with 1,504,144 images), last updated 07-Apr-2026

--- Collections with images removed ---

Denmark, Baptisms, 1618-1923 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1778463); 5,014,769 indexed records with 59,143 record images (was 5,014,769 records with 5,252,456 images), last updated 28-Jan-2026
Denmark, Burials, 1640-1917 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1520593); 596,238 indexed records with 3,007 record images (was 596,238 records with 642,775 images), last updated 28-Jan-2026
Denmark, Marriages, 1635-1916 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1520592); 1,253,965 indexed records with 10,265 record images (was 1,253,965 records with 1,315,131 images), last updated 28-Jan-2026
District of Columbia, Deaths and Burials, 1840-1964 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1674800); 44,414 indexed records with 2,851 record images (was 44,414 records with 44,414 images), last updated 06-Oct-2020
El Salvador, Baptisms, 1750-1940 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1584970); 145,495 indexed records with 803 record images (was 145,495 records with 145,495 images), last updated 16-Sep-2025

El Salvador, Marriages, 1810-1930 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1584975); 22,778 indexed records with 88 record images (was 22,778 records with 22,778 images), last updated 16-Sep-2025
Find a Grave Index (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2221801); 274,118,435 indexed records with 283,815,879 record images (was 274,118,435 records with 283,815,886 images), last updated 13-Aug-2026
Finland, Baptisms, 1657-1890 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1778464); 4,669,796 indexed records with 301,660 record images (was 4,669,796 records with 4,682,814 images), last updated 03-Nov-2025
Finland, Burials, 1725-1909 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1676971); 92,367 indexed records with 1,300 record images (was 94,547 records with 94,547 images), last updated 03-Feb-2020
Finland, Marriages, 1682-1892 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1676970); 480,111 indexed records with 5,082 record images (was 482,248 records with 483,729 images), last updated 03-Nov-2025

Florida, Marriages, 1837-1974 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1674804); 596,041 indexed records with 2,000 record images (was 596,041 records with 596,041 images), last updated 22-Jul-2021
Guatemala, Baptisms, 1730-1917 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1520627); 333,904 indexed records with 7,615 record images (was 333,904 records with 337,233 images), last updated 07-Dec-2025
Guatemala, Deaths, 1760-1880 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1520636); 20,912 indexed records with 1,521 record images (was 20,912 records with 20,912 images), last updated 04-Feb-2020
Guatemala, Marriages, 1750-1930 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1520635); 81,624 indexed records with 4,881 record images (was 81,624 records with 81,624 images), last updated 19-May-2021
Hawaii, Births and Christenings, 1852-1933 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1674805); 117,678 indexed records with 814 record images (was 117,678 records with 117,678 images), last updated 18-Jan-2020

Hawaii, Marriages, 1826-1922 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1674811); 66,746 indexed records with 388 record images (was 66,746 records with 66,746 images), last updated 22-Jul-2021
India, Births and Baptisms, 1786-1947 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1584960); 432,831 indexed records with 7,502 record images (was 432,831 records with 659,529 images), last updated 25-Jan-2026
India, Deaths and Burials, 1719-1948 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1584968); 372,980 indexed records with 7,223 record images (was 372,980 records with 551,941 images), last updated 25-Jan-2026
India, Marriages, 1792-1948 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1584967); 119,671 indexed records with 4,887 record images (was 119,671 records with 192,816 images), last updated 25-Jan-2026
Indiana, Births and Christenings, 1773-1933 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1674814); 230,558 indexed records with 2,830 record images (was 230,558 records with 230,663 images), last updated 16-Jan-2026

Indiana, Marriages, 1780-1992 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1674830); 892,895 indexed records with 3,347 record images (was 892,895 records with 900,081 images), last updated 03-Nov-2021
Iowa, Births and Christenings, 1830-1950 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1674820); 386,750 indexed records with 5,585 record images (was 386,750 records with 396,403 images), last updated 07-Apr-2026
Iowa, Deaths and Burials, 1850-1990 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1674841); 321,781 indexed records with 7,453 record images (was 321,781 records with 321,781 images), last updated 30-Oct-2020
Iowa, Marriages, 1809-1992 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1674842); 191,286 indexed records with 20,311 record images (was 191,286 records with 193,419 images), last updated 22-Dec-2025
Ireland, Births and Baptisms, 1620-1881 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1584963); 3,639,359 indexed records with 20,031 record images (was 3,639,359 records with 3,752,136 images), last updated 03-Nov-2025

Ireland, Deaths, 1864-1870 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1584965); 182,377 indexed records with 4,849 record images (was 182,377 records with 804,646 images), last updated 05-Feb-2020
Ireland, Marriages, 1619-1898 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1584964); 381,057 indexed records with 1,505 record images (was 381,960 records with 401,552 images), last updated 03-Nov-2025
Kentucky, Births and Christenings, 1839-1960 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1674843); 381,231 indexed records with 2,367 record images (was 381,231 records with 381,231 images), last updated 22-Jul-2021
Kentucky, Deaths and Burials, 1843-1970 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1674848); 588,708 indexed records with 15,268 record images (was 588,708 records with 588,708 images), last updated 22-Jul-2021
Maine, Births and Christenings, 1739-1900 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1674856); 701,296 indexed records with 516 record images (was 704,390 records with 708,299 images), last updated 18-Feb-2026

Maine, Marriages, 1771-1907 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1674915); 466,473 indexed records with 1,180 record images (was 466,473 records with 466,473 images), last updated 22-Jul-2021
Philippines, Bicol, Church Records, 1738-1989 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/5000336); 575,888 indexed records with 157,346 record images (was 575,888 records with 157,688 images), last updated 02-Sep-2026
Philippines, Central Luzon, Church Records, 1682-1972 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/5000340); 1,817,769 indexed records with 215,450 record images (was 1,817,769 records with 215,480 images), last updated 12-Mar-2026
Philippines, Metro Manila, Church Records, 1723-1982 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/5000337); 362,559 indexed records with 167,213 record images (was 362,559 records with 167,613 images), last updated 12-Mar-2026

--- Collections with new records ---

Italy, Catania, Arcidiocesi di Catania, Catholic Church Records, 1515-1941 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2013622); 1,170,829 indexed records with 1,762,909 record images (was 1,159,099 records with 1,762,909 images), last updated 19-Nov-2025
Italy, Melfi, Civil Registration (Tribunale), 1820-1929 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/5000608); 315,730 indexed records with 132,659 record images (was 311,601 records with 132,659 images), last updated 24-Jun-2026
Italy, Potenza, Melfi, Civil Registration (Tribunale), 1861-1929 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1483052); 270,280 indexed records with 558,203 record images (was 270,195 records with 558,203 images), last updated 01-Apr-2026

--- Collections with records removed ---

Minnesota, Birth Index, 1935-2002 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1949334); Index only (4,267,569 records), no images (was 4,267,571 records with 0 images), last updated 06-May-2014
United States, Public Records, 1970-2009 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2199956); Index only (875,600,536 records), no images (was 875,600,538 records with 0 images), last updated 29-Jul-2026
United States, Residence Database, 1970-2024 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/5000290); Index only (413,857,834 records), no images (was 413,857,837 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:

• 3,479 Historical Record Collection entries
• 4 removed entries
• 5 added entries 
• 211 updated entries
• 48 entries with more or fewer images 
• 6 entries with more or fewer records

Marshall's list shows 3,479 Historical Record Collections this week, an increase of 1 collections. The image website image above shows 3,479 collections, so the website number is in sync with Marshall's list number.

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