So now MyHeritage has a complete U.S. federal census collection, with searches, record summaries, and record images. This is a really major step in making MyHeritage a viable record collection company for United States customers.
It also makes MyHeritage a real competitor with Ancestry.com (which also has a complete collection of records and images, with a sophisticated search capability). I love competition, and I know that it makes all of the companies better - and their customers also. That's you and me, folks.
When I heard this today, I said to myself "self, I wonder if Record Matches on MyHeritage provide these results?"
The answer is yes - the Record Match feature, which takes the persons in my MyHeritage Family Tree and looks in the MyHeritage record collections for matches - I found Record Matches for the 1850 to 1940 U.S. census records. Here is a screen shot from my Record Matches list:
Other census collections are listed on this page below this part of the screen. The Record Match feature found:
* 1850 U.S. Census - 4 matches
* 1860 U.S. Census - 7 matches
* 1870 U.S. Census - 5 matches
* 1880 U.S. Census - 95 matches
* 1900 U.S. Census - 588 matches
* 1910 U.S. Census - 97 matches
* 1920 U.S. Census - 78 matches
* 1930 U.S. Census - 142 matches
* 1940 U.S. Census - 64 matches.
I know that I have more people (40,000 persons) in my MyHeritage database for the earlier census years (before 1900), and I'm guessing that the Record Match feature is still working.
I went to the Research tab on the MyHeritage page, selected the 1850 U.s. Census, and entered Last name = "seaver" in the field, and chose exact matches. I received 855 matches.
The searches for the 1790 to 1840 U.S. Census records also worked.
I will have more about the search capability, the source information, and getting to the record images in future posts.
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Copyright (c) 2013, Randall J. Seaver
1 comment:
Randy, MyHeritage does NOT have a complete 1940 census index yet.
You can see what states it has complete, which it is working on, and which it still has to begin indexing by going to http://www.myheritage.com/1940census and then clicking on "See available states and territories."
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