Tuesday, June 9, 2015

Tuesday's Tip - Rhode Island Record Collections on FamilySearch

This week's Tuesday's Tip is to check out the Rhode Island record collections on FamilySearch.


There are only 10 record collections for Rhode Island records on FamilySearch.  They are:

*  Rhode Island, Births and Christenings, 1600-1914; 896,289 indexed records with no images, last updated 09 Mar 2012

*  Rhode Island, Davisville, Melville, Newport, and Quonset Point, Airplane Passenger and Crew Lists, 1955-1957; no index, Browse Images only, last updated 20 May 2015

*  Rhode Island, Deaths and Burials, 1802-1950; 838,777 indexed records, with no images, last updated 25 Feb 2013

*  Rhode Island, District Court Naturalization Indexes, 1906-1991; no index, Browse Images only, last updated 22 Apr 2014

*  Rhode Island, Marriages, 1724-1916; 209,502 indexed records, with no images, last updated 04 Mar 2012

*  Rhode Island, State Census, 1885; 321,999 indexed records, with record images, last updated 13 May 2011

*  Rhode Island, State Census, 1905; 474,152 indexed records, with record images, last updated 05 Nov 2010

*  Rhode Island, State Census, 1915; 540,589 indexed records, with record images, last updated 23 Sep 2010

*  Rhode Island, State Census, 1925; 684,447 indexed records, with record images, last updated 10 Sep 2010

*  Rhode Island, State Census, 1935; 693,472 indexed records, with record images, last updated 04 Apr 2014

The three collections without record images are from the International Genealogical index (IGI) databases for Rhode Island.  They are very incomplete.

My hope is that there will eventually be town records, land records and probate records for Rhode Island because they are so rich in original records, including town vital records.

Form ore information about Rhode Island genealogy, see the FamilySearch Wiki page at https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Rhode_Island_Genealogy.  There is a page for Online Rhode Island records at https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Rhode_Island_Online_Genealogy_Records.

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