Monday, August 31, 2015

New or Updated Record Collections at FamilySearch.org - August 24 to 30, 2015

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

As of 30 August 2015, there were 2,025 record collections on FamilySearch (an increase of 2 from last week):




The new or updated collections are:

*  England and Wales Census, 1901; 34,138,955 indexed records with record images, ADDED or UPDATED 29 Aug 2015

*  Germany, Prussia, Brandenburg and Posen, Church Book Duplicates, 1794-1874; 1,675,056 indexed records with record images, ADDED or UPDATED 27 Aug 2015

*  Illinois, Cook County, Birth Certificates, 1871-1940; 2,249,859 indexed records without record images, ADDED or UPDATED 27 Aug 2015

*  Argentina, National Census, 1869; 1,799,773 indexed records with record images, ADDED or UPDATED 27 Aug 2015

*  Massachusetts, Boston Passenger Lists, 1820-1891; 964,953 indexed records with record images, ADDED or UPDATED 27 Aug 2015

*  Arizona, Douglas, Arrival Manifests, 1906-1955; 10,325 indexed records with record images, ADDED or UPDATED 27 Aug 2015

*  Brazil, Pernambuco, Civil Registration, 1804-2014; 7,083 indexed records with record images, ADDED or UPDATED 26 Aug 2015

*  Utah, Eureka and Payson, Births and Deaths, 1898-1903; 17 indexed records with record images, ADDED or UPDATED 25 Aug 2015

*  United States Census, 1840; 2,566,893 indexed records with record images, ADDED or UPDATED 25 Aug 2015

*  Texas, Naturalization Records, 1906-1989; 91,313 indexed records with record images, ADDED or UPDATED 24 Aug 2015

*  Germany, Hesse, Civil Registration, 1874-1927; 77,265 indexed records with record images, ADDED or UPDATED 24 Aug 2015

Unfortunately, it is difficult to tell which collections are brand new and which ones are updated.  The asterisk they use is for "Recently added or updated."  I am particularly interested in new collections, for the obvious reasons.

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

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

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