Tuesday, November 3, 2015

Tuesday's Tip - District of Columbia Collections on FamilySearch

This week's Tuesday's Tip is to check out the District of Columbia record collections on FamilySearch.

There are 8 record collections on the list of over 2,000 record collections available on FamilySearch.  See all of them at https://familysearch.org/search/collection/list

By putting "district columbia" in the Filter field in the upper left-hand corner, the user can see the eight collections:


The available collections are:

*  District of Columbia Birth Returns, 1874-1897; Browse Images only, no indexed records, last updated 25 May 2012

*  District of Columbia Births and Christenings, 1830-1955; 109,908 indexed records without record images, last updated 09 Mar 2012

*  District of Columbia Deaths and Burials, 1840-1964; 81,744 indexed records without record images, last updated 22 Aug 2014

*  District of Columbia Deaths, 1874-1961; 437,136 indexed records with record images, last updated 05 Dec 2014

*  District of Columbia Marriages, 1811-1950; 780,433 indexed records with record images, last updated 03 Jun 2015

*  District of Columbia Marriages, 1830-1921; 239,999 indexed records without record images, last updated 03 Mar 2012

*  District of Columbia, Freedmen's Bureau Field Office Records, 1863-1872; Browse Images only, no indexed records, last updated 23 May 2014

*  District of Columbia, Glenwood Cemetery Records, 1854-2013; Browse Images only, no indexed records, last updated 21 Jan 2014

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