New Historical Records on MyHeritage During 2016

The MyHeritage Blog post titled "A Look Back at 2016" by Esther, posted 4 January 2017, provides a summary of the new features, highlights and experiences during 2016 at MyHeritage.  It's worth reviewing in some detail.  I have blogged in some detail during 2016 about some of these new features and highlights.

Near the bottom of the post is a list of some of the new record collections added by MyHeritage during 2016.  It's difficult to find what is new on MyHeritage because they don't have a list that highlights what is new and updated, other than the occasional blog post for a specific collection.

Here is the Historical records list from the article, followed by some statistics for 2016:

"We released many exciting new historical record collections throughout 2016, including many exclusive collections, online for the very first time:

• 14 Million Australian Newspaper Records
• 5 Million Rotterdam City Archive Records 
• 19 Million 1911 England & Wales Census Records
• 10 million pages in 1,952 sources of Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, 1836-1922
• 40 million records from England & Wales, Marriage Index, 1866-1920 & 1984-2005
• 97 Million Records from England & Wales, Birth Index, 1866-1920 & 1984-2005
• 41 Million Records from England & Wales, Death Index, 1866-1920 & 1984-2005
• 1 million searchable Online Familieberichten – Dutch Death Notice records
• 27 Canada Census Records (1861, 1871, 1881, 1891, 1901, 1911)
• 21 Million Denmark Census Records (1870, 1890, 1901, 1906, 1911, 1916, 1921, 1925)
• 33 Million Finland Church Census and Pre-Confirmation Books, 1657-1950 
• 26 million Denmark Church Records, 1814-1919
• 24 Million United States World War I Draft Registrations, 1917-1918
• 6 Million New York City Marriages 1950-1995

"StatisticsHere are some statistics from the past year at MyHeritage:

• 802 million new historical records added.
• 727 million new family tree profiles added.
• 61 million new photos added.
• 76 employees joined the company in 2016 (we went up from 249 to 325)."

This is helpful and interesting.

I noted that they added the Chronicling America collection;  MyHeritage closed down the NewspaperARCHIVE collection during 2016, perhaps due to licensing issues, which was a loss to subscribers.

I am happy to see the Canada census collections because I don't have an Ancestry.com World subscription.

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