Sunday, October 29, 2017

Added or Updated Record Collections at FamilySearch.org - Week of 22 to 28 October 2017

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

As of 28 October 2017, there were 2,261 record collections on FamilySearch (a decrease of 3 from last week):
 


The added or updated collections are (as Marshall provided them):

-- Collections Deleted ---


*  Scotland Census, 1881   (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2046756); 3,721,356 indexed records with 3,721,356 record images, DELETED 22 Jun 2012

*  Scotland Census, 1861   (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2028677); 3,009,214 indexed records with 3,009,214 record images, DELETED 11 Jun 2012

--- Collections Added   ---


--- Collections Updated ---

*  New York Passenger Arrival Lists (Ellis Island), 1892-1924      (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1368704); 24,414,218 indexed records with 20 record images (was 24,414,218 records with 24,414,218 images), Updated 22 Oct 2017

*  Washington, Soldier Home Records, 1891-1945     (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2143178); 13,061 indexed records with 98,141 record images (was 0 records with 98,141 images), Updated 24 Oct 2017

*  Ohio Soldier Home Records, 1888-1919    (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2139859); 10,103 indexed records with 5,426 record images (was 0 records with 5,426 images), Updated 24 Oct 2017

*  Namibia, Dutch Reformed Church Records, 1904-1984       (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2365261); 114,878 indexed records with 17,342 record images (was 29,076 records with 17,342 images), Updated 26 Oct 2017

*  South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Records (Stellenbosch Archive), 1690-2011   (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1392488); 31,179 indexed records with 496,315 record images (was 20,413 records with 496,315 images), Updated 25 Oct 2017

*  Italy, Chieti, Civil Registration (State Archive), 1809-1930    (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2419833); 339,924 indexed records with 505,027 record images (was 0 records with 505,027 images), Updated 24 Oct 2017

*  Croatia, Delnice Deanery Catholic Church Books, 1725-1926       (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1875189); 123,632 indexed records with 3,485 record images (was 81,396 records with 3,485 images), Updated 23 Oct 2017

*  Peru, Puno, Civil Registration, 1890-2005       (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1979428); 1,263,727 indexed records with 1,495,223 record images (was 1,014,906 records with 1,495,223 images), Updated 26 Oct 2017

*  Ecuador, Catholic Church Records, 1565-2011     (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1923402); 1,852,627 indexed records with 1,454,787 record images (was 1,514,690 records with 1,454,787 images), Updated 25 Oct 2017

--- Collections with records removed ---

*  United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014      (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2333694); 27,656,988 indexed records with 45,512,634 record images (was 34,168,496 records with 45,512,634 images),  17 Nov 2016

*  Peru, Cusco, Civil Registration, 1889-1997      (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1987564); 651,676 indexed records with 942,817 record images (was 651,677 records with 942,817 images),  28 Sep 2017

*  United States Public Records, 1970-2009 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2199956); Index only (875,611,187 records), no images (was 875,611,238 records with 0 images),  17 Jun 2015

*  California Marriage Index, 1960-1985    (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1949339); Index only (402,817 records), no images (was 4,879,217 records with 0 images),  6 Dec 2011

*  California Birth Index, 1905-1995       (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2001879); Index only (24,589,571 records), no images (was 24,589,591 records with 0 images),  1 Mar 2012

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The over 31 million indexed 1930 U.S. Census entries that disappeared two weeks ago are still not in the collection.  The California Marriage Index is now only 402,817 records, it was 4,879,217 records earlier; is this an error, or are they "improving" the index?  The GenealogyBank obituary collection dropped 6.5 million indexed entries for some reason.  All but 20 of the New York Passenger List images were removed for some reason.

It looks like FamilySearch deleted the 1861 and 1881 Scotland census records for some reason (perhaps a contractual issue?);  they are not on the current list.   It's not clear when these were deleted - was it this week or five years ago?  

There is one more unknown record collection that was deleted this week - the collection count dropped by three, not two.  Maybe it will show up next week.

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

My friend, Marshall, has come up with a way to determine which collections are ADDED, DELETED or UPDATED.  Thanks to Marshall for helping me out here!

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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