Added and Updated Ancestry.com Record Collections - Week of 10 to 16 May 2025

  The following genealogy record collections were added to the Ancestry.com Card Catalog page by Date Updated during the period from 10 to 16 May 2025:

The ADDED and Updated collections include:

• UK and Ireland, Newspapers.com™ Marriage Index, 1800s-current; 9,152,148 indexed records without record mages, Updated 5/16/2025.  This database consists of facts extracted from marriages found on Newspapers.com™ dating from the early 1800’s to current.
• California, U.S., Federal Naturalization Records, 1888-1991; 5,252,436 indexed records with record images, Updated 5/16/2025.  This database consists of naturalization records for California from U.S. District Courts.
• Australia and New Zealand, Newspapers.com™ Marriage Index, 1800s-current; 1,132,146 indexed records without record images, Updated 5/16/2025. This database consists of facts extracted from marriages found on Newspapers.com™ dating from the early 1800’s to current.
• Canada, Newspapers.com™ Marriage Index, 1800s-current; 9,778,394 indexed records without record images, Updated 5/16/2025. This database consists of information extracted from marriage announcements found in newspapers from Canada on Newspapers.com™ dating from the early 1800s to the present.
• U.S., Newspapers.com™ Marriage Index, 1800s-current; 332,357,946 indexed records without record images, Updated 5/16/2025. This database consists of information extracted from marriage announcements found on Newspapers.com™ dating from the early 1800s to the present.
• Web: Caribbean, Aircrew in the RAF during World War II, 1939-1945; 467 indexed records without record images, ADDED 5/14/2025.  All data in this third-party database was obtained from the source’s website. Ancestry.com does not support or make corrections or changes to the original database. 
• Wyoming, U.S., School Census, 1884-1974; 3,575,224 indexed records with record images,   ADDED 5/14/2025. This collection contains school census records from Wyoming between 1884 and 1974. A district enumerator recorded each school-aged child in the district. 
• UK, Navy Board and Predecessors Prisoner of War Registers, 1755-1831; 1,238,250 indexed records without record images, ADDED 5/14/2025. This collection is an index of information related to soldiers taken prisoners of war during the late 1700s and early 1800s. 
• Queensland, Australia, Aboriginal War Census, 1915-1916; 6,810 indexed records without record images, ADDED 5/12/2025.  This collection contains an index from records pertaining to Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders from Queensland between 1915 and 1916.
• U.S., Virginia Untold: Petitions to Remain and Petitions for Re-Enslavement, 1754-1865; 872 indexed records without record images, ADDED 5/12/2025. This collection contains an index of petitions to remain and petitions for re-enslavement in the state of Virginia, prior to 1865. 
• U.S., Virginia Untold: Coroners' Inquisitions, 1774-1875; 2,080 indexed records without record images, ADDED 5/12/2025. This collection is an index of information from coroner’s inquisitions that reference enslaved and free Black people from Virginia between 1774 and 1875. 
• U.S., Virginia Untold: Bills of Sales and Deeds of Enslaved Individuals, 1703-1865; 42,947 indexed records without record images, ADDED 5/12/2025. This collection contains an index of bills of sale and deeds for enslaved people from Virginia, between 1703 and 1865.
• U.S., Virginia Untold: Certificates of Importation, 1780-1819; 1,240 indexed records without record images, ADDED 5/12/2025. This collection contains an index of information from certificates of importation pertaining to enslaved people who were brought into Virginia from 1780 to 1819. 
• U.S., Virginia Untold: Fiduciary Records, 1779-1867; 23,950 indexed records without record images, ADDED 5/12/2025. This collection contains an index of fiduciary records pertaining to enslaved people from Lancaster County, Virginia between 1779 and 1867. 
• U.S., Virginia Untold: Deeds of Emancipation and Manumission and Freedom Suits, 1782-1865; 5,524 indexed records without record images, ADDED 5/12/2025. This collection contains an index of deeds of emancipation, deeds of manumission, and freedom suits in Virginia from 1782 to 1865.
• U.S., Virginia Untold: "Runaway Slaves" Records, 1806-1863; 6,970 indexed records without record images, ADDED 5/12/2025. This collection contains an index of information from documents of payment incurred from the capture of enslaved people escaping to freedom from Virginia. 
• South Australia, Australia, Various Records of First Nations Peoples, 1934-1954; 2,764 indexed records with record images, ADDED 5/12/2025. This collection contains records concerning First Nations Australians from South Australia between 1934 and 1954. 
• U.S., Virginia Untold: Requisitions for Public Use, 1744-1861; 3,513 indexed records without record images, ADDED 5/12/2025. This collection contains an index of records of enslaved and free Black people from Virginia who were impressed to labor on behalf of the Confederacy during the American Civil War. 
• U.S., Virginia Untold: Indentures of Apprenticeships, 1777-1893; 3,997 indexed records without record images, ADDED 5/12/2025. This collection contains an index of information from indentures of apprenticeships from Virginia between 1777 and 1893. 
• U.S., Virginia Untold: Freedman's Contracts, 1865-1868; 1,867 indexed records without record images, ADDED 5/12/2025. This collection contains an index of information from contracts between formerly enslaved people and their employers, with assistance from the Freedmen’s Bureau. 
• U.S., Virginia Untold: Colonization Records, 1836-1853; 13,048 indexed records without record images, ADDED 5/12/2025. This collection contains an index of information from the American Colonization Society and the Colonization Board of Virginia. 
• U.S., Virginia Untold: Public Claims, 1779-1865; 6,553 indexed records without record images, ADDED 5/12/2025. This collection contains an index of information from public claims that reference enslaved and free Black people in Virginia from 1779 to 1865. 
• U.S., Virginia Untold: Commonwealth Causes, 1723-1867; 7,592 indexed records without record images, ADDED 5/12/2025. This collection contains an index of information from documents pertaining to commonwealth causes that reference enslaved and free Black people from Virginia between 1723 and 1867. 
• U.S., Virginia Untold: Free Negro Registration and Tax Records, 1792-1866; 88,476 indexed records without record images, ADDED 5/12/2025. This collection contains an index of information from registers, registrations, and tax records of free Black and multiracial people in Virginia from 1792 to 1866.
• Correze, France, Censuses, 1906 and 1911; 612,451 indexed records without record images, Updated 5/12/2025.  This collection contains census records from Corrèze, France for the years of 1906 and 1911. Most records are in French, but some are in Latin. 
• U.S., Virginia Untold: Judgements, 1793-1805; 2,264 indexed records without record images,  ADDED 5/12/2025. This collection contains an index of information from court judgments pertaining to enslaved and free Black people from Virginia pre-1867. Most records are of civil suits relating to debt. 

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The complete Ancestry.com Card Catalog is at   https://search.ancestry.com/search/CardCatalog.aspx.  

By my count, there were 20 NEW record collections ADDED this past week, per the list above.  There are now 33,800 collections available as of 16 May, an INCREASE of 20 from last week.  

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Disclosure: I pay for an All-Access subscription from Ancestry.com. In past years, Ancestry.com  provided a complimentary All Access subscription, an autosomal DNA test, material considerations for travel expenses to meetings, and hosted events and meals that I attended in Salt Lake City.

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