Genea-Musings

Thursday, May 26, 2016

Treasure Chest Thursday - Post 315: Birth Records of Children of Joseph and Mary (Bowden) Richards in Southborough, Mass.

It's Treasure Chest Thursday - time to look in my digital image files to see what treasures I can find for my family history and genealogy musings.

The treasure today is the birth records of the children of Joseph Richards (1703-1758) and Mary Bowden (1705-1755) born in Southborough, Massachusetts:

The snippet of the list of children is (from the top of the left-hand page above):

The transcription of the list of children of Joseph and Mary (Bowden) Richards is:

1: Born to Joseph Richards & Mary his wife a Son Named

William Richards: on Feby 25 day in the year ---- 1729-30

2: Born to Joseph Richards & Mary his wife a Son Named

Joseph Richards: on April 1st day in the year ---- 1731

3: Born to Joseph Richards & Mary his wife a Daughter Named

Mary Richards: on Sept 27th day in the year ---- 1733

4: Born to Joseph Richards & Mary his wife a Son Named

Ebenezer Richards: on Feb. 25 day in the year ---- 1738

5: Born to Joseph Richards & Mary his wife a Daughter Named

Martha Richards: on Jan 31st day in the year ---- 1740

6: Born to Joseph Richards & Mary his wife a Son Named

John Richards: on Dec 10th day in the year ---- 1742

7: Born to Joseph Richards & Mary his wife a Daughter Named

Hannah Richards: on Jan 24th day in the year ---- 1744

8: Born to Joseph Richards & Mary his wife a Daughter Named

Esther Richards: on Feb 25th day in the year ---- 1746

Born to Mary Richards ???? Son Named

Isaac Buck Reputed by her to be a Son

of Isaac Buck on Sep 27 1757

The source citation for this record is:

Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com), "Southborough Births, Marriages and Deaths," page 66 (image 114 of 1007), list of children of Joseph and Mary Richards, 1730-1746.

Amazingly, three of the eight children were born on February 25th, and also amazingly Mary Richards and her son born out of wedlock were born on September 27th.

Joseph and Mary (Bowden) Richards are my 6th great-grandparents, and Mary Richards is my 5th great-grandmother. The out-of-wedlock son of Mary Richards, named Isaac Buck, is my 4th great-grandfather.

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Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Keeping Up With the Seaver Folks on GenealogyBank

One of the sporadic tasks I try to perform is to keep up with the obituaries available online for my Seaver folks. I do this on GenealogyBank, MyHeritage, Findmypast and Google.

We are five months into 2016, and the last time I did this search on GenealogyBank was at the end of 2015. So I went to GenealogyBank, and put "seaver" in the last name field and put "2016" in both Date fields to limit it to only 2016. Here is the search results:

So there are 16 matches for my search terms in the Recent Newspaper Obituaries (1977-current) collection. Here is the top of the matches page:

I went through each of these and added the family content to my RootsMagic database for those persons I had in my database. Four of the 16 matches were for another Randall Seaver (wow - seeing your name in a headline like that was a wake-up call!):

Another match had a real obituary, rather than a newspaper article about his death, for Randall Seaver, son of Dale and Ina (Zahler) Seaver. I already had him in my database. so now I can add a death date with a source citation.

Whew! You know, this can happen to any of us at any time (well, most folks don't kill a deer on the road). My condolences to the Seaver family on their loss. Randall was not my Seaver cousin, since he is descended from another family with the surname Seaver, but I have tried to include all Seaver/Sever folks in my database.

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Virtual Institute of Genealogical Research (VIGR) Announces Summer and Fall 2016 Courses

I received this press release recently from the Virtual Institute of Genealogical Research:

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Virtual Institute announces summer and fall 2016 courses.

RALEIGH, North Carolina, 22 May 2016. The Virtual Institute of Genealogical Research would like to announce several exciting new courses that will be offered during the summer and fall 2016. The schedule sees new courses from several of our popular past instructors as well as a few new instructors with their first Virtual Institute courses. We would also like to announce the beginning of a whole new endeavor to bring even more educational opportunities to the genealogical community.

Registration for all of the following courses are now open:

 21 May–28 May 2016, Blaine T. Bettinger, Ph.D., J.D., “Third-Party Tools for Genetic Genealogists”

 4 June–11 June 2016, Michael Hait, CG, “Working with Sources and Information”

 6 August–13 August 2016, Craig Roberts Scott, CG, FUGA, “A Day in the War of 1812: Researching Your Ancestor”

 20 August–27 August 2016, Jean Wilcox Hibben, PhD, MA, CG, “Learning About Your Ancestor Through Culture and Folkways”

 1 October–8 October 2016, Melanie D. Holtz, CG, “Italian Genealogical Evidence Practicum”

 12 November–19 November 2016, D. Joshua Taylor, MA, MLS, “Harness the Power of the Web”

 3 December–10 December 2016, Blaine T. Bettinger, Ph.D., J.D., “The Essential Copyright Guide for Genealogists”

As usual, each of these courses costs $69.99 for six hours of instruction (including the recordings), syllabus material, and a practical exercise. All of the upcoming courses will be offered with the Plus option, which provides additional instruction, direct instructor feedback, and a certificate of completion.

The Virtual Institute of Genealogical Research would also like to announce the beginning of our Occasional Lecture series. On Thursday, 21 July 2016, the Virtual Institute will sponsor an evening session at the Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh:

Michael Hait, CG, on “Finding and Using Online Legal Resources.” This lecture will be delivered simultaneously live in Pittsburgh at GRIP and broadcast as a free webinar. Webinar seating is limited to 100 seats. Click here for more information and to register.

The Occasional Lecture series will supplement our six-hour courses by bringing one-hour webinars from international genealogical educators. The series will host unique lectures as our instructors and special guest lecturers are available, rather than producing a regular schedule. Announcements for future webinars in the Occasional Lecture series will appear in the Virtual Institute newsletter. Seating will always be limited so be sure to subscribe to email newsletter so that you do not miss any of these upcoming lectures.

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Visiting Queenstown NZ #3 -- Post 414 of (Not So) Wordless Wednesday

I'm posting old (and sometimes new) family photographs from my collection on Wednesdays, but they won't be wordless posts like others do - I am incapable of having a wordless post.

Here are some of the most precious (to me) images from my Seaver/Leland photograph collection:

In March 2010, we visited Australia, New Zealand and Fiji on a three week Grand Circle Travel Tour to celebrate our 40th wedding anniversary, and I took some photographs with my trusty digital camera.

1) Our major excursion in Queenstown that we did not take was the five hour (each way) bus trip to Milford Sound. Instead, we stayed in Queenstown and had a nice ride up to the top of the Queenstown gondola station:

2) The view of beutiful downtown Queenstown from the top:

3) The view of the lake from the gondola station:

4) We had a nice dinner that evening in the hotel restaurant:

More on our New Zealand visit in coming weeks.

Unfortunately, I've lost the memories of all the details of this vacation - I know what we saw but can't remember what we were told. Fortunately, I found my Facebook photo albums from our 2010 vacation with pictures and some captions so all is not lost. I found that I posted very few photos from this vacation on Genea-Musings.

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Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Making Progress on My Auble Cousins - Post 9: Was Sarah Auble Elizabeth's Sister?

Previous posts in this series include:

* Making Progress on My Auble Cousins - Post 1: Finding Elizabeth's Will (25 April 2016).
* Making Progress on My Auble Cousins - Post 2: Transcription of Elizabeth Auble's Will (28 April 2016)
* Making Progress on My Auble Cousins - Post 3: Identifying Elizabeth Auble's Heirs (29 April 2016)
* Making Progress on My Auble Cousins -- Post 4: The William Auble Challenges (3 May 2016)
* Making Progress on My Auble Cousins -- Post 5: The Sophia Auble Challenges Part 1 (5 May 2016)
* Making Progress on My Auble Cousins -- Post 6: Solving the William Auble Challenge (6 May 2016)
* Making Progress on My Auble Cousins - Post 7: Sophia Auble's Descendants (10 May 2016)
* Making Progress on My Auble Cousins - Post 8: Nathan Auble's Descendants (17 May 2016)

In this series of posts, I am discussing the challenges that I found with the heirs of Elizabeth Auble named in her 1893 will.

1) In the will, these persons were listed among those who received a bequest of money:

* Elizabeth Schunover -- relationship to Elizabeth not stated. She was bequeathed $500. I did not know of Elizabeth Schunover before reading Elizabeth's will.

* Anna Dickerson -- relationship to Elizabeth not stated, wife of Wesley Dickerson. She was bequeathed $500. I did not know of Anna Dickerson before reading Elizabeth's will.

* David Schunover -- relationship to Elizabeth not stated. He was bequeathed $300. I did not know of David Schunover before reading Elizabeth's will.

* Louie Dickerson - relationship to Elizabeth not stated, and the daughter of Wesley Dickerson. She was bequeathed $300. I had no knowledge of Louie Dickerson before reading Elizabeth's will.

I started to research these Schunover (or Schoonover?) and Dickerson persons, knowing that Anna was the wife of Wesley Dickerson, and figured that Louie was probably related to Anna and Wesley. I had no clue who the Schunovers were.

2) Since Anna and Wesley were apparently married, I decided to start with them - where did they live in the 1880 and 1900 U.S. census, who were their children? I expected that they might be living in Sussex or Warren County, New Jersey. I quickly found Anna with several children, and her mother, in the 1880 U.S. Census:

Source: 1880 United States Federal Census, Population Schedule, Warren County, New Jersey, population schedule, Pahaquarry, ED 197, page 396C, dwelling #179, family #186, Anna Dickerson household; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 20 May 2016); citing National Archives Microfilm Publication T9, Roll 799.

This indicates that Anna Dickerson is age 30, widowed, with four children (Bias, Loretta, Edward and Gertie), and with am other, Sarah Schoonover, aged 65.

Now I have some more names to work with, so I checked the 1900 U.S. Census, and found:

Source: 1900 United States Federal Census, Population Schedule, Essex County, New Jersey, population schedule, Newark Ward 4, ED 34, page 2A, dwelling #14, family #19, Anna Dickeson household; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 21 May 2016); citing National Archives Microfilm Publication T623, Roll 963.

In this record, Anna "Dickeson" was born Feby 1851, age 48, widowed, had 6 children born and living, with children Sadie (born 1876), Gertrude (born 1879) and Lucella (born 1881).

So I have evidence of the six children of Anna Dickerson - Bias, Loretta, Edward, Gertrude, Sadie and Lucella. Is Lucella the "Louie" Dickerson in the will? I don't know, but it's possible.

But is this the correct Anna Dickerson? There were several in New Jersey in the 1880 and 1900 census records. After all, it says she is widowed in both the 1880 and 1900 records. There is no sign of Wesley Dickerson, Anna's purported husband. Amazingly, there is another family of Wesley and Anna Dickerson residing in Morris County, New Jersey with different names for their children.

3) I wondered if there was a Find A Grave record for Anna Dickerson, so I searched and did not find one for that spelling. Only when I searched for Ann Dick (Find A Grave lets you use the first letters of names in their search fields) and New Jersey did I find this:

Source: Jim Tipton, indexed database, Find A Grave (http://www.findagrave.com), Newton Cemetery, Newton, N.J., Anna Schoonover Dickisson memorial #14629082.

The stone says "Anna Schoonover, wife of Wesley Dickisson, died Nov 26 1917 aged 67 years."

Apparently, this Anna Dickisson was a Schoonover at birth. That matches with the mother's name on the 1880 U.S. Census - Sarah Schoonover.

I never did find any record for the Wesley Dickerson who married Anna. She was listed as widowed in both 1880 and 1900, but she apparently had another Dickerson child - Lucella - in 1881 according to the 1900 census.

4) I did a search for Sarah Schoonover and quickly found Sarah Schoonover in the same cemetery:

Source: Jim Tipton, indexed database, Find A Grave (http://www.findagrave.com), Newton Cemetery, Newton, N.J., Sarah Auble Schoonover memorial #63414330.

The gravestone says: "Sarah Auble Schoonover, died Feb. 26, 1890, aged 79."

What? Sarah Auble? I don't have a person with that name born about 1811 in my database!

5) Who was her husband? Did she have children other than Anna (Schoonover) Dickerson (1851-1917)?

I easily found Sarah Schoonover in the 1850 and 1860 U.S. census records. Here she is in the 1850 census:

Source: 1850 United States Federal Census, Warren County, New Jersey, population schedule, Hardwick, page 344A, dwelling #56, family #60, Elijah Schoonover household; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 20 May 2016); citing Natinoal Archives Microfilm Publication M432, Roll 465. [Note: This family is indexed correctly, but the source and the links on Ancestry go to the wrong image].

Sarah Schoonover (age 35) was married to Elijah Schoonover (age 36), and their purported children in the 1850 census are Morris (age 12), Lucilla (age 11), James (age 9), Martha E. (age 7), Euphemia (age 4), and Samuel S. (age 1).

In the 1860 U.S. Census, the family includes:

Source: 1860 United States Federal Census, Population Schedule, Warren County, New Jersey, population schedule, Pahaquarry, page 540, dwelling #349, family #349, Elijah Schoonover household; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 20 May 2016); citing National Archives Microfilm Publication M653, Roll 709.

In this record, Elijah Schoonover is age 48, Sarah is age 47, Morris is age 23, Martha is age 15, Samuel S. is age 11, and Amy is age 6.

6) Amy? Is Amy really Anna? Perhaps.

Then I found this record in the "New Jersey Births and Christenings Index, 1660-1931:"

Source: "New Jersey Births and Christenings Index, 1660-1931," indexed database, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com), Ann Schoonover entry, 1851.

While this is a derivative record, it is from the New Jersey birth record microfilms on FamilySearch. The date also matches the 1900 U.S. Census birth month and year for Anna Dickeson.

7) My conclusion is that Ann Schoonover was the daughter of Elijah and Sarah (Auble) Schoonover, was enumerated as Amy in the 1860 census, was enumerated as Anna Dickerson in the 1880 census, Anna Dickeson in the 1900 census, and is the Anna Schoonover Dickisson in the Newton N.J. Cemetery grave.

It appears that Elijah and Sarah (Auble) Schoonover had at least 7 children - Morris, Lucilla, James, Martha, Euphemia, Samuel, and Anna.

I tried to find families for each of these children besides Anna, and was successful in finding that James K. Schoonover married Sarah Stire and two of their 11 children were Elizabeth Schoonover (born 1873) and David Schoonover (born 1886). Of course, there may be some other Elizabeth and David Schoonover persons also related to Sarah (Auble) Schoonover, but I haven';t found them yet.

I also found that Euphemia Schoonover (born about 1846) to Elijah and Sarah (Auble) Schoonover, married Bison Rosenkrans and had two children. Rosenkrantz was mentioned as the grandfather of Elizabeth Snover in Elizabeth Auble's will.

I have done a lot more searching for records of these Schoonover and Dickerson families, and have an Ancestry Member Tree for all of the Auble folks to help me sort them out.

8) My conclusion is that Sarah Auble (1811-1890), who married Elijah Schoonover (1810-1892) and had 7 children, was the mother of Anna (Schoonover) Dickerson, and the grandmother of Lucella "Louie" Dickerson, Elizabeth Schoonover and David Schoonover. The latter four persons were heirs to Elizabeth Auble in her 1893 will.

9) My second conclusion is that Sarah Auble (1811-1890) is the sister of Elizabeth Auble (1814-1899), and to my second great-grandfather, David Auble (1817-1894).

This evidence stream is direct evidence of the events involved, but is indirect evidence as to the relationship of Sarah (Auble) Schoonover with Elizabeth Auble. I have found no conflicting evidence for that relationship, but I have only the one link from Sarah's gravestone as far as her maiden name.

However, it makes sense to me - Elizabeth Auble named some of her closest relatives (siblings, nieces, nephews, etc.) as heirs in her 1893 will. I think that all of the persons named in the will as her heirs were related to her. In this case, Sarah Auble had died and Elizabeth named the youngest child of Anna, Anna's youngest child, and two children of Sarah's son, James Schoonover.

There are still "mystery persons" in Elizabeth Auble's will, and my research has slowed down a bit due to other priorities. I will return to finish off the list!

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Uploading a GEDCOM File to a New Findmypast Family Tree

Findmypast has a genealogy challenge posted at Announcing #TreeChallenge: Win prizes worth over $1000 for researchers to use Hints to find new records for their family tree persons. In order to get the Hints, a researcher needs to have a Findmypast family tree.

I wanted to post an updated family tree to Findmypast - my earlier tree had only about 35% of my tree persons in it, and it had garnered thousands of Hints, but it was incomplete and now out of date.

I exported a GEDCOM file from my RootsMagic 7 database with over 46,000 persons in it, and saved it on my desktop computer. Now I wanted to upload it to a new Findmypast family tree that should start gathering Hints from the Findmypast databases.

On the Findmypast home page, I clicked on the "Family tree" menu tab:

I want to "Import a tree" into Findmypast because I have a GEDCOM file. I clicked on "Import a tree" and saw the "Choose File" button. I went to my computer file folders, found my GEDCOM file, and the name of my GEDCOM file was inserted in the "Choose File" field:

There is a short explanation of what a GEDCOM file is and what the Findmypast limitations are for a GEDCOM file.

This message says:

"What'a GEDCOM?
Please note we cannot upload any media files referenced in your GEDCOM.
We accept files up to 140 MB and containing a maximum of 120,000 people.
If you wish to load a larger file please email support@findmypast.com."

I started the GEDCOM file import at 11:53 a.m. and it finished sometime after 2 p.m. And it did not succeed. I tried again, and it did not succeed.

The information line below the top file says:

"Gedcom import - import failed - Customer support are investigating."

That's what it said on one of the files I deleted yesterday nobody at Findmypast ever reported the results of their investigation to me over the last month or so.

For this latest attempt, I compressed my RootsMagic file, limited the GEDCOM file to only notes and sources - no multimedia, no RM specific extra details, no LDS, no addresses, no to-do lists, no research log, no correspondence, etc.

Now what? I guess I will email someone at Findmypast to see if they can help me figure this out.

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Now I Have 25 New Ancestor Discoveries! Really?

Before last week, I had only three New Ancestor Discoveries (NADs) on my AncestryDNA page. I wrote about them earlier in AncestryDNA Says I Have NADs (New Ancestor Discoveries) (posted 17 November 2015). In the post, I said that I was very sure that the two NADs I had were not my ancestors based on my genealogical research and that of others.

Last week, all of a sudden I had 25 New Ancestor Discoveries! All 25 of them were born and lived in the early 19th century. Here are the first 8 of the 25:

The names and parents names and birth places of the first 2 on the list are:

* Alonzo Howland Cook (1755-1933), son of Phineas Wolcott Cook and Ann Eliza Howland, born in Salt Lake City.

The information about the DNA Circle has two parts - information from other Ancestry Member Trees and the DNA Circle with the matching persons shown:

Here is the Facts page for Alonzo Howland Cook - it says that there were 291 Ancestry Member Trees and he was married 4 times and had 14 children:

There are 13 members in this DNA Circle, and I share DNA with 3 of them; I share 8.8 cM in one segment with the earliest descendant (a granddaughter) of this person in the DNA Circle. As I understand the system, that means that we are probably 5th to 8th cousins, and we probably share 4th to 7th great-grandparents of mine. There are some common ancestral surnames on the list of matching surnames, but they are all back in the 17th century - 10 to 12 generations back from me.

* William Hallam Worthen (1847-1925), son of Samuel Worthen and Mary Ellen Hallam, born in St. Louis, Missouri. He is in 247 Ancestry Member Trees, and had two spouses and 16 children. There are 16 members in this DNA circle, and I share DNA with 3 of them. I share 9.4 cM with the earliest descendant (a grandson) of this person in the DNA Circle. While I have Worthen ancestry in 18th century New England that migrated there in the 1630s, the DNA match's Worthen is from England and migrated to Missouri around 1840.

All 25 of the persons on this New Ancestor Discovery list were born in the 1800s. In the descendants of the persons I have investigated so far, the amount of shared DNA averages out to be about 9 cM in one segment. According to DNA charts I've seen, and the AncestryDNA estimates, that should correspond to a 5th to 8th cousin range. In other words, the common ancestors are children of my 5th to 8th great-grandparents.

I have looked at ten of these persons now, and can frankly state that there is no freaking way that any of those ten are my ancestor. I have proven almost all of my ancestral families to my satisfaction back in time to my 3rd great-grandparents. I am very confident in the names, vital data, and relationships of these people, most of whom were born around 1800.

I do not know the biological parents of one second great-grandparent (Devier J. Lanphear Smith, who is adopted), and five of my third great-grandparents, all born in the late 1700s. It is possible that an ancestor of these New Ancestor Discoveries is the same as one of my unknown ancestors in my tree, and that might be a correct claim. But AncestryDNA says these 25 might be my ancestor, and I sincerely doubt that any of them are my ancestor.

AncestryDNA says that up to 50% of these New Ancestor Discoveries might be my ancestor. I still think that it is much closer to 0%.

How did I jump from 3 New Ancestor Discoveries to 25 on AncestryDNA? What happened? I don't know. For now, i'm not going to pay much attention to them.

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The URL for this post is: http://www.geneamusings.com/2016/05/now-i-have-25-new-ancestor-discoveries.html

Monday, May 23, 2016

Deleting Old Findmypast Family Trees

When Findmypast acquired Mocavo last year, they provided an import of an existing Mocavo family tree to a new Findmypast tree. I had three Mocavo trees, and they were imported as separate trees.

In addition, I had uploaded part of my August 2014 family tree to Findmypast about two years ago, with 15,000+ persons, and it is outdated and incomplete now.

So I want to start over with Findmypast family trees - I want to delete the existing trees and upload a new GEDCOM to Findmypast with all of my 46,000+ persons and updated content and source citations.

In this post, I want to delete my existing Findmypast trees. Then, in another post, I will upload a GEDCOM file to Findmypast with all of my current research in it.

1) On the Findmypast home page, I clicked on the "Family tree" menu item tab and saw the drop down menu that lists my existing trees:

On the dropdown list, the Help function told me that I needed to click on the "View all trees" item on the list in order to manage my trees. I clicked on "View all trees" and saw the list of my trees on Findmypast:

For each tree, it tells me when it was created on Findmypast and when it was last updated, the owner, and icons for "Settings," "Export tree" and "Delete tree."

I clicked on the last tree on the list (the one that didn't upload completely in April, and clicked on the Delete icon (a trash can). The confirmation screen appeared with a big blue "Delete" button:

I clicked the "Delete" button and it was gone. I did the other two Mocavo trees next, and when I was finished, I was left with the two year old tree I uploaded in 2014:

Since this has Hints already provided for the 15,000+ persons in the tree, I will keep it for the time being.

In the next post in this series, I will upload a new GEDCOM file to Findmypast.

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Added or Updated Record Collections at FamilySearch.org - Week of 15 to 21 May 2016

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

As of 22 May 2016, there were 2,101 record collections on FamilySearch (an increase of 1 from last week):

The added or updated collections are:

* Illinois, Cook County Deaths, 1878-1994; 6,527,955 indexed records without record images, Updated 20 May 2016

* New York, Northern Arrival Manifests, 1902-1956; 1,046,045 indexed records with record images, Updated 20 May 2016

* New Zealand, Archives New Zealand, Probate Records, 1843-1998; 340,066 indexed records with record images, Updated 20 May 2016

* Arizona Obituary Index to Arizona Newspapers, 1993-1994; 38,287 indexed records with record images, Updated 20 May 2016

* Texas, El Paso Alien Arrivals, 1924-1952; 200,315 indexed records with record images, ADDED 19 May 2016

* South Africa, Cape Province, Western Cape Archives Records, 1792-1992; 148,919 indexed records with record images, Updated 19 May 2016

* California, Oakland, Alameda County, Newspaper Record Collection, 1985-2011; 70,598 indexed records with record images, Updated 19 May 2016

* Argentina, Tucumán, Catholic Church Records, 1727-1955; 599,723 indexed records with record images, Updated 19 May 2016

* Illinois, Cook County, Birth Certificates, 1871-1940; 2,859,465 indexed records without record images, Updated 18 May 2016

* North Carolina, Freedmen's Bureau Assistant Commissioner Records, 1862-1870; 127,316 indexed records with record images, Updated 18 May 2016

* Belgium, Antwerp, Civil Registration, 1588-1913; 263,364 indexed records with record images, Updated 17 May 2016

* Belgium, East Flanders, Civil Registration, 1541-1914; 378,443 indexed records with record images, Updated 17 May 2016

* United States Headstone Applications for U.S. Military Veterans, 1925-1949; 647,814 indexed records with record images, Updated 17 May 2016

* Michigan Probate Records, 1797-1973; Browse Images only, no record index, Updated 16 May 2016

* Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001; 2,129,543 indexed records with record images, Updated 16 May 2016

* California, San Francisco County Records, 1824-1997; 168,674 indexed records with record images, Updated 16 May 2016

The asterisk used by FamilySearch is for "Recently added or updated." I am particularly interested in new collections, for the obvious reasons. FamilySearch does provide a listing of which collections are new or updated several days after my post.

My friend, Marshall, has come up with a way to determine which collections are ADDED or UPDATED, in addition to which collections were removed. My thanks to Marshall for helping me out here!

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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