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Tuesday, March 24, 2020

Genealogy News Bytes - Tuesday, 24 March 2020

Welcome to Genealogy News Bytes, posted on Tuesday afternoon and Friday afternoon, where we try to highlight the most important genealogy and family history news and education items that came across our desktop over the past four days.

1) News Articles:

* A Note from Ancestry’s CEO

* Free At-Home Education Resources From Ancestry® and Access to Nearly 500M National Archives Records

* The Genealogy Show 2020 in Birmingham cancelled

* Announcing: Mini-Myrt Meetings

* MyHeritage In Color™ is Now Free and Unlimited for One Month!

* MyHeritage Donates 66,000 Swabs to Israel to Combat the Coronavirus

2) New or Updated Record Collections:

* Added and Updated Ancestry.com Record Collections - Week of 15 to 21 March 2020

* Added and Updated Record Collections at FamilySearch.org - Week of 15 to 21 March 2020

3) Genealogy Education - Webinars (times are US Pacific):

* GeneaWebinars Calendar

* View RootsTech 2020 Videos for FREE!

* 16 Free Webinars from New York Genealogical & Biographical Society

* FREE Genealogy Webinars available during Covid-19 Pandemic

* Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Wednesday, 25 March, 11 a.m.: Using Fold3.com to your Advantage, by Craig R. Scott

* Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Tuesday, 31 March, 6 p.m.: ‘Stop Thief!’: British Crimes and Punishment, by Carol Baxter

* Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Wednesday, 1 April, 11 a.m.: Betty Jeans Story - Forensic Genealogy, DNA and Adoption, by Mags Gaulden

* Archived Family Tree Webinar: City Directories: Much More than Ye Olde Phonebooks, by Mike Mansfield

* Archived Family Tree Webinar: Tech Zone: Why are My Siblings Ethnicity Results Different?, by Mags Gaulden

4) Genealogy Education - Podcasts:

* The Genealogy Professional: TGP 53: Melissa Barker – The Archive Lady

* Research Like A Pro: RLP 89: DNA Report Writing

* The Genealogy Guys: #375

* Fisher's Top Tips: #165r - Marking Photos

* Ancestral Findings: Should You Attend a Genealogy Conference? | AF-330

5) Genealogy Videos (YouTube):

* BYU Family History Library: DNA Kindergarten part 3: Using Your DNA - Bonnie Belza

* DearMYRTLE: Mondays with Myrt - 16 Mar 2020

* DearMYRTLE: You, Too, Can ZOOM!

* Family History Fanatics: City Directories for Genealogy Research from MyHeritage

* Family History Fanatics: Explore the MyHeritage Fan Chart - New Tools to Organize Your Family Tree

* Family History Fanatics: GEDMatch Tag Groups - Tricks for Multiple Kit Analysis in DNA testing

* Family Tree Magazine: How to Listen to a Podcast with Lisa Louise Cooke

* GeneaVlogger: RootsTech 2020 Interviews - Jonny Perl of DNAPainter com

* Kathryn Lake Hogan: I Help You, You Help Me

* Who Is Nicka Smith?: Episode 108 - History: Unscripted - Those People

* WikiTree: WikiTree LiveCast with Sarah and Eowyn - Weekly Recap + Special Guest

6) Genealogy Bargains:

* Genealogy Bargains - Tuesday, March 24th 2020

* Ancestry FREE ACCESS to Search 500 Million National Archive Records!

* FREE ACCESS to 24-Hour Genealogy Webinar Marathon Videos!

7) Did you miss the last Genealogy News Bytes - 20 March 2020 ?

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Who Were the Parents of John Richman (1788-1867) of Hilperton, Wiltshire? - Part 2

I wrote Part I of this series two weeks ago, and have made some progress in sorting out all of the Richman data available in the area around Hilperton, Wiltshire in the 1700 to 1900 time frame.

1) In Part I, I noted that there were a number of families in the Hilperton area that were having children in the 1775 to 1800 time frame that might include my John Richman (1788-1867).

I made one mistake in Part I - Family #1 John and Mary (Parsons) Richman had a son named John baptized on 24 July 1803, whom I left out of the list of children. However, Mary would be about age 53 in 1803. This John Richman baptized in 1803 may be my John Richman born about 1788 and baptized as a teenager 15 years later.

NOTE 25 March] I looked for this record, and the record on 24 September 1803 in the Hilperton parish register says "John PICKTOR, son of John and Mary" and not John RICHMAN.

2) I looked back at my earlier DNA posts about the Richman family, and noted A Helpful Richman Autosomal DNA Match from 2016. I have an AncestryDNA match with CB whose ancestry includes John and Mary (Parsons) Richman. I don't have an AncestryDNA ThruLine for this match, but CB and I have a Richman common ancestor back in time. I added her line to my RootsMagic tree today, and might see a ThruLine in the near future.

3) Can DNA matches help me find the parents of my John Richman? Perhaps! It Depends (I hear everyone saying this)?

I formulated a plan to "test" which of my target Richman families, if any, have descendants who are DNA Matches with me on AncestryDNA.

4) For my first "test" I added John Richman (1744-1808) and Mary Parsons (1750-1817) to my Ancestry Member Tree as the parents of my John Richman (1788-1867). I received four AncestryDNA ThruLines from this "test," as shown below:

* The first match on the far left is CM, through the son Thomas Richman (1775-1851) and his son Alfred Richman (1815-1883). I share 10 cM in 1 segment with CM.

* The second match is TG, through the son Joseph Richman (1779-1865) and his daughter Charlotte Richman (1803-1885). I share 7 cM in 1 segment with TG.

* The third match is JC, through the son Joseph Richman (1779-1865), and his son Thomas Rich (1816-1886). I share 7 cM in 1 segment with JC.

* The fourth match is TK, through the son Joseph Richman (1779-1865) and his son Charles Rich (1818-1905). I share 11 cM in 1 segment with TK.

The match on the far right of the chart above is me, through my 3rd great-grandfather John Richman (1788-1867). I have 23 matches in AncestryDNA who are descendants of John Richman (1788-1867) and his wife, Ann Marshman.

So I have 4 possible DNA matches to date, if John and Mary (Parsons) Richman are the parents of my John Richman (1788-1867). The matching segments range from 7 cM to 11 cM. It would be interesting to know if these four matches of mine also match some of the 23 known descendants of John Richman (1788-1867). I will ask my cousin Laura to check her DNA matches.

Since I added CB to my RootsMagic tree today, and will update my Ancestry Member Tree soon to include CB, there may be a 5th DNA match - and I match CB with a 14 cM segment.

As you can see, these are essentially 5th cousins once or twice removed to me, and there should be relatively small segments at this relationship. Are the segments too small to be reliable? Perhaps.

5) How many autosomal DNA matches would be "proof" of a relationship from a common ancestor? I don't know. These matches are "evidence" of a relationship with the DNA matches, but that relationship might be through some other, unknown, common ancestor(s). At best, these DNA matches are clues or leads to potential parents of John Richman (1788-1867).

6) Would a common autosomal DNA segment between all five of the "Family 1" DNA matches above with myself and my cousin Laura be better "proof?" I think that's a stretch for all six of us to share one common segment, but it's not impossible. Well, it is impossible right now, because AncestryDNA doesn't provide a definition of shared autosomal DNA segments. All of the other major DNA providers do provide segment data.

7) What can I do next? Well, I've already disconnected John Richman (1744-1808) and Mary Parsons (1750-1817) as parents of John Richman (1788-1867) on my Ancestry Member Tree. I added potential Richman family #2, Joseph Richman (1749-1829) and Hannah Mission (1749-1832). I will post the results of this "test" in the next post in this series. Then I will do the same for the third and the fourth target families from the Part 1 post.

8) Have you tried doing this "test" with the potential ancestors who may be parents of your current "end-of-line" ancestors? If so, how did it work out?

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Tuesday's Tip: Research in the Indiana Death Certificates, 1899-2011

The record collection for Indiana, Death Certificates, 1899-2011 is one of my favorite record collections. It is online at Ancestry.com with 16,737,019 name indexed entries. Note that this is a collection of death certificate digital images filed between 1899 and 2011.

The original source for this online collection is the Indiana State Board of Health. Death Certificates, 1900–2011. Microfilm. Indiana Archives and Records Administration, Indianapolis, Indiana.

On Ancestry.com, the user will find this collection search page in the Card Catalog:

The description of the information in this record collection is (from the Ancestry.com collection page):

State-level registration began for deaths in Indiana in January 1900. Prior to that, registration was done at the county level, with most counties beginning in 1882. This collection includes an index and images of Indiana death certificates for the years 1899–2011.

Death records can provide a wide variety of details, including the following:

name of the decedent and place of death

gender

color or race

marital status

date of birth

age

occupation

birthplace

father's name and birthplace

mother's name and birthplace

name and address of informant

date filed

date of death

physician's statement and cause of death

length of residence, if in a hospital or institution

date and place of burial

name and address of undertaker

later records may include spouse’s name

Note: Social Security numbers have been redacted from the images in order to protect privacy.

I searched for Seaver as a last name, checked the Exact box, and saw 97 results:

I clicked on the second match, and saw the information extracted for the death of Betty J. Seaver (two screens):

As you can see, this record summary provides the person's full name, a woman's maiden name, gender, race, age, marital status, birth date, birth place, death date, death place, and parent's names.

Plus, there is an image of the death certificate with even more information:

The "prizes" on these records are the full name, maiden name, the birth date, the birth place, father's name, mother's name, occupation, cause of death, and informants name. However, there is no spouse's name provided.

For my key surnames, this collection has these numbers of exact records:

* Seaver: 97
* Seavers: 80
* Seever: 23
* Seevers: 80
* Sever: 69
* Severs: 69
* Sevier: 93

* Carringer: 19

* Auble: 44

* Vaux: 16

The Ancestry "database number" for this collection is 60716. I have over 280 profiles in my Ancestry Family Tree with a pending Hint in this collection. I know that I have collected some of the entries already.

More information about Indiana Death Records can be found at https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/How_to_Find_Indiana_Death_Records.

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NOTE: Tuesday's Tips is a genealogy blog meme intended to provide information about a resource helpful to genealogists and family historians, especially in the U.S. online genea-world.

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Monday, March 23, 2020

Monday Genea-Pourri - Week Ending 23 March 2020

Here are the highlights of my family history and genealogy related activities over the past week:

1) Watched the Saturday keynote session from RootsTech, and two of the videoed classes. Watched several YouTube videos too.

2) Participated in today's Mondays With Myrt on Zoom. We discussed the GeneaWebinars schedule, Pat Kuhn's same name problem, the Salt Lake City earthquake, WikiTree, new online collections, the Johnson Utah ghost town, our 50th wedding anniversary, how I add DNA matches to my tree, and the daily Mini-Myrt sessions starting at 12 EDT daily.

3) Wrote and posted a biographical sketch of 7th great-grandmother #533 Huldah (Blodgett) Reed (1689-1777) for my 52 Ancestors biographical sketch on Friday.

4) Transcribed the 1746 personal inventory of 8th great-grandmother Huldah (Simonds) Blodgett of Woburn, Mass. for Amanuensis Monday.

5) Added Notes to about 15 more AncestryDNA matches with cM values, relationships and known common ancestors, and added four ThruLines to the RootsMagic family tree database. Reviewed new DNA matches on AncestryDNA, MyHeritageDNA, FamilyTreeDNA and 23andMe.

6) Worked a whole afternoon on my Richman families in Wiltshire, extending the cousin lines a bit using all of the resources. Added names, relationships, events, dates and places based on the available records on Ancestry, Findmypast, FamilySearch and MyHeritage to the RootsMagic tree. Also worked on a Whittle line from an email correspondent.

7) There were several sessions working in the RootsMagic software program to match with and update FamilySearch Family Tree profiles for Seaver families and my ancestral families, with occasional additions to the RootsMagic profiles. I have matched 34,703 of my RootsMagic persons with FamilySearch Family Tree profiles (up 99).

8) Used Web Hints and Record Matches from Ancestry, MyHeritage, Findmypast and FamilySearch to add content and sources to my RootsMagic profiles. I now have 56,551 persons in my RootsMagic file (up 118) , and 117,671 source citations (up 357). I TreeShared two times this week updating 253 profiles, and I resolved 623 Ancestry Hints. I've fallen behind on the Ancestry Record Hints with 126,093 to be resolved, but I work on them weekly.

9) Wrote 20 Genea-Musings blog posts last week, of which two were a press release. The most popular post last week was Dear Randy: What Do You Add To Your Family Tree For DNA Matches? with over 308 views.

10) We are still fine here at the Genea-cave, hunkered down and not going out much. We went to Costco on Thursday and I went to the grocery store on Friday. We celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary on Saturday, 21 March. Tami came down to take photos, provide champagne, provide gloves and masks, make dinner, serve it, and clean up. We enjoyed the visit but wish the grandkids had been able to come.

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Copyright (c) 2020, Randall J. Seaver

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Amanuensis Monday -- 1746 Personal Inventory of Huldah (Simonds) Blogget (1660-1746) Intestate Estate

This week's document is the 1746 Inventory to appraise the intestate estate of Huldah Blogget (1660-1746) of Sudbury, Massachusetts in Probate Packet 1,960 in Middlesex County, Massachusetts.

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The transcription of this personal Inventory is:

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Wobourn March y'e 26: 1746 A tru Inventory of all the Estate that Mr's Huldah Blogget Late of Woburn Dece'ed and seized and possed of shown by the Administrators to us The Subscribers And apprized as followeth viz. Old tenor
Imp's To a Riding Hood 4:10:0 To a blu Callamined Gound 5:10:0	£ 10 : 0 : 0
To a black silk cap gound and black pettecoat 3:0:0	3 : 0 : 0
To a green gound 1:15:0 To a striped Callomined gound 1:15:0	3 : 10 : 0
To a green large pettecoat 1:0:0 To a Red pettecoat & white pettecoat 0:10:0	1 : 10 : 0
To six old pettecoats 0:15:0 To a old Riding Hood 1:0:0	1 : 15 : 0
To two west suts and the gound 0:8:0 to five pare of stockings 0:15:0	1 : 3 : 0
To five pare of stayes 0:10:0 To a pare of shows 0:5:0	0 : 10 : 0
To a bonet 0:5:0 To six shefts 1:15:0 To eight Lasts Capps 1:5::0	6 : 5 : 0
To four old capps 0:2:0 To four tow apporns 0:8:0 To two fine apporn 0:10:0	1 : 0 : 0
To six hancaches 1:1:0 To three pare of gloves 0:10:0	1 : 11 : 0
To a silk hood and scavse and fann 2:12:0 To two pares of sleves 0:2:0	2 : 14 : 0
To four neckcloths for men 0:4:0 to two pare of breches & Jacket 1:05:0	1 : 9 : 0
To three books 1:15:0 To a pare of sheets 4:0:0 To a pare of sheets 3:10:0	9 : 5 : 0
To a pare of sheets 3:0:0 To a pare of two sheet 2:5:0	5 : 5 : 0
To a pare of tow sheets 1:7:0 To a pare of old sheets 1:0:0	2 : 7 : 0
To a pare of smale old sheets 0:10:0 To a table cloth 0:14:0	1 : 4 : 0
To four old Table Cloths 0:11:0 To eight old pillow coats 1:0:0	1 : 11 : 0
To three napkins 0:7:0 To seven towels 0:12:0 To three pieces of new cloth	1 : 9 : 0
To Cubert Cloth and walet 0:5:0 To ???? Curtens 2:15:0	3 : 0 : 0
To a feather bed and 2 bolster and two pillows 3 pillow coats under bed bedsted	1 : 16 : 0
And Cord 8:10:0 To a pare sheets 4:5:0 To a blancket 2:0:0	14 : 15 : 0
To a cover led 2:15:0 To blancket 0:15:0	3 : 10 : 0
To a short bed bedsted and Cord and Covering 4:10:0	4 : 10 : 0

House well goods To two putter dishes and putter bason 2:4:0	2 : 4 : 0
To old putter dishes and putter pott 1:15:0	1 : 16 : 0
To a brass kettle 4:15:0 To a warming pann 1:8:0	6 : 3 : 0
To a brass skelet and skelet frame 0:8:0	0 : 8 : 0
To a box jorn and heeters 0:6:0 To a potteg pott and pok hook 0:18:0	1 : 4 : 0
To the Lttle pot and hooks 0:6:0 To a dish kittle 0:9:0	0 : 15 : 0
To a frying pann 0:12:0 To a brass skemmer 0:2:0	0 : 14 : 0
To a tinn pann and tinn tun?klr 0:4:0 to earthen ware 1:0:0	1: 4 : 0
To a morter and pestle 0:5:0 To a pare of hand belles 0:8:0	0 : 13 : 0
To two old paiels and pigen 0:2:6	0 : 2 : 6
To knives and forks and chopin knife 0:5:0 To a pare of shears 0:1:6	0 : 6 : 6
To one ?????? Comb 0:3:0 To a pare of Spectakels 0:3:0	0 : 6 : 0
To a Carved Cubbert 2:0:0	2 : 0 : 0
To two trammells 1:4:0 To a parer of and jorns fire dlice and toungs 1:6:0	2 : 10 : 0
To a table and Joynt Stool 0:7:0 To nine old Cheaiers 0:14:0	1 : 1 : 0
To a meale Chest and Long Table 0:12:0	0 : 12 : 0

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To a Chest in the Low Room	0 : 5 : 0
To a barriel of sider with out the barriel	0 : 16 : 0
To an old barriel and three old tubs	0 : 10 : 0
To a Round tub to coll worte	0 : 5 : 0
To a Chese press and Cheese Rack	0 : 19 : 0
To hops four pound 0:7:0 To two meal sacks 0:10:0	0 : 17 : 0
To haarns and trasses 1:0:0 To a Saddele 0:10:0	1 : 10 : 0
To old jorn 1:3:0 To three forks 0:12:0	1 : 17 : 0
To a plow sheare and old tub 0:16:0	0 : 16 : 0
To half a bushel of Ry meal 0:7:0	0 : 7 : 0
To twelve bushels of Inden corn 6:6:0	6 : 6 : 0
To two bushels of Ry 1:8:0	1 : 8 : 0
To one bushel of malt 0:12:0	0 : 12 : 0
To one smale tub of salt pork	5 : 0 : 0
Thomas Reed } Samuel Wyman junr } Apprizers James Simon }
Middlesex ss June 16 1746 Capt. Nathan Blogget the Administ'r perfected the foregoing Inventory on Oath S. Danforth J. Prob.
The charge of the apprizement as followeth viz To Thomas Reed 1 : 5 : 0 To Samuel Wyman 1 : 5 : 0 To James Simonds 1 : 5 : 0
To drawing the Inventory 0 : 10 : 0

The source citation for this probate record is:

"Middlesex County, MA: Probate Papers, 1648-1871," digital image, American Ancestors (http://www.AmericanAncestors.org : accessed 15 March 2020), Probate Packet 1,60 (7 pages), Huldah Blodget of Woburn, 1746; Original records in Middlesex County, Massachusetts Probate Court Records, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Huldah (Simonds) Blogget died intestate on 13 March 1746. She was the widow of Samuel Blogget (1658-1743) who had died intestate on 5 November 1743. There was no probate of Samuel Blogget's estate, and presumably the widow was allowed to remain in the house. When Huldah died, their son Nathan Blogget (1706-1747) was appointed administrator of Huldah's estate, and posted bond after the heirs wrote a letter testamentary to the probate court requesting his appointment. When the court ordered Thomas Reed, Samuel Wyman and James Simonds, they produced the inventory of the personal estate on 26 March 1746.

There are several other documents in this probate packet, including the letter testamentary, bond, letter of administration, and court order naming the appraisers.

The inventory transcribed above totals £36 : 3 : 0 (pounds : shillings : pence). It is only household items, there is no real estate inventory, sine Samuel Blodgett sold his land to his sons before his death. I struggle to understand what some of the personal items are, and the writer of the inventory used creative spelling for most of the common items. However, this provides an interesting example of what a household for an elderly couple in mid-century New England possessed and used, down to every sack of meal, sheet and old pot.

Samuel Blodgett (1658-1743) and Huldah (Simonds) Blodgett (1660-1746) are my 8th great-grandparents, through their daughter Huldah Blodgett (1689-1777) who married Ebenezer Reed (1690-1767).

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NOTE: Genea-blogger John Newmark (who writes the excellent TransylvanianDutch blog) started a Monday blog theme years ago called "Amanuensis Monday." John offers this definition for "amanuensis:"

"A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another."

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Sunday, March 22, 2020

Best of the Genea-Blogs - Week of 15 to 21 March 2020

Dozens of genealogy and family history bloggers write thousands of posts every week about their research, their families, and their interests. I appreciate each one of them and their efforts.

My criteria for "Best of ..." are pretty simple - I pick posts that advance knowledge about genealogy and family history, address current genealogy issues, provide personal family history, are funny or are poignant. I don't list posts destined for daily blog prompts or meme submissions (but I do include summaries of them), or my own posts.

Here are my picks for great reads from the genealogy blogs for this past week:

* Tips For Using City Directories For Genealogy Research by Brenda on Legacy Tree Genealogists.

*  RootsMagic 7 Now Available for macOS 10.15 (Catalina) by Michael Booth on the RootsMagic Blog.

*  New feature: DRAW ANY SHAPE on the map to reveal all of the Counties, ZIP Codes, Cities, Townships and more by Randy Majors on RandyMajors.com.

* How Family History Can Save the World by Diahan Southard on Your DNA Guide.

* Pauline Ilg: Brave and Courageous - Part 4 by Jen Rickards on Auntie Jen's Family Trees.

* The Million Mito Project by Roberta Estes on DNAeXplained - Genetic Genealogy.

* The Archive Lady: Brown Spots on Scrapbooks by Melissa Barker on Abundant Genealogy.

* Rev. War Widow Elizabeth Miller & the Case of Her Missing Marriage Record by Linda Stufflebean on Empty Branches on the Family Tree.

*  Goldie May, your research assistant to learning about the FamilySearch.org website by James Tanner on Genealogy's Star.

*  Genealogy during Quarantine: 5 Things to Do When the Library Is Closed by Gena Philibert-Ortega on GenealogyBank Blog.

*  Bob McLaren, Beloved Clan McLaren Genealogist Meets His Ancestors by Roberta Estes on DNAeXplained - Genetic Genealogy. A beautiful tribute.

*  Genealogy Research in the 21st Century Part I: Genealogy Research is Still Hard by Nicole Dyer on Family Locket.

* Eber Bunker's Hill in Australia, a Mayflower Descendant by Heather Wilkinson Rojo on Nutfield Genealogy.

* The Importance of Mistakes by Jill Morelli on Genealogy Certification: My Personal Journal.

Here are pick posts by other geneabloggers this week:

*  Friday's Family History Finds  by Linda Stufflebean on Empty Branches on the Family Tree.

*  Friday Fossicking 20th Mar 2020 by Crissouli on That Moment in Time.

* This Week's Creme de la Creme -- March 21, 2020  by Gail Dever on Genealogy a la Carte,

*  Saturday Serendipity (March 21, 2020) by John D. Tew on Filiopietism Prism.

Readers are encouraged to go to the blogs listed above and read their articles, and add the blogs to your Favorites, Feedly, another RSS feed, or email if you like what you read. Please make a comment to them also - all bloggers appreciate feedback on what they write.

Did I miss a great genealogy blog post? Tell me! I currently am reading posts from over 900 genealogy bloggers using Feedly, but I still miss quite a few it seems.

Read past Best of the Genea-Blogs posts here.

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Ancestry.com Lists "Coming Soon" Collections for 2020

The Recently Added and Updated Collections page on Ancestry.com lists the "Coming Soon" collections that they will bring online during 2020.

The collections listed under "Coming Soon" include:

* Hawaii Vital Records - late spring 2020

* Wisconsin Birth Records - summer 2020

* Wyoming Births, Marriages and Deaths - summer 2020

* More Church Records - fall 2020

* New York Prison Records - Fall 2020

* Wyoming Mining Accidents, 1869-1973 - late fall 2020

* More U.S. County Marriages - ongoing.

* More U.S. State Vital Records - ongoing.

I note from the Card Catalog that Ancestry.com has added 37 NEW record collections since the start of the year 2020.

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Disclosure: I have a complimentary all-access subscription from Ancestry.com, for which I am thankful. Ancestry.com has provided material considerations for travel expenses to meetings, and has hosted events and meals that I have attended in Salt Lake City, in past years.

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