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Thursday, March 10, 2016

Ancestry.com Member Connect Now Shows You Records Attached to Other Trees

I don't recall seeing this "feature" on Ancestry Member Trees - perhaps it is old, perhaps it is new. It was New to me today.

I was on the person profile for my 5th great-grandfather, Amos Plimpton (1735-1808) today:

I clicked on the "Member Connect" button on the menu ribbon above the Facts and Hints line:

This tells me that I have 15 connections for Amos Plimpton. The first one is for One World Tree! I thought that was eliminated a number of years ago. It apparently is still on Ancestry somewhere, although it is not included in the Card Catalog (I checked).

Further down are the other 14 Ancestry Member Trees that have my Amos Plimpton in them. The first one and the start of the second one is shown below:

The first one doesn't have any attached records, but the second one does - here is the next screen for the second tree on the list:

There were attached records on many of the 14 Ancestry Member Trees in this Member Connect system for Amos Plimpton.

I clicked on one of them to see the record:

I can "Save" this record to Amos Plimpton in my tree if I choose to.

In this Ancestry Member Tree, I have not attached any records to Amos Plimpton, so I have no "Accepted Hints." The 11 "New Hints" on the "Hints" page are all of the items from the Member Connect trees plus one Hint for other Ancestry Member Trees..

This confirms what I thought was the case - the Hints are from records attached to other person's Ancestry Member Trees for the subject person, rather than from a search for the tree person.

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Treasure Chest Thursday #304: 1756 Marriage Record of Amos Plimpton and Mary Guild in Walpole, 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 1756 marriage record of Amos Plimpton and Mary Guild in the vital record book of Walpole, Massachusetts:

The snippet of this record:

The transcription of this record is:

"PLIMPTON (see Plympton, Plymton), Amos and Mary Guild, Dec. 9, 1756."

The source citation for this record is:

Vital Records of Walpole, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (Boston, Mass. :New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1902), Marriages, page 161, Amos Plimpton and Mary Guild entry.

Amos Plimpton and Mary Guild were my 5th great-grandparents. They had five children together, but only two lived to adulthood. Their daughter, Mercy Plimpton (1772-1850), who married Aaron Smith (1765-1841) in 1795, is my 4th great-grandmother.

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Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Finding a Maiden Name, and More, for Mary (--?--) (Breck) Plimpton

I wrote Amanuensis Monday - Post 309: 1807 Will of Amos Plimpton (1735-1808) of Medfield, Mass.on 2 March 2016, which left a considerable bequest to his second wife, Mary (--?--) (Breck) Plimpton "as long as she remains my widow."

I wondered when she died, who her first husband was, what her birthdate was, and who her parents were. The only information I had was the marriage record of Mary Breck to Amos Plimpton on 6 November 1800 in Medfield, Massachusetts. I had estimated that her birth date was about 1740 in Massachusetts. Here is what I had for her in my Ancestry Member Tree:

While reviewing the data I have for Amos Plimpton (1735-1808), I noted that the book:

Levi B. Chase, A Genealogy and Historical Notices of the Family of Plimpton or Plympton in America, Plumpton in England (Hartford, Conn. : Plimpton Mfg. Co., Print, 1884).

says, on page 74:

"Amos (39) b. June 16, 1735, d. 1808; m. first, 1756, Mary Guild, of Walpole, b. 1735, d. 1800; m. second, widow Mary Breck, of Sherborne, d. in Medway."

I don't know if that's correct, but it identifies "widow Mary Breck" being "of Sherborne" and dying in Medway.

I easily found the death record in the Medway Vital Records book on AmericanAncestors:

The entry for Mary Plimpton's death says:

"[PLIMPTON] Mary, wid., old age, Dec. 13, 1843, a. 92 [wid. Amos, Dec 11, G.R. 1]"

The "G.R.1" in the entry means that there is a graveyard record. Is there one on Find A Grave or another site?

Yep, and it had more information about Mary, including her maiden name, birth date, first husband's name, their marriage date, her marriage date with Amos Plimpton, and her parents names:

I was able to verify all of the information on this death and burial record. Here is her marriage record to Elijah Breck in the Sherborn Vital Records book on AmericanAncestors:

The marriage record in the Sherborn Vital Record book says:

"[PRATT] Mary and Elijah Breck, Jr., Feb. 6, 1792*."

The birth record in the Sherborn Vital Record book says:

"[PRATT] Mary, d. of Gershom and Abigail, May 28, 1750."

So to recap, I have found that Mary (Pratt) (Breck) Plimpton was:

* Born 28 May 1750 in Sherborn, Mass., daughter of Gershom and Abigail (Rice) Pratt.
* Married Elijah Breck, Jr. on 6 February 1792 in Sherborn, Mass.
* As Mary Breck, Married Amos Plimpton on 6 November 1800 in Medfield, Mass.
* Died 11 December 1843 in Medway, Mass. Her gravestone indicates that she was "Mrs. Mary," the "widow of Amos Plimpton."

Elijah Breck, Jr. was:

* Born 19 July 1753 in Sherborn, Mass., the son of Elijah and Sarah (Hill) Breck.
* Married (1) Hannah Prentiss in Sherborn, Mass. on 7 May 1789. Hannah Prentiss died 9 January 1791 in Sherborn, Mass.
* Married Mary Pratt on 6 February 1792 in Sherborn, Mass.
* died 26 June 1795 in Sherborn, Mass.

So the names, dates and places are pretty consistent. I love Massachusetts Vital Record books!

What surprised me was that Mary (Pratt) (Breck) Plimpton survived her second husband for 35 years.

In the will of Amos Plimpton, his beloved wife Mary was bequeathed to be provided, by the children of Amos: "...it is my will that she shall receive annually out of my estate for her support eight cords of good fire wood brought to the door and cut fit for the fire, five Bushells of Indian Corn, five bushells of Rye, one bushell of Matt, one barrell of Cyder, sixty pounds of Pork, fifty pounds of Beef, sixty pounds of good Cheese, thirty pounds of Butter, ten pounds of Flax and five pounds of Sheep's Wool, with a sufficiency of same of all kinds. I also give her all of the furniture which she brought with her when I married her to be at her disposall forever. Also one Cow at her disposal."

Of all of the five Amos Plimpton's children by his first wife, Mary Guild, three died soon after birth. Only Molly Plimpton (1758-1813) and her husband, Amos Kingsbury (1759-1842) and Mercy Plimpton (1772-1850) and her husband, Aaron Smith (1765-1841) survived Amos, and only Amos's daughter Mercy (Plimpton) Smith survived Mary (Pratt) (Breck) Plimpton. I wonder if my 4th great-grandmother Mercy (Plimpton) Smith delivered the yearly support to her step-mother for 35 years until her death? I would like to believe that, but who knows?

I think that I have found a maiden name, a birth date, parents names, the name and vital information for her first husband, and a death date and burial place of Mary (Pratt) (Breck) Plimpton. While she is not my ancestor, she certainly is part of my family history.

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Copyright (c) 2016, Randall J. Seaver

SDGS Program on Saturday, 12 March is on "19th Century Germans to America"

The March 12th program meeting of the San Diego Genealogical Society will be at St. Andrew's Lutheran Church (8350 Lake Murray Blvd., just south of Jackson Drive) starting at 10 a.m.

The program speaker will be Patricia Dintrone on the topic of "19th Century Germans to America: Why They Left, Why They Came."

Patricia Dintrone received her PhD in History from the University of Virginia in 1982 and spent most of her career as a faculty member at San Diego State University, with side trips to UCSD. After her retirement from SDSU she followed her interest in history into the world of genealogy, tracing her family roots back to Germany in the 1600s. Since 2011 she has been a volunteer consultant at the
Family Search Library in Mission Valley. She has taught classes in using FamilySearch.org, accessing microfilm records, and the historical background of immigration, in addition to helping many individual clients discover their roots.

19th Century Germans to America: Why They Left, Why They Came. This talk will examine the many factors that caused German immigrants to leave Germany and settle in the United States from the 1830s to the 1880s. We will focus especially on the interrelationship of forces that encouraged departure from Germany and those that encouraged settlement in the US. Areas that we will consider include not only economic (the most commonly cited reason for emigration/immigration) but also political and religious developments in both countries as well. Although this talk focuses on the German experience, the questions it examines are applicable to any large-scale immigration movement.

The two Saturday morning classes at 9 a.;m. are:

* “Ancestry.com SIG” with Del Ritchhart, Upstairs Classroom.

* “Brickwalls” with Peter Steelquist, Upstairs Classroom #2.

Seating is limited. RSVP to sdgsclasses@gmail.com.

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The Great Barrier Reef -- Post 403 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) While we were in Cairns, we had a day trip out to the Great Barrier Reef on a catamaran to a pontoon platform anchored to the ocean floor and equipped for underwater viewing and snorkeling. Here is the boat:

2) Onboard the pontoon platform on the ocean:

Yep, that's my Linda in the blue sunhat.

3) The underwater viewing area:

The sea was pretty rough on this day and the view of fish, legs and coral was murky.

4) Some people braved the rough seas:

We didn't go in the water. It was difficult getting in and out of the water, the swells were from a cyclone to the east, and the water was murky.

This was disappointing but there was nothing we could do about it. It was just a bad day to go out to the pontoon. Plus the catamaran ride to and from the pontoon was bumpy and some folks got seasick.

Unfortunately, I've lost the memories of all the details of this vacation. 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, March 8, 2016

RootsMagic Can Now Read Family Tree Maker Files Directly - UPDATED

The RootsMagic News email came today, noting that RootsMagic Version 7,1.0.1 (updated today) any can import any Family Tree Maker file (from FTM 5 (?) to FTM 2014) directly - no need for a GEDCOM transfer. This has many benefits, not the least of which is that the Media files get transferred.

Here is the information from the RootsMagic newsletter:

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Since Ancestry's announcement that they were parting ways with their Family Tree Maker software, thousands of FTM users have found a new home in RootsMagic. One of the first questions they have is, "How do I get my data from FTM into RootsMagic?"

Until now, the answer has always been through a GEDCOM file. But GEDCOM files from Family Tree Maker, while mostly effective, were often lacking data and details only found in the original file. Plus it added an extra step in the conversion process.

That's why we're excited to announce the release of RootsMagic 7.1.0.1. In addition to various tweaks and fixes, this update adds the ability to directly import any Family Tree Maker file. In fact, RootsMagic can now import a bigger variety of Family Tree Maker files than any single version of Family Tree Maker itself.

For more information about our new Family Tree Maker direct import, visit our blog.

This is a free update for RootsMagic 7 users. If you haven't already downloaded the update, look for the "Update Available" indicator in the lower right corner of your RootsMagic 7 program screen, and click on it.

If you don't already have RootsMagic 7, you can see what is new at:

http://rootsmagic.com/RootsMagic/WhatsNew.aspx

or order the upgrade at:

http://rootsmagic.com/Store/RootsMagic/

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So does it work? Yes, ~~but ... the tags for Media didn't transfer to Facts.~~

Here is a Person screen for my grandfather from the Family Tree Maker 2014 file, to which I have attached many Ancestry.com records via a sync with my Ancestry Member Tree, I want to import:

As you can see on the screen above, I have 13 sources and 12 media items for the person, and one source and one Media item for most of the Facts for this person.

I updated RootsMagic 7 to Version 7.1.0.1, and clicked on File > Import. Here is the "Import File" screen:

I picked "Family Tree Maker (FTM)" from the list above, and the "Create a new RootsMagic file" window opened. I added a file name:

I clicked "OK" and the file started to download:

When it was finished, the file opened, and I went to my grandfather's profile in RootsMagic:

All of the Media items and sources for my grandfather's name are there. All of the Sources for the Facts are there.

~~However, the Media items that were tagged to the Facts are not there - the Media check is missing in the Fact list.~~

I had 1,138 Media items in my Family Tree Maker 2014 file, and I have 1,138 Media items in the RootsMagic 7 file with 11,438 Media links. They all came across in the import, but did not tag to the Facts.

This is a significant step for RootsMagic 7, but I don't look forward to tagging 1,138 Media items to the Facts in my database. I hope RootsMagic finds a way to tag the Media to the Facts that were tagged in Family Tree Maker.

UPDATED: Well, never mind. Bruce Buzbee commented that:

"Randy, that first screen isn't showing media attached to a fact. It is showing the sources attached to that fact (and the media attached to that source). You need to click the Media tab on that right panel if you want to see any media attached to the fact itself in FTM.

"RootsMagic *will* import and attach media to the same person, event, source, etc. that it was attached to in FTM. "

When I looked at the RootsMagic GEDCOM file that I imported into the Family Tree Maker file back in 2012, I did not have Media attached to Facts. The Media that were in the uploaded FTM file were attached by accepting Ancestry Hints, not through the GEDCOM upload to the FTM file. Now I have over 3,000 Media links attached to Facts in my current RootsMagic database. I forgot about that little detail!

I'm sorry for the non-problem! Thank you Bruce!

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Dear Randy: Will the Ancestry Member Tree "New Sync" Be Like the Current Matching with FamilySearch Family Tree?

A Genea-Musings reader asked that question in email recently, and I had to admit that I was not aware of the process used by LDS church members to match persons, and transfer events, to or from an Ancestry Member Tree and the FamilySearch Family Tree.

I went looking for resources, and quickly found that geneablogger James L. Tanner, and several others, have posted videos on YouTube showing the process. James's video is the most recent and uses the "New Ancestry" screens, so I will share that here:

It is only 11 minutes long and is well worth the time to watch it and learn from it. I watched it full screen so I could see the fine details.

At present, this capability is limited to LDS church members with an LDS account on FamilySearch and an LDS Partner account on Ancestry.com.

The key is to start from the user's Ancestry Member Tree, use the FamilySearch tree icon on the Profile page to activate the FamilySearch options, and go from there. Names, events, dates, places, and sources can be transferred from Ancestry to Family Tree and vice versa. Here is one of the slides in the James Tanner video showing the icon and the options:

So now I know something about the data transfer process. Now to answer the question from my reader:

I think the answer is "Maybe."

Ancestry has said they have not yet created the API (computer process) needed to transfer information to and from Family Tree Maker and RootsMagic starting in 2017 (the "New Sync" process - that's my term!). Ancestry has indicated that the current TreeSync with Family Tree Maker will be discontinued at the end of 2016.

I think it is possible that the same process used to transfer information from Ancestry to or from FamilySearch Family Tree, as described in the James Tanner video above, will be used to transfer information to and from genealogy software programs like Family Tree Maker and RootsMagic.

We will have to wait until Ancestry.com configures their API and RootsMagic and Family Tree Maker work out their programming to accomplish whatever Ancestry comes up with.

Will Ancestry.com will make this process available to all subscribers with a FamilySearch account in order for it to happen for those of us who are not members of the LDS church? I don't know, but I hope they do it soon!

Thank you to my reader, who wishes to be anonymous, for the intriguing question. I learned something today!

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2016 Top 100 Genealogy Websites by GenealogyInTime Magazine

GenealogyInTime Magazine has published their fifth annual Top 100 Genealogy Websites at http://www.genealogyintime.com/articles/top-100-genealogy-websites-of-2016-page01.html.

This is a wonderful service for genealogists the world over. Their measurement criteria is described as:

"Internet traffic can be a tricky thing to measure. It is more than just the number of visitors to a website. Other important considerations include the amount of content consumed by a typical visitor to the website and the amount of time spent at the website. Thus, our rankings are based on a combination of three factors: visitors, content and time. The result is an objective and independent ranking of the top 100 genealogy websites."

The Top 100 genealogy websites for 2016 are on the second page of the article:

For the first time, I think, they have published some of the statistics for some of the websites. for instance, on page 3. For instance, Ancestry has an average of 136,000 daily visitors, while Find A Grave has 39,000 daily visitors. The 10th ranked site, Findmypast UK has 11,000 daily visitors. I was surprised by these numbers - I thought that these numbers would be much higher. If Ancestry has 2 million subscribers, that means that only about 7% of subscribers visit every day.

On pages 3 and 4, there is discussion about the Top 10 websites, and on page 5 is a listing of the Top 10 Free websites.

Page 6 has the Top 10 new additions to the list, and the rising stars. MooseRoots jumped onto the Top 100 list at number 16, which is an amazing accomplishment. FamilyTreeNow jumped from #63 to #17. RootsMagic jumped from #73 to #40.

Page 7 has Genealogy Websites Worth Knowing (including several blogs). I was happy to see Genea-Musings and DearMYRTLE on that list.

There are four genealogy blogs on the Top 100 list:

* Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter at #43
* The Legal Genealogist at #76
* DNAeXplained at #92
* Geneabloggers at #95

There are several genealogy websites that I have not visited and probably should visit, including:

* #37 MyRelatives.com - this looks like a telephone book and address lookup service.
* #93 RecordsBase.com - this looks like a public records site - it took a long time to work.
* #97 Katagogi - this page was blank when I clicked it several times.

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Monday, March 7, 2016

Nobody's Perfect! Correcting My Own Tree Error

We all complain about unsourced and erroneous online family trees, and I must confess that my Ancestry Member Tree is not perfect. I found another mistaken spouse of one of my Ancestry Member Tree persons yesterday, and tried to fix it in my RootsMagic tree. It's useful to review why and how things like this happen, and I want to correct the information in my online tree so that other researchers with this person don't make the same mistake.

I received a Hint for Susan Amelia Newton (1815-????) in my Ancestry Member Tree.

This Hint provided a death record in 1889 for Susan A. Newton Knowlton, born in 1815 to David and Beulah (Johnson) Knowlton. This must be the right Susan, since I knew her parents, David and Beulah (Johnson) Newton from her birth record in 1815 in Worcester, Massachusetts. I also had a Marriage record with Levi Lincoln in 1842 in Leominster, Worcester County, Massachusetts. But her last name is Knowlton in the death record. did she marry again? I searched and easily found a marriage record in 1860, listing her age, birthplace and parents names, with James Munroe Knowlton (1819-1883). I also found birth and death information for James Knowlton. Okay, I've really added to my profile for Susan! I was feeling great.

Here is my profile for Susan Amelia Newton in my Ancestry Member Tree before I added the Knowlton marriage:

Her marriage and death were in Northborough, Massachusetts, which is not far from Worcester.

What about Levi Lincoln? I thought that this Levi Lincoln (1810-1845) was the son of Levi Lincoln (1782-1868) and Penelope Winslow Sever (1786-1872), also born in Worcester, Massachusetts.

At some time in my distant genealogy past, I concluded that the Levi Lincoln born in 1810 was the Levi Lincoln who married Susan Amelia Newton. I knew that Levi Lincoln born in 1810 had died in 1845 and was buried in Worcester, Massachusetts. That was unfortunate for poor Susan, just married in 1842 and her husband died in 1845. Here is the Ancestry Member Tree profile for Levi Lincoln (1810-1845):

Back on the first screen of the Ancestry Hint, there is a Suggested Record for Susan Amelia Knowlton for a Find A Grave entry. Here is the Find A Grave entry for Susan's gravestone in Howard Street Cemetery in Northborough, Massachusetts:

All of the information matches except for the birthplace. And it lists her husband as Levi Lincoln (1814-1849). Here is his Find A Grave entry:

Hmmm. Look at that. It says he was born in 1814 in Woolwich, Sagadohoc County, Maine in 1814, and died in 1849 in Berlin, Massachusetts. And he is buried in the Howard Street Cemetery in Northborough, just like Susan. Their gravestones have the same profile and type face, and may be back-to-back (I can't tell).

I found a death record in the Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1915 that gives his age at death, death date, birthplace, parents names, etc. as shown on the Northborough gravestone.

It is pretty evident to me that I have the wrong Levi Lincoln married to Susan Amelia (Newton) (Lincoln) Knowlton in 1842 in Leominster, Massachusetts in my Ancestry Member Tree.

In my RootsMagic database, I fixed this by disconnecting Susan from the wrong Levi, added the right Levi, with the information from the death record and Find A Grave, added Susan's death record and Find A Grave entry, added Susan's second marriage and her second husband's information, etc.

This is a clear case of same name, right time, and almost the same place. The connection was logical, but it was wrong. This can happen to anyone, and I'm sure it has happened to almost everyone reading this. If it hasn't yet, it will. This is not my first time having to fix a wrong relationship in my family tree.

The right thing to do is to acknowledge the error, fix it, and be more careful in the future. Forgive me, Saint Elizabeth, for I have erred. I will say ten Hail Myrtles and do what I have to do.

In genealogy research, nobody is perfect. It's almost impossible to be perfect. My estimate is that at least 1% of my relationships are incorrect due to my negligence, assumptions, conclusions, mistyping, misunderstanding records, etc. Let s/he who IS perfect cast stones. Let those who have erred accept their imperfection and try to do their best as time goes on.

My task tonight is to fix my Ancestry Member Tree entries for Susan Amelia (Newton) (Lincoln) Knowlton and her first husband, Levi Lincoln (1810-1845) and to add her actual first husband, Levi Lincoln (1814-1849) to my online tree.

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New or Updated Record Collections at FamilySearch.org - February 28 to March 5, 2016

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

As of 6 March 2016, there were 2,075 record collections on FamilySearch (an increase of 4 from last week):

The new or updated collections are:

* New Jersey, State Census, 1855; Browse Images only, no indexed records, ADDED 04 Mar 2016

* New Jersey, State Census, 1865; Browse Images only, no indexed records, ADDED 04 Mar 2016

* Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1934; 1,712,426 indexed records without record images, Updated 04 Mar 2016

* Illinois, Church Marriages, 1805-1985; 9,190 indexed records without record images, ADDED 03 Mar 2016

* Illinois, Civil Marriages, 1833-1889; 8,975 indexed records without record images, ADDED 03 Mar 2016

* Maryland, Church Records, 1668-1995; 137,984 indexed records without record images, Updated 02 Mar 2016

* Denmark Deeds and Mortgages, 1572-1928; Browse Images only, with indexed records, ADDED 01 Mar 2016

* Texas and Arizona Arrivals, 1903-1910; 59,299 indexed records with record images, Updated 01 Mar 2016

* Ohio, Marriages, 1800-1942; 3,567 indexed records without record images, Updated 01 Mar 2016

* BillionGraves Index; 18,780,222 indexed records with record images, Updated 29 Feb 2016

* New York, Ogdensburg Passenger and Crew Lists, 1948-1972; 5,075 indexed records with record images, Updated 29 Feb 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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