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Ancestry.com Content Update from the week of June 12 – 18


Ancestry.com Content Update from the week of June 12 – 18

Approximately 17.6 million names released over the last week. 5 new titles released. 4 titles updated.

Highlights

  • City Directories – 3 new titles adding 55,000 names.
  • Obituaries – update adding 500,000 new names.
  • Family & Local Histories – 2 new titles adding 23,000 names.
  • Newspapers – update, adding 16.7 million names to New York area newspapers.
  • Customer Created Content – 310,000 Message Boards, Trees, and Customer corrections names added.

U.S. Records Collection


Released Last Week

  • Obituary Collection (http://www.ancestry.com/search/obit/) – Updated (504,030 new names added for a total of 53,386,755) – 6/11/2005

Scheduled for this week

  • Ohio Soldiers in WWI
  • SSDI update adding deaths from May.
  • 7 miltary databases from Korean and Vietnam War
  • Florida Divorce Index
  • City Directories rollup

Coming soon

  • Indiana Marriages maintenance update
  • WWI Draft update

U.S. Census Images and Indexes


Released last week

  • No Release Scheduled

Scheduled for this week

  • 1910 Maintenance – fixing a large percentage of image errors.

Coming soon

  • 1790 Maintenance release

U.K. & Ireland Records Collection


Released last week

  • No Release Scheduled

Scheduled for this week

  • 1881 England and Wales – minor maintenance release.
  • Civil Registration – minor maintenance release.
  • Pallot Marriages – image conversion project.

Coming soon

  • Maintenance releases for various census years.

Newspapers


Released last week

  • Obituary Collection (http://www.ancestry.com/search/obit/) – Updated (504,030 new names added for a total of 53,386,755) – 6/11/2005
  • Syracuse Herald (Syracuse, New York) (http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=Newspaper&dbid=8564)– Updated (2,341,668 new names added for a total of 4,657,960 names) – 6/16/2005
  • Syracuse Herald (Syracuse, New York) (http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=Newspaper&dbid=8564)– Updated (12,013,950 new names added for a total of 20,466,964 names) – 6/16/2005

Scheduled for this week

  • More New York papers
  • Obituaries Collection – will continue to update

U.S. Immigration Collection


Released last week

  • No Release Scheduled.

Scheduled for this week

  • No Release Scheduled.

Family and Local Histories


Released last week


Customer Contributed Content


Released last week

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