Ancestry.com Update - July 3-9, 2005
Highlights
- City Directories - two new titles, adding 30,000 names.
- Newspapers - update, three titles in New York, 11.4 million names.
- England & Wales Civil Registration Death Index - maintenance, removing confusing duplicate database. No new names.
- Obituaries - update, adding 450,000 new names.
- Family & Local Histories – three new titles, adding 18,000 names.
- Customer Created Content – 1.3 million Message Boards, Trees, and Customer corrections names added.
U.S. Records Collection
Released Last Week
- Obituary Collection (http://www.ancestry.com/search/obit/) - Updated (457,335 new names added for a total of 55,084,650) - 7/2/2005
- Battle Creek and Marshall city directories : with Albion village directory, including the villages of Athens, Augusta, Bedford, Bellevue, Burlington, Ceresco, Climax, and Homer, for 1883 : containing an alphabetically arranged list of business firms and private citizens, a classified list of all trades, professions and pursuits, and miscellaneous directory of city, village and county officers, public and private schools, churches, banks, etc. (http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=24462) - New (16,200 names) - 7/5/2005
- The town register, Islesboro, Castine, Penobscot, Brooksville, 1906 (http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=25992) - New (12,300 names) - 7/6/2005
Scheduled for this week
- City Directories rollup
- Indiana Marriages
- WWI maintenance release
Coming soon
- North Carolina Births
- SSDI - June deaths
- Washington Marriages
- Delaware Marriages
U.S. Census Images and Indexes
Released last week
- No Release Scheduled.
Scheduled for this week
- 1790 Maintenance release
Coming soon
- Florida State Census
- 1810 Maintenance
U.K. & Ireland Records Collection
Released last week
- England and Wales Civil Registration Death Index: 1984-2002 (http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=5967) - maintenance update collapsing two similar database into one single db. This will reduce considerable confusion for the customer. No new names. - 7/8/2005
- The Local records, or, Historical register of remarkable events, which have occurred in Northumberland & Durham, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Berwick-upon-Tweed (http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=29673) - New (7,174 names) - 7/9/2005
Scheduled for this week
- 1861 England and Wales - major maintenance release.
Coming soon
- 1901 Maintenance release.
Newspapers
Released last week
- Obituary Collection (http://www.ancestry.com/search/obit/) - Updated (457,335 new names added for a total of 55,084,650) - 7/2/2005
- Post Standard (Syracuse, New York) (http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=8130) - Updated (3,538 new names added) - 7/7/2005
- Syracuse Herald (Syracuse, New York) (http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=8564) - Updated (4,769,956 new names added) - 7/7/2005
- Syracuse Herald Journal (Syracuse, New York) (http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=8565) - Updated (6,624,112 new names added) - 7/7/2005
Scheduled for this week
- Obituaries Collection – will continue to update
U.S. Immigration Collection
Released last week
- No Release Scheduled.
Scheduled for this week
- No Release Scheduled.
Coming soon
- New York Petitions for Naturalization
Family and Local Histories
Released last week
- The seigneurie of Alainville on Lake Champlain : address read at the annual meeting of the New York Branch of the Order of Colonial Lords of Manors in America, held in the city of New York, April 19th, 1929. (http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=25968) - New (612 names) - 7/6/2005
- Fifteen years ago, or, The patriotism of Will County : designed to preserve the names and memory of Will County soldiers, both officers and privates, both living and dead : to tell something of what they did, and of what they suffered, in the great struggle to preserve our nationality. (http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=27721) - New (10,132 names) - 7/8/2005
- The Local records, or, Historical register of remarkable events, which have occurred in Northumberland & Durham, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Berwick-upon-Tweed (http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=29673) - New (7,174 names) - 7/9/2005
Customer Contributed Content
Released last week
- Ancestry/RW Message Boards (http://www.ancestry.com/share/) - (322,910 names added)
- Contributed Trees (AWT/WC) (http://www.ancestry.com/trees/awt/main.htm) - (1,058,547 names added for a total of 388,285,702)
- Customer Corrections - No new corrections added this week.
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