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.

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U.S. Records Collection

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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

• The Titusville, Pa. directory, 1912-1913 : containing a general directory of the citizens, unique street and block directory, classified business directory, a list of city, county and state officers, churches, societies, lodges, etc. (http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=23499) - New (9,850 names) - 6/13/2005
• The Titusville, Pa. directory, 1916 : containing a general directory of the citizens, sixteen years of age and over, unique street and house directory, classified business directory, a list of city, county and state officers, churches, societies, lodges, etc. : also, directories of the boroughs of Grand Valley, Hydetown, and Pleasantville, rural delivery routes out of Titusville, and directories of the townships of Athens, Oil Creek, Rome, Steuben and Troy in Crawford County, Cherrytree, Oil Creek and Plum in Venango County, Eldred and Southwest in Warren County. (http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=23501) - New (11,350 names)- 6/14/2005
• Battle Creek, Albion, Marshall, and Calhoun County Directory, 1897-98 (http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=26081) - New (33,400 records) - 6/17/2005

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

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U.S. Census Images and Indexes

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Released last week

• No Release Scheduled

Scheduled for this week

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

Coming soon

• 1790 Maintenance release

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U.K. & Ireland Records Collection

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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.

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Newspapers

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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

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U.S. Immigration Collection

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Released last week

• No Release Scheduled.

Scheduled for this week

• No Release Scheduled.

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Family and Local Histories

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Released last week

• History of Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Crawford & Gasconade Counties, Missouri : from the earliest time to the present : together with sundry personal, business and professional sketches and numerous family records (http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=23757) - New (19,584 records) - 6/15/2005
• The Town Register, Otisfield, Harrison, Naples and Sebago: 1906 (http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=23757) - New (2,873 records) - 6/16/2005

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Customer Contributed Content

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Released last week

• Ancestry/RW Message Boards (http://www.ancestry.com/share/) - (310,790 names added)
• Contributed Trees (AWT/WC) (http://www.ancestry.com/trees/awt/main.htm) - (Totals unavailable this week)
• Customer Corrections - No corrections added this week.