Monday, July 25, 2005

Ancestry.com Content Update from the week of July 10 - 16

Approximately 3.3 million names released over the last week. 5 new titles released. 5 titles updated.

Highlights

  • 1861 England and Wales Census - major maintenance release, see details below.
  • WWI Draft Cards - maintenance release fixing 250,000 illegible images.
  • Vital Records books - five new titles, adding 100,000 names.
  • Obituaries - update, adding 440,000 new names.
  • Customer Created Content – 2.8 million Message Boards, Trees, and Customer corrections names added.

U.S. Records Collection

Released Last Week

Scheduled for this week

  • City Directories rollup
  • Indiana Marriages
  • North Carolina Births
  • SSDI - June deaths

Coming soon

  • Washington Marriages
  • Delaware Marriages
  • Nebraska Marriages
  • North Carolina Deaths

U.S. Census Images and Indexes

Released last week

  • No Release Scheduled.

Scheduled for this week

  • 1790 Maintenance release
  • 1810 Maintenance

Coming soon

  • Florida State Census

U.K. & Ireland Records Collection

Released last week

  • Majority of missing or mis-linked images fixed.
  • changed piece from 1199 to 1200, also subdistrict
  • changed piece from 1974 to 1975
  • changed piece from 2772 to 2773
  • changed piece from 3459 to 3460, also subdistrict
  • changed piece from 3659 to 3660, also regdistrict & subdistrict
  • changed piece from 4456 to 4457
  • changed piece from 4522 to 4523
  • changed county from Berkshire to Oxfordshire for parishes of Bensington and Kelmscott, also F7

for imagefile BRKRG9_739_742-0256 set parish to Ewelme

  • changed parish of Wakefield to Wokefield
  • changed images BRKRG9_742_744-0299 and BRKRG9_742_744-0300 to Mortimer West End, Hampshire
  • changed Holton to Halton, deleted second dummy desc page
  • moved Shotton, Ewloe Wood, & Saltney from Cheshire to Flintshire
  • changed Caldicote to Caldicott
  • changed Notton to Hooton, deleted second dummy desc page
  • changed Marion Lass to Meirion Lass
  • changed county to Staffordshire for parishes of Colwich, Prestwood, Ramshorn, Stanton (subdist Mayfield), and Wootton
  • changed Colwich to Calwich
  • changed county from Derbyshire to Leicestershire to parish Appleby, ed 6
  • changed county from Derbyshire to Leicestershire for parish Hemington
  • changed county from Dorset to Devon for parishes Ashprington, Berry Pomeroy, Buckfastleigh, Churston Ferrers, Dartington, Dittisham, Kingswear, Staverton, and Totnes

changed county from Durham to Yorkshire for parishes Egglestone Abbey, Gilmonby, Holwick, Hope, Hunderthwaite, Linthorpe, Low Worsall, Mickleton, Scargill, Thorpe

  • changed county from Gloucestershire (and Durham) to Cumberland for vessels in piece 4524
  • changed Morborn, Huntingdonshire to Morborne, Huntingdonshire, deleted second dummy desc page
  • changed St Neot, Huntingdonshire to St Neots, Huntingdonshire
  • changed county from Lancashire to Yorkshire for parishes of Middop, Newsholme, and Paythorne
  • changed county from Lancashire to Cheshire for parishes of Godley, Hattersley, Hollingworth, Latchford, Stayley, Tintwistle
  • changed county from Lincolnshire to Nottinghamshire for parish of West Stockwith
  • changed county from Lincolnshire to Northamptonshire for parishes of Ashton, Pilsgate, and Southorpe (subdistrict of Barnack)
  • changed vessel # to accommodate upcoming county shift
  • changed county from Northamptonshire to Hampshire for vessels in pieces 4483 and 4484
  • changed Sandon, Northumberland to Sandoe, Northumberland
  • changed Wellington, Northumberland to Willington, Northumberland
  • changed county from Rutland to Leicestershire for parishes of Drayton, Great Easton, Nevill Holt
  • changed French and Wellington, Shropshire to Trench Wellington, Shropshire
  • changed Wigton, Shropshire to Hopton, Shropshire
  • changed Lincoln, Shropshire to Lineal, Shropshire
  • changed Henley, Shropshire to Kenley, Shropshire
  • changed parish to Hughley for imagefile SALRG9_1859_1863-0272
  • changed Bramfield, Shropshire to Bromfield, Shropshire, deleted second dummy desc page
  • changed county from Shropshire to Cheshire for parishes Bickley, Bradley, Chidlow, Edge, Larkton, Tushingham
  • changed county from Shropshire to Staffordshire for parishes Mucklestone, Pattingham, Weston Jones
  • moved the parishes of Bodlith, Moelfre, Priddbwll, Rhiwlas Isfoel, Bettisfield, Bronington, Halghton, Tybroughton, Willington to Wales
  • changed county from Shropshire to Denbighshire for parishes of Bodlith, Moelfre, Priddbwll, Rhiwlas Isfoel
  • changed county from Shropshire to Flintshire for parishes of Bettisfield, Bronington, Halghton, Tybroughton, Willington
  • changed Willington, Somerset to Wellington, Somerset
  • changed Stretton, Staffordshire to Shelton, Staffordshire
  • changed county from Staffordshire to Derbyshire for the parishes of Ash, Bearwardcote, Bretby, Burnaston, Castle Gresley, Cauldwell, Coton in the Elms, Drakelow, Hatton, Hoon, Ingleby, Linton, Newhall, Osleston and Thurvaston, Stanton, Sutton on the Hill,
  • changed county from Staffordshire to Shropshire for the parishes of Little Drayton, Rudge, Sutton
  • changed Cransley, Surrey to Cranley, Surrey
  • changed county from Surrey to Hampshire for parish of Yateley
  • changed Northam, Sussex to Horsham, Sussex, deleted second dummy desc page
  • changed county from Wiltshire to Berkshire for parish of West Woodhay
  • changed Sibthorpe, Yorkshire to Tibthorpe, Yorkshire
  • changed Bratton, Yorkshire to Brotton, Yorkshire, deleted second dummy desc page
  • changed Royston, Yorkshire to Roystone, Yorkshire
  • changed county from Yorkshire to Durham for the parishes of Barmpton, Blackwell, Coatham Mundeville, Coniscliffe, Dinsdale, Great Aycliffe, Great Burdon, Haughton le Skerne, Heighington, Houghton le Side, Hurworth, Middleton St George, Morton Palms, Neash
  • changed RegDistrict to Malton and SubDist to Hovingham for Brawdy, Yorkshire, ed 3, piece 3627
  • changed RegDistrict to Malton and SubDist to Hovingham for Butterwick, Yorkshire, ed 3, piece 3627
  • changed RegDistrict to Malton and SubDist to Hovingham for Barton le Street, Yorkshire, ed 3, piece 3627
  • changed parish to Much Dewchurch for images HEFRG9_1815_1818-0246 to HEFRG9_1815_1818-0254
  • changed Rhuallt, Denbighshire to Rhydallt, Denbighshire
  • changed Rhosymedre, Denbighshire to Ruabon, Denbighshire, deleted second dummy desc page
  • changed Christyonedd Kenrick, Denbighshire to Ruabon, Denbighshire
  • changed Christyonedd Kenrick and Ruabon, Denbighshire to Ruabon, Denbighshire, deleted second dummy desc page
  • changed parish to Dynhyllisa for image DENRG9_4279_4283-0394
  • changed Anglewrwm, Denbighshire to Morton Anglecorum, Denbighshire
  • changed ed from 7 to 8 for Ruabon, Denbighshire
  • changed parish from Rhosllanerchrugog to Moreton Above for image DENRG9_4279_4283-0745
  • changed county from Merionethshire to Denbighshire for the parishes of Llanarmon, Llantysilio, Moelfre
  • moved parish of Aylburton, Wales to England
  • changed county from Monmouthshire to Gloucestershire for the parish of Aylburton
  • changed RegDistrict to Malton and SubDist to Hovingham for Yorkshire, ed 1 and ed 2, piece 3627

Scheduled for this week

  • No Release Scheduled.

Coming soon

  • 1901 Maintenance release.

Newspapers

Released last week

  • Obituary Collection (http://www.ancestry.com/search/obit/) - Updated (438,240 new names added for a total of 55,435,410) - 7/9/2005

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

  • No Release Scheduled.

Customer Contributed Content

Released last week

  • Ancestry/RW Message Boards (http://www.ancestry.com/share/) - (331,750 names added)
  • Contributed Trees (AWT/WC) (http://www.ancestry.com/trees/awt/main.htm) - (2,459,624 names added for a total of 390,745,326)
  • Customer Corrections - No new corrections added this week.

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Monday, July 18, 2005

Ancestry.com Content Update from the week of July 3 - 9

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

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


Scheduled for this week

  • 1861 England and Wales - major maintenance release.

Coming soon

  • 1901 Maintenance release.

Newspapers

Released last week

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

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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Wednesday, July 13, 2005

Ancestry.com Content Update from the week of June 26 - July 2

Approximately 3.7 million names released over the last week. 10 new titles released. 10 titles updated.

Highlights

  • World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 - update, adding 1.3 million new names.
  • Korean War Prisoners of War, 1950-1954 - new, adding 9,000 names.
  • Korean Conflict Death Index - update, 145,000 names.
  • U.S. Army Personnel and Dependent Casualties, 1961-1981 - new, adding 300,000 names.
  • Panama Canal Zone, Gorgas Hospital Mortuary Records, 1906-1991 - new, adding 26,000 names.
  • Vietnam War, Awards and Decorations of Honor, 1965-1972 - new, adding 80,000 names.
  • Vietnam War, Casualties Returned Alive, 1962-1979 - new, adding 800 names.
  • Vietnam Casualty Index - updated, 116,000 names.
  • Ohio Soldiers in WWI, 1917-1918 - updated, added images, no new names.
  • 1870 United States Federal Census - maintenance update fixing several thousand image errors.
  • Pallot's Marriage Index for England: 1780 - 1837 - update, moving from Mr. Sid to J2K images (our last db on Mr. Sid). No new names.
  • City Directories - 4 new titles adding 40,000 new names in Pennsylvania.
  • Obituaries - update adding 800,000 new names.
  • Family & Local Histories – 1 new title adding 12,000 names.
  • Customer Created Content – 870,000 Message Boards, Trees, and Customer corrections names added.

U.S. Records Collection

Released Last Week

Scheduled for this week

  • City Directories rollup
  • Great Migration update

Coming soon

  • Indiana Marriages maintenance update

U.S. Census Images and Indexes

Released last week

Scheduled for this week

  • 1790 Maintenance release

Coming soon

  • Florida State Census

U.K. & Ireland Records Collection

Released last week

  • Pallot's Marriage Index for England: 1780 - 1837 (http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=5967) - update, moving from Mr. Sid to J2K images (our last db on Mr. Sid). This allows us to completely shut down the Mr. Sid hardware and code base, ending over a year of effort to migrate all Mr. Sid images. No new names - 6/30/2005
  • Yorkshire, England: Parish Records (http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=8020) - update, adding the parishes of Ledsham-1539-1812, Thornton-Lonsdale-1812, Oswaldkirk-1538-1837, StMary-Castlegate-1705, StMary-Castlegate-1837. 635,450 total names - 6/30/2005

Scheduled for this week

  • 1881 England and Wales - minor maintenance release.
  • Civil Registration - minor maintenance release.

Coming soon

  • Maintenance releases for various census years.

Newspapers

Released last week

  • No Release Scheduled.

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

  • Great Migration update.

Coming soon

  • New York Petitions for Naturalization

Family and Local Histories

Released last week

Customer Contributed Content

Released last week

  • Ancestry/RW Message Boards (http://www.ancestry.com/share/) - (317,210 names added)
  • Contributed Trees (AWT/WC) (http://www.ancestry.com/trees/awt/main.htm) - (534,702 names added for a total of 387,227,155)
  • Customer Corrections - 1860 US Federal Census and 1900 US Federal Census updated. Approx. 15,000 corrected names added.

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Wednesday, July 06, 2005

Texas - This Month's Featured State

The first complete list of every birth available in Texas from 1903 to 1997 – plus marriages and divorces - was released in June 2005.

Roughly 70 million new Texas names from the following new databases:

Texas Births 1903 – 1997 51.3 million names (Database ID 8781)
Texas Marriages 1966 – 2002 12.3 million names (DBID 8795)
Texas Divorces 1968 – 2002 6 million names (DBID 8794)

Texas Birth Index

Keyed Fields:

· Surname
· Given Name and Middle
· County
· Birth Date
· Sex
· Parent’s Surname
· Parent’s Given and Middle Name
· Second Parent’s Surname
· Second Parent’s Given and Middle Name
· Birth Certificate Number

Number of Records: 17,102,286
Number of Names: TBD

Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997 – Online Description

This database is an index to over 15 million births recorded in Texas between 1903 and 1997. Information contained in this index includes child's full name, sex, birth date, and county of birth. Some records also contain the full names of both parents and some records provide the birth certificate number. With the information provided in this index, you may be able to obtain a copy of a birth certificate. If possible, it is important that you do this because oft times more information is provided in an original record than is provided in its index. For information on how to order a copy of a birth certificate, visit the "http://www.tdh.state.tx.us/" Texas Department of State Health Services website.

Beginning in 1903, with mandatory recording of births and deaths, copies of county records are maintained at the Bureau of Vital Statistics, Texas Department of Health, 1100 West 49th Street, Austin, Texas 78756. Statewide indexes were microfilmed by the Texas State Library and copies are additionally available at several genealogical libraries. The birth index covers 1903-76 and is alphabetized by year. The Genealogy Section of the Texas State Library provides limited correspondence service by checking indexes for a particular name for a small fee. If a birth or death record is not found at the state level, it is prudent to check the proper municipal or county office.

Probated or delayed birth registrations were sometimes submitted to the respective county court. These were then forwarded to the State Bureau of ital Statistics. Microfilm indexes to delayed birth records include Texas residents born elsewhere, many of whom were seeking Social Security registration. The bureau ended delayed birth registration in 1959.

Taken from Texas, Ancestry's Red Book by Wendy L. Elliott, edited by Alice Eichholz. (Salt Lake City: Ancestry, 1992).

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Tuesday, July 05, 2005

Ancestry.com Content Update from the week of June 19 - 25

Approximately 2.9 million names released over the last week. 6 new titles released. 7 titles updated.

Highlights

  • SSDI - update adding deaths from May, 110,000 names.
  • UK Newspapers - maintenance update, fixing a county/country search problem.
  • 1910 US Census - maintenance update fixing several thousand image errors in 15 states.
  • Obituaries - update adding 500,000 new names.
  • Family & Local Histories – 5 new titles adding 30,000 names.
  • Customer Created Content – 600,000 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 54,210,067) - 6/18/2005
  • Social Security Death Index (http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=3693) - update adding deaths from May, 110,001 names.

Scheduled for this week

  • Ohio Soldiers in WWI
  • 7 military databases from Korean and Vietnam War
  • City Directories rollup
  • WWI Draft update

Coming soon

  • Indiana Marriages maintenance update

U.S. Census Images and Indexes

Released last week

  • 1910 Maintenance - maintenance update fixing several thousand image errors. See details below:

Rolls that were updated with their corresponding state T624_4 AL T624_43 AR T624_46 AR T624_47 AR T624_49 AR T624_51 AR T624_62 AR T624_69 CA T624_70 CA T624_71 CA T624_72 CA T624_73 CA T624_74 CA T624_75 CA T624_76 CA T624_77 CA T624_78 CA T624_83 CA T624_160 FL T624_161 FL T624_163 FL T624_164 FL T624_165 FL T624_167 FL T624_169 FL T624_186 GA T624_236 IL T624_246 IL T624_480 KY T624_496 KY T624_672 MI T624_674 MI T624_676 MI T624_683 MI T624_780 MO T624_782 MO T624_791 MO T624_795 MO T624_797 MO T624_808 MO T624_816 MO T624_820 MO T624_1110 NC T624_1111 NC T624_1112 NC T624_1114 NC T624_1119 NC T624_1124 NC T624_1126 NC T624_1129 NC T624_1133 NC T624_1135 NC T624_1136 NC T624_1137 NC T624_1194 OH T624_1230 OH T624_1250 OK T624_1268 OK T624_1270 OK T624_1273 OK T624_1274 OK T624_1276 OK T624_1277 OK T624_1286 OR T624_1292 PA T624_1331 PA T624_1349 PA T624_1350 PA T624_1358 PA T624_1364 PA T624_1366 PA T624_1372 PA T624_1392 PA T624_1393 PA T624_1397 PA T624_1405 PA T624_1408 PA T624_1414 PA T624_1417 PA T624_1420 PA T624_1426 PA T624_1434 PA T624_1435 PA T624_1584 TX T624_1621 VA T624_1622 VA T624_1623 VA T624_1624 VA T624_1625 VA T624_1626 VA T624_1627 VA T624_1628 VA T624_1628 VA T624_1629 VA T624_1630 VA T624_1631 VA T624_1632 VA T624_1633 VA T624_1634 VA T624_1635 VA T624_1637 VA T624_1639 VA T624_1640 VA T624_1641 VA T624_1644 VA T624_1645 VA T624_1647 VA T624_1649 VA T624_1650 VA T624_1651 VA

Scheduled for this week

  • No Release Scheduled

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 54,210,067) - 6/18/2005

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.

Coming soon

  • New York Petitions for Naturalization
  • Great Migration

Family and Local Histories

Released last week

Customer Contributed Content

Released last week

  • Ancestry/RW Message Boards (http://www.ancestry.com/share/) - (310,990 names added)
  • Contributed Trees (AWT/WC) (http://www.ancestry.com/trees/awt/main.htm) - (306,526 names added for a total of 386,692,453)
  • Customer Corrections - No corrections added this week.

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