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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