Ancestry.com Content Update from the week of Aug. 7 - 13

Approximately 5.9 million names released over the last week. 12 new titles released. 6 titles updated.

Highlights

• IFA 58 - Monthly update to Genealogy.com - 4 new million names.
• New Mexico Marriages, 1727-1900 - new, 17,000 names.
• 1800 US Federal Census - update, fixing several errors.
• 1880 US Federal Census - major update, fixing hundreds of errors, unlinked images, and other browse table issues.
• Vital Records books - five new titles from Massachusetts, adding 40,000 names.
• Obituaries - update, adding 300,000 new names.
• Customer Created Content – 1.5 million Message Boards, Trees, RootsWeb Databases, 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 (296,977 new names added for a total of 56,724,532) - 8/8/2005
• New Mexico Marriages, 1727-1900 (http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=7872) - new, 17,032 names. - 8/11/2005

• Vital records of Carver, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1850 (http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=10019) - New (8,800 names) - 8/8/2005
• Vital records of Charlemont, Massachusetts to the year 1850 (http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=10020) - New (8,100 names) - 8/9/2005
• Vital records of Chester, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1850 (http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=10021) - New (12,600 names) - 8/10/2005
• Vital records of Chilmark, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1850 (http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=10022) - New (4,550 names) - 8/11/2005
• Vital records of Dalton, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1850 (http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=10023) - New (3,900 names) - 8/12/2005

Scheduled for this week

• City Directories rollup
• North Carolina Births, Deaths, and Marriages
• North Carolina GPC Titles
• South Carolina Marriages

Coming soon

• Montana Deaths (maintenance)
• Texas Marriage (maintenance)
• Massachusetts Marriage

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U.S. Census Images and Indexes

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Released last week

• 1800 US Federal Census - update, fixing several errors.
• 1880 US Federal Census - major update, fixing hundreds of errors, unlinked images, and other browse table issues.

1) When originally launched, a percentage of 1880 was not linked. This update will link a majority of the missing images.

2) Re-create browse from the index instead of the old Mr. Sid browse.

3) OREM index updated

Scheduled for this week

• 1820 US Federal Census (maintenance)

Coming soon

• Florida State Census

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U.K. & Ireland Records Collection

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Released last week

• No Release Scheduled.

Scheduled for this week

• 1901 England and Wales Census (maintenance)

Coming soon

• England and Wales Civil Registration (FreeBMD update)

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Newspapers

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Released last week

• Obituary Collection (http://www.ancestry.com/search/obit/) - Updated (296,977 new names added for a total of 56,724,532) - 8/8/2005

Scheduled for this week

• Obituaries Collection – will continue to update
• Additional Syracuse New York years

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U.S. Immigration Collection

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Released last week

• No Release.

Scheduled for this week

• New York Petitions for Naturalization update

Coming soon

• Florida Passenger Lists

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Family and Local Histories

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Released last week

• No Release Scheduled.

Scheduled for this week

• No Release Scheduled.

Coming soon

• North Carolina GPC titles

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Customer Contributed Content

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Released last week

• Ancestry/RW Message Boards (http://www.ancestry.com/share/) - (311,560 names added)
• Contributed Trees (AWT/WC) (http://www.ancestry.com/trees/awt/main.htm) - (1,200,078 names added for a total of 395,936,252)
• Customer Corrections - 1880 and 1800 US Federal Census updated.
• RootsWeb User contributed databases - 58,149 records added.