Ancestry.com Content Update from the week of Sept. 4 - 10

Approximately 5.9 million names released over the last week. 6 new titles released. 7 titles updated.

Highlights

• IFA 59 - new, 4 million names added to G.com
• Obituaries - update, adding 400,000 new names.
• Vital Records books - four new titles from Massachusetts, adding 175,000 new names.
• Customer Created Content – 1.3 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 (418,335 new names added for a total of 58,667,235) - 9/3/2005

• Vital records of Dover, Massachusetts to the year 1850 (http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=10041) - New (5,050 names) - 9/6/2005
• The old records of the town of Fitchburgh, Massachusetts (http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=10042) - New (152,400 names) - 9/7/2005
• Vital records of Essex, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849 (http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=10043) - New (4,200 names) - 9/8/2005
• Vital records of Edgartown, Massachusetts to the year 1850 (http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=10044) - New (13,600 names) - 9/9/2005

Scheduled for this week

• Five more Massachusetts vital records books

Coming soon

• North Carolina Births, Deaths, and Marriages (maintenance update)
• Texas Marriage (maintenance)
• American Battle Monuments Index

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U.S. Census Images and Indexes

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Released last week

• No release last week

Coming soon

• 1820 US Federal Census (maintenance)
• 1830 US Federal Census (maintenance)
• New York 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

• London Metropolitan Archives
  

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 (418,335 new names added for a total of 58,667,235) - 9/3/2005

Scheduled for this week

• 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.

Coming soon

• New York Passenger Lists update

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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

• No titles planned for the next month.

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Genealogy.com

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Released last week

• IFA 59, approx. 4 million new names.

• 10617 GL - US Western States, Pacific Territories, and Panama Canal Zone Census Index (1930) [UPDATE OF EXISTING TITLE]California (added)
• 10692 GL - South Dakota - Marriages 1905-1949
• 10693 IPR - Texas: Galveston - Passenger Lists
• 867 WFT - 167 1mm
• 868 WFT - 168 1mm

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Customer Contributed Content

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Released last week

• Ancestry/RW Message Boards (http://www.ancestry.com/share/) - (281,720 names added)
• Contributed Trees (AWT/WC) (http://www.ancestry.com/trees/awt/main.htm) - (1,012,254 names added for a total of 399,556,380)
• Customer Corrections - No corrections added this week.
• RootsWeb User Contributed Databases (http://www.rootsweb.com) - 771 records added.