Ancestry.com Content Update from the week of Sept. 11 - 17

Approximately 125.5 million names released over the last week. 6 new titles released. 5 titles updated.

Highlights

• 1920 US Federal Census - new/updated, 107 million names with 17 million alternate names from the original head of household index. Biggest one-day release in the history of Ancestry.com.
• Obituaries - update, adding 400,000 new names.
• Vital Records books - five new titles from Massachusetts, adding 52,000 new names.
• Customer Created Content – 1 million Message Boards, Trees, RootsWeb Databases, and Customer corrections names added.
• Ancestry World Tree and RootsWeb WorldConnect passed the 400 million name mark last week.

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U.S. Records Collection

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Released Last Week

• 1920 US Federal Census (http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=7903) - new/updated (107,409,047 names, with 17,306,072 alternates). - 9/15/2005
• Obituary Collection (http://www.ancestry.com/search/obit/) - Updated (394,387 new names added for a total of 59,044,245) - 9/11/2005

• Concord, Massachusetts : births, marriages, and deaths, 1635-1850 (http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=10046) - New (25,050 names) - 9/12/2005
• Vital records of Georgetown, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849 (http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=10047) - New (4,300 names) - 9/13/2005
• Vital records of Gill, Massachusetts, to the year 1850 (http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=10048) - New (4,600 names) - 9/14/2005
• Vital records of Gardner, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849 (http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=10049) - New (6,650 names) - 9/15/2005
• Vital records of Granville, Massachusetts to the year 1850 (http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=10050) - New (11,550 names) - 9/16/2005

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

• 1920 US Federal Census (http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=7903) - new/updated (107,409,047 names, with 17,306,072 alternates). - 9/15/2005

Scheduled for this week

• 1920 Maintenance update.

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

• London Metropolitan Archives
  

Scheduled for this week

• England and Wales Civil Registration
  

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Newspapers

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Released last week

• Obituary Collection (http://www.ancestry.com/search/obit/) - Updated (394,387 new names added for a total of 59,044,245) - 9/11/2005

Scheduled for this week

• Obituaries Collection – will continue to update
• 28 Newspaper titles

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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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Customer Contributed Content

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Released last week

• Ancestry/RW Message Boards (http://www.ancestry.com/share/) - (295,490 names added)
• Contributed Trees (AWT/WC) (http://www.ancestry.com/trees/awt/main.htm) - (746,000 names added for a total of 400,302,454)
• Customer Corrections - No corrections added this week.
• RootsWeb User Contributed Databases (http://www.rootsweb.com) - 2,032 records added.