Ancestry.com Content Update from the week of Sept. 18 - 24

Approximately 954 million released over the last week. 8 new titles released. 9 titles updated.

Highlights

• U.S. Phone and Address Directories, 1993-2002 - new/updated, 862 million names. Biggest one-day release in the history of Ancestry.com.
• One World Tree - update, 90 million names, adding World Family Tree and updating Ancestry World Tree names.
• Social Security Death Index - update, 110,000 names, adding deaths from August.
• Japanese Americans Relocated During World War II - new, 110,000 names.
• Massachusetts Marriages, 1633-1850 - new, 820,000 names.
• North Carolina Birth Index, 1800-2000 - updated, no new names, maintenance release.
• South Dakota Death Index, 1905-1955 - updated, no new names, maintenance release.
• Obituaries - update, adding 380,000 new names.
• Vital Records books - five new titles from Massachusetts, adding 125,000 new names.
• Member Contributed Content – 450,000 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

• U.S. Phone and Address Directories, 1993-2002 (http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=7339) - new/updated (862,075,660 names. As part of this release we de-published the previous US Phone and Address Directories and merged them into this single database - 9/23/2005
• Japanese Americans Relocated During World War II (http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=8918) - new (109,377 names). - 9/23/2005
• Social Security Death Index (http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=3693) - new (110,791 names). - 9/24/2005
• Massachusetts Marriages, 1633-1850 (http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=7853) - new (820,711 names). - 9/23/2005
• North Carolina Birth Index, 1800-2000 (http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=8783) - update, no new names, maintenace release removing death records from database. - 9/23/2005
• South Dakota Death Index, 1905-1955 (http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=8659) - update, no new names, maintenace release correcting county of death errors. - 9/23/2005

• Obituary Collection (http://www.ancestry.com/search/obit/) - Updated (382,770 new names added for a total of 59,458,755) - 9/17/2005

• Vital records of Framingham, Massachusetts to the year 1850 (http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=10052) - New (23,450 names) - 9/19/2005
• Vital records of Groton, Massachusetts, to the year 1849 (http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=10053) - New (27,650 names) - 9/20/2005
• Vital records of Greenfield, Massachusetts to the year 1850 (http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=10054) - New (14,700 names) - 9/21/2005
• Vital records of Haverhill, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849 (http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=10055) - New (41,250 names) - 9/22/2005
• Vital records of Grafton, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=10056) - New (18,550 names) - 9/23/2005

Scheduled for this week

• Five more Massachusetts vital records books

Coming soon

• North Carolina Deaths, and Marriages (maintenance update)
• South Carolina Marriages (maintenance update)

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U.S. Census Images and Indexes

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Released last week

• No Release Scheduled.

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

• No Release Scheduled.

Scheduled for this week

• No Release Scheduled.

Coming soon

• 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 (382,770 new names added for a total of 59,458,755) - 9/17/2005

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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Member Contributed Content

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Released last week

• Ancestry/RW Message Boards (http://www.ancestry.com/share/) - (274,380 names added)
• Contributed Trees (AWT/WC) (http://www.ancestry.com/trees/awt/main.htm) - (171,553 names added for a total of 400,474,007)
• Customer Corrections - Corrections added for SSDI (less than 100).
• RootsWeb Member Contributed Databases (http://www.rootsweb.com) - 3,800 records added.