Ancestry.com Content Update from the week of Sept. 25 - Oct. 1

Approximately 1.7 million names released over the last week. 5 new titles released. 4 titles updated.

Highlights

• Obituaries - update, adding 415,000 new names.
• Vital Records books - five new titles from Massachusetts, adding 53,000 new names.
• Member Contributed Content – 1.2 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 (415,455 new names added for a total of 59,874,210) - 9/24/2005

• Vital records of Holden, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=10057) - New (11,650 names) - 9/26/2005
• Vital records of Hubbardston, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=10058) - New (11,100 names) - 9/27/2005
• Vital records of Leominster, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=10059) - New (18,200 names) - 9/28/2005
• Vital records of Heath, Massachusetts to the year 1850 (http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=10060) - New (6,900 names) - 9/29/2005
• Vital records of Hanson, Massachusetts to the year 1850 (http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=10061) - New (5,300 names) - 9/30/2005

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

• 1871 England and Wales Census (maintenance)
• England and Wales Civil Registration
• Oxford Alumni

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Newspapers

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Released last week

• Obituary Collection (http://www.ancestry.com/search/obit/) - Updated (415,455 new names added for a total of 59,874,210) - 9/24/2005

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
• Ships Photos

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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/) - (283,920 names added)
• Contributed Trees (AWT/WC) (http://www.ancestry.com/trees/awt/main.htm) - (929,129 names added for a total of 401,403,136)
• Customer Corrections - No corrections added.
• RootsWeb Member Contributed Databases (http://www.rootsweb.com) - 9,657 records added.