Ancestry.com Content Update from the week of Oct. 2 - 8

Approximately 2 million names released over the last week. 5 new titles released. 4 titles updated.

Highlights

• Obituaries - update, adding 390,000 new names.
• Vital Records books - five new titles from Massachusetts, adding 40,000 new names.
• Member Contributed Content – 1.7 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 (384,615 new names added for a total of 60,258,825) - 10/8/2005

• Vital records of the town of Halifax, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849 (http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=10063) - New (11,000 names) - 10/3/2005
• Vital records of Great Barrington, Massachusetts to the year 1850 (http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=10064) - New (4,250 names) - 10/4/2005
• Vital records of Holliston, Massachusetts to the year 1850 (http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=10066) - New (17,700 names) - 10/5/2005
• Vital records of Hinsdale, Massachusetts to the year 1850 (http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=10067) - New (4,750 names) - 10/6/2005
• Vital records of Hull, Massachusetts to the year 1850 (http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=10068) - New (3,550 names) - 10/7/2005

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)
• Oxford Alumni

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Newspapers

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Released last week

• Obituary Collection (http://www.ancestry.com/search/obit/) - Updated (384,615 new names added for a total of 60,258,825) - 10/8/2005

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/) - (270,400 names added)
• Contributed Trees (AWT/WC) (http://www.ancestry.com/trees/awt/main.htm) - (1,406,843 names added for a total of 402,809,979)
• Customer Corrections - No corrections added.
• RootsWeb Member Contributed Databases (http://www.rootsweb.com) - 1,629 records added.