Ancestry.com Content Update from the week of Oct. 23 - 29

Approximately 29 million names released over the last week. 9 new titles released. over 20,000 titles updated.

Highlights

• 1851 England and Wales Census - new, 17.7 million new names.
• Family & Local Histories - major maintenance update adding 500,000 previously missing pages to the collection, approx. 8.75 million new names to 20,000 previously released titles.
• Obituaries - update, adding 1.2 million new names.
• Vital Records books - five new titles from Massachusetts, adding 43,000 new names.
• Member Contributed Content – 1.4 million Message Boards, Trees, RootsWeb Databases, and Customer corrections names added.

All titles released this week.

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U.S. Records Collection

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Released Last Week

• Obituary Collection (http://www.ancestry.com/search/obit/) - Updated (1,270,005 new names added for a total of 61,528,830) - 10/29/2005

• Vital records of Middlefield, Massachusetts to the year 1850 (http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=10081) - New (6,700 names) - 10/24/2005
• Vital records of Middleton, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849 (http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=10082) - New (7,150 names) - 10/25/2005
• Vital records of Milford, Massachusetts to the year 1850 (http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=10083) - New (18,700 names) - 10/26/2005
• Vital records of Millbury, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849 (http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=10084) - New (7,750 names) - 10/27/2005
• Vital records of Montgomery, Massachusetts to the year 1850 (http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=10085) - New (3,000 names) - 10/28/2005

Scheduled for this week

• Five more Massachusetts vital records books
• Several state vitals maintenance releases

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U.S. Census Images and Indexes

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Released last week

• No Release Scheduled.

Scheduled for this week

• New York State Census

Coming soon

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

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U.K. & Ireland Records Collection

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Released last week

• England Census (http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=8860) - new (16,415,951 names) - 10/25/2005
• Wales Census (http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=8861) - new (1,167,814 names) - 10/25/2005
• Channel Islands Census (http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=8862) - new (89,973 names) - 10/25/2005
• Isle of Man Census (http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=8863) - new (52,146 names) - 10/25/2005

Scheduled for this week

• No Release Scheduled.

Coming soon

• 1881 England and Wales Census (maintenance)
• 1891 England and Wales Census (maintenance)
• Yorkshire Parish records update

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Newspapers

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Released last week

• Obituary Collection (http://www.ancestry.com/search/obit/) - Updated (1,270,005 new names added for a total of 61,528,830) - 10/29/2005

Scheduled for this week

• Obituaries Collection – will continue to update

Coming soon

• Major newspaper 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
• 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

• Additional ProQuest Family & Local History titles.

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Member Contributed Content

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Released last week

• Ancestry/RW Message Boards (http://www.ancestry.com/share/) - (290,850 names added)
• Contributed Trees (AWT/WC) (http://www.ancestry.com/trees/awt/main.htm) - (992,051 names added for a total of 406,452,743)
• Customer Corrections - No corrections added.
• RootsWeb Member Contributed Databases (http://www.rootsweb.com) - 116,465 records added.