Ancestry.com Content Update from the week of Oct. 30 - Nov. 5

Approximately 3 million names released over the last week. 5 new titles released. 6 titles updated.

Highlights

• Ohio Deaths, 1958-2000 - updated, adding 330,000 new names and fixing several errors.
• Minnesota Death Index, 1908-2002 - maintenance update, fixing searching on this database.
• Obituaries - update, adding 1.65 million new names.
• Vital Records books - five new titles from Massachusetts, adding 235,000 new names.
• Member Contributed Content – 800,000 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

• Obituary Collection (http://www.ancestry.com/search/obit/) - Updated (1,654,717 new names added for a total of 63,183,547) - 10/29/2005

• Ohio Deaths, 1958-2000 (http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=5763) - updated (328,048 new names for a total of 4,368,823) - 10/31/2005
• Minnesota Death Index, 1908-2002 (http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=7316) - updated, fixing searching on this database, no new names - 11/2/2005

• Vital records of Nantucket, Massachusetts to the year 1850 (http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=10086) - New (144,500 names) - 10/31/2005
• Vital records of New Ashford, Massachusetts to the year 1850 (http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=10087) - New (1,950 names) - 11/1/2005
• Vital records of New Bedford, Massachusetts to the year 1850 (http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=10089) - New (67,000 names) - 11/2/2005
• Vital records of New Braintree, Massachusetts to the year 1850 (http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=10090) - New (7,900 names) - 11/3/2005
• Vital records of Montgomery, Massachusetts to the year 1850 (http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=10091) - New (14,050 names) - 11/4/2005

Scheduled for this week

• Completion of the WWI Draft collection.
• Five more Massachusetts vital records books

Coming soon

• Several 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

• No Release Scheduled.

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 (1,654,717 new names added for a total of 63,183,547) - 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/) - (no report)
• Contributed Trees (AWT/WC) (http://www.ancestry.com/trees/awt/main.htm) - (745,321 names added for a total of 407,198,064)
• Customer Corrections - 200 corrections added.
• RootsWeb Member Contributed Databases (http://www.rootsweb.com) - 45,219 records added.