Ancestry.com Content Update from the week of Nov. 6 - 12

Approximately 30.3 million names released over the last week. 9 new titles released. 5 titles updated.

Highlights

• World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 - updated, complete, adding 18.8 million new names.
• WWI, WWII, and Korean War Casualty Listings - new, 138,000 names.
• U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946 - new, 8.4 million names.
• World War II Prisoners of War, 1941-1946 - new, 143,000 names.
• New York State Census Collection - new, adding 509,000 names.
• Obituaries - update, adding 669,000 new names.
• Vital Records books - five new titles from Massachusetts, adding 232,000 new names.
• Member Contributed Content – 1.4 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 (668,325 new names added for a total of 63,851,872) - 11/12/2005

• World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 (http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=6482) - updated (18,802,216 new names for a total of 38,387,110) - 11/11/2005
• WWI, WWII, and Korean War Casualty Listings (http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=8853) - new, 137,572 names - 11/11/2005
• U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946 (http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=8939) - new, 8,369,212 names - 11/11/2005
• World War II Prisoners of War, 1941-1946 (http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=8919) - new, 143,374 names - 11/11/2005
• New York State Census Collection (http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=8940) - new, 509,164 names - 11/11/2005

• Vital records of Newbury, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849 (http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=10092) - New (66,050 names) - 11/7/2005
• Vital records of Newton, Massachusetts to the year 1850 (http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=10094) - New (25,800 names) - 11/8/2005
• Vital records of Vital records of Newburyport, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849 (http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=10093) - New (63,550 names) - 11/9/2005
• Vital records of Marblehead, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849 (http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=10095) - New (65,600 names) - 11/10/2005
• Vital records of Mansfield, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=10097) - New (11,300 names) - 11/11/2005

Scheduled for this week

• Several maintenance updates to vital records
• 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

• New York State Census Collection (http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=6482) - new, adding 509,164 names - 11/11/2005

Scheduled for this week

• No Release Scheduled.

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

• 1851 England and Wales Census (maintenance)
• 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 (668,325 new names added for a total of 63,851,872) - 11/12/2005

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, estimated 500,000 for last two weeks)
• Contributed Trees (AWT/WC) (http://www.ancestry.com/trees/awt/main.htm) - (824,560 names added for a total of 408,022,624)
• Customer Corrections - 1,131 corrections added.
• RootsWeb Member Contributed Databases (http://www.rootsweb.com) - 35,445 records added.