Ancestry.com Content Update from the week of Nov. 20 - 26

Approximately 1.8 million names released over the last week. 3 new titles released. 4 titles updated.

Highlights

• Obituaries - update, adding 450,000 new names.
• Vital Records books - three new titles from Massachusetts, adding 30,000 new names.
• Member Contributed Content – 1.3 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 (452,265 new names added for a total of 64,829,092) - 11/26/2005

• Vital Register of the deaths in Northampton, from the first settlement of the town in 1653, to August 1824 (http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=10104) - New (3,900 names) - 11/21/2005
• Vital records of Northborough, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1850 (http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=10105) - New (7,550 names) - 11/22/2005
• Vital records of Norton, Massachusetts to the year 1850 (http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=10106) - New (20,100 names) - 11/23/2005

Scheduled for this week

• Five more Massachusetts vital records books

Coming soon

• SSDI Update
• 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

• 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

• 1851 England and Wales Census (maintenance)

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 (452,265 new names added for a total of 64,829,092) - 11/26/2005

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/) - (258,680 names added)
• Contributed Trees (AWT/WC) (http://www.ancestry.com/trees/awt/main.htm) - (1,012,880 names added for a total of 411,056,188)
• Customer Corrections - no corrections added this week.
• RootsWeb Member Contributed Databases (http://www.rootsweb.com) - 20,696 records added.