Ancestry.com Content Update from the week of Nov. 27 - Dec. 3

Approximately 1.75 million names released over the last week. 5 new titles released. 435 titles updated.

Highlights

• Family & local histories - 431 databases updated, added hit highlighting and enabled for current viewer, no new names.
• Obituaries - update, adding 475,000 new names.
• Vital Records books - five new titles from Massachusetts, adding 240,000 new names.
• Member Contributed Content – 1 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 (474,248 new names added for a total of 65,303,340) - 12/3/2005

• Vital records of Oakham, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849 (http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=10107) - New (6,400 names) - 11/28/2005
• Vital records of Pelham, Massachusetts to the year 1850 (http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=10108) - New (8,600 names) - 11/29/2005
• Vital records of Pembroke, Massachusetts to the year 1850 (http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=10109) - New (23,000 names) - 11/30/2005
• Vital records of Salem, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849 (http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=10110) - New (145,800 names) - 12/1/2005
• Vital records of Roxbury, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849 (http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=10111) - New (53,950 names) - 12/2/2005

• Family & local histories - 431 databases updated, added hit highlighting and enabled for current viewer, no new names.
  

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 (474,248 new names added for a total of 65,303,340) - 12/3/2005

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/) - (268,630 names added)
• Contributed Trees (AWT/WC) (http://www.ancestry.com/trees/awt/main.htm) - (737,157 names added for a total of 411,793,345)
• Customer Corrections - no corrections added this week.
• RootsWeb Member Contributed Databases (http://www.rootsweb.com) - 30,698 records added.