Ancestry.com Content Update from the week of Dec. 11 - Dec. 17

Approximately 618 million names released over the last week. 6 new titles released. 5 titles updated.

Highlights

• U.S. Public Records Index - new, 616 million names.
• Obituaries - update, adding 530,000 new names.
• Vital Records books - five new titles from Massachusetts, adding 170,000 new names.
• Member Contributed Content – 1.6 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 (526,215 new names added for a total of 66,366,855) - 12/17/2005

• U.S. Public Records Index (http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=8907) - new, adding 615,691,167 names - 12/15/2005

• Vital record of Rehoboth, 1642-1896 (http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=10119) - New (47,850 names) - 12/12/2005
• Vital records of Richmond, Massachusetts to the year 1850 (http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=10120) - New (5,350 names) - 12/13/2005
• Abstracts of wills, Ripley County, Indiana, miscellaneous dates, Oct. 1857 to Sept. 1924 (http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=30082) - New (200 names) - 12/13/2005
• Vital records of Rochester, Massachusetts to the year 1850 (http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=10121) - New (38,200 names) - 12/14/2005
• Vital records of Reading, Massachusetts, to the year 1850 (http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=10122) - New (29,200 names) - 12/15/2005
• Vital records of Scituate, Massachusetts to the year 1850 (http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=10124) - New (45,250 names) - 12/16/2005

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

• 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 (526,215 new names added for a total of 66,366,855) - 12/17/2005

Scheduled for this week

• Obituaries Collection – will continue to update

Coming soon

• 96 newspaper titles, over 300 million names.

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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

• Boston Passenger Lists
• Baltimore Passenger Lists

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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

• GPC scanned books
• 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/) - (226,110 names added)
• Contributed Trees (AWT/WC) (http://www.ancestry.com/trees/awt/main.htm) - (1,360,863 names added for a total of 413,789,258)
• Customer Corrections - No customer corrections added this week.
• RootsWeb Member Contributed Databases (http://www.rootsweb.com) - 10,086 records added.