Ancestry.com Content Update from the week of Dec. 25 - Dec. 31

Approximately 399 million names released over the last week. 99 new titles released. 5 titles updated.

Highlights

• 93 New newspaper titles, adding 397 million new names.
• U.S. Headstone Photos - new, adding 95,000 pictures of headstones and 120,000 names.
• Social Security Death Index - update, adding 106,000 deaths from November.
• North Carolina Death Index, update, fixing an error with place of death codes, no new names.
• Vital Records books - five new titles from Massachusetts, adding 60,000 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

• U.S. Headstone Photos (http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=8792) - new, adding 94,225 pictures of headstones and 119,666 names - 12/30/2005

• Social Security Death Index (http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=3693) - new, adding 106,334 deaths from November - 12/30/2005

• North Carolina Death Collection, 1908-1996 (http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=8908) - update, fixing an error with place of death codes, no new names. - 12/30/2005

• Vital records of Warren (formerly Western), Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=10131) - New (9,500 names) - 12/27/2005
• Vital records of the town of Truro, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849 (http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=10132) - New (24,300 names) - 12/28/2005
• Vital records of Tyringham, Massachusetts to the year 1850 (http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=10133) - New (5,300 names) - 12/29/2005
• Vital records of Uxbridge, Massachusetts, to the year 1850 (http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=10134) - New (20,950 names) - 12/30/2005

Scheduled for this week

• Five more Massachusetts vital records books

Coming soon

• Several maintenance releases
• SSDI Update

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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

• 93 new titles adding 397,850,662 names. See the recent database page on Ancestry.com for a list of the specific titles.

Scheduled for this week

• Obituaries Collection – will continue to update
• Additional newspaper titles, over 1.7 billion names to come.

Coming soon

• Significant weekly newspaper releases through February.

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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/) - (261,000 names added)
• Contributed Trees (AWT/WC) (http://www.ancestry.com/trees/awt/main.htm) - (1,138,930 names added for a total of 416,730,868)
• Customer Corrections - Customer corrections added to SSDI this week.
• RootsWeb Member Contributed Databases (http://www.rootsweb.com) - No new records added.