FamilySearch Records Update: 9 Million Hungarian Records Added; also New Records for Argentina, Brazil, Germany, Italy, Philippines, Spain, U.S., and Zimbabwe

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9 Million Hungarian Records Added This Week
New Records for Argentina, Brazil, Germany, Italy, Philippines, Spain, U.S., and Zimbabwe Also Added

Can you believe that 11.5 million new international records were added this week? And 9 million of those were from Hungary! FamilySearch continued this week to strengthen its free online international collections by expanding 8 of its collections. It also added 2 million U.S. records. See the table below for more details. Search all of the record collections now for free at FamilySearch.org.

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Collection	Records	Images	Comment
Argentina, Catholic Church Records	0	202,698	Images added.
Brazil, Catholic Church Records	0	156,092	Images added. Minas Gerais, Diocese of Luz, Diocese of Patos de Minas; Paraná: Archdiocese of Curitiba; Rio Grande Do Sul, Diocese of Santa Cruz Do Sul; Sao Paulo, Diocese of Itapeva, Diocese of Presidente Prudente
Germany, Baden, Church Book Duplicates, 1810-1869	58,296	12,011	Portion of Achern index added.
Germany, Mecklenburg-Schwerin Census, 1890	37,625	864	Last portion of this census is now added.
Germany, Posen, Church Book Duplicates, 1794-1874	113,713	0	Records added to this collection. Images can be found at www.landesarhiv-brandenburg.de.
Hungary Catholic Church Records	9,065,513	0	Partial publication of records. First installment (38%) of a much larger collection that will be published over the next year.
Italy, Civil Registration, 1806-1940	0	119,921	More localities added: Revere, San Giorgio di Mantova, San Martino dall' Argine, Sermide, and Teramo
Philippines, Manila Civil Registration, 1899-1994	0	1,535,971	Images added.
Spain, Lugo Diocese, Catholic Parish Records, 1550-1930	11,629	0	Additional index data added to this collection.
U.S., Colorado State Census, 1885	0	3,520	New browsable collection.
U.S., Illinois State Census, 1855	256,004	0	Name indexes for the 1885 Illinois State Census. The census names the head of household. Schedules do not exist for the following counties: Carroll, Champaign, Franklin, Gallatin, Henry, Jefferson, Jo Davies, Lake, Stark, Will, and Woodford.
U.S., Texas, Comanche County Records, 1858-1955	0	283,870	Images added to existing content.
U.S., Texas, Mills County Clerk Records, 1841-1985	0	61,358	Images added to existing content.
U.S., Union Provost Marshal Files of Individual Civilians, 1861-1866	0	2,798	Images added to existing content.
U.S., Veterans Administration Pension Payment Cards, 1907-1933	0	1,800,495	New browsable image collection.
Zimbabwe, Death Notices, 1904-1976	0	328,546	Death notices from Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwe, Rhodesia Death Registers, 1890-1977; Index to Death Register, 1892-1977	0	74,045	Register of deaths of citizens of Rhodesia.

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