Wednesday, September 04, 2013

FamilySearch New Collections Update 3 September 2013

The following is from FamilySearch.

FamilySearch Adds More Than 260 Thousand Indexed Records and Images to Collections from Guatemala, Italy, New Zealand, and the United States

In a smaller update, FamilySearch has recently added more than 260 thousand indexed records and images from Guatemala, Italy, New Zealand, and the United States. Notable collection updates include the 102,461 images from the new U.S., Indiana, Naturalization Records and Indexes, 1848-1992, collection, the 45 images from the Italy, Mantova, Mantova, Censuses (Comune), 1750-1900, collection, and the 36,417 indexed records from the U.S., Maine, State Archive Collections, 1718-1957, collection . See the table below for the full list of updates. Search these diverse collections and more than 3.5 billion other records for free atFamilySearch.org.

Searchable historic records are made available on FamilySearch.org through the help of thousands of volunteers from around the world. These volunteers transcribe (index) information from digital copies of handwritten records to make them easily searchable online. More volunteers are needed (particularly those who can read foreign languages) to keep pace with the large number of digital images being published online at FamilySearch.org. Learn more about volunteering to help provide free access to the world’s historic genealogical records online atFamilySearch.org.

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Collection
Indexed Records
Digital Images
Comments
46,255
0
Added indexed records to an existing collection.
0
3,135
Added images to an existing collection.
0
50,245
New browsable image collection.
0
1,600
Added images to an existing collection.
0
102,461
New browsable image collection.
36,417
0
Added indexed records to an existing collection.
16,952
0
Added indexed records to an existing collection.
3,528
688
Added indexed records and images to an existing collection.

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