Genealogy Blog Family History

Approximately 3.7 million names released over the last week. 10 new titles released. 10 titles updated.

Highlights

• World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 – update, adding 1.3 million new names.
• Korean War Prisoners of War, 1950-1954 – new, adding 9,000 names.
• Korean Conflict Death Index – update, 145,000 names.
• U.S. Army Personnel and Dependent Casualties, 1961-1981 – new, adding 300,000 names.
• Panama Canal Zone, Gorgas Hospital Mortuary Records, 1906-1991 – new, adding 26,000 names.
• Vietnam War, Awards and Decorations of Honor, 1965-1972 – new, adding 80,000 names.
• Vietnam War, Casualties Returned Alive, 1962-1979 – new, adding 800 names.
• Vietnam Casualty Index – updated, 116,000 names.
• Ohio Soldiers in WWI, 1917-1918 – updated, added images, no new names.
• 1870 United States Federal Census – maintenance update fixing several thousand image errors.
• Pallot’s Marriage Index for England: 1780 – 1837 – update, moving from Mr. Sid to J2K images (our last db on Mr. Sid). No new names.
• City Directories – 4 new titles adding 40,000 new names in Pennsylvania.
• Obituaries – update adding 800,000 new names.
• Family & Local Histories – 1 new title adding 12,000 names.
• Customer Created Content – 870,000 Message Boards, Trees, 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 (835,193 new names added for a total of 54,655,170) – 6/25/2005
• World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 (http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=6482) – update, completing Alabama, North Dakota, Conneticut, Mississippi, adding 1,322,000 new names for a total of 13,605,609 names – 7/1/2005
• Korean War Prisoners of War, 1950-1954 (http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=8850) – new, 9,159 names – 7/1/2005
• Korean Conflict Death Index (http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1033) – update, 145,000 names – 7/1/2005
• Panama Canal Zone, Gorgas Hospital Mortuary Records, 1906-1991 (http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=8848) – new, 26,205 names – 7/1/2005
• U.S. Army Personnel and Dependent Casualties, 1961-1981 (http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=8849) – new, adding 293,856 names – 7/1/2005
• Vietnam War, Awards and Decorations of Honor, 1965-1972 (http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=8847) – new, adding 80,700 names – 7/1/2005
• Vietnam War, Casualties Returned Alive, 1962-1979 (http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=8846) – new, adding 772 names – 7/1/2005
• Vietnam Casualty Index (http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=3095) – updated, 116,371 names – 7/1/2005
• Ohio Soldiers in WWI, 1917-1918 (http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=7895) – updated, added images, no new names – 7/1/2005
• The Titusville, Pa. directory, 1918 : containing a general directory of the citizens, sixteen years of age and over, unique street and house directory, classified business directory, a list of city, county and state officers, churches, societies, lodges, etc. : also, directories of the boroughs of Grand Valley, Hydetown, and Pleasantville, rural delivery routes out of Titusville, and directories of the townships of Athens, Oil Creek, Rome, Steuben and Troy in Crawford County, Cherrytree, Oil Creek an [sic (http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=23500) Plum in Venango County, Eldred and Southwest in Warren County.] – New (10,650 records) – 7/1/2005

• Titusville, Pa. directory, 1908 : containing a general directory of the citizens, a unique street and block directory, a classified business directory, a list of city, county and state officers, churches, societies, lodges, etc. : also, directories of the boroughs of Pleasantville, Hydetown, and Grand Valley, rural delivery routes out of Titusville and Pleasantville, and directories of the townships of Athens, Oil Creek, Rome, Steuben and Troy in Crawford County, Cherrytree, Oil Creek and Plum in Venango County, Eldred and Southwest in Warren County. Titusville, Pa. (http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=23498) – New (9,550 records) – 6/30/2005

• Kirwin’s Titusville, Pa. directory, 1911-12 : containing a general directory of the citizens, unique street and block directory, classified business directory, a list of city, county and state officers, churches, societies, lodges, etc. : also, directories of the boroughs of Pleasantville, Hydetown, and Grand Valley, rural delivery routes out of Titusville, and directories of the townships of Athens, Oil Creek, Rome, Steuben and Troy in Crawford County, Cherrytree, Oil Creek and Plum in Venango County, Eldred and Southwest in Warren County. Titusville, Pa. (http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=23427) – New (9,100 records) – 6/29/2005

• Boyd’s directory of Delaware County, Penna., 1899-1900 : containing a general directory of Chester City, and of the towns of Clifton Heights, Darby, Eddystone, Lansdowne, Media, Ridley Park, Sharon Hill, Upland and Wayne, and a business directory of the county, to which is added a large list of farmers and an appendix of useful information. (http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=10829) – New (12,733 records) – 6/27/2005

Scheduled for this week

• City Directories rollup
• Great Migration update

Coming soon

• Indiana Marriages maintenance update

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U.S. Census Images and Indexes

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Released last week

• 1870 United States Federal Census (http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=7163) – maintenance update fixing several thousand image errors – 6/27/2005

Scheduled for this week

• 1790 Maintenance release

Coming soon

• Florida State Census

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U.K. & Ireland Records Collection

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Released last week

• Pallot’s Marriage Index for England: 1780 – 1837 (http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=5967) – update, moving from Mr. Sid to J2K images (our last db on Mr. Sid). This allows us to completely shut down the Mr. Sid hardware and code base, ending over a year of effort to migrate all Mr. Sid images. No new names – 6/30/2005

• Yorkshire, England: Parish Records (http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=8020) – update, adding the parishes of Ledsham-1539-1812, Thornton-Lonsdale-1812, Oswaldkirk-1538-1837, StMary-Castlegate-1705, StMary-Castlegate-1837. 635,450 total names – 6/30/2005

Scheduled for this week

• 1881 England and Wales – minor maintenance release.
• Civil Registration – minor maintenance release.

Coming soon

• Maintenance releases for various census years.

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Newspapers

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Released last week

• No Release Scheduled.

Scheduled for this week

• More New York papers
• Obituaries Collection – will continue to update

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U.S. Immigration Collection

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Released last week

• No Release Scheduled.

Scheduled for this week

• Great Migration update.

Coming soon

• New York Petitions for Naturalization

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Family and Local Histories

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Released last week

• The Catholic Church in New Jersey (http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=11572) – New (12,053 records) – 6/28/2005

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Customer Contributed Content

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Released last week

• Ancestry/RW Message Boards (http://www.ancestry.com/share/) – (317,210 names added)
• Contributed Trees (AWT/WC) (http://www.ancestry.com/trees/awt/main.htm) – (534,702 names added for a total of 387,227,155)
• Customer Corrections – 1860 US Federal Census and 1900 US Federal Census updated. Approx. 15,000 corrected names added.