Category: Site updates

We have added many new records this week from various websites. We are now up to 931,145 helpful links. Happy hunting!

We have added many new records in the last 2 weeks, including records from Ancestry.com, Golden Nugget library, and several others. We are now up to 915,111 helpful links!

We have added 4 more brick wall ancestor series articles:

Brick Wall Ancestor Series #23: Finding the family of an adopted man’s biological mother The birth and death information for an adopted man’s biological mother had been located. Could her family be found?
Brick Wall Ancestor Series #24: Finding the descendants of one of the daughters in a family A marriage record Nancy had been located, but nothing else had been located. Did she have descendants and could they be found?
Brick Wall Ancestor Series #25: Finding the hometown of a Japanese immigrant to New York Masazo was known to have come from Japan but there hadn’t been a document located that listed his home town. Could a document be located?
Brick Wall Ancestor Series #26: Locating the family of a New Jersey man with many men in the area of the same name John was born in New Jersey before birth records were kept, and he wasn’t listed in the 1850 census with his parents. Could his family be located?

We have added 4 more brick wall ancestor series articles:

Brick Wall Ancestor Series #19: Finding a man and his parents when only his initials and last name were known G W Gray appeared in the census with his wife and children, but his full name hadn’t been idenitified yet. Could his family be found?

Brick Wall Ancestor Series #20: Finding a Tennessee woman’s parents without a birth record Prudence was born before birth records were kept in Tennessee and wasn’t listed on any census records with her parents. Could her family be identified?

Brick Wall Ancestor Series #21: Finding a New Hampshire man’s parents without a birth record Ezra did not have a birth record, and only his father’s name was known. Could his family be identified?

Brick Wall Ancestor Series #22: Finding an Indiana man’s family when he hadn’t been found with them in the census Jesse did not have a birth record, and he hadn’t been found with his family in the census records. Could his family be identified?

We have added many new records this week, primarily from school records. We are now up to 880,998 helpful links!

We have added many new records this month, primarily from cemetery records. We also corrected many links that needed updating. We are now up to 747,020 helpful links!

We have also added the following new genealogy learning articles:
How to Find Your Ancestor’s Burial Location
How to Find an Obituary for Your Ancestor
The FamilySearch Catalog: The Amazing Free Resource Resource You May Be Missing

We hope this new information will be helpful to you in your research.

We have added some new features to our site this month. We added new record type categories of court records, tax records, minority records, histories and genealogies, and miscellaneous records. We also added a page that explains all of the record type categories. We also have changed the listings in the directory to indicate which records are online records (rather than offline in archives). Happy searching!

Thanks to the help of our volunteers, we were able to add many more records to our site from the FamilySearch online book collections and from some offline archives. We have now passed 600,000 record listings. We are excited to continue growing!

The world’s largest genealogical library, the Family History Library, has many records listed in our extensive records directory because it has thousands of useful records for doing genealogy research. We have now added a feature to go directly to the catalog pages on the FamilySearch website for most items so that you can more quickly and easily find the digital images when available.

We appreciate the great suggestions from many of you. We have been working hard to add and organize the records listings you have 
suggested.
 
Here are some of the recent U.S. record additions:
 
The Genealogical Society of Palm Beach County suggested that we add their online records including cemetery inscriptions and these have now been added.
 
One of our site visitors suggested we add the latest records from Seeking Michigan, including the death records that are now 
available, and these have now been included. 
 
Another visitor let us know about his great site with digitized land records for North Carolina, NC Land Grants. We added links to these records.
 
The digital records from the Bucks County Genealogical Society in Pennsylvania were also added with this update. 
 
We added many record listings of digitized newpapers from 102 local libraries and other organizations including: East Hampton Public Library, Bear Lake County Library, The Salmon Public Library, East Bonner County District Library, Franklin County Library District, The Valley of The Tetons District Library, Beardstown Houston Memorial Library, Marshall Public Library, Midlothian Public Library, Bellwood Public Library, Forest Park Public Library, Geneseo Public Library District, Galva Public Library, Earlville Library District, Henry Public Library, Harvard Diggins Library, Brimfield Public Library, Peoria Heights Public Library, Freeburg Area Library District, Toulon Public Library, Talcott Free Library District, Knox County Public Library, Appanoose County Historical Society, Belle Plaine Community Library, The Benton County Historical Society, Sumner Public Library, Aplington Legion Memorial Library, Coon Rapids Public Library, The Cherokee Public Library, Kirchner-French Memorial Library, Estherville Public Library, West Union Community Library, Elgin Public Library, Jefferson Public Library, Bayard Public Library, Hamilton County, Jones County Genealogical Society, Ross & Elizabeth Baty Public Library Monticello, Kossuth County Genealogical Society, Marion Public Library, Mount Vernon and Lisbon, Mellinger Public Library, Rock Rapids Public Library, Pella Public Library, State Center Public Library, Malvern Public Library, Mapleton Public Library, Monroe County Historical Society, Heartley Public Library, Sanborn Public Library, Sibley Public Library, Remsen Public Library, Rolfe Public Library, Pocahontas Public Library, Lenox Public Library, Bethel College, Peabody Township Library, Osborne Public Library, Plainville Memorial Library, Stevens County Library, Acadia Parish Library, Webster Parish Library, The Bienville Parish Library, The Concordia Parish Library, Mark & Emily Turner Memorial Library, Bridgton Public Library, Old Town Public Library, The Thompson Free Library, Montague Public Libraries, Turner Free Library, Grundy County Jewett Norris Library, North Bend Public Library, North  Loup Public Library, Kelley Library, Farmington News, George F. Johnson Memorial Library, The Sidney Memorial Library, The Fayetteville Free Library, Albert Wisner Public Library, The Liberty Public Library, Clyde-Savannah Public Library, Chappaqua Public Library, The Port Chester-Rye Brook Public Library, The Lepper Public Library, Huron Public Library, Southwest Public Libraries, Ada Public Library, Mary E. Babcock Library, McKinley Memorial Library, Guymon Public Library, Hennessey Public Library, The Weston Public Library, Alexander Hamilton Memorial Free Library, The Bristol Phoenix, East Greenwich Free Library, Blanco County North and South Library Districts, Pittsburg-Camp County Public Library, Swisher County Public Library, Electra Public Library, Rice Lake Public Library, Menomonie Public Library, and Irvin L. Young Memorial Library.
 
Thank you again for your help and support. The U.S. directory is now at 580,000 record listings and growing!
 
Know of more records that we should add to our U.S. genealogy records directory? We welcome submissions through our contact us page.