by Lisa Cooke | Nov 24, 2013 | 01 What's New, Australian, FamilySearch, Findmypast, Irish, Records & databases
More than 13 million new records recently appeared on findmypast.com, thanks to a new agreement between findmypast parent company DC Thomson Family History (formerly brightsolid online publishing) and FamilySearch International.
Among these millions of records are “major collections of births, marriages and deaths covering America, Australia, and Ireland,” according to a FamilySearch.org press release. Millions more records from about 600 additional collections are yet to be added. findmypast hopes these records will help current subscribers and allow the company to expand to non-English-speaking markets.
The FamilySearch press releases describes the overall purpose of the collaboration as delivering “a wide range of projects including digital preservation, records search, technological development and the means to allow family historians to share their discoveries.”
by Lisa Cooke | Nov 23, 2013 | 01 What's New, British, FamilySearch, Immigration, Irish, Records & databases
By S.MacMillen (Own work) [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons.
The time period covered by these indexes includes an enormous wave of immigrants, mostly from southern and Eastern Europe. Italians, Portuguese, Russians (including Jews), Poles, Slavs and more entered the U.S. by the millions. Record content varies, but may include ports of departure and entry, age, birthplace, gender, marital status, occupation, citizenship or last country of resident, contact information for loved ones in the Old World or in the U.S., intended destination, and even a physical description. Images of the actual record can be viewed.
Also new at FamilySearch are nearly 1.5 million indexed records from the Mexico, Distrito Federal, Civil Registration, 1832-2005, collection and over half a million indexed records from the Hungary Catholic Church Records, 1636-1895, 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 at FamilySearch.org.
|
Collection
|
Indexed Records
|
Digital Images
|
Comments
|
| England, Lancashire, Cheshire, Yorkshire, Parish Registers, 1603-1910 |
35,896 |
0 |
Added indexed records to an existing collection. |
| Germany, Prussia, Brandenburg, Eberswalde, City Directories, 1890-1919 |
0 |
2,836 |
New browsable image collection. |
| Hungary Catholic Church Records, 1636-1895 |
572,243 |
0 |
Added indexed records to an existing collection. |
| Mexico, Distrito Federal, Civil Registration, 1832-2005 |
1,452,770 |
0 |
Added indexed records to an existing collection. |
| Netherlands, Limburg Province, Church Records, 1542-1910 |
0 |
131,396 |
New browsable image collection. |
| Russia, Samara Church Books, 1869-1917 |
88,149 |
0 |
Added indexed records to an existing collection. |
| Ukraine, Kyiv Orthodox Consistory Church Book Duplicates, 1840-1845 |
129,110 |
0 |
Added indexed records to an existing collection. |
| U.S., Florida, Marriages, 1830-1993 |
1,012,025 |
720,622 |
Added indexed records and images to an existing collection. |
| U.S., Iowa, State Census, 1905 |
1,445,414 |
0 |
New indexed record collection. |
| U.S., Massachusetts, Boston Passenger Lists, 1891-1943 |
2,829,077 |
0 |
Added indexed records to an existing collection. |
| U.S., Massachusetts, State Vital Records, 1841-1920 |
755,766 |
0 |
Added indexed records to an existing collection. |
| U.S., Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Passenger Lists, 1883-1945 |
874,690 |
0 |
Added indexed records to an existing collection. |
by Lisa Cooke | Nov 20, 2013 | 01 What's New, FamilySearch, Immigration
Nearly a million indexed records and images in the Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Immigration Cards, 1900-1965, collection are among newly-posted data in FamilySearch’s ever-growing free digital archive. The cards were issued by Brazilian consulates around the world and presented upon arrival in Brazil by visitors and immigrants. They contain the immigrant’s name, where he or she came from, the date and place of birth, and the parents’ names.
This is a pretty significant time period for Brazilian immigration. Brazil’s population was about 17.4 million in 1900–and it nearly doubled in the following two decades. By 1940, Brazil housed over 41 million people, and by 1960, over 70 million.
Most immigrants to Brazil since slavery was abolished in 1888 came from Italy, most significantly the areas of Vêneto, Campânia, Calabria, and Lombárdia. Germany and Japan sent their share of immigrants, too.
That’s not all that’s new on FamilySearch, though. Check out these other indexed and imaged records:
| Collection |
Indexed Records |
Digital Images |
Comments |
| Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Immigration Cards, 1900–1965 |
334,188 |
615,026 |
Added indexed records and images to an existing collection. |
| Canada Census, 1911 |
1,227,603 |
0 |
New indexed record collection. |
| Canada, Ontario, Toronto Trust Cemeteries, 1826–1989 |
96,228 |
0 |
Added indexed records to an existing collection. |
| England, Cheshire Non-conformist Records, 1671–1900 |
14,673 |
0 |
Added indexed records to an existing collection. |
| Hungary, Civil Registration, 1895–1980 |
0 |
40,475 |
Added images to an existing collection. |
| Indonesia, Jawa Tengah, Kebumen, Naturalization Records, 1951–2013 |
0 |
14,330 |
Added images to an existing collection. |
| Indonesia, Jawa Tengah, Wonogiri District Court Records, 1925–2013 |
0 |
137,465 |
Added images to an existing collection. |
| Italy, Trieste, Trieste, Civil Registration (Tribunale), 1924–1939 |
0 |
97,505 |
Added images to an existing collection. |
| U.S., Indiana, Marriages, 1811–1959 |
468,724 |
0 |
Added indexed records to an existing collection. |
| U.S., Louisiana, New Orleans Passenger Lists, 1820–1945 |
51,232 |
0 |
Added indexed records to an existing collection. |
| U.S., North Carolina, Wilmington and Morehead City Passenger and Crew Lists, 1908–1958 |
88,345 |
0 |
Added indexed records to an existing collection. |
| United States Public Records Index |
132,330,416 |
0 |
Added indexed records to an existing collection. |
by Lisa Cooke | Nov 8, 2013 | 01 What's New, FamilySearch, Organization, RootsMagic
RootsMagic, the makers of award-winning family history software, now offers free guides for users of PAF (Personal Ancestral File, the free family tree software that is becoming obsolete), FamilySearch Family Tree and their own RootsMagic software.
“RootsMagic for PAF Users: A Quick Start Guide” is a 16-page, full-color booklet that guides PAF users through the transition to RootsMagic. It addresses common questions and is available as a free download here.
In addition, RootsMagic hosts several tutorial videos on its own You Tube channel, RootsMagicTV.com. Dozens of short videos are organized by the most popular and recent videos and by topic: installing and using RootsMagic; using RootsMagic with PAF; and using RootsMagic with FamilySearch’s Family Tree.
If you’re a RootsMagic user (or are thinking about becoming one), check these out.
by Lisa Cooke | Oct 19, 2013 | 01 What's New, FamilySearch, MyHeritage, Records & databases
Genealogy industry giants MyHeritage and FamilySearch have just announced a strategic partnership that promises to be a win-win for genealogists 
everywhere. It looks like FamilySearch’s billions of historical records will get a searchability boost with MyHeritage search technologies and users of both sites will have access to the results.
According to MyHeritage’s press release, “MyHeritage will receive more than 2 billion global historical records from FamilySearch, spanning hundreds of years. Collections include vital records (censuses, births, marriages and deaths) as well as hundreds of other collections from many countries.
Over the next few months, we will add this important content to SuperSearch and unleash MyHeritage technologies – such as Smart Matches and Record Matches – on the new content. This will bring significant new opportunities for MyHeritage users to grow their family trees and enrich their family history.”
FamilySearch users get something great out of this, too. “FamilySearch members will benefit from MyHeritage’s unique technologies which automate family history discoveries,” says the FamilySearch press release. “Smart Matching™ automatically finds connections between user-contributed family trees and Record Matching automatically locates historical records relevant to any person in the family tree. By receiving accurate matches between FamilySearch’s Family Tree profiles and historical record collections, such as birth, death, census, and immigration documents, FamilySearch members will be able to more effectively grow their family trees in size and in depth and add conclusions supported by historical records.” This technology is slated to be applied in 2014.
Got questions? Check out MyHeritage’s official blog post and FAQ regarding the partnership.
