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The Vital Records found at the Family Search beta website continues to grow. Millions of birth, marriage, and death records — both indexes and digitized documents can be found at the site. As of August 8, 2010, I count 64,735,265 records for United States vital records, covering 33 states and the District of [...]

The following information was received this morning from Paul Nauta with FamilySearch:
There were over 150 new collections added or enhanced this week at FamilySearch.org. FamilySearch volunteers indexed over 120 million records — over 300 million new names — from original source documents to accomplish this great feat. The massive release was announced [...]

The following small databases were recently added to the Family Tree Connection database:

ALABAMA
Alabama’s White Regiments during the Spanish-American War - Southern Martyrs. A History of Alabama’s White Regiments during the Spanish-American War, Touching Incidentally on the Experiences of The Entire First Division of the Seventh Army Corps. By Seargeant M. Koenigsberg.
Birmingham High Schools [...]

28 September 2009: Volunteers with Rhode Island roots will be excited about the new indexing projects this week. The Rhode Island 1905 and 1935 State Censuses were added. New international projects for Argentina, Germany, Philippines, Spain, and the U.K. were also added.
Note: the links within the charts won’t work as they are just images [...]

The following news about Family Search Indexing was just received from Paul Nauta:
Significant updates were made recently to the FamilySearch Indexing application and Web site. Batch Sharing seems to be the most popular of the new features. Following are brief descriptions of the updates:
Batch Sharing. This exciting new feature appeals to indexers who enjoy [...]

TINMOUTH [Vermont] — The jury was hung Saturday in a Tinmouth murder trial 232 years in the making, leaving a cloud of mystery hanging over the 1777 death of resident John Irish.
Twelve members of the public crowd of about 80 who attended Saturday’s trial inside the town’s firehouse were deadlocked, as they openly debated the [...]

4 June 2009: The following four new indexing projects were added this week:

Jamaica, Trelawny Births, 1878–1930
Mexico, Censo de 1930—Mexico
Rhode Island—1920 U.S. Federal Census
Vermont—1920 U.S. Federal Census

Volunteers can register and start immediately at Indexing.FamilySearch.org.
Recently Completed Projects
Recently completed projects have been removed from the available online indexing batches and will now go through a [...]

The following are three data sets are recently completed projects that have been removed from the available online indexing batches and will now go through a final completion check process in preparation for future publication:

Argentina Censo 1869—Catamarca y La Rioja
Minnesota—1920 U.S. Federal Census
Minnesota Probate Court Wills 1849–1918

Current FamilySearch Indexing Projects, Record Language, & [...]

There are many new, upcoming, and completed indexing projects to report in this update from Paul Nauta, with FamilySearch. Twelve of the projects below are new (see Current Projects). Included are three Belgian and two Argentina projects. The New York 1892 State Census project is exciting! New York has some of the best [...]

CD-ROM Announcement: Genealogy Books on CD-ROM – Volume 1; Compiled by Stemmons Publishing, See: www.stemmonspublishing.com
This set of 10 CD-ROMs makes up a massive genealogy library of 705 books. Altogether, there are over 60,000 images, making up 230,643 pages. According to the compiler, the value of the book collection is over $7000.00. The following listings are [...]

The Vermont State Archives and Records Administration has now opened for business in a new location in a warehouse complex in Middlesex. Eighty-eight thousand boxes of records have been stored there anyway, so the move seems logical to me. The Archive had previously operated out of the Redstone Building in Montpelier.
A new vault has not [...]

March 4, 2009: The FamilySearch indexing application is available in three new languages:

Italian,
Portuguese, and
Russian.

These languages are in addition to English, French, German, and Spanish. They have current indexing projects in all of these languages except Portuguese. They will be introducing a Portuguese project in the near future.
Volunteers can help with any of the [...]

The following Family Search Indexing update information was received from Paul Nauta, Public Affairs Manager for FamilySearch.
February 6, 2009: FamilySearch volunteers wrapped up 14 online indexing projects already in 2009 and continue to make good progress on the 38 open projects. There are two new projects from the 1930 Mexico Census this week, and the [...]

More new items have recently been added to the many other “small databases” located at Family Tree Connection. Once again, the following databases are now available to search:
ILLINOIS
Monticello Seminary 1904-1905 Catalogue - Sixty-Seventh Annual Catalogue of the Officers, Instructors and Students of Monticello Ladies’ Seminary, Godfrey, Madison County, Ill., for the Year Ending June 13, [...]

Again, more new databases have recently been added to the many other “small databases” located at Family Tree Connection. The following databases are now available to search:
ALABAMA
Ensley High School 1946 Graduation - Birmingham Public Schools, Graduation Exercises of the Ensley High School, Forty-Fifth Commencement, May Thirtieth, Nineteen Hundred Forty-Six.
COLORADO
Washington County High School 1914 Commencement - [...]