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Over 300 Million New Names Added Online @ the New Beta.FamilySearch.org Site

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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 [...]

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FamilySearch Indexing Updates

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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 [...]

New & Recently Completed Projects at FamilySearch Indexing

Filed in Arkansas, FamilySearch, Jamaica, Mexico, North Dakota, Rhode Island, Vermont on Jun.04, 2009

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 [...]

Two Million Records added at FamilySearch Records Search Pilot

Filed in Alabama, Digital Documents Online, FamilySearch, Internet Genealogical Research, Jamaica, New York, Online Databases, Online Searchable Indexes, Religion, Spain, Vital Records on May.11, 2009

Two million new records were added to the FamilySearch Records Search pilot. The completed statewide deaths index for Alabama was published—over 1.8 million names. This collection covers deaths from 1908 to 1974.
Digital collections were added for Jamaica (Trelawny Parish Civil Registration—births), the 1892 New York Census, and Spain (Avila Diocese, Catholic Church Records).
These [...]

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All Kinds of Cool New Stuff Happening at FamilySearch Indexing!

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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 [...]