{"id":42234,"date":"2019-01-10T21:22:50","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T05:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=42234"},"modified":"2019-01-10T21:22:50","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T05:22:50","slug":"familysearchs-top-record-collections-of-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=42234","title":{"rendered":"FamilySearch’s Top Record Collections of 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The following was received from FamilySearch:<\/strong><\/p>\n

SALT LAKE CITY, UT\u00a0(8 January 2019),\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>In 2018, FamilySearch<\/a> added\u00a0hundreds of millions of searchable free images and indexes of historical\u00a0records from all around the world. The\u00a0records came from locations such as\u00a0Germany, Sweden, France, Ireland, Italy, The Netherlands, Mexico,<\/strong>\u00a0and the\u00a0United States<\/strong>. We thought we’d summarize those countries with the largest volume\u00a0of new records and images for you and provide\u00a0convenient\u00a0links\u00a0to help you quickly\u00a0discover a few new\u00a0ancestors.\u00a0FamilySearch<\/a>\u00a0now has\u00a0over 8\u00a0billion free names and record images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Country<\/strong><\/td>\nRecords and Images\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Australia<\/a><\/td>\n1,618,183<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Brazil<\/a><\/td>\n1,591,900<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
England<\/a><\/td>\n9,948,263<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
France<\/a><\/td>\n12,010,885<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Germany<\/a><\/td>\n85,357,860<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ireland<\/a><\/td>\n7,868,337<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Italy<\/a><\/td>\n7,541,275<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mexico<\/a><\/td>\n63,530,408<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Netherlands<\/a><\/td>\n18,018,230<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Russia<\/a><\/td>\n1,032,510<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
South Africa<\/a><\/td>\n1,029,108<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sweden<\/a><\/td>\n45,910,699<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
United Kingdom<\/a><\/td>\n3,264,935<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
United States– Alabama<\/a><\/td>\n4,115,533<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
United States– California<\/a><\/td>\n6,055,650<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
United States Census<\/a><\/td>\n11,779,223<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
United States– Georgia<\/a><\/td>\n1,224,740<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
United States– Illinois<\/a><\/td>\n1,041,748<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
United States– Kansas<\/a><\/td>\n1,609,914<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
United States– Kentucky<\/a><\/td>\n1,561,926<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
United States– Michigan<\/a><\/td>\n1,570,493<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
United States– Native American Census Rolls<\/a><\/td>\n1,974,407<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
United States– New York<\/a><\/td>\n4,194,464<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
United States– New York Passenger Arrival Lists (Ellis Island), 1892-1924<\/a><\/td>\n3,243,589<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
United States– New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1891 (Castle Garden)<\/a><\/td>\n428,944<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
United States– New York, New York Passenger and Crew Lists, 1909, 1925-1957<\/a><\/td>\n5,192,064<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
United States– North Carolina<\/a><\/td>\n7,023,969<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
United States– Ohio<\/a><\/td>\n1,077,187<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
United States– Oklahoma<\/a><\/td>\n5,848,398<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
United States– Pennsylvania<\/a><\/td>\n1,236,748<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
United States– Vermont<\/a><\/td>\n2,401,944<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
United States– Veteran’s Administration<\/a><\/td>\n3,099,585<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
United States– Virginia<\/a><\/td>\n6,236,808<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
United States– West Virginia<\/a><\/td>\n1,158,909<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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About FamilySearch<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

FamilySearch International is the largest genealogy organization in the world. FamilySearch<\/a> is a nonprofit, volunteer-driven organization sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Millions of people use FamilySearch<\/a> records, resources, and services to learn more about their family history. To help in this great pursuit, FamilySearch and its predecessors have been actively gathering, preserving, and sharing genealogical records worldwide for over 100 years. Patrons may access FamilySearch services and resources free online at FamilySearch.org<\/a> or through over 5,000\u00a0family history centers in 129 countries, including the main Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The following was received from FamilySearch: SALT LAKE CITY, UT\u00a0(8 January 2019),\u00a0In 2018, FamilySearch added\u00a0hundreds of millions of searchable free images and indexes of historical\u00a0records from all around the world. The\u00a0records came from locations such as\u00a0Germany, Sweden, France, Ireland, Italy, Continue reading FamilySearch’s Top Record Collections of 2018<\/span>→<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-familysearch","category-internet-genealogical-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42234"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42236,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42234\/revisions\/42236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}