Genealogy from the perspective of a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon, LDS)

Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Keeping up with online family history record collections

I wrote a post about some of my experiences lately with the FamilySearch.org Historical Record Collections. I just got a list of the newest additions to those collections in an email from FamilySearch. Usually, this list also appears in a blog post from FamilySearch within a few days of receiving the email notification. I usually don't mention this list but I wanted to illustrate that these collections are very rapidly evolving and expanding. The records you need could be added at any time so it is a good idea to check back and see if there is anything you are personally interested in reviewing.

In addition, as the Record Hints expand on FamilySearch.org's Family Tree, there are new collections added to the hints. What is and what is not included is not necessarily announced anywhere. But additions to all the collections eventually will benefit the ability of the programmers to add Record Hints. It is important to understand that the growth is only made available if the records are indexed. Record Hints do not come for records that are not indexed so indexing is a vital part of this whole process of making the records available. This list shows the effects of indexing. Many of the listed records are added indexed records.

Here is the most current list.

New FamilySearch Collections Update: October 5, 2015


COLLECTION
INDEXED RECORDS
DIGITAL RECORDS
COMMENTS
991,910
0
Added indexed records to an existing collection
0
13,738
Added images to an existing collection
47,380
0
Added indexed records to an existing collection
0
1,377,861
Added images to an existing collection
178,391
0
Added indexed records to an existing collection
33,063
0
Added indexed records to an existing collection
0
279,461
New browsable image collection
25,786
0
Added indexed records to an existing collection
873,918
0
Added indexed records to an existing collection
424,219
0
Added indexed records to an existing collection
29,690
0
Added indexed records to an existing collection
3,961
0
Added indexed records to an existing collection
79,821
0
Added indexed records to an existing collection
11,394
0
Added indexed records to an existing collection
0
724,182
Added images to an existing collection
0
17,580
Added images to an existing collection
176,344
0
Added indexed records to an existing collection
352,726
0
Added indexed records to an existing collection
1,067,147
1,067,143
Added indexed records and images to an existing collection
94,859
0
Added indexed records to an existing collection

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