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Over 14 Million New Records Added on FamilySearch Last Month


Last month (October) FamilySearch added additional free online records. According to FamilySearch, over 14.8 million new indexed family history records and over 400 thousand digital images from around the world were added. New historical records were added from American Samoa, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, England, France, Guatemala, Peru, South Africa, Sweden, Ukraine, Uruguay, Wales and the United States, which includes Alabama, Alaska, California, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and Wisconsin. Records were also added from the United States Deceased Physician Files, United States GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries 1815-2011, and United States Census (Slave Schedule) .

Click here to go to this blog where you can look for your ancestors using these newly indexed records. You can find these in a chart listed by country, collection, indexed records, digital images, and comments which let you know if this is a new collection or an existing collection to which new records have been added. These records include birth, marriage, death, and church records. Millions of new genealogy records are added each month to make your search easier. (Source: Laurie Bradshaw – October 29, 2019 – FamilySearch blog