Ancestry.com is one of the most popular genealogy websites. It is so good, that thousands of people are willing to pay a subscription fee in order to access the record collections that it can offer to genealogists. Ancestry.com frequently adds new stuff to its website, and creates new and interesting resources for genealogists. Here is some of what’s new at Ancestry.com this week.
This week, Ancestry.com revealed some updates to the 1940 Census project. It reminds genealogists that Images from the 1940 Census have been available to genealogists since the first week of April, 2012. On June 29, 2012, there were six additional fully indexed states added online. Those states are: Colorado, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Vermont, and Virginia.
Ancestry.com will be doing a bunch of upcoming live streaming video events through Livestream. One of them will happen in just a few days. On July 3, 2012, Ancestry.com LIVE will have “Top Tips for Research Trips”. This will begin at 1:00 in the afternoon, and will end at 2:00 in the afternoon EDT. They have a big list of the rest of the live videos that will be presented in July of 2012.
Several of the collections at Ancestry.com have been updated since last week. On July 28, 2012, they updated “Arkansas, County Marriage Index, 1837 – 1957” and the “U.S. Returns from Regular Army Non-infantry Regiments, 1821 – 1916”. On June 29, 2012, they updated the “1940 United States Federal Census” collection.
There have also been several new collections added. On June 26, 2012, they added the “California, American Biography and Genealogy” collection. On June 28, 2012, they added several collections that connect to Pennsylvania.
Those collections are: “Pennsylvania, Land Warrants and Applications, 1733 – 1952”, “Pennsylvania, Septennial Census, 1779 – 1863”, “Pennsylvania, Civil War Border Claims, 1868 – 1879”, “Pennsylvania, U.S. Direct Tax Lists, 1798”, “Pennsylvania, Oliver H. Bair Funeral Records Indexes, “1920 – 1980”. “Pennsylvania, WPA Church Archives, 1937 – 1940”, and “Pennsylvania, Revolutionary War Battalions and Militia Index, 1775 – 1783”.
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