This week, FamilySearch, based in Salt Lake City, UT, has added 7 million new records across various categories such as land, obituary, death, and divorce, focusing on the United States. Along with these, more indexed records and images were incorporated from various countries including American Samoa, Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Dominican Republic, England, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Niue, Peru, Puerto Rico, South Africa, Sweden, and Venezuela. New records were also included from multiple states in the U.S.
To explore these new additions, you can simply click on the collection links below or visit FamilySearch to scour through over 8 billion free names and record images.
A brief summary of the records added is as follows:
For American Samoa, the database of Vital Records from 1850-1930 has been enriched with 1,587 new indexed records. A total of 4,163 new indexed records were added to the Argentina, Santa Fe, Catholic Church Records (1634-1975) collection and the Austria, Vienna, Jewish Registers of Births, Marriages, and Deaths (1784-1911) received 27,317 new records. Multiple new indexed records were added to collections from Brazil, Canada, Chile, Dominican Republic, England, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Niue, Peru, and several other countries.
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