The following news release was received from Paul Nauta, with FamilySearch.
New Historic Brazil and Honduras Records Online
Six Additional Country Collections Also Updated
More digital images poured out of the FamilySearch pipeline this week—over 2 million, in fact. Historic record collections for 8 countries were updated: Brazil, Chile, El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico, Switzerland, U.S., and Wales. The biggest winners were Brazil and Honduras. More than 1.7 million images were added to the Brazil Civil Registration collection, with records from 1870 to 2009. And 346,000 church records were added for Honduras. These birth, marriage, death, and church records are very valuable because they usually include multiple generations in a single document. See the table below for details of all the updates this week. You can search all of the record collections now for free at FamilySearch.org.
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|
Collection |
Records |
Images |
Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
|
19,319 |
1,688,985 |
Added images and index to existing collection. |
|
|
0 |
43,001 |
Added browsable images to existing collection. |
|
|
El Salvador, Civil Registration Records, 1867–1910 |
0 |
25,938 |
Added browsable images to existing collection. |
|
Honduras, Church Records, 1895–1931 |
0 |
346,448 |
Added browsable images to existing collection. |
|
0 |
38,391 |
Added browsable images to existing collection. |
|
|
Switzerland, Basel City, Local Citizenship Requests, 1348–1798 |
0 |
1,751 |
New browsable image collection. |
|
0 |
86,744 |
Added browsable images to existing collection. |
|
|
0 |
20,542 |
Added browsable images to existing collection. |
|
|
0 |
14,696 |
Added browsable images to existing collection. |
|
|
0 |
49,819 |
New browsable image collection. |
|
|
United States, 1890 Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War |
0 |
90,497 |
New browsable image collection. |
|
0 |
34,851 |
Added browsable images to existing collection. |
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