The following is from FamilySearch:
New Collections Update: Week of August 15, 2016
SALT LAKE CITY, UT — The past two weeks have brought a few new large indexed collections, including New York passenger lists, English parish registers, and United States muster rolls, plus images and indexes from the Czech Republic, Peru, Norway, Portugal, and the United States. See the interactive table below for these and more historic records added this week at FamilySearch.org. Join our online indexing volunteers anytime and help make more of these exciting collections discoverable to more people. Find out how at FamilySearch.org/Indexing.
COLLECTIONS – INDEXED RECORDS – DIGITAL RECORDS – COMMENTS
Czech Republic Land Records 1450-1889 – 0 – 853,178 – Added images to an existing collection
Czech Republic Church Books 1552-1963 – 31,206 – 0 – Added indexed records to an existing collection
Czech Republic School Registers 1799-1953 – 0 – 1,041,753 – Added images to an existing collection
England Sussex Parish Registers 1538-1910 – 1,223,484 – 0 – Added indexed records to an existing collection
Norway Probate Index Cards 1640-1903 – 194,981 – 0 – New indexed records collection
Peru Cusco Civil Registration 1889-1997 – 78,283 – 0 – Added indexed records to an existing collection
Peru La Libertad Civil Registration 1903-1998 – 0 – 761 – Added images to an existing collection
Portugal Porto Catholic Church Records 1535-1949 – 34,701 – 0 – Added indexed records to an existing collection
UNITED STATES DATABASES
Arizona County Marriages 1871-1964 – 72,804 – 0 – Added indexed records to an existing collection
Illinois DeKalb County Land Records 1838-1927 – 57,179 – 0 – Added indexed records to an existing collection
Michigan Obituaries 1820-2006 – 152,033 – 0 – Added indexed records to an existing collection
Minnesota Clay County School Census Records 1909-1962 – 296,251 – 0 – Added indexed records to an existing collection
New Hampshire Vital and Town Records Index 1656-1938 – 442,376 – 0 – New indexed records collection
New Jersey, State Census, 1855 – 73,030 – 0 – Added indexed records to an existing collection
New York Book Indexes to Passenger Lists 1906-1942 – 5,487,573 – 0 – Added indexed records to an existing collection
Utah Tremonton and Garland Obituaries 1959-2013 – 18,360 – 0 – Added indexed records to an existing collection
District of Columbia Freedmen’s Bureau Field Office Records 1863-1872 – 90,597 – 0 – Added indexed records to an existing collection
United States Freedmen’s Bureau Records of Freedmen’s Complaints 1865- 1872 – 140,985 – 209,817 – New indexed records and images collection
United States Freedmen’s Bureau Ration Records 1865-1872 – 154,587 – 97,567 – New indexed records and images collection
United States Freedmen’s Bureau Records of the Superintendent of Education and of the Division of Education 1865-1872 – 145,374 – 0 – Added indexed records to an existing collection
United States Muster Rolls of the Marine Corps 1798-1937 – 4,091,420 – 0 – Added indexed records to an existing collection
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