FamilySearch expanded its free online archives in February 2019 with over 13 million new indexed family history records from around the world. New historical records were added from Argentina, Australia, Colombia, England, France, Italy, Mexico, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States, which includes California, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New York, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Texas. Records were also added from BillionGraves, and the United States Rosters of Revolutionary War Soldiers and Sailors.
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| Country | Collection | Indexed Records | Comments |
| Argentina | Argentina, Corrientes, Civil Registration, 1880-1930 | 105,124 | New indexed records collection |
| Argentina | Argentina, Santa Fe, Catholic Church Records, 1634-1975 | 410 | Added indexed records and images to an existing collection |
| Australia | Australia, South Australia, Will and Probate Records | 45,061 | New indexed records collection |
| Colombia | Colombia, Catholic Church Records, 1576-2017 | 120,578 | Added indexed records to an existing collection |
| England | England, Hampshire Parish Registers, 1538-1980 | 2,071,150 | New indexed records collection |
| France | France, Haut-Rhin, Civil Registration, 1792-1919 | 1,870,795 | New indexed records collection |
| France | France, Vienne, Civil Registration, 1792-1913 | 2,191,179 | New indexed records collection |
| Italy | Italy, Benevento, Civil Registration (State Archive), 1810-1942 | 5,080 | Added indexed records to an existing collection |
| Mexico | Mexico, Sinaloa, Civil Registration, 1861-1929 | 103,858 | Added indexed records to an existing collection |
| Other | BillionGraves Index | 121,880 | Added indexed records to an existing collection |
| Russia | Russia, Samara Church Books 1748-1934 | 2,191 | Added indexed records to an existing collection |
| Spain | Spain, Diocese of Cartagena, Catholic Church Records, 1503-1969 | 168,446 | Added indexed records to an existing collection |
| Switzerland | Switzerland, Vaud Terrier Records, 1234-1798 | 236 | Added indexed records to an existing collection |
| United States | California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994 | 48,406 | Added indexed records to an existing collection |
| United States | California, County Naturalizations, 1831-1985 | 66 | New indexed records collection |
| United States | Georgia, Confederate Pension Rolls, 1879-1920 | 113,365 | New indexed records collection |
| United States | Hawaii, Harbin File – Russian Immigrant Laborers Index A-Z, 1909-1910 | 2,314 | New indexed records collection |
| United States | Illinois Cemetery Transcriptions, 1853-2009 | 9,028 | Added indexed records to an existing collection |
| United States | Illinois, Cook County Marriages, 1871-1920 | 2,055 | Added indexed records to an existing collection |
| United States | Iowa, Old Age Tax Assistance Records, 1934-1958 | 15,645 | Added indexed records to an existing collection |
| United States | Iowa, Records of Persons Subject to Military Duty, 1862-1910 | 4,792,997 | New indexed records collection |
| United States | Minnesota, Wright County, City of St. Michael and Frankfort Township, Birth and Death Records, 1900-1953 | 3,349 | New indexed records collection |
| United States | New Hampshire, Hillsborough County, Manchester, Obituaries, 1800-2007 | 30,249 | New indexed records collection |
| United States | New York, Church and Civil Deaths, 1824-1962 | 40,923 | New indexed records collection |
| United States | New York, County Naturalization Records, 1791-1980 | 483,815 | Added indexed records to an existing collection |
| United States | Oklahoma, School Records, 1895-1936 | 9,614 | Added indexed records to an existing collection |
| United States | Oregon, World War I, County Military Service Records 1919-1920 | 15,195 | New indexed records collection |
| United States | Oregon, Yamhill County Records, 1857-1963 | 7,175 | Added indexed records to an existing collection |
| United States | Pennsylvania, Schuylkill County, Schuylkill Haven, Funeral Home Obituary Cards, 1914-2007 | 1,434 | New indexed records collection |
| United States | Texas, Gonzales County, Death records, 1863-1970 | 36,321 | Added indexed records to an existing collection |
| United States | United States Rosters of Revolutionary War Soldiers and Sailors, 1775-1783 | 489,775 | Added indexed records to an existing collection |
| United States | Utah, FamilySearch, Early Church Information File, 1830-1900 | 96,308 | Added indexed records to an existing collection |
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I am so grateful for indexing and the wonderful people who do indexing! I am now able to find the family members I collected back in the early 80’s that didn’t have parent’s names or if they did they didn’t say where they were from. All I had was names, birthdates and sometimes spouse’s names – sometimes not spouses names but just the date they got married. It has been one miracle after another putting these families together. I am having wonderful success right now with a 41 page document copied from a family bible and a family letter in 1889! When I was an indexing coordinator when the program just started out and for several years after that, I again heard of miracles that touched my heart. One I especially remember is a man living in West Jordan who needed his birth record for citizenship purposes. He was elderly and every time he contacted his government, they said they couldn’t find one for him. He indexed thousands of records for his country for a long time. He was excited to report to our group one day after several months that he had been blessed by a miracle one day and had found his own birth record. We had several miracles happen among our indexers that they felt had occurred because of the work they were doing. My daughter who has a very busy schedule and a large family finds opportunities to index. She has done indexing for several years now.
I’m Australian so I looked at the list of Australian records you’ve posted re added records.
I couldn’t see them till I stopped looking at the list of countries and looked at the Record Collection Titles. Did you know you have the Australian ones listed with the country as Argentina?
Is that a typographical error or have they been filed under the wrong country?
This always amazes me!! What a variety of records from all over the world. Thank you for making this possible.
Diane
Really Great news! Thank you
What about South Africa and Namibia??
Note that a number of the indexed location entries for “United States Rosters of Revolutionary War Soldiers and Sailors, 1775-1783” are incorrect. Examples include Lancaster County Pa becoming “Lancaster, Latimer, Oklahoma, United States” and Northhamton County Pa becoming “Northampton, Burlington, New Jersey, United States”. I would say about 1/3 are incorrect altogether. And there are some identical duplicate entries to watch out for. The records are quite usable though, you just need to be cautious about searching on location. Not to be critical of the Indexers. They have a Really hard job to do.