Catch-up with recent records and resources added to online genealogy & history databases & websites with this handy list! Are your ancestors revealed in these records?
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• May 8th: Illinois, Louisiana, Michigan, North Carolina, Texas, and Virginia
• May 9th: Louisiana, Michigan, North Carolina, and Virginia
• May 10th: Florida, Louisiana, Michigan, North Carolina, and Virginia
• May 11th: Florida, Louisiana, Michigan, and Virginia
• May 12th: Florida, Louisiana, Michigan, and Virginia
• May 13th: Louisiana, Texas, and Virginia
• May 14th: Louisiana, Michigan, North Carolina, and Virginia

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​~Caroline

Check out the latest records FamilySearch added to their collections — more US GenealogyBank Obituaries, Supreme Court case files from North Carolina, more death certificates for Utah, and naturalization indexes for Rhode Island Plus, more updates to international collections. 

​Quite a variety of records were recently added or updated to FamilySearch.org! A little something for everyone (hopefully) to explore during the holidays.
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• Australia Tasmania Civil Registration (District Registers) 1839-1938
• BillionGraves Index
• Delaware Vital Records 1650-1974
• England Kent Parish Registers 1538-1911
• England Kent Register of Electors 1570-1907
• England Lancashire Cheshire Yorkshire Parish Registers 1603-1909
• England Lancashire Parish Registers 1538-1910
• Find A Grave Index
• ​Italy Pescara Civil Registration (State Archive) 1809-1929
• Italy Ragusa Civil Registration (State Archive) 1900-1940
• Italy Reggio Calabria Civil Registration (State Archive) 1896-1943
• Italy Savona Civil Registration (State Archive) 1806-1813 1838-1936
• Missouri Pre-WWII Adjutant General Enlistment Contracts 1900-1941
• Netherlands Zuid-Holland Province Civil Registration 1679-1942
• Philippines Manila Civil Registration 1899-1984
• Spain Province of Sevilla Municipal Records 1293-1966
• Tennessee County Marriages 1790-1950
• United States Census 1940
• United States GenealogyBank Obituaries 1980-2014
• Utah Weber Ogden John David Eccles Photograph Collection 1951-1976
• Wales Glamorgan West Glamorgan Electoral Registers 1839-1925

~Caroline

For those with roots in mostly Latin America or Eastern Europe will be pleased with the latest updates to FamilySearch's collections. ​Time to grab that cup of coffee and start diving in!

• Argentina National Census 1869
• Brazil São Paulo Immigration Cards 1902-1980
• Czech Republic Land Records 1450-1889
• Dominican Republic Civil Registration 1801-2010
• El Salvador Civil Registration 1704-1977​
• Montana County Births and Deaths 1840-2004
• Ukraine Kyiv Orthodox Consistory Church Book Duplicates 1840-1896
• United States Rosters of Revolutionary War Soldiers and Sailors 1775-1783

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~Caroline

Every Friday, Findmypast releases thousands of new records online. This week's Findmypast Friday release includes wills  and probate indexes as well as Thom's Directory, an Irish street directory and almanac, spanning the years 1844-1900. 

If you have Irish ancestry and have begun researching it (like I have), you know just how difficult it can be with a lack of records. And street directories can help to place your ancestor in a time and place between censuses. 

And the UK wills and probate records and abstracts can also be very helpful too. Abstracts can reveal spouses, children, etc., and also give you names of witnesses who may or may not have been related. 

Take a look at what they added: 

• Oxfordshire Wills index 1516-1857
  
• York Peculiars Probate Index 1383-1883
  
• Somerset Medieval Will abstracts 1385-1558
  
• Hertfordshire Probate records index 1415-1858
  
• England & Wales published wills & probate indexes 1300-1858
  
• Surrey, Prerogative Court of Canterbury will abstracts 1736-1794
  
• London & Middlesex Will Abstracts 1700-1704
  
• Lancashire Wills Proved at Richmond 1457-1812
  
• London, Court of Husting will abstracts 1258-1688
  
• Thom's Directory 1844-1900
  

So, if your roots take you back to Ireland or the UK, you'll want to check out all these new records as well as all of the Findmypast online records since it's a FREE weekend starting today. Plus, if you have roots across the pond, but don't know how to get started, then you're in luck. They have a free live broadcast tomorrow to help you out.

And since Thom's Directory is for Dublin and my Annie O'Brien was born there and I've been needing to isolate all the O'Brien's and the Lennon's for this time period *and* since Findmypast is FREE this weekend, I think I'll forego sleep and delve into Findmypast into the wee hours of the weekend. (Time to dig out that old street map of Dublin I found online. Oh, Annie, Henry, James, and Jane...I'm coming for you.) Do you have O'Briens and Lennons in your family tree? Are we related? To read more about my research exploits with Annie et al, visit my personal (and very neglected) Family Stories blog. 

~Caroline