Monday, October 27, 2014

Millions of Historical Records Added to MyHeritage

Genealogists.com is pleased to announce that our partner MyHeritage has just added millions of new records to their database. The new collections include birth and death records, church records, electoral rolls and more from around the globe to help families everywhere explore their past.

The new records come from the United Kingdom, the United States, South Africa, Germany, Russia and other countries to help discover more about your ancestors from around the globe.

The collections include:

England, Norfolk Register of Electors, 1844-1952: With over 4.5 million indexed names, this collection contains register lists, organized by Polling District, Parish and Street, for those who had the right to vote in Norfolk.

England, Norfolk Bishop's Transcripts, 1685-1941: Bishops' transcripts for the County of Norfolk arranged by church jurisdiction and in yearly bundles. The collection includes over 1 million baptism, marriage and burial records.

Ukraine, Kyiv Orthodox Consistory Church Book Duplicates, 1840-1845: Russian-language record collection with over 1.4 million index entries of baptism/births, marriages and burials/deaths for Orthodox parishes in Diocese of Kiev.

Iowa, State Census, 1905: Name index of the 1905 Iowa state census with 1.4 million records. The population schedule names every person in the household.

Illinois, Northern District (Eastern Division), Naturalization Index, 1926-1979: Over 540,000 records containing card indexes for naturalization records for Northern District (Eastern Division), Illinois.

Russia, Samara Church Books, 1869-1917 Images and partial index to records of births and baptisms, marriages, deaths and burials performed by priests of the Russian Orthodox Church in the province of Samara.

Germany, Prussia, Pomerania Church Records, 1544-1945: Evangelical Lutheran and Roman Catholic Church records and transcripts for a portion of historic Pomerania now split between Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany and Szczecin, Poland. Includes over 180,000 births, marriages, and death records.

Denmark Civil Marriages, 1851-1961: Nearly 100,000 civil marriage registers in Denmark.

Minnesota, Naturalization Card Index, 1930-1988: This collection contains two naturalization card indexes from the District Court of Minnesota's 3rd division and 4th division from the NARA facility in Chicago.

South Africa, Methodist Parish Registers, 1822-1996: Baptisms, marriages, and burials recorded in various Methodist parishes in South Africa.

Tennessee Deaths, 1908-1933: Update to an existing collection adding full death dates. This index covers deaths occurred and recorded in Tennessee between 1908 and 1933, including all extant records. The index provides the name of the deceased, county, date of death and certificate number.

Ireland, Griffith's Valuation, 1847-1864: 1.2 million indexed records from the Primary Valuation, the first full-scale valuation of property in Ireland overseen by Richard Griffith.

Our matching technologies make these records even more useful.

You will receive a notification if any record in our database matches a person in your family tree on MyHeritage thanks to our Record Matching technology. Correct matches can be confirmed and new information can be extracted directly to relevant family tree profiles, using the extract information feature. If a record contains information about a relative you never knew existed, you can add that person to your tree directly from the record itself.

To view these records, a data subscription is required. Don't have one yet? Read more about our annual subscription which includes unlimited access to all historical records on SuperSearch and to all Record Matches. There are over 5.5 billion records on SuperSearch and we are continuously growing our collections every week.

Start searching these new collections today. We look forward to hearing about your exciting discoveries.

The MyHeritage team

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