FamilySearch Update: 6 million New Indexed Records & 1.4 Million New Images

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Familysearch added over 6 million new indexed records and 1.4 million new images since January 5, 2009, to its Record Search pilot (see chart below).

The West Virginia birth, marriage, and death records, and the South Dakota state censuses for 1915 and 1925 are now complete. Many thanks to the thousands of online FamilySearch Indexing volunteers who helped make these wonderful records available. See the chart below for more details. The new records can be searched for free at FamilySearch.org (Click Search Records, then Record Search pilot).

Record Search visitors might also notice the following changes to the pilot site after the latest update.

1. Region map flyover now lists the number of collections in a region
2. Rotate an image clockwise or counterclockwise in the viewer
3. New full screen view in the image viewer
4. Search form now displays the collection being searched
5. Image navigation- moved previous, next &  go to buttons to the bottom of the page
6. Collection list page is now a single column
7. Image only collections are identified
8. Changes to print selected area

Collection Name	Indexed Records	Digital Images	Comments
1920 United States Census	3,652,688	77,119	Added California
1915 South Dakota Census	613,769	613,769	New and complete
1925 South Dakota Census	705,319	705,285	New and complete
West Virginia Births	68,391		Updated – 3 new indexed counties (Brooke, Kanawha, and Upshur).  Collection should now be complete.
West Virginia Deaths	184,426		Updated – 3 new indexed counties (Brooke, Kanawha, and Upshur).  Collection should now be complete.
West Virginia Marriages	275,877		Updated – 3 new indexed counties (Brooke, Kanawha, and Upshur).  Collection should now be complete.
Illinois, Cook County Birth Certificates	924,602	910,059	New
Illinois, Cook County Birth Registers	63,933	1,844	New