The following announcement was written by FamilySearch:
5 November 2009
The Indiana marriages, Netherlands, 1920 U.S. Census, Brazil, and Italy collections were recently added or updated in FamilySearch’s Record Search pilot.
FamilySearch applauds members of the Indiana Genealogical Society and FamilySearch volunteers for the great work done on the Indiana Marriages collection. Volunteers are indexing marriage records from 1811 to 1959. The recent update will surely be attractive to those with Indiana roots.
The new Brazil Catholic Church Records and Naples, Italy, Civil Registration collections are a sampling of what’s coming to FamilySearch.org for these countries. See the chart below for a list of all the newly added collections.
These collections can be searched for free at the FamilySearch.org Record Search pilot (click Search Records, and then click Record Search pilot).
None of this would be possible without the great contributions made by many online volunteers who help make these collections freely available by donating a few minutes of their time and talents through the FamilySearch Indexing program. Thank you!
Collection Name Indexed Records Digital Images Comments Indiana Marriages, 1811–1959 134,338 Updated index-only collection. This is a joint volunteer indexing project with the Indiana Genealogical Society. Netherlands, Limburg Parish Register Transcripts, 1600–1822 26,607 Updated image browse only collection; part of an ongoing project. 1920 United States Census 11,687,573 Added indexes for Pennsylvania, Idaho, and West Virginia. Brazil Catholic Church Records 121,718 New image browse only collection; part of an ongoing project. Italy, Napoli Province, Municipal Records, Castellammare di Stabia 199,602 New image browse only collection; part of an ongoing project. About FamilySearch
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For the few interested in Czech Research (I'm in charge of Czech and Slovak cataloging in the FHL and work closely with indexing.), the Litoměřice German records are approximately 15% finished. Slowly getting somewhere. Anybody interested in helping to index any project can go to https://www.familysearchindexing.org/newuser/nuhome.jsf and begin. SRE
Posted by: Shon R. Edwards | November 06, 2009 at 10:56 AM
The newly-indexed IN marriage records will neccessarily be incomple between 1811 and 1882 because civil registration of vital statistics was not required here until 1882.
Posted by: Bobbi Chapman | November 06, 2009 at 09:53 PM