FamilySearch Adds to United States Mexican War Index and Service Records; New Collection for United States Confederacy Navy and Marine Service Records

The following announcement was written by FamilySearch:

January 29, 2013

FamilySearch added 211,909 additional images for the United States Mexican War Index and Service Records collection, which includes a large portion of the war’s 78,718 American servicemen. Other notable additions include 514,562 browsable images in the Netherlands, Groningen Province, Church Records collection from 1595-1864, and 21,529 browsable images for the new United States Confederacy Navy and Marine Service Records collection from 1861-1865. See the table below for the full list of updates. Search these diverse collections and more than 3.5 billion other records for free at FamilySearch.org.

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Collection	Indexed Records	Digital Images	Comments
Canada, Upper Canada Census, 1842	20,851	852	Added index records and images to an existing collection.
Czech Republic, Land Records, 1450-1889	0	74,046	Added images to an existing collection.
Estonia, Population Registers, 1918-1944	0	19,448	New browsable image collection.
Netherlands, Groningen Province, Church Records, 1595-1864	0	514,562	Added images to an existing collection.
U.S., Indiana, Marriages, 1811-1959	35,492	0	New indexed record collection.
U.S., Maine, State Archive Collections, 1790-1966	0	5,075	Added images to an existing collection.
U.S., North Carolina, County Records, 1833-1970	0	96,868	Added images to an existing collection.
U.S., Oklahoma, Probate Records, 1887-2008	0	1,874	New browsable image collection.
United States, Confederate Navy and Marine Service Records, 1861-1865	0	21,529	New browsable image collection.
United States, Mexican War Index and Service Records, 1846-1848	0	211,909	Added images to an existing collection.