Added and Updated FamilySearch Record Collections - Week of 6 to 12 June 2026

 Each week, I try to keep track of the number of Full-Text Search collections (indexed, searchable) and the Images collections (browsable but not searchable) -- see Sections 1) and 2) below. In addition, I list the genealogy historical record collections (often name-indexed) that are added, removed, and/or updated on FamilySearch and listed on the Historical Record Collection list  --  See Section 3.

1)  As of 12 June 2026, there are now 6,663 searchable and full-text transcribed image collections on FamilySearch Full-Text Search this week, a decrease of 5 from last week. There are over 1.99 BILLION "results" in the collections.  It is not possible to see which collections are new.

 2)  As of 12 June 2026, there are now 24,819 browsable (some indexed, none transcribed) image lections on FamilySearch Images this week, a decrease of 2 from last week. There are over 6.055 BILLION images in these collections.  There are 2,118 collections from the United States, 7,076 from Europe and 221 from Canada.  It is not possible to see which collections are new.

3)  As of 12 June 2026, there are 3,434 Historical Record Collections (many indexed, browsable) on FamilySearch (a decrease of 3 from last week):

The Deleted, Added and Updated Historical Record Collections this week include:

-- Collections Deleted ---

Iowa, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2796750); Index only (63 records), no images, DELETED
Philippines, Bicol, Civil Registration, 1783-2008 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/5000343); 20,169 indexed records with 803,949 record images, DELETED
Philippines, Calabarzon, Church Records 1710-1983 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/5000323); 1,478,024 indexed records with 236,829 record images, DELETED
Philippines, Metro Manila, Church Records, 1723-1982 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/5000337); 362,559 indexed records with 167,613 record images, DELETED
Philippines, Mimaropa, Church Records, 1821-1937 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/5000339); 69,724 indexed records with 31,989 record images, DELETED

--- Collections Added ---

*  Indiana, Indianapolis, Crown Hill Cemetery, Funeral Home Records, 1834-1959 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/5000492); 105,322 indexed records with 105,144 record images, ADDED 06-Jan-2026
*  Italy, Piedmont, Alessandria, Civil Registration (Tribunale), 1866-1926 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/5000130); 12,714 indexed records with 4,565 record images, ADDED 01-Apr-2026

--- Collections Updated ---

Argentina, Buenos Aires, Catholic Church Records, 1635-2017 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1972912); 2,815,879 indexed records with 978,396 record images (was 2,773,107 records with 978,396 images), UPDATED 10-Jun-2026
Argentina, Capital Federal, Catholic Church Records, 1640-1978 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1974184); 175,308 indexed records with 998,148 record images (was 1,544,630 records with 998,148 images), UPDATED 10-Jun-2026
Argentina, Corrientes, Catholic Church Records, 1734-2013 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1974183); 277,437 indexed records with 207,943 record images (was 253,044 records with 207,943 images), UPDATED 10-Jun-2026
Argentina, Entre Ríos, Catholic Church Records, 1764-2011 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1974185); 345,942 indexed records with 235,772 record images (was 545,131 records with 235,772 images), UPDATED 10-Jun-2026

Argentina, La Pampa, Catholic Church Records, 1882-1976 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1974187); 53,127 indexed records with 25,879 record images (was 52,628 records with 25,879 images), UPDATED 10-Jun-2026
Argentina, La Rioja, Catholic Church Records, 1714-1970 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1974188); 79,234 indexed records with 74,259 record images (was 74,759 records with 74,259 images), UPDATED 10-Jun-2026
Argentina, Mendoza, Catholic Church Records, 1665-1975 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1974189); 198,739 indexed records with 144,042 record images (was 341,870 records with 144,042 images), UPDATED 10-Jun-2026
Argentina, San Juan, Catholic Church Records, 1655-2013 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1974194); 200,938 indexed records with 83,087 record images (was 200,707 records with 83,087 images), UPDATED 10-Jun-2026
Australia, South Australia, Probate Case Files, 1849-1935 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/5000064); 58,970 indexed records with 18,873 record images (was 58,883 records with 18,853 images), UPDATED 05-Jun-2026

Bolivia, Catholic Church Records, 1566-2020 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1922463); 9,825,511 indexed records with 1,649,601 record images (was 9,825,511 records with 1,649,601 images), UPDATED 10-Jun-2026
Chile, Catholic Church Records, 1633-2015 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/3405096); 8,804,944 indexed records with 1,250,421 record images (was 8,680,076 records with 1,129,390 images), UPDATED 10-Jun-2026
Colombia, Archivo Distrital de Bogota, Obituary Books, 1900-1940 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/5000257); 172,407 indexed records with 28,232 record images (was 172,322 records with 28,224 images), UPDATED 05-Jun-2026
Colombia, Migration Records, 1885-2014 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/5000159); 6,802,274 indexed records with 6,576,246 record images (was 6,739,551 records with 6,511,777 images), UPDATED 12-Jun-2026
Connecticut, Vital Records, Prior to 1850 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2843390); 437,950 indexed records with 413,744 record images (was 437,710 records with 413,517 images), UPDATED 10-Jun-2026

Costa Rica, Catholic Church Records, 1595-2022 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1460016); 320,205 indexed records with 962,203 record images (was 2,627,233 records with 962,203 images), UPDATED 10-Jun-2026
England and Wales, National Index of Wills and Administrations, 1858-1957 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2451051); Index only (8,412,453 records), no images (was 8,412,182 records with 0 images), UPDATED 08-Jun-2026
England, Armed Forces and Overseas Vital Records, 1360-1981 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/5000359); 68,064 indexed records with 13,883 record images (was 8,440 records with 3,213 images), UPDATED 10-Jun-2026
England, Bedfordshire, Parish Registers, 1538-1983 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2836129); 369,450 indexed records with 30,432 record images (was 369,289 records with 30,420 images), UPDATED 09-Jun-2026
England, Lincolnshire, Parish Registers, 1538-1990 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2540411); 1,312,197 indexed records with 384,258 record images (was 1,308,057 records with 367,266 images), UPDATED 08-Jun-2026

England, Northamptonshire, Non-conformist Records, 1651-1895 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2806100); Index only (69,192 records), no images (was 69,184 records with 0 images), UPDATED 09-Jun-2026
England, Surrey, Parish Registers, 1536-1992 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2475028); Index only (1,733,702 records), no images (was 1,731,594 records with 0 images), UPDATED 08-Jun-2026
Guatemala, Catholic Church Records, 1581-2023 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1614809); 4,875,195 indexed records with 1,160,338 record images (was 4,850,185 records with 1,160,338 images), UPDATED 10-Jun-2026
Italy, Brindisi, Civil Registration (State Archive), 1809-1955 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2328379); 132,503 indexed records with 827,146 record images (was 228,127 records with 827,146 images), UPDATED 08-Jun-2026
Kansas, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2796751); 397,247 indexed records with 124,434 record images (was 199,218 records with 124,434 images), UPDATED 05-Jun-2026

Missouri, Births, 1817-1939 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2524491); Index only (127,462 records), no images (was 127,281 records with 0 images), UPDATED 05-Jun-2026
Nevada County Birth and Death Records, 1871-1992 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2053817); 31,123 indexed records with 14,425 record images (was 29,759 records with 14,425 images), UPDATED 05-Jun-2026
New Hampshire, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1947 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2999488); 105,459 indexed records with 119,849 record images (was 120,500 records with 119,849 images), UPDATED 07-Jun-2026
New York, Record of Naturalized Voters Registered, 1872-1878 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/4117523); 584,240 indexed records with 6,739 record images (was 583,073 records with 6,726 images), UPDATED 08-Jun-2026
New Zealand, Civil Records Indexes, 1800-1966 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2697870); 2,331,241 indexed records with 2 record images (was 2,331,241 records with 2 images), UPDATED 08-Jun-2026

North Dakota, County Marriages, 1872-2000 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2550852); 17,428 indexed records with 91,457 record images (was 17,364 records with 91,457 images), UPDATED 05-Jun-2026
Ohio, WWI Index and Return Cards, 1916-1920 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/3039663); 101,597 indexed records with 101,155 record images (was 100,669 records with 100,361 images), UPDATED 11-Jun-2026
Peru, Arequipa, Catholic Church Records, 1660-2020 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/4447275); Index only (65,525 records), no images (was 79,184 records with 0 images), UPDATED 10-Jun-2026
Peru, Catholic Church Records, 1556-2023 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1877097); Index only (3,447,829 records), no images (was 3,443,710 records with 0 images), UPDATED 10-Jun-2026
Peru, Huánuco, Catholic Church Records, 1660-2020 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/4439346); Index only (18,431 records), no images (was 18,431 records with 0 images), UPDATED 09-Jun-2026

Philippines Civil Registration (National), 1945-1996 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1852584); 1,651 indexed records with 20,274,621 record images (was 5,508,941 records with 20,274,621 images), UPDATED 10-Jun-2026
Slovakia, Church and Synagogue Books, 1592-1935 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1554443); 19,040,243 indexed records with 1,615,473 record images (was 18,821,075 records with 1,615,473 images), UPDATED 09-Jun-2026
Texas, Cooke County, Deeds, 1895-1924 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2804974); 32,795 indexed records with 29,117 record images (was 32,703 records with 29,072 images), UPDATED 05-Jun-2026
United States, Veterans Administration Master Index, 1917-1940 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2968245); 6,932,735 indexed records with 5,608,947 record images (was 6,932,344 records with 5,611,122 images), UPDATED 11-Jun-2026
Wyoming, Reclaim the Records, State Archives Vital Records, 1908-1966 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2837991); 299,202 indexed records with 193,351 record images (was 299,187 records with 193,347 images), UPDATED 11-Jun-2026

--- Collections with new images ---

Argentina, Buenos Aires City, Civil Registration, 1811-1980 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/5000077); 1 indexed records with 10,192 record images (was 1 records with 10,191 images), last updated 26-Nov-2024
Brazil, Alagoas, Civil Registration, 1876-2023 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/4469403); 1 indexed records with 454,223 record images (was 1 records with 454,222 images), last updated 07-Jun-2024
Brazil, Maranhão, Civil Registration, 1827-2022 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/4469402); 1 indexed records with 906,195 record images (was 1 records with 906,193 images), last updated 07-Jun-2024
England, Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1473016); 13,095,153 indexed records with 111,999 record images (was 13,095,153 records with 111,545 images), last updated 31-Jan-2026
Georgia, Wills and Deeds, ca. 1700s-2017 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/3158836); 1 indexed records with 5,472 record images (was 1 records with 5,470 images), last updated 07-Jun-2024

--- Collections with images removed ---

--- Collections with new records ---

--- Collections with records removed ---

United States, Public Records, 1970-2009 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2199956); Index only (875,600,596 records), no images (was 875,600,604 records with 0 images), last updated 23-Dec-2025
United States, Residence Database, 1970-2024 (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/5000290); Index only (413,858,224 records), no images (was 413,858,248 records with 0 images), last updated 22-Jun-2024

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My friend and SDGS colleague, Marshall, has come up with a way to determine which collections are ADDED, DELETED or UPDATED, and to alphabetize the entries in each category. Thanks to Marshall for helping me out here!

Marshall notes that there are:

• 3,434 Historical Record Collection entries
• 5 removed entries
• 2  added entries 
• 39 updated entries
• 5 entries with more or fewer images 
• 2 entries with more or fewer records

Marshsll's list shows 3,434 Historical Record Collections this week, a decrease of 3 collections. The image above shows 3,434 collections, so the website number is in sync with Marshall's list number.

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Added and Updated Ancestry.com Record Collections - Week of 6 to 12 June 2026

 The following genealogy record collections were added to the Ancestry.com Card Catalog page by "Date Updated" during the period from 6 to 12 June 2026: 

The ADDED and Updated collections include:

• Web: Manitoba, Marriage Index, 1881-1945; 507,141 indexed records without record images, Updated 6/12/2026. All data in this third-party database was obtained from the source’s website. Ancestry.com does not support or make corrections or changes to the original database. 
• UK, Recommendations for Honours and Awards, 1935-1944; 178,284 indexed records without record images, Updated 6/12/2026. This collection is an index of information related to honours and awards for military personnel in the British armed forces and the armed forces of allied nations between 1935 and 1944. 
• Web: Saskatchewan, Canada, Birth Index, 1875-1924; 1,178,570 indexed records without record images, Updated 6/12/2026. All data in this third-party database was obtained from the source’s website. Ancestry.com does not support or make corrections or changes to the original database. 
• Clay and Pope Counties, Arkansas, U.S., Cemetery and Obituary Records, 1950-2018; 122,126 indexed records with record images, ADDED  6/10/2026. This collection contains obituaries and cemetery records from Clay and Pope counties in Arkansas, dated between 1950 and 2018.
• London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1941; 14,371,531 indexed records with record images, Updated  6/9/2026. This collection includes Church of England parish registers of marriages between 1754 and 1941 from the historical county of London, England.
• UK, World War II Alien Internees, 1939-1945; 135,512 indexed records with record images, Updated  6/9/2026. This collection contains records that document the internment of foreign nationals by the British government during the Second World War from 1939 to 1945.
• London, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1925; 23,965,349 indexed records with record images, Updated  6/9/2026. This collection includes Church of England parish registers of births and baptisms between 1813 and 1925 from the historical county of London, England. 

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The complete Ancestry.com Card Catalog is at https://search.ancestry.com/search/CardCatalog.aspx.

By my count, there are 1 NEW record collections ADDED this past week, per the list above. There are now 33,942 collections available as of 12 June, an INCREASE of 1 from last week. 

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Ask AI: "Describe Alexander and Rachel (Morley) Whittle’s Voyage on the Ship 'Brothers' in 1840-1841" – Part 2

I wondered if my AI Assistant Anthropic Claude could provide me with information about my wife's ancestral family's migration from England to Australia in 1840. My wife's 2nd great-grandparents Alexander Whittle and Rachel Morley married in 1840 and had one child at the time.  I posted an ABC Biography for them in ABC Biography of Alexander and Rachel (Morley) Whittle of Lancashire, New South Wales and California (1818-1861).

I asked Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.6 to create a description of the migration trip from Lancashire, England to Sydney, Australia experienced by the Alexander Whittle family in 1840-1841.  Part 1 was published in Ask AI: "Describe Alexander and Rachel (Morley) Whittle’s Voyage on the Ship 'Brothers' in 1840-1841" – Part 1.  Here is Part 2 of the story based on the biography and social history.  

(AI NotebookLM Infographic -- Whittle Family Adventure)

Alexander and Rachel (Morley) Whittle’s

Adventure – Part 2

The Voyage of the Brothers

Liverpool to Sydney, 14 September 1840 – 11 March 1841

[Continued from Part 1]

The Cape of Good Hope — 24 December 1840

They raised the Cape on the afternoon of the twenty-fourth of December, and the sight of it went through the ship like a current.

Alexander was on deck when someone at the bow called out, and he turned to see the land: a great flat-topped mountain rising dark against the sky to the east, its summit trailing wisps of cloud that the locals apparently called the Tablecloth, and below it the white sprawl of Cape Town spreading down to the bay. Table Bay. The anchor went down in the late afternoon, and the 

rode quietly in the shelter of the mountain while the sun went down behind it in colours Alexander had no name for — not Lancashire colours, not English colours at all, but something fierce and southern that painted the water copper and the sails gold.

It was Christmas Eve.

Someone in the between-decks had kept a small candle for this occasion, against all regulations, and they lit it after supper and set it on the communal table, and Mary Haworth sang a carol in a clear, unselfconscious voice, and then Mrs. Critchley sang one, and then the older Haworth children were persuaded to sing a third, rather badly but with great enthusiasm. Elizabeth sat on Rachel’s lap and watched the candle with absolute attention.

“Happy Christmas,” Alexander said quietly, to Rachel.

“Happy Christmas,” she said. She looked at him in the candlelight, and he saw something in her face that he recognised as the version of contentment she allowed herself in public: not happiness exactly, but the acknowledgement of it.

The candle was extinguished before Dr. Gillespie made his evening round. No one mentioned it.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

They lay at anchor in Table Bay for nearly two weeks, and those days were the strangest of the whole voyage.

Cape Town in 1840 was a British colonial settlement of perhaps twenty thousand people, growing fast and prosperous on its position as the halfway house of the world. Ships from every nation lay in the bay — British, Dutch, American, Portuguese — and the town itself was a place of extraordinary variety: Dutch-gabled houses and English shops and the mountain above everything, its flat summit watching over it all. The water was clear enough to see the bottom at anchor, and the air had a dry warmth quite unlike anything they had felt in the tropics.

Some passengers were permitted ashore in small groups under the supervision of the surgeon. Alexander and Rachel went on the third day of anchorage, carrying Elizabeth and walking up from the landing through streets that were at once familiar and profoundly foreign. English shop signs, English newspapers for sale at the corner, English voices in the crowd — and then, a moment later, a flash of colour and movement that was not English at all, a world layered over a world.

They bought fresh bread, which seemed like a miracle after two and a half months of ship’s biscuit. Rachel held a loaf to her face and breathed it in. They bought oranges, a luxury that Elizabeth attacked with such single-minded enthusiasm that she was orange-coloured to the elbows for the rest of the day. They sat in a small square in the shadow of the mountain and ate the bread and the oranges and watched the street go by, and did not say much, because there was too much to say.

“Only halfway,” Alexander said at last, looking at the mountain.

“Only halfway,” Rachel agreed. Then: “But we’re here. We made it this far.”

He looked at her. She was watching a group of children playing at the far end of the square, Elizabeth in her arms watching too.

“We did,” he said.

                                          ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

On the sixth of January the captain gave orders to weigh anchor.

The men refused.

Alexander heard it from below: the orders, the silence where compliance should have been, and then the raised voices. He came up on deck to find the situation worse than it had been in November. In the Cape, Captain Greyburne had procured proper irons, and this morning he would use them. The trouble, it emerged — people were talking in the between-decks, and news moved fast on a ship — was that the crew felt themselves shorthanded. Several men had jumped ship in Table Bay. The captain had proposed to make up the numbers with willing passengers; the sailors refused to accept men who were not seamen as their messmates.

What followed was ugly and slow. The prisoners — seven of them eventually, including Blandford — were put in irons. During that first night, they broke them off and threw them overboard, and the captain secured them again with chains around their middles. Some passengers were called to help work the ship while the chained men sat on the deck in the January heat, and Alexander and Tom Haworth and young Croft spent three days hauling ropes under the direction of the officers, learning the work fast by necessity.

“Not so different from the yard,” Alexander said to Croft, on the second day, coiling a hawser under instruction.

“Bigger ropes,” Croft said. He was sweating in the January sun. “More swearing.”

The prisoners were eventually released once the Brothers was well out of the bay and there was no land to swim to. They returned to their duties and gave no more trouble. Captain Greyburne did not discuss the matter with the passengers, and the between-decks discussed it constantly, in the manner of people who have had a fright and are trying to talk it into something manageable.

“We’ll be all right,” Mrs. Critchley announced, with great authority, at supper on the second night out of Cape Town.

No one contradicted her.

The Southern Ocean — January–February 1841

South of the Cape the weather changed completely and finally.

The Brothers caught the roaring forties — the great westerly winds that circled the globe at those latitudes, unimpeded by any landmass, and which were the fastest route to Australia for a sailing ship heading east. Captain Greyburne put the ship before the wind and she ran. She ran like nothing Alexander had experienced: not the slow plunging of the Bay of Biscay or the wallowing of the doldrums, but a surging, tilted, urgent rush through grey-green seas that broke white at their crests and sometimes rolled completely over the deck.

The hatches were battened down. The between-decks went dark except for the swinging lanterns. The world tilted fifteen, twenty degrees and stayed tilted, meal after meal, day after day, everything secured with lashings or wedged against the hull. The coppers swung on their gimbals. Sleeping in the berths meant wedging yourself against the side or your husband’s back, because the alternative was rolling onto the deck.

Elizabeth found this hilarious.

She was too young to understand danger and too young to be seasick for long, and she had developed the sea legs that infants sometimes find before adults, a low, wide-planted stance that rolled with the ship with something approaching elegance. She regarded the pitched and lurching world of the between-decks as a splendid game, and the Haworth children, once they recovered from their own sickness, followed her lead. The sound of children laughing in the between-decks while the ship ran before a gale in the Southern Ocean was something Alexander would not forget: incongruous and wholly sustaining.

Rachel was less philosophical.

She was not sick again — she maintained her earlier position on that subject — but the confinement wore on her. She had never been a person who liked enclosed spaces, and the battened-down between-decks, dim and loud and smelling of everything, was the most enclosed space she had ever occupied. She dealt with it by sleeping more than usual, by reading her two books through again from the beginning, and by quietly memorising the ship’s noises until she could identify each one and know what it meant.

“That’s the forestay,” she told Alexander one evening, as a particular groan worked its way through the hull above their heads.

“How do you know?”

“I asked the sailor. The young one with the red hair. He was happy to explain.”

He looked at her. “And that?” he asked, as a different sound moved through the planking.

“The mainmast partner,” she said, without looking up from her book. “It’s fine. It’s always done that.”

                                          ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

There were deaths on the voyage. Old Butterworth died on the third week out of Cape Town, in his sleep, in the tilted dark of the Southern Ocean. Dr. Gillespie noted it in his log and the body was committed to the sea the following morning, the passengers gathered on deck in the grey gale-light while the captain read the words. The wind took them almost before they were said.

A child from the single-women’s quarters had died in the tropics, though the passengers in the married section had not been told until afterwards. And a baby was born in the middle of the Southern Ocean to a young Irishwoman travelling alone whose husband was already in Sydney waiting for her, and Mrs. Critchley acted as midwife with the competence of long practice, and the baby lived and was named James, and James became the most celebrated person in the between-decks for the final weeks of the voyage.

“That’s a good sign,” Mary Haworth said, regarding the new baby.

“A life for a life,” Mrs. Critchley said, meaning Butterworth.

Rachel said nothing, but she spent an afternoon rocking the Irishwoman’s baby while the mother slept, with an expression Alexander recognised as the one she wore when she was feeling something she had no intention of discussing.




Port Jackson — 11 March 1841

The pilot came aboard on the tenth of March, in the early afternoon, and the word went through the ship like fire: Australia. Land.

They had been at sea for nearly six months. For the last week the weather had been easing steadily, the great Southern Ocean swells giving way to a smoother, bluer water as they moved north into the Tasman Sea. Albatrosses had followed them since the Cape and were still there, vast and grey-winged, riding the wind above the ship’s wake as if curious to see where she was going.

The coast appeared off the port bow as a low dark line, utterly unlike anything Alexander had imagined when he tried to picture Australia. There were no mountains, no drama — just a flat, dark smudge on the horizon that slowly resolved itself into sandstone cliffs and dense green scrub and a coast that went on and on, unhurried, ancient, entirely indifferent to the small ship moving along it. The trees were wrong: wrong shape, wrong colour, their leaves the blue-grey of nothing Alexander had seen before, hanging in the still air.

“It doesn’t look like England,” Mary Haworth said.

“No,” Alexander agreed.

“Well,” she said. “I suppose that’s the point.”

                                          ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

They entered Port Jackson on the morning of the eleventh of March, and the harbour opened around them like a gift.

Alexander had expected a port, a dock, something like Liverpool or Cape Town — familiar infrastructure, the business of arrival. What he had not expected was the beauty of it. The harbour was vast and intricate, a maze of headlands and coves and inlets with the water so blue it looked painted, and the town of Sydney spread up the hills on the southern shore in the morning light, its white buildings catching the sun. Green hills. Blue water. A sky of extraordinary depth.

The whole of the between-decks was on deck for the final approach. People were crying, though whether from relief or joy or the complicated emotion of having finally arrived somewhere after six months of not arriving anywhere, it was hard to say. Mrs. Critchley was not crying but her handkerchief was working hard. Young Croft was pointing at things and asking Alexander what they were, and Alexander could not answer because he had never been here either, but he pointed anyway.

Elizabeth was on his shoulders.

She had been demanding this position, with increasing persistence, for the past hour, and he had hoisted her up so she could see over the heads of the crowd at the rail. She sat there now, one hand gripping his hair with unconscious ferocity, looking at Sydney Harbour with her dark eyes wide, taking it in with the total, unembarrassed absorption of a child for whom everything in the world is still new.

Rachel stood beside him, her shoulder against his arm. She was looking at the shore.

“Well,” she said, after a long time.

He waited.

“We chose it,” she said.

He looked at her. She was still watching the shore, the white buildings rising into the green hills, the extraordinary sky.

“We did,” he said.

The Brothers moved slowly into her berth. On his shoulders, Elizabeth tightened her grip on his hair. Ahead of them, Sydney waited in the morning light, loud and new and entirely itself: the other side of the world, which was also, as of this morning, the beginning of theirs.

                                       

From the Log of the Brothers

A summary of the voyage as documented

14 September 1840. Departed Liverpool, England. 278 Bounty Immigrants aboard, including 64 from Lancashire. Crew and officers complement the vessel. Bound for the Cape of Good Hope and thence Sydney, New South Wales.

28 November 1840. Disturbance among the crew. Prisoner Blandford confined after insolence and refusing the captain’s lawful orders. Several men of the starboard watch refused to assist. Ship continues to navigate without obstruction.

24 December 1840. Arrived Table Bay, Cape of Good Hope. Anchor let down in good holding ground. Table Mountain in the offing. Christmas observed.

6 January 1841. Ordered to weigh anchor. Men refused. Prisoners — Blandford, Brandt, Smith, Williams, Northcotte, Moorcroft, Macdonald — confined in irons procured at the Cape. Passengers called to assist with the work of the ship. Vessel departed Table Bay.

11 March 1841. Arrived Port Jackson, New South Wales, at eight in the morning. All passengers and crew in health, save those noted. Anchored off Sydney Cove. The voyage complete.

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Seven of the Brothers’ crew were tried at the Supreme Court of New South Wales on 13 April 1841,
charged with mutiny on the high seas. Captain Thomas Greyburne gave evidence.
Alexander, Rachel, and Elizabeth Whittle settled in Sydney.

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A Note to the Reader

This is a work of fiction, imagined around documented historical facts. The Brothers was a real ship that sailed from Liverpool on 14 September 1840, carrying 278 bounty immigrants including Alexander and Rachel Whittle and their infant daughter Elizabeth. The ship arrived at Port Jackson on 11 March 1841, having stopped at the Cape of Good Hope on 24 December 1840. A mutiny occurred among the crew at the Cape on 6 January 1841, the details of which are drawn from the trial reported in the Australian Chronicle of 15 April 1841. The captain’s name — Thomas Greyburne — is taken from the trial record. The descriptions of steerage life, weather, and the route are drawn from period accounts. All dialogue, characters beyond the Whittle family, and interior scenes are invented.

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The AI Google NotebookLM Video Overview of this story is in:  

This is historical fiction based on known events in the lives of my wife's ancestors -- it might have been this way. Alexander and Rachel (Morley) Whittle are my wife's 2nd great-grandparents, and I have significant information about this family from the available records, but I know nothing about their day-to-day lives. 

As always, I am amazed at what life was like in any place over 180 years ago. This description of their adventure form England to Australia is interesting and so different from our current daily activities.

After I read these types of social history summaries, I wish that I could be a time traveler for one day to visit this Whittle family in 1840 abosard the Brothers and witness their daily lives.  I'm glad that the general lifestyles and occupations are known from historical records and witness accounts. Fortunately, there are records and articles about this voyage -- see Mutiny on the Sailing Ship, Brothers. 1841.

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Findmypast Fridays: Delve Into Your Family's Experiences With New Records

 I received thisi nformation from Findmypast today:

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Trace social history with new records from Scotland and Sussex.

We've added two exciting new Scottish sets this week - if you have roots in Scotland, expand your family tree with stories from Clackmannanshire and beyond. With over 8,000 burials and new baptisms from Sussex, there are also new civil and parish records to explore.

Scotland, Red Book of Scotland

This new collection of Scottish Red book records comprises 99,822 records, spanning 1100 to 1600. These records chart the history of some of Scotland's most notable families in vivid detail.

Scotland, People of Clackmannanshire

This week's second new Scottish set contains 23,284 records from the historic county of Clackmannanshire. These new additions span the 18th and 19th centuries.

Scotland, Modern and Civil Deaths & Burials

We've also updated our Scottish civil death and burial records, with 8,504 new records covering almost 200 years of history.

Sussex Baptisms

Our existing collection of Sussex baptisms also received an update this week; explore 7,810 new records, spanning as far back as 1538.

New pages from Birmingham to Bedford

We've added seven newspaper titles to our archive this week and updated 30 existing publications - there are 336,654 new pages for you to discover.

New titles:

• Autocycle, 1903, 1913-1920
• Birmingham Graphic, 1883-1884
• Dalry & Kilbirnie Herald and Vale of Garnock News, 1894-1919
• Family Doctor and People’s Medical Adviser, 1918
• Housing Journal, 1918
• Pontefract Telegraph, 1859, 1863-1864, 1866-1867, 1879, 1889
• The Baptist, 1895, 1899

Updated titles:

• Aberdeen People’s Journal, 1871–1873
• Aberdeen Press and Journal, 2006–2008
• Achill Missionary Herald and Western Witness, 1851–1855, 1857–1866, 1869
• Ashbourne News Telegraph, 2000–2005
• Ashby-de-la-Zouch Gazette, 1877
• Ayrshire World, 2000–2005
• Bedford Record, 1912, 1921–1924
• Birmingham Daily Post, 1896–1897, 1911, 2005
• Cheshunt and Waltham Mercury, 2000–2002
• Chorley Standard and District Advertiser, 1864–1869
• Cumbernauld News, 1995–2005
• Dundee Evening Telegraph, 1987, 1989, 1994
• Glasgow Observer and Catholic Herald, 1885–1894
• Hull Daily Mail, 2000
• Huntingdon Town Crier, 2001–2002
• Irvine Herald, 2000, 2003–2004
• Kentish Gazette, 1805–1806, 1841, 1884
• Lancashire Evening Post, 1950, 1987, 1991, 1995
• Leatherhead Advertiser, 2002, 2004
• Norfolk News, 1913
• North Wales Chronicle, 1870, 1898
• Northern Echo, 1901–1902
• Northern Ensign and Weekly Gazette, 1850–1853, 1855–1863, 1865, 1867–1869, 1872–1875, 1877–1878, 1886, 1888, 1893–1894, 1897–1900, 1902–1921
• Nottinghamshire Guardian, 1888, 1910, 1912
• Penny Illustrated Paper, 1908–1910, 1912–1913
• Rothesay Chronicle, 1863–1874, 1878, 1892–1900, 1902, 1904–1909, 1911, 1913
• South London Observer, 1896–1900, 1965–1966
• Thanet Advertiser, 1904–1910, 1912–1913
• Warminster & Westbury Journal, 1896, 1898, 1909–1913, 1919
• Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, 1989

A Family History of... Gallipoli

The battle for Gallipoli begins. As war comes knocking, Nelson Langsford moves from routine service into active conflict aboard HMS Prince George. Joined by naval historian Charlotte Ward‑Kelly, host Jen Baldwin delves deeper, uncovering what it was like to experience the chaos below deck.  Watch the YouTube video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MhNK5V3bl8.

More on this topic:     english records     scottish records

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Added and Updated MyHeritage Record Collections - Week of 5 to 11 June 2026

  The following Record Collections were ADDED or Updated in the MyHeritage Collections Catalog during the week of  5 to 11 June 2026:

• No new or updated record collections were listed.

The number of collections at the top of the list shows 1,687 collections (an increase of 2) with 39,348,151,208  records (a decrease of over 415 million records - it was 40,399,469,537 two weeks ago!).

Three weeks ago, the "Last Updated" list showed 7,550 collections.  What happened to over 5,800 collections that are not on any collection list?  See the list for three weeks ago in 

Added and Updated MyHeritage Record Collections - Week of 8 to 14 May 2026.

Something is very wrong with the "Last Updated" collection list!!!  Or did MyHeritage remove or combine over 5,800 record collections?

The Family Tree collections are not on the "Last Updated" list at all.  I collected the latest numbers for the Family Tree collections from the "Number of Records" list which does have the Family Tree collections (and a total of 1,687 collections).

• MyHeritage Family Trees (Family Trees), Updated Jun 10 2026, 6,944,880,304  entries 
• FamilySearch Family Tree (Family Trees), Updated Jun 10 2026, 1,230,912,933   entries
• Search Connect™ - Searches by MyHeritage Members (Family Trees), Updated Jun 10 2026, 503,366,128 entries
• Geni World Family Tree (Family Trees), Updated Jun 10 2026, 374,733,089 entries.
• Filae Family Trees (Family Trees), Updated Jun 10 2026, 335,047,178 entries
• MyHeritage photos & docs (Images), Updated Jun 10 2026, 201,902,711 entries 
• MyHeritage Family Sites (Family Trees), Updated Jun 10 2026, 59,579,843 entries
• MyHeritage members (Family Trees), Updated Jun 10 2026, 53,062,746 entries  

 The number of entries in the family tree collections were last updated this week.  Many of the Family Tree collection numbers have decreased significantly since last week.  What happened? 

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Ask AI: "Describe the Life of the Samuel Vaux Family in Wisconsin in 1865"

I wondered if my AI Assistant Anthropic Claude could provide me with information about an ancestral family's life in 1865 in Dodge County, Wisconsin.  My 3rd great-grandfather Samuel Vaux (1816-1880) was age 49, and had a farm in Burnett, Dodge County, Wisconsin.  I posted an ABC Biography for him in ABC Biography of #54 Samuel Vaux (1816-1880) of Somerset, New York, Wisconsin, Missouri and Kansas.

(AI NotebookLM Infographic -- Samuel Vaux Family Life in 1865 in Wisconsin)

I asked Anthropic Claude to create a description of Samuel Vaux's family life and work in Dodge County, Wisconsin in 1865, based on the biography and social history.

The Claude Sonnet 4.6 response was:

The Vaux Family of Burnett, Wisconsin - 1865

A Year in the Life of a Pioneer Farming Family

The Family Circle in 1865

By 1865, Samuel and Mary Ann Vaux had been established in Burnett township, Dodge County, Wisconsin for over a decade, and their lives had undergone significant transformations. Samuel, now forty-nine years old, was the patriarch of an extended family that now included not only his own children but also a growing number of grandchildren born to his married daughters. Mary Ann, fifty years old, was the grandmother to young children whose laughter filled the farmhouse during family visits.

The household itself had shifted considerably since their first years in Wisconsin. Their three eldest daughters - Mary Almeda, Celia Ann, and Abigail - had all married local men between 1860 and 1861 and established their own households in the surrounding townships. Mary Almeda was now the wife of James G. Woodward, while Celia Ann had married Milo Redfield, and Abigail had wed Devier James Lamphier Smith. These marriages had woven the Vaux family into the social fabric of Dodge County. At home on the farm, Samuel and Mary Ann had their two youngest children still living with them: James P. Vaux, now eighteen and working alongside his father as a farm laborer, and young Amos S. Vaux, now eleven years old and attending the local school when farm duties permitted.

The Work of the Farm

Farm life in Burnett township in 1865 was demanding and unforgiving, but Samuel had built considerable expertise over his years in Wisconsin. The farm that bore his name on the 1859 plat map represented substantial holdings in Section 29, and by 1865 it had become a productive operation that supported both his immediate family and contributed to the prosperity of the surrounding community. Samuel rose before dawn most days, as farmers must, to tend to the animals and prepare the fields for the season's work.

The spring of 1865 brought the back-breaking labor of plowing and preparing the fields for planting. The prairie soil of Wisconsin, richer than what they had known in New York, responded well to cultivation, and Samuel had learned to work with the land rather than against it. James P., now a young man of eighteen, worked beside his father, learning the craft of farming that Samuel hoped would sustain the family for generations. Together they planted wheat, corn, and oats - the crops that would feed their livestock and provide surplus for sale at local markets. The work was repetitive and exhausting, but there was a rhythm to it that Samuel had come to appreciate, a partnership with the seasons and the soil that connected him to the land in ways he'd never experienced as a younger man.

By late summer, when the crops had grown tall and promised a good harvest, the family would gather in preparation for the autumn reaping. Neighboring farmers would come to help with the threshing, and in return, Samuel and James would assist them with their own harvests. This system of mutual aid and cooperation was essential to survival in frontier farming communities, where neighbors were often the difference between success and disaster.

Mary Ann's Vital Role

While Samuel and James P. managed the field crops and livestock, Mary Ann was equally essential to the farm's success and prosperity. Her days began before dawn and ended long after sunset, managing the household operations that sustained the family and generated additional income. She maintained a large kitchen garden that provided vegetables for the family's table and for preservation through the winter months -- canning, pickling, and root cellar storage were skills she had perfected over two decades of farming. Mary Ann also managed the dairy operation, milking the cows, making butter and cheese that could be sold at local markets or traded for goods the family could not produce themselves. Her poultry yard -- chickens, ducks, and geese -- provided eggs and meat, and she carefully managed these flocks to maximize their productivity. Beyond the direct agricultural labor, Mary Ann was the household manager, overseeing the preparation of three meals a day for a family that often included hired hands during harvest season, managing the family's finances and accounts, mending and making clothing for the entire household, and directing the work of her daughters who still lived at home. It was Mary Ann's skill, industry, and careful management of household resources that allowed Samuel's field work to be profitable -- the farm could never have succeeded with only Samuel's labor in the fields. She was, in every sense, the backbone of the Vaux family enterprise, and her contributions were as vital to their prosperity as the acres Samuel worked.

Education and Learning

Education in Burnett township in 1865 was a serious matter to Samuel and Mary Ann, who had emphasized schooling for all their children. Young Amos S. Vaux, at eleven years old, attended the local district school whenever the demands of farm work permitted. The schoolhouse, a simple wooden structure with a bell on top, served children from families throughout the township. The teacher, usually a young unmarried woman from town, struggled to maintain discipline and provide adequate instruction to students of varying ages and abilities all in one room.

Amos and the other farm children would walk to school in fair weather, carrying their primers and slate tablets. The curriculum was basic but essential: reading, writing, arithmetic, and moral instruction. Samuel was proud that his son was learning to read and cipher, skills that would serve him well whether he remained a farmer or sought other opportunities. For the younger grandchildren of the Vaux family who visited during school sessions, Mary Ann often provided additional instruction at home, ensuring they understood their lessons.

The older daughters, now married and managing their own households, had received similar education in their youth. Mary Almeda, Celia Ann, and Abigail could all read and write competently, enabling them to keep household accounts, write letters to distant family members, and ensure that their own children would have access to education. In the evenings, literate family members would often read aloud from newspapers or books, keeping the household informed about events in Wisconsin, the nation, and the wider world.

Community Affairs and Church

The Vaux family was deeply embedded in the social and religious life of Burnett township by 1865. Samuel had become known as a reliable neighbor and a man of his word - qualities essential to standing in a frontier community. When neighbors needed assistance - whether raising a barn, bringing in a harvest before bad weather, or dealing with emergencies - the Vaux family was counted upon.

The local church was the center of community life, and Samuel and Mary Ann made efforts to attend services regularly when farm work permitted. The simple wooden church building, shared by multiple denominations, served as a gathering place not only for worship but for the exchange of news, gossip, advice, and mutual support. Church socials provided opportunities for families to gather, children to play together under adult supervision, and parents to discuss everything from crop conditions to political developments. The Civil War, which had been raging since 1861, was a constant topic of conversation in 1865, with community members anxious about relatives and friends who had gone to serve.

Samuel's daughters and their husbands also participated actively in community affairs. The marriages of Mary Almeda, Celia Ann, and Abigail had strengthened the family's connections to the broader Dodge County network. When someone in the community faced illness or hardship, the extended Vaux family network would mobilize to help. Quilting bees, where women gathered to create quilts for community members in need, regularly featured Mary Ann and her daughters. These occasions served the practical purpose of creating needed household goods while also providing essential social connection and the opportunity to discuss matters of importance to the women of the community.

Leisure and Entertainment

Entertainment in rural Wisconsin in 1865 was simple but meaningful, centered around family gatherings, holiday celebrations, and community events. During the long winter months, when farm work slowed considerably, the Vaux household became a gathering place. The parlor, warmed by the fireplace, was where family members would gather for conversation, games, and music.

Samuel had passed on to his children a love of community and family connection that manifested in regular gatherings. Holidays - particularly Christmas, Thanksgiving, and Independence Day - were occasions for the extended Vaux family to come together. In 1865, with daughters living within reasonable visiting distance, these family gatherings might include not only immediate family but also the families of Mary Almeda's husband James Woodward, Celia Ann's husband Milo Redfield, and Abigail's husband Devier Smith. The farmhouse would fill with the voices of children and adults, and Mary Ann would preside over tables laden with food prepared by the female members of the household.

For entertainment, the family enjoyed storytelling - Samuel was known for his tales of life in Somerset, England, and the crossing to America. He would recount these stories to his children and grandchildren, passing on the family history and the lessons learned from his remarkable life journey. Young Amos would sit enraptured by tales of his grandfather's earlier adventures, learning to appreciate the sacrifices that had been made to establish the family in America.

Singing was another form of entertainment, and the Vaux household often rang with music. Mary Ann and her daughters knew hymns and folk songs, and these would be sung during evening gatherings or after church services. Music provided both entertainment and spiritual sustenance, connecting the family to traditions that spanned generations and continents.

Outdoor entertainment was also important, especially for the younger generation. When the weather permitted, children played games in the farmyard - running races, playing tag, and engaging in the rough-and-tumble play that was part of growing up on the frontier. Young Amos and his cousins would chase each other through the fields, play with farm animals, and learn through play the skills they would need as adults.

A Settled Life

By 1865, the Vaux family had achieved what had seemed impossible in 1837 when they stepped off the ship in New York - they had become established, prosperous Wisconsin farmers with deep roots in their community. Samuel, now in his late forties and reflecting on nearly three decades in America, had reason to be satisfied with what he and Mary Ann had accomplished. They owned land, their children were marrying well and establishing their own families, and their younger children were receiving the education that would serve them well in life.

The years in Burnett had been formative for the entire family. The harsh winters of Wisconsin had tested them, but they had proved equal to the challenge. The rich soil had rewarded their labor, and the community had embraced them as neighbors and friends. As Samuel looked toward his remaining years, he could take pride in the fact that the Vaux family name was respected in Dodge County, that his children and grandchildren were thriving, and that the American dream he had pursued across the Atlantic in 1837 had been substantially realized in the rolling farmland of Wisconsin.

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The AI Google NotebookLM Video Overview of this story is in:  

This is historical fiction based on known events in the lives of my ancestors -- it might have been this way. Samuel and Mary Ann (Underhill) Vaux are my 3rd great-grandparents, and I have significant information about the family from the available records, but I know nothing about their day-to-day lives.

As always, I am amazed at what life was like in any place over 160 years ago. This description of Samuel's family life in Wisconsin is interesting and so different from our current daily activities.

After I read these types of social history summaries, I wish that I could be a time traveler for one day to visit this Vaux family in 1865 Wisconsin and witness their daily lives.  I'm glad that the general lifestyles and occupations are known from historical records and witness accounts.

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