Friday, December 20, 2024

Added and Updated Ancestry.com Record Collections - Week of 14 to 20 December 2024

 The following genealogy record collections were added to the Ancestry.com Card Catalog page by Date Updated during the period from 14 to 20 December 2024: 

The ADDED and Updated collections include:

*  UK and Ireland, Obituary Index, 2004-Current; indexed records without record images, Updated 12/17/2024.  This collection is an index of information taken from online obituaries published in the United Kingdom and Ireland between 2004 and the present.

*  Australia and New Zealand, Obituary Index, 2004-Current; indexed records without record images, Updated 12/17/2024.  This collection is an index of information taken from online obituaries published in Australia and New Zealand between 2004 and the present.

*  Italy, Find a Grave® Index, 1800s-Current; indexed records without record images, Updated 12/17/2024. This database contains an index to cemetery and burial details posted on Find a Grave® from Italy. The records are dated between the 1800s and the present. 

*  Germany, Find a Grave® Index, 1600s-Current; indexed records without record images, Updated 12/17/2024. This database contains an index to cemetery and burial details posted on Find a Grave® from Germany. The records are dated between the 1600s and the present. 

*  Mexico, Find a Grave® Index, 1800s-Current; indexed records without record images, Updated 12/17/2024. This database contains an index to cemetery and burial details posted on Find a Grave® from Mexico. The records are dated between the 1800s and the present. 

*  Norway, Find a Grave® Index, 1800s-Current; indexed records without record images, Updated 12/17/2024. This database contains an index to cemetery and burial details posted on Find a Grave® from Norway. The records are dated between the 1800s and the present. 

*  Sweden, Find a Grave® Index, 1800s-Current; indexed records without record images, Updated 12/17/2024. This database contains an index to cemetery and burial details posted on Find a Grave® from Sweden. The records are dated between the 1800s and the present. 

*  Global, Find a Grave® Index for Burials at Sea and other Select Burial Locations, 1300s-Current; indexed records without record images, Updated 12/17/2024. This database contains an index to cemetery and burial details posted on Find a Grave® for burials at sea and other select burial locations. 

*  Canada, Find a Grave® Index, 1600s-Current; indexed records without record images, Updated 12/17/2024.  This database contains an index to cemetery and burial details posted on Find a Grave® from Canada. The records are dated between the 1600s and the present. 

*  Brazil, Find a Grave® Index, 1800s-Current; indexed records without record images, Updated 12/17/2024. This database contains an index to cemetery and burial details posted on Find a Grave® from Brazil. The records are dated between the 1800s and the present. 

*  U.S., Obituary Collection, 1930-Current; indexed records without record images, Updated 12/17/2024. This database is a compilation of obituaries published in U.S. newspapers, collected from various online sources. 

*  U.S., Cemetery and Funeral Home Collection, 1847-Current; indexed records without record images, Updated 12/17/2024. This collection is an index of information taken from online obituaries published by cemeteries and funeral homes in the United States between 1847 and the present.

*  U.S., Find a Grave® Index, 1600s-Current; indexed records without record images, Updated 12/17/2024. This database contains an index to cemetery and burial details posted on Find a Grave® from the United States. The records are dated between the 1600s and the present. 

*  Australia and New Zealand, Find a Grave® Index, 1800s-Current; indexed records without record images, Updated 12/16/2024.  This database contains an index to cemetery and burial details posted on Find a Grave® from Australia and New Zealand. The records are dated between the 1800s and the present. 

*  UK and Ireland, Find a Grave® Index, 1300s-Current; indexed records without record images, Updated 12/16/2024.  This database contains an index to cemetery and burial details posted on Find a Grave® from the United Kingdom and Ireland. The records are dated between the 1300s and the present. 

*  Canada, Obituary Collection, 1898-Current; indexed records without record images, Updated 12/16/2024. This database is a compilation of obituaries published in Canadian newspapers, collected from various online sources. 

*  Caribbean, Obituary Index, 2003-Current; indexed records without record images, Updated 12/16/2024. This collection is an index of information taken from online obituaries published in the Caribbean between 2003 and the present.

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

By my count, there were 0 NEW record collections ADDED this past week, per the list above.  There are now 33,684 collections available as of  20 December, an  INCREASE of 0 from last week.  

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52 Relatives: 2nd Great-GrandUncle Moses Hildreth (1828-1893) of Townsend and Northborough, Massachusetts

Moses Hildreth, son of Zachariah Hildreth and Hannah Sawtell,  was born on 27 December 1828 in Townsend, Middlesex, Massachusetts.[1-2] He died on 25 June 1893 at the age of 64 in Northborough, Worcester, Massachusetts.[2-3] He was buried after 25 June 1893 at Howard Street Cemetery in Northborough, Worcester, Massachusetts.[2]  

Moses Hildreth and Lurenia Amanda Whitcomb were married on 22 June 1853 in Northborough, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.[4]

Lurenia Amanda Whitcomb, daughter of Asa Whitcomb and Sophia Fairbank, was born on 28 August 1833 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts.[5]  She died on 12 December 1910 at the age of 77 in Northborough, Worcester, Massachusetts.[5-6] Lurenia was buried after 12 December 1910 at Howard Street Cemetery in Northborough, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.[5] 

Moses Hildreth and Lurenia Amanda Whitcomb had the following children:

  • Chester Eugene Hildreth, born 30 December 1857, Northborough, Worcester, Massachusetts; married Fannie Beauregard Howe, 22 November 1880, Northborough, Worcester, Massachusetts; died 18 Aug 1921, Northborough, Worcester, Massachusetts.
  • Clara Laurenia Hildreth, born 24 August 1861, Northborough, Worcester, Massachusetts; married William Byron Wing, 26 Apr 1881, Northborough, Worcester, Massachusetts; died 20 May 1920, Bourne, Barnstable, Massachusetts.
  •  Arthur Levi Hildreth was born on 10 March 1865 in Northborough, Worcester, Massachusetts. He died on 16 September 1865 at the age of 0 in Northborough, Worcester, Massachusetts.
  • Clarence Mortimer Hildreth was born on 1 May 1870 in Northborough, Worcester, Massachusetts.  He died on 7 March 1872 at the age of 1 in Northborough, Worcester, Massachusetts.

SOURCES

1. Richard C. Fipphen, "Bible Records - Northborough Historical Society," The Mayflower Descendant, Vol. 35, No. 2 (July 1985), page 158, Moses Hildreth entry.

2. Find A Grave, indexed and imaged (https://www.findagrave.com), Howard Street Cemetery, Northborough, Mass., Moses Hildreth (1828-1893) memorial #78414673.

3. "Massachusetts U.S. Death Records, 1841-1915," imaged, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com),  pre-1903 > 1893 > image 2114 of 2114, Northborough, Moses Hildreth death entry, 25 June 1893.

4. "Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1915," indexed database and digital images,  New England Historic Genealogical Society, American Ancestors (https://www.AmericanAncestors.org), Northborough > Births, Marriages and Deaths > 1853 > image 1339 of 1508, Moses Hildreth and Lurenia A. Whitcomb marriage entry, 22 June 1853.

5. Find A Grave,  indexed and imaged (https://www.findagrave.com), Howard Street Cemetery, Northborough, Mass., Lurena Amanda Whitcomb Hildreth (1833-1910) memorial #78414709.

6. "Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1915," digital images,  New England Historic Genealogical Society, American Ancestors (https://www.AmericanAncestors.org), Deaths, Volume 1910/81, Page 372, 1910, Northborough, Lurenia A. (Whitcomb) Hildreth entry.

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Moses Hildreth (1828-1893) is my 2nd great-granduncle and the brother of my 2nd great-grandfather, Edward Hildreth (1831-1899).  

I have posted over 500 genealogical sketches of  my ancestors back through the 7th great-grandparents and a number of close relatives.  Information about the Zachariah and Hannah (Sawtell) family is in  52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks - Week 29: #36, Zachariah Hildreth (1783-1857).

The "52 Relatives" theme is a weekly series to document the lives of siblings of my ancestors with relatively short genealogical sketches, including important events, and with source citations.  These relatives lived and died within a family structure, and deserve a genealogical sketch - they were integral parts and important persons in the lives of my ancestral families.  

I post the 52 Ancestors and 52 Relatives sketches on the 52 Ancestors/Relatives Biographies page, in my Ancestry Member Tree, in WikiTree, and in the FamilySearch Family Tree. 

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Findmypast Friday: Discover the Roaring Twenties with over 762,000 new records

  I received this information from Findmypast today:

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This week's new records span over a century of England's history.


We added two exciting new sets this week. Published in 1924, the Ladies' Who's Who publication documents key information on women from history, including notable individuals and maybe even your very own ancestors.

We've also added 66,453 Baltic Exchange Membership List records and two brand-new newspaper titles from the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Ladies' Who's Who

The 9,791 records in this new collection are taken from the 1924 Ladies' Who's Who, a publication documenting the lives of notable British women.

If you've got an ancestor who received renown for her work in science or mathematics - or was part of British high society in the 1920s - you may find her within this new collection.

These new records offer a fascinating insight into upper-class women's history. They may help us to understand the contributions of women to the fields of culture, arts, science and more.

Baltic Exchange Membership Lists

This week's second new collection consists of over 66,000 maritime records, documenting members of the Baltic Exchange from the 1890s up to the 1990s.

New pages from Larne to London

Two new English titles joined our newspaper archive this week.With further updates to 22 publications, we added a total of 299,609 pages.

New titles:

  • Rotherham Advertiser, 1910
  • Stirling Journal and Advertiser, 1875, 1877, 1882-1883
Updated titles:

  • Aris’s Birmingham Gazette, 1745, 1755
  • Brechin Advertiser, 1982, 1986-1987, 1989-1991
  • Bridgnorth Journal, 1987-1988, 1995, 2000-2003
  • Carluke and Lanark Gazette, 1995-1996, 2000
  • Crawley and District Observer, 1911, 1925, 1973-1976, 1978-1980
  • Cumbernauld News, 1993
  • Daily Record, 1984-1985
  • Forfar Dispatch, 1987-1988, 1990-1991, 1993
  • Galloway Gazette, 1874-1876, 1879, 1883, 1886, 1993-1995
  • Halifax Evening Courier, 1987
  • Horncastle News, 1908-1913, 1945-1949, 1953-1956
  • Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, 1924, 1933
  • Inverness Courier, 1969-1977, 1980, 1982-1983
  • Larne Times, 1990
  • Leamington Spa Courier, 1990-1992
  • London Daily Chronicle, 1890-1904, 1906-1921
  • Milngavie and Bearsden Herald, 1901-1902, 1970-1979
  • Northern Scot and Moray & Nairn Express, 1995-1999
  • Shrewsbury Chronicle, 1915-1916, 1919, 1922, 1926-1929, 1947-1949, 1987, 1989-1990, 1993, 1996-1997, 2001-2002
  • Stornoway Gazette and West Coast Advertiser, 1989-1992
  • Wolverhampton Express and Star, 1987
  • Worthing Herald, 1988, 1991
More on this topic:   english records                  historical newspapers
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Thursday, December 19, 2024

Added and Updated MyHeritage Record Collections -13 to 19 December 2024

 The following Record Collections were ADDED to or updated in the MyHeritage Collections Catalog during the week of 13 to 19 December 2024:

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There are 4 ADDED record collections this past week, and MyHeritage now has a total of 7,455 record collections (an increase of 4 collections), with 28,502,846,138 entries (an increase of over 3.815 billion entries).  The FamilySearch Family Tree added 0.554 million entries this past week.

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Randy's Cousins -- 8th Cousin 1x Removed Herbert Clark Hoover (1874-1974) - the 31st President of the United States

 This week's famous cousin is my 8th cousin 1x removed Herbert Clark Hoover (1874-1964) the 31st President of the United States.  

Here is Herbert Clark Hoover's Family Search Family Tree short biography:

When President Herbert Clark Hoover was born on 10 August 1874, in West Branch, Cedar, Iowa, United States, his father, Jesse Clark Hoover, was 27 and his mother, Hulda Randall Minthorn, was 26. He married Lou Henry on 10 February 1899, in Monterey, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in Washington, District of Columbia, United States in 1930 and Palo Alto Judicial Township, Santa Clara, California, United States for about 5 years. In 1928, at the age of 54, his occupation is listed as elected 31st president of the united states. He died on 20 October 1964, in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in West Branch, Cedar, Iowa, United States.

The Wikipedia profile for Herbert Clark Hoover includes this information:

Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964) was the 31st president of the United States, serving from 1929 to 1933. A wealthy mining engineer before his presidency, Hoover led the wartime Commission for Relief in Belgium and was the director of the U.S. Food Administration, followed by post-war relief of Europe. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the U.S. Secretary of Commerce from 1921 to 1928 before being elected president in 1928. His presidency was dominated by the Great Depression, and his policies and methods to combat it were seen as lackluster. Amid his unpopularity, he decisively lost reelection to Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932.

Born to a Quaker family in West Branch, Iowa, Hoover grew up in Oregon. He was one of the first graduates of the new Stanford University in 1895. Hoover took a position with a London-based mining company working in Australia and China. He rapidly became a wealthy mining engineer. In 1914, the outbreak of World War I, he organized and headed the Commission for Relief in Belgium, an international relief organization that provided food to occupied Belgium. When the U.S. entered the war in 1917, President Woodrow Wilson appointed Hoover to lead the Food Administration. He became famous as his country's "food czar". After the war, Hoover led the American Relief Administration, which provided food to the starving millions in Central and Eastern Europe, especially Russia. Hoover's wartime service made him a favorite of many progressives, and he unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination in the 1920 U.S. presidential election.

Hoover served as the Secretary of Commerce under Presidents Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge. Hoover was an unusually active and visible Cabinet member, becoming known as "Secretary of Commerce and Under-Secretary of all other departments." He was influential in the development of air travel and radio. Hoover led the federal response to the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. He won the Republican nomination in the 1928 presidential election and defeated Democratic candidate Al Smith in a landslide. In 1929, Hoover assumed the presidency. However, during his first year in office, the stock market crashed, signaling the onset of the Great Depression, which dominated Hoover's presidency until its end. His response to the depression was widely seen as lackluster and he scapegoated Mexican Americans for the economic crisis. Approximately one million Mexican Americans were forcibly "repatriated" to Mexico in a forced migration campaign known as the Mexican Repatriation even though a majority of them were born in the United States.

In the midst of the Great Depression, he was decisively defeated by Democratic nominee Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1932 presidential election. Hoover's retirement was over 31 years long, one of the longest presidential retirements. He authored numerous works and became increasingly conservative in retirement. He strongly criticized Roosevelt's foreign policy and the New Deal. In the 1940s and 1950s, public opinion of Hoover improved, largely due to his service in various assignments for Presidents Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower, including chairing the influential Hoover Commission. Critical assessments of his presidency by historians and political scientists generally rank him as a significantly below-average president, although Hoover has received praise for his actions as a humanitarian and public official.

Here is the Relative Finder chart showing my relationship to Herbert Clark Hoover:


My most recent common ancestors with 8th cousin 1x removed Herbert Clark Hoover are my 8th great-grandparents John Grout (1616-1697) and Sarah Busby (1619-1699).

Are you related to Herbert Clark Hoover?  Check out his profile on the FamilySearch Family Tree and click the "View Relationship" link at the top of the page.  Note that you have to have your profile connected to the FamilySearch Family Tree in order for this to work.

This shows that you never know to whom you might be related!!!  I'm having lots of Genealogy Fun.  Click here to see all of my famous cousins.

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Treasure Chest Thursday - Jonas Rice (1673-1753) Death Record in Worcester, Massachusetts Bay Colony

It's Treasure Chest Thursday - an opportunity to look in my digital image files to see what treasures I can find for my family history research and genealogy musings.

The treasure today is the 1753 death record of Jonas Rice in the Worcester, Massachusetts Bay Colony town records:


The 1753 death entry for Jonas Rice is the last entry on the left-hand page:


The transcription of the information on this record is:

"Jonas Rice Esq  Died deceased September the 22 1753
Aged eight four.  He was the first settler of Worcester
Born 1669 in Sudbury."

The source citation for this census record is:

Worcester [Massachusetts] Town Records, Joans Rice death entry, 20 September 1753; imaged, "Massachusetts Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988," Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com); Worcester > Birth, Marriages and Deaths  > image 5219 of 7288; original records in Worcester town record books.

This is an Original Source record (because it is a town record book with information recorded as it occurred) with Primary Information and Direct Evidence of the name and death date of Jonas rice in the Worcester town record book.  

Jonas Rice was born 6 March 1673 in Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, the son of Thomas Rice and Mary King.  He died 22 September 1753 in Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts Bay Colony.  Jonas married Mary Stone (1677-1764) on 10 February 1702 in Sudbury.  They had 5 children.

Jonas Rice and Mary Sone are my 6th great-grandparents, through their son Jonas Rice (1707-1793) who married Jane Hall (1700-1769) in Worcester, Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1728.
   
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Wednesday, December 18, 2024

MyHeritage Adds New LiveMemory™ Custom Animations, Seamless Sharing, and More!

 I received this from Daniel Horowitz of MyHeritage today:

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Last month we released LiveMemory™, an amazing AI feature on the MyHeritage mobile app that lets you relive your favorite moments by turning any photo into a short video clip. Today, I’m delighted to share that we’ve made some new improvements to LiveMemory™.

We’ve added a set of 10 custom animations so that if you wish, you can choose what happens in the video and have fun — from emotional gestures like hugging or laughing to more playful effects like underwater, zero gravity, or balloons.

We’ve also made it easier to view and share LiveMemory™ videos: they are now stored in your MyHeritage account and can easily be accessed through the app gallery.



Read more about the enhancements on our blog. 

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NOTE:  At this time, the MyHeritage mobile app is the only way to use this feature.

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Genealogy Education Bytes - Week of 12 to 18 December 2024

 Welcome to Genealogy Education Bytes, posted on Wednesday afternoon for the past week, where we try to highlight some of the most important genealogy and family history education items that came across my desktop since the last issue.


1) Upcoming Conferences and  Institutes 

* Conference Keeper Calendar

*  RootsTech 2025 (Free/$$) - 6-8 March 2025 - Virtual (Free) and In-Person ($$) (Salt Lake City, Utah)

*  Australasian Conference 2025 - Connections: Past, Present, Future ($$) - 21-24 March 2025 - In-Person (Brisbane, Australia)

*   OGS 2025 Conference "Light Up Your Genealogy" ($$) - 30 April to 3 May 2025 - In-Person (Sandusky, Ohio)

*  NGS 2025 Family History Conference "Tales & Trails" ($$) - 23-25 May 2025 - Hybrid (Louisville, Ky.)

2 ) Upcoming Seminars, Webinars and Online Classes (times are US Pacific):

* Conference Keeper Calendar - has many links to register for and/or view webinars and classes.

*  FamilySearch Library Classes and Webinars (Free)

*  GenWebinars ($$)

*  THE Family History Show ($$) - 8 February 2025 - Online

*  Family Tree Webinars (Free for a week) - Wednesday, 18 December, 11 a.m.:  I (Think I) Have a DNA Network: Now What? by Diahan Southard.

*  Family Tree Webinars (requires membership) - Friday, 27 December, 11 a.m.:  DNA: Evidence, Proof, Citation & Privacy by Elizabeth Shown Mills.

3) Recent Podcasts:

 


*  The Genealogy Happy Hour:  Episode 104 - AI Meets Genealogy

*  Weekly Genealogy Toolkit: Other Podcasts

4) Recent YouTube Videos:

*  Aimee Cross - Genealogy Hints:  Should I use Terms like Jr. or Reverend in Family Tree?




*  Ellen Thompson-Jennings - Family History Hound:  Unlocking New DNA Connections: Using Ancestry ProTools to Build Your Tree




*  FamilySearch:  Who Were The Six Triple Eight?





*  GeneaVlogger:  Building YOUR Family Tree!



*  Legacy Tree Genealogists:  Everything You Need To Know To Join SDUSMP


*  The Family History Guide:  Inside the Guide - Canada Sites and Databases


  
*  Write Your Family History With Devon Noel Lee:  Can a Passenger List Tell a Story? A Family History Writing Challenge

5) Did you miss the last post in this series - Genealogy Education Bytes -  5 to 11 December 2024?

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NOTE:  If  I miss something important, please let me know in a comment or an email. 

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FamilySearch Full-Text Search Update -- 18 December 2024

  I'm still a numbers guy, so when a database like FamilySearch's Full-Text Search comes along, I wonder if it is growing slowly or quickly.

The good news is -- It's still growing quickly, like every week it adds new record collections and millions of records.  But how quickly?

Here is the Full-Text Search home page:

The user can use the search fields to search for keywords, a name, a location (pick from a list), and a year range (e.g. 1776-2024).  

Or, the user can search for a specific collection using the "Find a Collection" search field.

There is a link to "Browse All Collections" which provides a list of the available collections.  When I click that, and select "Records" I can see:


It says there are 3,452 collections today (up 1464 (+73.5%) from last week), and the list above by is sorted by the "Last Updated" date.  Clicking on "Collection Title" will provide an alphabetical collection list, and clicking on "Records" will provide the list by most records.  Where did 959 collections go?  They probably were either removed or combined with other collections.  

I want to know how many records (images?) there are on Full-Text Search.  I added the year range "1526-2024" and saw:


That gives me All "Results" of 837,766,845 (up 94,765,069  (12.75%) from last week), which probably means the number of images that have the search terms.  Since I had no search terms, it probably gave me the count of every indexed image in the collections.

What about "Results" by Country?  When I added "United States" to the Place field, I clicked and saw:
Well, that's a bummer.  I tried several times.  I even rebooted.  If it comes back later today, I will try again.

It found ????? results (up  ??? % from last week).  Since I used a "Place" search term, that may mean the number of matches to the "Place" term on the available indexed images.  

Doing a similar test for different countries, I made this list today:

*  England = 18,506,506
*  Ireland = 13,966,339
*  Wales =  534,261
*  Scotland = 954,753
*  Canada = 43,136,938
*  Mexico = 7,828,121
*  Australia = 15,417,984
*  New Zealand = 6,570,594
*  France = 6,050,788
*  Germany = 11,446,146
*  Poland = 3,599,556
*  Sweden = 3,281,975

Note that some of the "Results" numbers may not be for records in the stated Place (e.g., "France" might be a town in the USA).

When I looked for these numbers last week on 11 December 2024, I found:

*  Number of collections:  1,988
*  Number of "Results" (with no search terms):   743,001,776

So the increase over the last week for Full-Text Search is:

*  Number of collections:  up 1464
*  Number of "Results" with no search terms: up  94.76 million 

The FamilySearch Images collection has 5,562.4 million images as I write this (an increase of 8.5 million, up 0.015% from last week). 

Lastly, we know that Full-Text Search is using the "Images" collection on FamilySearch to add them to Full-Text Search, to keyword index them, and to transcribe them.  So Full-Text Search has about 15.1% of the "Images" collection processed as of today.

This is a Benchmark for 18 December 2024.  Let's see how quickly the numbers grow over the next few months.  

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