FamilySearch adds almost 9 million new FREE records including 8 million historical newspaper obituaries (1815-2011) from U.S. Genealogy Bank!

[Editor’s Note: We just received this press release from FamilySearch outlining new records added to their online site.]

SALT LAKE CITY, UT—This week, 8 million historical newspaper obituaries (1815-2011) from U.S. Genealogy Bank were added to FamilySearch.org. More new, free, historical records this week include Catholic church books from Croatia, Cambridge parish registers from England, Irish directories, archival indexes from the Netherlands, and passenger lists from the United States of America.

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Country	Collection	Indexed Records	Digital Images	Comments
Croatia	Croatia, Delnice Deanery Catholic Church Books, 1725-1926	2,870	0	Added indexed records to an existing collection
England	England, Cambridge Parish Registers, 1538-1983	468,063	0	Added indexed records to an existing collection
Ireland	Ireland and Britain, Transatlantic Migration from North America, 1858-1870	42,695	0	New indexed records collection
Ireland	Ireland, Thom’s Official Directory of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, 1894, Irish Section	121,181	0	New indexed records collection
Ireland	Ireland, Thom’s Official Directory, 1910	131,734	0	New indexed records collection
Netherlands	Netherlands, Archival Indexes, Vital Records	11,864	0	Added indexed records to an existing collection
United States	Louisiana, New Orleans Index to Passenger Lists, 1853-1952	151,894	0	New indexed records collection
United States	United States, California, List of United States Citizens Arriving at San Francisco, 1930-1949	434,995	0	New indexed records collection
United States	United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011	8,829,622	0	Added indexed records to an existing collection

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