New records now online for Costa Rica, England, India, Mexico, Nacaragua, Peru, Spain, and the U.S.

Geoff Rasmussen

12 Apr 2011

from FamilySearch.org:

What a grab bag of records added this week! Let's see—for its online patrons' free viewing pleasure, internationally, FamilySearch added church records from Costa Rico and Mexico, Bishop's Transcripts and Poor Law records from England, Hindu pilgrimage records from India, municipal records from Spain, and civil registrations from Nicaragua and Peru. In the U.S., those with Arkansas and Oklahoma ancestors are going to have a proverbial field trip with the 500,000 new county marriage records added—and the indexes are linked to the original images! Additional records were also added for Maine and Texas. See the table below for details. You can search all of the record collections now for free at FamilySearch.org.

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Collection	Records	Images	Comment
Costa Rica Church Records, 1595–1992	7,249	3,948	Added images and index to existing collection.
England, Norfolk Bishop's Transcripts, 1685–1941	0	81,941	Added browsable images to existing collection.
England, Norfolk Poor Law Union Records, 1796–1900	0	939	Added browsable images to existing collection.
India, Hindu Pilgrimage Records	0	31,436	New browsable image collection.
Mexico, Distrito Federal, Catholic Church Records, 1886–1933	0	2,596,692	Added browsable images to existing collection.
Nicaragua, Managua, Civil Registration, 1879–2007	42,195	0	Added records to existing collection.
Peru, Lima Civil Registration, 1874–1930	64,182	0	Added records to existing collection.
Spain, Municipal Records	0	56,152	Added browsable images to existing collection.
U.S., Arkansas County Marriages, 1837–1957	93,584	38,426	Added Arkansas, Washington, White, and Woodruff Counties to existing collection.
U.S., Maine, State Archive Collections	0	3,019	Added browsable images to existing collection.
U.S., Oklahoma County Marriages, 1891–1959	222,471	151,140	New collection. Counties included: Adair, Alfalfa, Atoka, Beaver, Beckham, Blaine, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian, Dewey, Garfield, Harmon, Hughes, Jackson, Jefferson, and Kingfisher.
U.S., Texas, Eastland County Records, 1868–1949	0	6,978	Added browsable images to existing collection.

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