The following were mentioned during a briefing from Ancestry on Wednesday.
1. Updates to Ancestry's apps for both records and DNA are coming soon. More than half of clients access Ancestry through mobile devices
2. Ancestry added 600 million records so far this year and expects to reach 1 billion by year's end.
3. There are a total of 27 billion records in the collection.
4. An index of marriage records from newspapers, similar to the obituary collection from newspapers is coming for the US on the 20th. Similar collections for Australia and Canada are coming.
5. Expect more UK parish and electoral register records before the end of the year.
6. Ancestry declined to answer a question about records from handwriting recognition.
2 comments:
is there anything for BMD in Ireland???
Nothing I recall.
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