The following databases are showing as updated on FamilySearch:
Missouri, Pre-WWII Adjutant General Enlistment Contracts, 1900-1941
United States Census, 1860 — index free on FamilySearch, but Fold3.com membership required to see actual image.
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Just a little bit of humor and a reminder to always think before you “use” results from any search. Think. 
We’ve added a new presentation and rescheduled an earlier one—join me on 5 January for one or both of the following presentations:
Just what update has been made I can’t say, but this database is showing as updated since our last posting:
The following databases have been updated or added to FamilySearch since our last posting regarding the European continent:
[note: These search results were obtained in the 1880 Census at FamilySearch on 28 December 2015.]
Leaving the exact boxes unchecked at FamilYSearch is supposed to give you more results. And it usually does. However many researchers make assumptions about how those “unexact” searches at FamilySearch work.
It would seem reasonable that an unexact search for Bertus Grass would bring back the same results as an unexact search for Bertus Gross in the same record. After all, Gross and Grass are very similar and are Soundex equivalents for each other. The only different is one letter, a vowel. That seems pretty close.
It’s not. FamilySearch brings different results for these searches with the exact box unchecked. It would seem to me that Grass and Gross should bring the same results when the exact box is not checked.
Think about that the next time you perform an unexact search at FamilySearch.
The results for Bertus Gross are shown below: 
The 1858 manifest for Georg H Berends indicated he was a forester.
The occupation of the immigrant is listed on some manifests during the 18th century time period. Ancestry.com does not (as of this writing) include that information as a search term. Try searching for a Berends arriving on 28 August 1858 with keyword for*. The keyword box needs to be checked exact to require for* to be in the results. If that box is unchecked, you’ll get results because there are things that match some of what you enter, not because the word forester is a part of the database entry. Requiring for* to be in the results brings no results–meaning that the occupation truly is not being included as a search term.
The following UK and Ireland databases have been updated on FamilySearch since our last posting for that area:
FamilySearch has announced the following new/updated database in its Canadian section since our last update:
Manitoba Probate Records, 1871-1930