FamilySearch has a significant proportion of these materials from Ireland available digitally on the website.

FamilySearch is indicating the following database has been updated since our last posting:

Texas, Matagorda County, School Census Records, 1923-1946

This site contains 225,000 index entries to Irish deeds. In some cases links are available to actual records. More information at:

http://irishdeedsindex.net/index.html

FamilySearch has indicated that the following database is new or has been updated:

Michigan, Eastern District, Naturalization Index, 1907-1995

This project (and the resulting website) is sponsored by the Newberry Library in Chicago, Illinois, contains information on county boundary changes in the United States.

Seeking Michigan  has death record indexes (including images of many records) from 1897-1952.

Using Indexes at FamilySearch

Making the best use of indexed materials at FamilySearch requires a knowledge and understanding of how the indexes at FamilySearch work and how they do not. After providing an overview of search strategies to use at FamilySearch we will look at several examples where locating the person of interest was more involved than simply typing their name the search box and finding it the first time. This presentation will also briefly address organizing your online search strategy. Handout included.

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These two Canadian databases have been updated this month on FamilySearch:

• Ontario Births, 1869-1912
• Canada Census, 1901

This database contains 3.35 million names from records in London, England between 1690-1800. Many of these records include those from the lower socioeconomic classes.

This was seen on the Facebook  page for Cyndislist.