Honduras – FamilySearch.org has indexed an additional 179,000 civil registration records from Honduras. These are birth, marriage and death records spanning the years from 1841 to 1968. The collection can be searched by first name and last name. Access is free. [Historic Honduras Birth Records]
Mexico – FamilySearch.org has indexed over 12 million Mexican Catholic Church records. These are baptisms, confirmations, marriages, death and burial records. Some of the records go back as far as the 1600s and as recent as 1994. The link will take you to an article that provides an overview of the Mexican church records held by FamilySearch. Near the bottom of the article are all the links to the various collections. The records can be searched by first name and last name. Access is free. 11.3 solids of revolution. [Mexican Catholic Church Records]
Mexico – FamilySearch has indexed some 411,000 civil registration records from the state of Coahuila, Mexico. These are standard birth, marriage and death records and span the period from 1861 to 1998. The records can be searched by first name and last name. Access is free. [Historic Coahuila Birth Records]
Costa Rica – FamilySearch has indexed some 2.6 million civil registration records from Costa Rica. These consist primarily of birth, marriage and death records from 1860 to 1975. The collection can be searched by first and last name. This is the largest collection of genealogy records from Costa Rica that we have ever seen. Access is free. [Historic Costa Rica Birth Records]
El Salvador – FamilySearch.org has added civil registration records from El Salvador. The collection spans the years from 1704 to 1977. These are primarily birth, marriage and death records. Access is free. [El Salvador Birth Records]
South Africa – GenealogyInTime Magazine has added 400 million new records to their two free search engines. The Genealogy Search Engine (which covers ancestral records) now searches an additional 100 million more records, while the Family Tree Search Engine (which covers genealogy forums and online family trees) searches approximately 300 million more records.
In total, the two search engines now cover 5.7 billion records across more than 1,000 different websites (split between the Genealogy Search Engine covering 1.9 billion records and the Family Tree Search Engine covering 3.8 billion records – there is no overlap of records between the two search engines).
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