During the past week, FamilySearch has added four new collections of significant size.
England Death Record, 1998-2015 — 3,293,133 indexed records. This collection was compiled by Wilmington Millennium from various funeral homes in England. The index contains names, death dates, and places.
France, INSEE Social Security Death Index, 1970-2019 — 25,030,960 indexed records. INSEE is France’s national institute of statistics and economic studies.
France, Paris, Marriage Records, 1860-1918 — 270,180 indexed records. These are civil marriage records. The images may be found in the FamilySearch catalogue, but are not currently linked to the indexed records. More of these records, linked to their corresponding images, will be indexed in future iterations.
Vermont, Passenger Lists, 1895-1924 — 102,351 indexed records. Images available. This collection is a name index to alien arrivals and border entries in the State of Vermont.
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I was surprised when I searched the Paris marriages not to find my 2nd great-uncle’s marriage. I already have the record from Ancestry, but was curious to see if the FS database had anything different. It had nothing and I still can’t figure out why not. I tried searching every which way, both Paul and his spouse, but nada…I will have to figure out how to browse the images instead and see what the issue was with the indexing.
And I just found that the record for my grandmother’s death in England is incorrect. Not sure it was a transcription error or if the original record itself is wrong, but I know the date she died and that’s not it. I certainly hope anyone else who uses this database for info on my grandmother (entirely possible as she had several siblings who had children) double-checks it against other records!