This month, the number of records on FamilySearch of Canada, Ontario Tax Assessment Rolls, 1834-1899 has increased from almost 40,000 to 499,842, and there are still many more to come.
These records can be searched by name and may include the age, occupation, and possibly the religious affiliation of the head of household along with information about his lands, home, family members (by age categories) crops, and animals.
As of yesterday, volunteers had indexed 92 percent of the records in Part A of the Ontario tax assessment rolls, and 61 percent of those indexed records had been reviewed. If the math is correct, this means we may see at least a quarter of a million more records to search by the time the first part of this indexing project has been completed.
Record collections on FamilySearch that were expanded quite a bit during the past week are:
Guatemala, Catholic Church Records, 1581-1977 1,176,406 records
Peru, Catholic Church Records, 1603-1992 1,304,046 records
United States Georgia, Tax Digests, 1787-1900 390,253 records
Venezuela, Catholic Church Records, 1577-1995 774,359 records
The full list of new and expanded collections is available in the FamilySearch news release.
