FamilySearch last year added more than 420 million indexed records to 30 free online country collections. Millions more were added to more than 100 new collections in other countries.
The United States is in the number one spot with more than 114 million records added, and Canada, with only a tenth of the population of its southern neighbour, came in at #15 with 6.7 million new records.
In addition to the US, the largest country collections expanded in 2022 were Brazil, France, Ukraine, Great Britain, Switzerland, Germany, the Philippines, and Spain. FamilySearch added more than 27 million records from Ukraine, including church records from Dnipro, Cherkasy, Kharkiv, Kiev, Odessa, and Zaporizhzhia.
Millions more records were added for Armenia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Canada, El Salvador, Estonia, Guatemala, Hungary, Ireland, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Poland,
Portugal, Russia, Slovakia, South Africa, and Venezuela, Costa Rica and Bolivia.
FamilySearch has over 300 camera teams worldwide helping to digitally preserve and provide access to the world’s historical genealogical records. It then utilizes a combination of handwriting recognition artificial intelligence and online volunteers worldwide to make those records discoverable online for free at FamilySearch.org. Setting up an account is free and quick.
