MyHeritage continues to update its family trees and add to the index entries to Old News. They are, with the number of newspaper records, for Spain (16,877,378), the US (97,700,104), the UK (12,692,543), France (2,623,162), Poland (7,112,029), Germany (20,930,073), Australia (1,502,081), and Ireland (233,906).
Also for Ireland, there are Catholic Parish Marriages, 1742-1912 (3,300,194), and Catholic Parish Deaths and Burials, 1795-1881 (235,063).
The FreeBMD database was updated on 23 September to contain 294,106,424 unique records. Yers with more than 10,000 additions or changes are: for births 1993-96, for marriages 1994-96, for deaths 1996-97.