FamilySearch Update

Here’s a summary of FamilySearch’s  Record additions so far in July 2026:

Roughly 71 million records were added across 39 collections. There was one Canadian update.

Geographical distribution:

• Ukraine – Three collections (Kyiv Confession Lists, Soviet Population Filtration Records, Odessa Census) totaling over 50 million records, dominated entirely by the Kyiv set accounted for over two-thirds of the month’s total so far.
• United States – The largest number of individual collections (roughly 25), spanning immigration/passenger lists (California, Alaska, Maine, Texas, Vermont, South Carolina), military records (U.S. Colored Troops, Massachusetts Revolutionary War, various WWI collections), vital records (Michigan births, Kent County voter registrations), and general resources like the 1940 Census (3.2 million) and GenealogyBank obituaries/births/marriages (6.1 million). Combined, U.S. collections add up to roughly 13–14 million records.
• Philippines – Nine regional civil registration collections (Western Visayas, Calabarzon, Metro Manila, Central Luzon, Ilocos, Mimaropa, Northern Mindanao, Cordillera, Zamboanga Peninsula) plus the national civil registration set, together contributing about 6.2 million records, with the national collection (5.9 million) providing most of that.
• Other countries – Smaller but notable additions from Italy (Firenze Census, 80,800), Canada (Ontario Deaths, 316,331), and France (Réunion Civil Registration, 450,069).

The Full Text Search collection added two titles:
United States, North Carolina, Properties, from 7 January 1027 to 2007,  824,881 records added on 9 July 2026
United States, New Jersey, Properties, from 1600 to 1998, 509,267 records, added on 8 July 2026