FamilySearch added 196 collection titles to “Records” in October..
The top 5 Countries by Number of Titles
United States: 24 titles
Guatemala: 24 titles
France: 15 titles
Brazil: 12 titles
Germany: 11 titles
The top 5 Countries by Net-New Number of Records
United States: ~131,000,000 net-new records (driven by massive federal census batches, U.S. residence histories, public records, and military draft/enlistment registers)
United Kingdom: ~5,000,000 net-new records (headlined by the major rollout of free name-indexed entries from the 1921 Census of England and Wales, plus wills and regional parish/electoral updates)
Brazil: ~1,000,000 net-new records (spanning civil registration and Catholic church records across multiple regions)
Philippines: ~2,100,000 net-new records (consisting of expanded civil registration and church records)
France: ~600,000 net-new records (comprising regional parish, civil registration, and historical census entries)
FamilySearch added 7 titles to its “Full Text” collection, the largest share being U.S. residence histories (spanning 1793 to 1964) with over 3.64 million records, alongside a massive nationwide biographical collection spanning centuries (2.25 million records) and a specialized local focus on Utah biographies (2.2 million records). Smaller targeted residence and directory collections were added for Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, and Panama.