It’s been a while since my last post, so let me take you through some of the new U.S. content released on Ancestry.com since then:
United States Obituary Collection – This database continues to grow weekly.  Plus, beginning this year, it now contains more extracted fields, and in some cases, photographs.
Jewish Collection – Several new databases [...]

Alabama State Census, 1820-1866
The Alabama State Census was released a few days ago, becoming the second completed World Archives Project collection to be made available to the public.  As with all completed World Archives Projects, the index is viewable free of charge!  Thank you to the many contributors who keyed in the names, races and [...]

Just a quick note to explain what was included in the update to World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918.  We added or repaired records and/or images for the following rolls:

KENTUCKY Lexington City, Stalion, Carl – Z Lincoln County, A – Z Livingston County, A – K
KENTUCKY Lexington City, C – Staley, George
MISSOURI St. Louis [...]

Here’s a summary of today’s U.S. Content releases:

1880 U.S. Federal Census

Over 99% of the 1,085,847 images were replaced today with higher quality images scanned from earlier generation microfilm. We’re looking closer at the images left to be replaced.
In many cases, the improvement in quality is the difference between completely illegible to complete legibility (see example [...]

I’ve been hearing from customers who are concerned that U.S. content releases are slowing down.  While I have responded in various forums to these concerns, I’d like to post a more official response here.
The concern stems, I believe, from the format of the Genealogy Databases Posted or Updated Recently list on Ancestry.com.  This list can [...]

Two U.S. collections grew today:
Kansas State Census Collection, 1855-1925
Added the 1925 census, containing 1.8 million names.  The full collection now contains 8.2 Million Names.

State censuses were often taken in years between the federal censuses. In some places, local censuses were designed to collect specific data, such as the financial strengths and needs of communities; tallies [...]

Over the weekend we rolled one new database and several fixes to existing databases:
New Database
Selected U.S. Naturalization Records – Original Documents, 1790-1974
In an effort to get these records out to you sooner rather than later, we have released the images with a light index including name, state, record type, court type, court, court location, naturalization [...]

With Chinese New Year coming on Monday, we’ve released several new or updated Chinese American databases:
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Chinese Arrivals, 1900-1923
This database contains descriptive lists of Chinese seamen arriving at the port of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania between 1900 and 1923. Information recorded in these documents includes: name, date of arrival, ship name, and age.
U.S. Chinese Immigration Case [...]

Tuesday we released the new U.S. City Directories database on Ancestry.com.  While we’ve had thousands of city directories on the site for some years now, many of these databases contain no page images, and the ones that do mostly contain bi-tonal black and white images (not grayscale).
This new release adds tremendous value to our U.S. [...]

Just in time for FGS, the new and improved 1900 U.S. Federal Census is now live and free for a limited time, the first product of our U.S. Census agreement with FamilySearch.  So what’s new and improved about it?  Well, here are some basics:

NEW IMAGES: Ancestry’s images, produced several years ago, were replaced with FamilySearch [...]