Ancestry.com Celebrates New 2012 Collections

I am taking the week off so I forgot to tell you about a special offer from Ancestry.com. They are offering free access this week to 30 collections new or updated this year. To access the collections, visit Ancestry.com/2012. As usual, to access free collections on Ancestry you must provide your name and email address to obtain a free account.

The 30 collections are:

• 1940 United States Federal Census
• Border Crossings: From Canada to U.S., 1895-1954
• Border Crossings: From Mexico to U.S., 1895-1957
• California, Railroad Employment Records, 1862-1937
• Canada, Nominal Rolls and Paylists for the Volunteer Militia, 1857-1922
• Canada, Voters Lists, 1935-1980
• Galveston, Texas, Jewish Immigration Records, 1901-1917
• Lancashire, England, Births and Baptisms, 1813-1911
• Lancashire, England, Deaths and Burials, 1813-1986
• Lancashire, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1936
• London, England, School Admissions and Discharges, 1840-1911
• Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988
• New South Wales, Australia, Convict Indents, 1788-1842
• New South Wales, Australia, Police Gazettes, 1854-1930
• New York, Naturalization Records, 1897-1944
• New York, State Census, 1892
• New Zealand, Maori Land Claims, 1858-1980
• Pennsylvania, Church and Town Records, 1708-1985
• Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Immigration Records, Special Boards of Inquiry, 1893-1909
• U.S. Marine Corps Muster Rolls, 1798-1958
• U.S. National Cemetery Interment Control Forms, 1928-1962
• U.S., Buffalo Soldiers, Returns From Regular Army Cavalry Regiments, 1866-1916
• U.S., Burial Registers, Military Posts and National Cemeteries, 1862-1960
• U.S., Confederate Pensions, 1884-1958
• U.S., Records of Aliens Pre-Examined in Canada, 1922-1954
• U.S., World War II Cadet Nursing Corps Card Files, 1942-1948
• UK and Ireland, Masters and Mates Certificates, 1850-1927
• United States, Atlantic Ports Passenger Lists, 1820-1873 and 1893-1959
• War of 1812 Pension Application Files Index, 1812-1815
• Washington, Marriage Records, 1865-2004

For the 1940 census, Ancestry has indexed additional fields:

• House owned or rented
• Value of home or monthly rental if rented
• Attended school or college
• Highest grade completed
• Employment code
• Hours worked the week prior to the census
• Duration of employment
• Occupation
• Class of worker
• Occupation code
• Weeks worked in 1939
• Income
• Income from other sources

The 1940 census asked additional questions for two people on each page. Ancestry has indexed these fields for those individuals:

• Father birth place
• Mother birth place
• Native language
• Veteran
• If child, is veteran father dead
• Military Service
• Usual occupation
• Usual industry
• Usual class of worker
• Usual occupation code
• If a women have they been married more than once
• Women age at first marriage
• Number of children ever born

May your ancestors always be those two individuals. (And may the odds always be with you.)