Ancestry.com Discloses 2013 Plans

Ancestry.com recently disclosed its plans for new databases coming in 2013:

• More yearbooks and detailed 19th-century student lists from select U.S. colleges
• Occupational records from railroads in the U.S. and engineers in the UK
• More New York state census years
• More World War II draft cards
• Interactive census experience for 20th-century censuses from the U.S., UK, and Canada
• More birth, marriage, and death records from the Northeast.
• “Deeper connections to early ancestors with AncestryDNA.” (Whatever that means.)
• Additional African-American military records and newspapers
• Jewish records created in the U.S. and overseas.
• Puerto Rico records
• Asian immigration files
• Upgraded mobile app able to search Ancestry.com
• Additional birth, marriage, and death records from the UK, Germany, and Sweden
• UK divorce records
• Lord Morpeth’s roll from Ireland
• More Canadian military records
• Quaker church records
• A collection of Texas death certificates
• Confederate casualty lists
• Prisoner of war registers from the War of 1812
• American Loyalists’ claims
• Canadian ship muster rolls and paylists
• Additional alien depositions
• Alien draft registrations from the southwest U.S.
• Lists of passengers arriving in Canada from the St. Lawrence Steamboat Company
• Updates to the Hamburg departing passenger lists
• All new departures from the UK
• Associated Press records
• Civil War death records
• Land records from Tennessee, North Carolina, and Georgia
• Enhancements to Family Tree Maker that will let you update your family tree from multiple computers