The Unofficial Footnote Blog

At the beginning of the year, I let the management of Footnote.com know that I was going to discontinue the blog. I offered it to them to take over. No one volunteered, and now it’s time for me to close the door and turn off the light.
I’m not planning to add to the tufblog anymore. [...]

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Recently, the browse experience at Footnote has been improved. There are two things that I want to be sure to point out.
First, the “search within” feature is still there, but it’s not below the browse info. It’s right above it. The second place that I looked, so to speak. This is an important feature, and [...]

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The Footnote.com website went live on 10-January-2007, the day of the signing of the partnership agreement with the National Archives. Last month, that anniversary passed unnoticed by tufblog. Let’s correct that oversight right now.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
In three years, more than 60 million pages have been published. The indexes are fully searchable for free. Much of the [...]

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The following table lists titles added or updated at Footnote.com this week.

title

News – Poughkeepsie Journal
380477
28514
30%

Texas Death Certificates
3002417
17336
61%

Civil War Soldiers – Union – MO
2071556
15433
97%

Naturalizations – NY Southern
848960
13954
54%

WWII Captured German Records
244183
12514
44%

News – Fort Wayne News (IN)
59741
10039
0%

News – Florida Today
69644
9471
0%

Naturalizations – NY Eastern
984279
8781
90%

Civil War “Widows’ Pensions”
569660
7664
1%

Census – US Federal 1930
2673813
4995
97%

Census – US Federal 1920
28338
3069
1%

Census – US Federal 1900
37588
3068
2%

Census [...]

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The following table lists titles added or updated at Footnote.com this week.

title

News – Poughkeepsie Journal
351963
55259
27%

Civil War Soldiers – Union – MO
2056123
54184
96%

WWII Captured German Records
231669
44794
42%

Naturalizations – NY Eastern
975498
41446
89%

Texas Death Certificates
2985081
20958
61%

Census – US Federal 1910
36544
12328
1%

Civil War “Widows’ Pensions”
561996
9978
1%

Census – US Federal 1900
34520
8544
2%

Naturalizations – NY Southern
835006
7946
53%

Census – US Federal 1920
25269
4046
1%

Civil War Soldiers – Confederate – GA
1786298
2456
100%

News – Florida [...]

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On 29-Oct, Footnote announced the intent to complete the US Federal Census collection – at least the extant population schedules. At that time, we wondered what to expect. Would the project be completed quickly? Would other titles be pushed aside so that this project could be done sooner?
Two months later, we still don’t know for [...]

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The following table lists titles added or updated at Footnote.com this week.

title
total pages
last week
%age

Civil War Soldiers – Union – MO
2001939
101715
92%

Texas Death Certificates
2964123
30420
60%

Naturalizations – NY Eastern
934052
28235
86%

Civil War “Widows’ Pensions”
552018
14435
1%

Naturalizations – NY Southern
827060
13698
53%

Census – US Federal 1910
24216
9670
1%

WWII Captured German Records
186875
8552
33%

Census – US Federal 1920
21223
8389
1%

Census – US Federal 1900
25976
6690
1%

Civil War Soldiers – Union – KY
1243748
2543
98%

Homestead Records
2032
2032
0%

TOTAL

226,379

“%age” is the [...]

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There are 31 titles on Footnote that are almost done, but have had no pages added in the past month. They are “stuck” – as if the runner had fallen right before the finish line.

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The following table lists titles added or updated at Footnote.com this week.

title
total pages
last week
%age

Civil War Soldiers – Union – MO
1,900,224
33,310
87%

Naturalizations – NY Eastern
905,817
20,056
84%

Texas Death Certificates
2,933,703
17,177
60%

Civil War “Widows’ Pensions”
537,583
15,680
1%

Census – US Federal 1900
19,286
6,673
1%

Naturalizations – NY Southern
813,362
6,184
52%

News – Fort Wayne News (IN)
47,888
4,070
0%

Census – US Federal 1910
14,546
3,617
1%

Census – US Federal 1920
12,834
2,173
1%

News – Poughkeepsie Journal
296,704
2,015
23%

TOTAL

110,955

“%age” is the percentage complete, [...]

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I keep a list of titles from the National Archives that have been   on Footnote.com. The list has been updated. These updates take place on a random schedule, the last having been 19-Oct.
The appearance of the list has changed significantly. I’ve taken the time to put the list into a table, instead of a [...]

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