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          This should be fun!!
  The following announcement was written by Family Search: 

  9 Million Browsable Images from 9 Countries Added This Week

  New Records for Brazil, Canada, Chile, El Salvador, Guatemala, Italy,
  Mexico, U.S., and Venezuela

  The bounty just keeps coming from Family Search's digital pipeline.
  Mexico collections earned the top spot this week, with nearly 5
  million new browsable images added. The Mexico records date from 1545
  to 1984. In addition to Mexico, Family Search continued this week to
  strengthen its free online international collections by expanding 7
  more of its collections. Millions more records or images were added
  for Brazil, Canada, Chile, El Salvador, Guatemala, Italy, and
  Venezuela. The U.S. collections were also expanded, with new data for
  California, Illinois, Louisiana, Maine, Montana, Nebraska, New York,
  Texas, Union Provost Marshal's File, and Virginia. See the table below
  for more details. You can search all of the record collections now for
  free at: www.FamilySearch.org.

  If you enjoy the steady stream of free records added weekly, please
  consider "giving back" by contributing a little time online as a
  Family Search volunteer. You can start and stop volunteering at any
  time. Find out more at www.familysearch.org/volunteer/indexing.

  Family Search International is the largest genealogy organization in
  the world. Family Search is a nonprofit, volunteer-driven organization
  sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Millions
  of people use Family Search records, resources, and services to learn
  more about their family history. To help in this great pursuit,
  Family Search has been actively gathering, preserving, and sharing
  genealogical records worldwide for over 100 years. Patrons may access
  Family Search services and resources free online at FamilySearch.org or
  through over 4,600 family history centers in 132 countries, including
  the main Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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