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Today we’ve added 9 new volumes to Massachusetts: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1789-1920 from St. Hedwig in Cambridge and Immaculate Conception in Stoughton. This update adds over 7,000 names to search.

We’d like to thank Sam Sturgis for his help in making these parishes available online.

These new volumes are listed below:

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We are very excited to announce a new database: Pittsburgh, PA: Gaines Funeral Home Records, 1925-1934. This database contains two volumes of funeral home records. Searchable fields include names of the deceased; dates and locations of birth, death, funeral service and interment, names of parents and spouses.  Other information available in the images includes occupation, cemetery, age at death, name of the attending physician, and clergyman. The records begin in 1925 and end in 1934. This project makes 2,186 records and 5,680 names fully searchable.

The Gaines Funeral Home was established by George W. Gaines in 1919 in the historically African-American neighborhood of Homewood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Most people in this database were buried in Monongahela Cemetery in Monongahela or Allegheny Cemetery in Pittsburgh.  Other burials occurred in Greenwood and Homewood Cemeteries in Pittsburgh.  Some bodies were transported to further locations for burial including Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. While most of the records in this database pertain to the Pittsburgh area, people in this database were born in a variety of locations including Virginia, Georgia, North and South Carolina, Alabama, Maryland, Washington D.C. and more.

The original volumes are kept in the R. Stanton Avery Special Collections at NEHGS, call number Mss 1080.

We are grateful to the many dedicated volunteers who indexed all of the names for this project, including: Sandy Caldwell, Janet Essency, Nancy Johnson, Linda Weaver, Kathleen Oberley, Rich Wood, Linda Mathew, Melanie Nelson, Loretta Aldrich, Donna McClure, David Fredette, Carol Farrington, Renda Smith, Jaimie Williams-Peterson, and Eileen McCarthy. If you would like to become part of the team working on rewarding genealogical projects, please contact Rachel Adams, Database Services Volunteer Coordinator via email at rachel.adams@nehgs.org.

Please note: This database is available to all Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.

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Today we’ve added 14 new volumes to Massachusetts: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1789-1920 from Sacred Heart in Ipswich, St. Ann in Marlborough, St. Michael in Lynn, St. John-St. Hugh in Roxbury, and St. Mary in Salem. This update adds over 15,000 names to search.

We’d like to thank Sam Sturgis for his help making these parishes available online.

The new volumes are listed below:

St. Ann (Marlborough) Baptisms, 1919-1920

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Today we’ve added 44 new volumes and updated 7 volumes in Massachusetts: (Image-Only) Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1789-1920 from 7 parishes across eastern Massachusetts. This update adds over 13,000 new pages to browse.

The new and updated parishes include Blessed Sacrament (Cambridge), Our Lady of Lourdes (Jamaica Plain), St. Charles Borromeo (Woburn), St. Jean Baptiste (Lowell), St. Mary of the Angels (Roxbury), and St. Mary (Winchester).

If you need help navigating the image-only collection, please consult our webinar, Archdiocese of Boston Catholic Records Project: We’re Expanding! 

The new and updated volumes in Massachusetts: (Image-Only) Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, 1789-1920 are listed below. Volumes with an asterisk have been updated. Previously they were truncated to only display records from before January 1, 1901. Now they are presented on our site either in their complete form or with the records up to December 31, 1920:

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Today we’ve added 10 new volumes and updated 3 volumes in Massachusetts: (Image-Only) Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1789-1920 from 5 parishes across eastern Massachusetts. This update adds over 800 new pages to browse.

The new and updated parishes include St. Joseph (Ipswich), Assumption of the Blessed Virgin (Lawrence), St. William (Tewksbury), St. Francis Xavier (Weymouth) and St. Thomas of Villanova (Wilmington).

If you need help navigating the image-only collection, please consult our webinar, Archdiocese of Boston Catholic Records Project: We’re Expanding! 

The new volumes in Massachusetts: (Image-Only) Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, 1789-1920 are listed below. Volumes with an asterisk have been updated. Previously, they were truncated to only display records from before January 1, 1901. Now they are presented on our site either in their complete form or with the records up to December 31, 1920:

Assumption of the Blessed Virgin (Lawrence) Baptisms, Marriages and Confirmations, 1887-1913*

St. Francis Xavier (Weymouth) Baptisms, 1907-1920

St. Francis Xavier (Weymouth) Confirmations, 1908-1920

St. Francis Xavier (Weymouth) Marriages, 1907-1920

St. Joseph (Ipswich) Baptisms, 1889-1910*

St. Joseph (Ipswich) First Communions and Confirmations, 1896-1920*

St. Thomas of Villanova (Wilmington) Baptisms, 1919-1920

St. Thomas of Villanova (Wilmington) Marriages, 1919-1920

St. William (Tewksbury) Baptisms and Marriages, 1904-1920

St. William (Tewksbury) Baptisms, 1911-1920

St. William (Tewksbury) Baptisms, 1920

St. William (Tewksbury) Index to Baptisms, 1904-1920

St. William (Tewksbury) Marriages, 1911-1920

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Today we’ve added 23 volumes and updated 13 volumes in Massachusetts: (Image-Only) Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1789-1920 from parishes across eastern Massachusetts. This update adds over 7,000 new pages to browse.

The updated parishes include St. Peter (Cambridge), St. James (Salem), St. John the Baptist (Peabody), St. John the Baptist (Salem), St. Joseph (Pepperell), St. Mary (Waltham), Sacred Heart (Watertown) and Immaculate Conception (Weymouth).

If you need help navigating the image-only collection, please consult our webinar, Archdiocese of Boston Catholic Records Project: We’re Expanding! 

We’d like to thank Sam Sturgis for his help making these parishes available online.

The new volumes in Massachusetts: (Image-Only) Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, 1789-1920 are listed below. Volumes with an asterisk have been updated. Previously they were truncated to only display records from before January 1, 1901. Now they are presented on our site either in their complete form or with the records up to December 31, 1920:

Immaculate Conception (Weymouth) Baptisms, 1892-1906*

Immaculate Conception (Weymouth) Baptisms, 1907-1914

Immaculate Conception (Weymouth) Baptisms, 1915-1920

Immaculate Conception (Weymouth) Marriages, First Communions and Confirmations, 1882-1920*

Immaculate Conception (Weymouth) Marriages, 1892-1907*

Immaculate Conception (Weymouth) Marriages, 1908-1920

Sacred Heart (Watertown) Baptisms, 1896-1913*

Sacred Heart (Watertown) Baptisms, 1914-1919

Sacred Heart (Watertown) Baptisms, 1919-1920

Sacred Heart (Watertown) Confirmations, 1898-1916 [Book 1]

Sacred Heart (Watertown) Confirmations, 1898-1916 [Book 2]

Sacred Heart (Watertown) Marriages, 1896-1920*

St. James (Salem) Baptisms, 1891-1920*

St. James (Salem) Marriages, 1851-1920*

St. John the Baptist (Peabody) Baptisms and Parish Census, 1907-1908

St. John the Baptist (Peabody) Baptisms, 1908-1914

St. John the Baptist (Peabody) Baptisms, 1914-1919

St. John the Baptist (Peabody) Baptisms, 1919-1920

St. John the Baptist (Peabody) Marriages, 1908-1920

St. John the Baptist (Salem) Baptisms, 1903-1913

St. John the Baptist (Salem) Baptisms, 1908-1912

St. John the Baptist (Salem) Baptisms, 1913-1917

St. John the Baptist (Salem) Baptisms, 1917-1920

St. John the Baptist (Salem) Confirmations, 1904-1920

St. John the Baptist (Salem) Marriages, 1903-1908

St. John the Baptist (Salem) Marriages, 1908-1920

St. Joseph (Pepperell) Baptisms, 1885-1920*

St. Joseph (Pepperell) Marriages, 1885-1920*

St. Mary (Waltham) Baptisms, 1896-1904*

St. Mary (Waltham) Baptisms, 1905-1914

St. Mary (Waltham) Baptisms, 1915-1920

St. Mary (Waltham) Baptisms, 1920

St. Mary (Waltham) Confirmations, 1919-1920

St. Mary (Waltham) Marriages, 1891-1920*

St. Peter (Cambridge) Baptisms, 1890-1920*

St. Peter (Cambridge) Marriages, 1893-1920*

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Today we’ve added 32 new volumes and updated 9 volumes in Massachusetts: (Image-Only) Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1789-1920 from 8 parishes across eastern Massachusetts. This new update adds over 7,000 new pages to browse.

The new and updated parishes include: St. Lawrence (Brookline), St. John the Evangelist (Cambridge), St. Mary of the Annunciation (Cambridge), St. Patrick (Cambridge), St. Clement (Somerville), Patronage of St. Joseph (Somerville), St. John the Evangelist (Swampscott), and St. Charles Borromeo (Waltham).

If you need help navigating the image-only collection, please consult our webinar, Archdiocese of Boston Catholic Records Project: We’re Expanding!

We’d like to thank Sam Sturgis for his help in making these parish records available online.

The new volumes in Massachusetts: (Image-Only) Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, 1789-1920 are listed below. Volumes with an asterisk have been updated. Previously they were truncated to only display records from before January 1, 1901. Now they are presented on our site either in their complete form or with the records up to December 31, 1920:

St. Lawrence (Brookline) Baptisms, 1898-1920*
St. Lawrence (Brookline) Marriages, 1898-1920*

St. John the Evangelist (Cambridge) Baptisms, 1893-1908*
St. John the Evangelist (Cambridge) Baptisms, 1908-1914
St. John the Evangelist (Cambridge) Baptisms, 1914-1920
St. John the Evangelist (Cambridge) Confirmations, 1894-1920*
St. John the Evangelist (Cambridge) Marriages, 1893-1907*
St. John the Evangelist (Cambridge) Marriages, 1908-1920

St. Mary of the Annunciation (Cambridge) Baptisms, 1901-1910
St. Mary of the Annunciation (Cambridge) Baptisms, 1910-1920
St. Mary of the Annunciation (Cambridge) Confirmations, 1901-1902
St. Mary of the Annunciation (Cambridge) Confirmations, 1903-1908
St. Mary of the Annunciation (Cambridge) Confirmations, 1917-1920
St. Mary of the Annunciation (Cambridge) Marriages, 1901-1902
St. Mary of the Annunciation (Cambridge) Marriages, 1902-1908
St. Mary of the Annunciation (Cambridge) Marriages, 1908-1917
St. Mary of the Annunciation (Cambridge) Marriages, 1917-1920

St. Patrick (Cambridge) Baptisms, 1908-1920
St. Patrick (Cambridge) Baptisms, 1920
St. Patrick (Cambridge) Confirmations, 1909-1920
St. Patrick (Cambridge) Marriages, 1908-1920

Patronage of St. Joseph (Somerville) Baptisms, 1896-1905*
Patronage of St. Joseph (Somerville) Baptisms, 1906-1920
Patronage of St. Joseph (Somerville) First Communions, 1896-1917*
Patronage of St. Joseph (Somerville) First Communions, 1918-1920
Patronage of St. Joseph (Somerville) Confirmations, 1873-1920*
Patronage of St. Joseph (Somerville) Marriages, 1869-1920*

St. Clement (Somerville) Baptisms, 1912-1919
St. Clement (Somerville) Baptisms, 1919-1920
St. Clement (Somerville) Confirmations, 1913-1920
St. Clement (Somerville) Marriages, 1912-1920

St. John the Evangelist (Swampscott) Baptisms, 1906-1910
St. John the Evangelist (Swampscott) Marriages, 1911-1920
St. John the Evangelist (Swampscott) Baptisms and Marriage Promises, 1911-1920
St. John the Evangelist (Swampscott) First Communions and Confirmations Female, 1909-1916
St. John the Evangelist (Swampscott) First Communions and Confirmations Male, 1919-1916
St. John the Evangelist (Swampscott) Marriages, 1906-1910
St. John the Evangelist (Swampscott) Marriages, 1906-1913
St. John the Evangelist (Swampscott) Sick Calls, 1914-1920

St. Charles Borromeo (Waltham) Baptisms, 1909-1920
St. Charles Borromeo (Waltham) Marriages, 1909-1920

Please note: this database is available to all NEHGS members. Learn more about becoming a NEHGS guest member (free).

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