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Bath Bridge, spanning the Ammonoosuc River, Lisbon Road, Bath, Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA. Built 1832 with modified Burr truss. Picture taken 28 January 2012. Public Domain courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
We have revamped the database Bath, NH: Births Attended by Dr. John French, 1807-1857. This database now contains the page image of the original manuscript, and it is searchable by first name and last name, record type, and family members (where available). Record types include Birth and Death records.
Please note that Dr. French tended to record the name of the mother or father and often not the name of the child. It will often be helpful to search with just the last name and year to find records.
These records were copied, and the index compiled, by John Hibbard, town clerk of Bath, New Hampshire. Dr. John French was born in South Hampton, N.H., and commenced his practice at Warren, N.H., in 1807. Early in 1808 he located in Landaff, where he practiced until April 1822, when he removed to Bath. He remained there in active practice until the latter part of 1857. These records contain the names of 2,336 fathers and the dates of birth of their children. In addition to Bath, they list births in the surrounding towns of Landaff, Lisbon, Lyman, Benton, and Haverhill. All of these towns are in Grafton County, N.H.
The transcription is kept in the R. Stanton Avery Collections at NEHGS, call number, Mss A 6921.
This update is made possible by the efforts of our team our volunteers. If you have some time and would like to get involved in the digitizing and indexing process please contact Rachel Adams, Database Services Volunteer Coordinator via email at rachel.adams@nehgs.org.
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
Map of the Patent granted to Henry Beekman.
We are very happy to add Volume 10 to our database Dutchess County, NY: The Settlers of the Beekman Patent. This series is an invaluable resource for researching the early settlers of Dutchess county, New York. Volume 10 contains over 1,200 pages and is focused on families with last names between Paine to Rogers. Almost 30,000 names have been added with this volume.
Note that this database has a name-only index, derived from the book index itself. Search terms should be focused on First and Last names. You may also specify a volume to restrict your search results.
The Settlers of the Beekman Patent series, by Frank J. Doherty, contains data on over thirteen hundred families who settled in the Beekman Patent, an original land grant given to Col. Henry Beekman in 1697 by the English Crown and the second largest patent in present-day Dutchess County, New York. Many emigrants from New England lived in and passed through the Beekman Patent on their way west. Others, such as the Palatines and Quakers (almost all from New England), were early settlers and remained for several generations or more. Mr. Doherty has published a total of 13 volumes in this series, we are now adding volume 10 in accordance with our agreement to make them available as searchable database after 7 years have passed.
The printed index is also available at the end of this volume, starting on page 1004. As noted in the book (see here), there are some errors in the printed index which we have corrected when indexing the online version.
This update is made possible by the efforts of our team our volunteers. If you have some time and would like to get involved please contact Rachel Adams, Database Services Volunteer Coordinator via email at rachel.adams@nehgs.org.
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
A view of the Elliottville Lower Mill (Peeptoad road Mill) East Killingly, CT built in 1850. Photo by Randall Simmons 14 June 2011, via Wikimedia Commons.
We have revamped the database Killingly, CT: Church Records, 1711-1775. This database now contains the page image of the original manuscript, and it is searchable by first name and last name, record type, and family members (where available). Record types include Birth, Baptism, Church Record, Marriage, and Death records.
These records are from the original “Book of Church Records: The gift of J. F. (Rev. John Fisk) to the Church of Killingly; March the 5th, 1715-16.” Records from the book were published in the Putnam Patriot newspaper in 1894, and the information contained in this database was abstracted from these newspapers by E. D. Larned. The records were later published in a book entitled Church Records of Killingly, Connecticut (Hunterdon House, Lambertville, N.J., 1984). The Putnam-Killingly Parish Second Church was built in 1715. This manuscript is part of the R. Stanton Avery Collections at NEHGS, call number Mss A 6126.
This update is made possible by the efforts of our team our volunteers, including Sam Sturgis. We appreciate the work of all our volunteers. If you have some time and would like to get involved please contact Rachel Adams, Database Services Volunteer Coordinator via email at rachel.adams@nehgs.org.
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
View of East Haddam, Connecticut, and Goodspeeds Landing: 1880. Public Domain, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
We have revamped the database East Haddam, CT: Records of the First Congregational Church, 1704-1802. This database now contains the page image of the original manuscript, and it is searchable by first name and last name, record type, and family members (where available).
The First Congregational Church in East Haddam, Connecticut was formed January 6, 1704. The first meeting house was thirty-two feet square and took five years to build. It was used for twenty-three years until a second house was built in 1728. The first minister was Rev. Stephen Hosmer, who presided from 1704 to 1749. These records in this database are primarily Baptisms, with some Church Admissions included.
This update is made possible by the efforts of our team our volunteers, including Sam Sturgis. We appreciate the work of all our volunteers. If you have some time and would like get involved please contact Rachel Adams, Database Services Volunteer Coordinator via email at rachel.adams@nehgs.org.
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
Print shows Havnegade (Port Street) in Copenhagen, Denmark between 1880 and 1890. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009). Courtesy of Wikimedia.org.
We are very happy to announce a new database today; Denmark: Mormon Missionaries and Migration to America, 1872-1894.
This database contains the complete manuscript of Passport to Paradise, The Copenhagen “Mormon” Passenger Lists Vol. 1 1872-1887 and Vol 2. 1888-1894 by Shauna C. Anderson Young, Susan Easton Black, and Ruth Ellen Maness. Copyright 2000.
The database contains over 26,000 searchable names, 14,000 records, and 1,200 pages of detailed information on Mormon emigrants who boarded ships in Copenhagen and started their journey to America. This resource work gives names, gender, ages, marital status, occupations, place of residence, destinations of specific ships, European departure dates, and arrivals at US ports. The introduction volume provides a great deal of valuable reference information, including: Scandinavian alphabets, how family names were formed, maps, and codes and terms used through the manuscript.
This database contains the full content of both volumes. For online publication we have arranged the contents so that the all passenger lists from 1872 through 1894 are in a single online volume titled Passengers. All the introduction information is in the Introduction, and the name index is a volume titled Index.
You can get additional information about the authors and their work on the site for the Winter Quarters project. This team of authors previously provided us the manuscript behind the database Norway: Mormon Missionaries and Emigrants to America, 1886-1900, providing valuable information on emigration from Norway to America.
This database can be searched using the following fields:
- First and last name
- Year
- Record type – Birth, Death, Emigration, Marriage
- Location
- Family member names: Spouse, Mother and Father (where available)
This new database is made possible by the invaluable efforts of our growing team of volunteers, particularly David Anderson. We genuinely appreciate their support. If you are interested in joining the team, please contact Rachel Adams, Database Services Volunteer Coordinator rachel.adams@nehgs.org.
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
Boston & Maine Railroad Station, Boscawen, New Hampshire, 1908. Reproduced from an original postcard published by Fred James, Boscawen, New Hampshire. Public Domain, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
We have revamped the database Boscawen, NH: Records of the Second Church of Christ, 1804-1883. This database now contains the page image of the original manuscript, and it is searchable by first name and last name, record type, and family members (where available).
The Second Church of Christ of Boscawen was organized September 10, 1804. In 1860, the town of Webster was set off from Boscawen, and in 1868, the church, now within the new town’s boundaries, was renamed the First Congregational Church of Webster. These records in this manuscript were abstracted by Helen Loring Barnes and include baptisms, marriages, deaths, and church dismissals.
This update is made possible by the efforts of our team our volunteers, and in particular Judi Schauner. We appreciate the work of all our volunteers. If you would like to join the team please contact Rachel Adams, Database Services Volunteer Coordinator via email at rachel.adams@nehgs.org.
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
Boston Recorder, Congress Street, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Nathaniel Willis and Asa Rand, proprietors. Public Domain, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
We have updated the index to Boston Recorder and Telegraph: Marriages, 1827-1828 so that it is now searchable by first and last name, location, and family members (where available). The text of these extracted marriage and death records published in the Boston Recorder and Telegraph newspaper continues to be searchable via Keyword search.
This update is made possible by the efforts of our team our volunteers Barbara Holt. We appreciate the work of all our volunteers. If you would like to join the team please contact Rachel Adams, Database Services Volunteer Coordinator via email at rachel.adams@nehgs.org.
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership
Leaving old home and friends – waving goodbyes to emigrants starting for America, Christiania, Norway circa 1905, by Elmer Underwood (1859-1947). Author Nasjonalbiblioteket / National Library of Norway, available under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License.
We are very happy to announce a new database today; Norway: Mormon Missionaries and Emigrants to America, 1886-1900.
This database contains the complete manuscript of Passport to Paradise from Christiania, Norway and Legacy of Sacrifice of Norwegian Missionaries (1886-1900) by Shauna C. Anderson Young, Susan Easton Black, and Ruth Ellen Maness. It provides a listing of approximately 650 Mormon emigrants, who boarded ships docked in Christiania (now Oslo) from 1886-1897 and journeyed to the British Isles and from there to America. This resource work gives names, gender, ages, marital status, occupations, place of residence, destinations of specific ships, European departure dates, and arrivals at US ports. In addition, the work presents biographical sketches of approximately 160 Latter-day Saints who served as missionaries in Scandinavia and some served as leaders aboard the ships carrying Norwegian emigrants. The records in this database are indexed to allow search by: the person’s name, year of the record, record type (Birth, Marriage, and Death), location, and spouse, mother and father names (where available).
This database is organized into 3 volumes, with over 400 pages, 2,000 records and 4,000 searchable names. Page 27 of the Introduction volume contains a very helpful description of the Norwegian alphabet and naming customs.
This new database is made possible by the invaluable efforts of our growing team of volunteers, including David Anderson. We genuinely appreciate their dedication. If you are interested in joining the team, please contact Rachel Adams, Database Services Volunteer Coordinator rachel.adams@nehgs.org.
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
We have expanded and renamed the Great Migration Newsletter database to include the remaining five years of issues of the newsletter. The newly titled Great Migration Newsletter, V.1-25 now includes all the records for volumes 21-25 in addition to volumes 1-20. The new records are contained in a single volume named Volume 21-25 which corresponds to the book form in which they were previously published. This update added over 200 pages and 3,300 records to the database.
This database is searchable by first and last name and article titles.
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
The state seal of Massachusetts
We are very happy to announce a new database today; Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1916-1920. This is the fourth in our series of Massachusetts Vital Records databases, now covering the years from 1620 through 1920.
The database includes vital records from across the state between 1916 and 1920. It also includes amended records from 1840 through 1920. The amended records are published in separate volumes. The volumes names specify the type of record, the year, and the location of the contents.
The records in this database are indexed to allow search by: the person’s name, year of the record, record type (Birth, Marriage, and Death), location, and spouse, mother and father names (where available). Occaisonally there are additional documents, such as an affidavit, on the image immediately following the birth, marriage or death certificate. So it can be useful to use the blue arrows bracketing the page number to review the page following the record you have selected.
The Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1916-1920 database contains over 1,300 volumes, 740,000 pages, 1.4 million records, and 4.2 million searchable names. We are pleased to make this new database available as part of our partnership with FamilySearch.
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.