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1892 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Everett, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. St. Mary’s Church is visible in the upper center of the map.
Today we’ve added 4 new volumes to Massachusetts: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1789-1920 from Immaculate Conception in Everett. This update adds over 12,100 records and over 47,500 names to search.
Immaculate Conception (Everett) was initially called St. Mary’s. It began as a mission church of Chelsea. In 1885 it became a full parish along with Revere (which later split off).
We’d like to thank Sam Sturgis for his help making this parish available online.
The new volumes are listed below:
Immaculate Conception (Everett) Baptisms, 1903-1909
Immaculate Conception (Everett) Baptisms, 1909-1916
Immaculate Conception (Everett) Baptisms, 1916-1920
Immaculate Conception (Everett) Marriages, 1913-1920
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
Today we’re announcing a new database, Dartmouth, MA: Quaker Records, 1699-1920. The Dartmouth Historical and Arts Society (DHAS) has digitized and is transcribing the original record books for the Dartmouth monthly meeting of Friends (Quakers). These digitized images and transcriptions (when complete) are available on their website: https://www.dartmouthhas.org/quaker-transcriptions.html.
The DHAS has also partnered with us to make these records available on AmericanAncestors.org.
When finished, this database will encompass 16 volumes pertaining to the monthly meeting in Dartmouth from 1699-1920. Currently, the database presents “removal records” from seven volumes. An every name index will be added to those volumes for which it is missing when complete. By agreement, no records less than 100 years old will be posted. These meeting records provide valuable insight into the lives of early New England Quakers.
The partnership between DHAS and AmericanAncestors.org has initially focused on information-dense “removal certificate” entries in the Men’s and Women’s Minute books and the special journals dedicated to just “removals’. Since these reflect geographic connections of individuals and families at documented times they provide valuable facts to genealogists and historians regarding the homes and travels of their ancestors. Removal records can take three forms as they document the movement of individuals or families in Dartmouth. The three basic types of removal records include: (1) Marriage (to someone from a different Monthly Meeting (MM), either at Dartmouth MM or at some other MM); (2)Temporarily ‘visiting’ Dartmouth from another MM or going to another MM to ‘visit’ ; and (3) Permanently relocating to the Dartmouth MM from some other MM or to some other MM from Dartmouth.
Today we’re launching the database with seven of the 16 volumes currently available. More will be added throughout the year as our partnership continues. Today’s launch includes over 5,200 records and over 6,500 names.
The new volumes are listed below:
Removals, 1792-1821 (Vol. 13)
Removals, 1822-1847 (Vol. 14)
Men’s Minutes, 1699-1727 (Vol. 6)
Men’s Minutes, 1727-1762 (Vol. 7)
Men’s Minutes, 1762-1785 (Vol. 8)
Men’s Minutes, 1785-1803 (Vol. 9)
Women’s Minutes, 1699-1782 (Vol.15)
The mission of the Dartmouth Historical and Arts Society, a non-profit located in Dartmouth Massachusetts, is to support, promote, preserve, and disseminate the historic and cultural diversity of Dartmouth, Massachusetts. A significant part of that history is the early settlement of the community by members of the Religious Society of Friends, also known as Quakers. For more information on the Quaker Project, visit https://dartmouthhas.org/quakerproject.html. We’d like to thank the DHAS team and volunteers who have contributed to this project so far.
Please note: This database is available to all NEHGS members. Learn more about becoming a NEHGS guest member (free).
Today we’ve added 3 more volumes to Boston, MA: Provident Institution for Savings, 1817-1882. This update adds over 40,000 records to search. This final update concludes this database project, which has been in process since 2019.
The new volumes are:
Signature Book 1, 1817-1823
Signature Book 4, 1836-1841
Signature Book 26, 1880-1884
The Provident Institution for Savings in the Town of Boston was one the first savings banks to be incorporated in the United States. About 80% of the individuals represented in the early records of this bank were immigrants to Boston. The Waste Books provide lists of daily transactions that occurred at the bank – often one person is depositing money in benefit of another person. Residence locations are provided (usually a town), and occupations are often recorded.
If you are interested in the general subject of bank records, be sure to watch genealogist Eileen Pironti’s webinar, Using Bank Records in Family History Research.
This database is possible through our partnership with the Boston Athenaeum. The Boston Athenaeum holds the original record books and performed the digitization of all the images. The full holding information for the collection available at the Boston Athenaeum can be found here: Provident Institution for Savings in the Town of Boston Records.
We’d like to thank our volunteers Leslee Johnston, Gale Stevenson, Judy Welna, Loretta Aldrich, Laura Crook Brisso, Gig Moineau, Rosemary Durica, Karen Buchinger, Paula Muggleton, Carol Demers, Alan Phelps, Gail Wine, Carol Farrington, Cece Lasley, Nancy Borman, Sandy Caldwell, Ida Nystrom, Charlie Watson, Margaret Parker, Diana Beltrao, Barbara Macken, Pat Dalpiaz, Rich Wood, Gayle Smalley, Lin Martin-Berke, Ann Sheparson, Elaine Wood, Ron Wilson, Ellie Witham, and Amanda Opalenik for their work on this update.
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
Today we’ve added 15 new volumes to Massachusetts: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1789-1920 from five parishes: Immaculate Conception (Marlborough), St. Bridget (Maynard), St. Joseph (Holbrook), St. Mary (Foxborough) and St. Vincent de Paul (South Boston). This update adds over 9,500 records and over 33,900 names to search.
We’d like to thank Sam Sturgis for his help making these parishes available online.
The new volumes are listed below:
Immaculate Conception (Marlborough) Baptisms, 1911-1920
Immaculate Conception (Marlborough) First Communions & Confirmations, 1915-1920
St. Bridget (Maynard) Baptisms, 1908-1917
St. Bridget (Maynard) Baptisms, 1917-1920
St. Bridget (Maynard) Confirmations, 1910-1920
St. Bridget (Maynard) Marriages, 1917-1920
St. Joseph (Holbrook) Baptisms, 1913-1920
St. Joseph (Holbrook) First Communions & Confirmations, 1914-1920
St. Joseph (Holbrook) Marriages, 1907-1914
St. Joseph (Holbrook) Marriages, 1913-1920
St. Mary (Foxborough) Baptisms, 1901-1920
St. Mary (Foxborough) Confirmations, 1902-1920
St. Mary (Foxborough) Deaths & Burials, 1907-1911
St. Mary (Foxborough) Marriages, 1902-1920
St. Vincent de Paul (South Boston) Marriages, 1910-1920
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
Today we’re announcing the addition of vital records from nine new towns in western Massachusetts to Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850.
This update includes over 36,000 records and 80,400 names.
Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850 presents the vital records of many (but not all) towns in Massachusetts. The volumes that comprise this database come from a variety of different sources including vital records published by NEHGS, vital records published by other individuals or organizations (such as Franklin P. Rice, the Essex Institute, or the General Society of Mayflower Descendants), and manuscripts from the NEHGS collection.
The new records added in this update come from the Corbin Collection, specifically the 2003 CD that transcribes the contents of the original manuscript collection located in the R. Stanton Avery Special Collections here at NEHGS.
Walter and Lottie Corbin, the genealogists who created the Corbin Collection lived in Florence, MA themselves (one of the new towns added in this update). According to the introduction to the CD, Walter and Lottie “traveled throughout western Massachusetts transcribing and compiling records until they had assembled perhaps the largest and most valuable collection of materials ever created for this area. The Corbins traversed the countryside transcribing church records, vital records, cemeteries, probate records, and many private records. They visited individuals in their homes, traipsed through overgrown cemeteries, and carefully examined dusty, centuries-old volumes in clerk’s offices, libraries, and churches.” The Corbins’ collection of records, most of which pertain to the 1650-1850 time period was purchased by NEHGS in 1964.
We’d like to thank Sam Sturgis for his help in making these towns available online.
The new volumes are listed below:
Blandford – V1
Florence – V1
Goshen – V1
Haydenville – V1
Huntington – V1
Middlefield – V2
Monson – V1
Pelham – V2
Plainfield – V1
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
Today we’ve added 10 new volumes to Massachusetts: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1789-1920 from St. Philip in Roxbury, St. Monica in South Boston, St. William in Tewksbury, and Sacred Heart in Weymouth. This update adds over 30,000 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:
St. Philip (Roxbury) Marriages, 1908-1920
St. Monica (South Boston) Baptisms, 1908-1920
St. Monica (South Boston) Marriages, 1918-1920
St. William (Tewksbury) Baptisms and Marriages, 1904-1920
St. William (Tewksbury) Baptisms, 1911-1920
St. William (Tewksbury) Baptisms, 1920
St. William (Tewksbury) Marriages, 1920
Sacred Heart (Weymouth) Baptisms, 1896-1920
Sacred Heart (Weymouth) Confirmations, 1886-1920
Sacred Heart (Weymouth) Marriages, 1896-1920
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
Today, we’ve added 4 more volumes to Boston, MA: Provident Institution for Savings, 1817-1882. This update adds over 40,000 names to search.
The new volumes are:
Signature 11, 1854-1858
Signature 14, 1863-1867
Waste Book 1C, 1820
Waste Book 4C, 1821-1833
The Provident Institution for Savings in the Town of Boston was one of the first savings bank to be incorporated in the United States. About 80% of the individuals represented in the early records of this bank were immigrants to Boston. The Waste Books provide lists of daily transactions that happened at the bank–often one person is depositing money in benefit of another person. Residence locations are provided (usually a town), and occupations are often recorded.
If you are interested in the subject of bank records in general, be sure to watch genealogist Eileen Pironti’s webinar, Using Bank Records in Family History Research.
This database is still a work in progress. When complete, the database will contain 6 signature books and 6 “waste” (transaction) books. Three signature books and six waste books are currently available.
This database is possible through our partnership with the Boston Athenaeum. The Boston Athenaeum holds the original record books and performed the digitization of all the images. The full collection at the Boston Athenaeum is Provident Institution for Savings in the Town of Boston Records.
We’d like to thank our volunteers Judy Welna, Loretta Aldrich, Barbara Macken, Wendy Sheppard, Laura Engehardt, Blaine Parker, Barbara Foote, Gale Stevenson, Gig Moineau, Leslee Johnston, Maya Kuzma, Michale Giannetti, Katie McCarver, Liz Odell, Ellie Witham, Jannean James, Chelsea Hester, Charlie Watson, Ida Nystrom, Nancy Borman, and Margaret Parker for their work on this update.
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
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:
Immaculate Conception (Stoughton) Baptisms, 1907-1920
Immaculate Conception (Stoughton) Confirmations, 1898-1920 (Book 2)
St. Hedwig (Cambridge) Baptisms, 1907-1911
St. Hedwig (Cambridge) Baptisms, 1911-1915
St. Hedwig (Cambridge) Baptisms, 1915-1918
St. Hedwig (Cambridge) Baptisms, 1918-1920
St. Hedwig (Cambridge) First Communions, 1917-1920
St. Hedwig (Cambridge) Marriages, 1908-1913
St. Hedwig (Cambridge) Marriages, 1914-1920
Massachusetts: Automobile Registrations, 1908-1910 is a three-volume database detailing early automobile registrations here in the commonwealth. These volumes include:
Massachusetts Automobile Registrations, 1908
Massachusetts Automobile Registrations, 1909
Massachusetts Automobile Registrations, 1910
Transcribed information includes the owner’s first and last names, town of residence, and the manufacturer and engine size of their vehicles. Appendices also include records about automobile dealers, garage and supply services, and lodging for those traveling by car.
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
Today we’ve added six new sketches to Early Vermont Settlers, 1700-1784. The people profiled in the new sketches all lived in Brattleboro. The new sketches are listed below:
Andrews, James
Andrews, Seth
Calkins, Simeon
Chamberlain, Joseph
Chamberlain, Thomas
Compton, John
With this study project, Scott Andrew Bartley researches heads of families who lived in Vermont prior to the Revolutionary War. These sketches illustrate major players on political and religious fronts, uncover the migration patterns for this period in the region, and identify all those just looking to better their lives on the new frontier. This project is proceeding in two series, settlers to 1771 and 1772-1784. The work so far has been geographical, focusing on Windsor and Windham Counties.
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.