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Today we’ve added 4 new sketches to two of our study projects!
We’ve added 2 new sketches to Early Vermont Settlers, 1700-1784. The two new sketches feature Benjamin Butterfield and Benjamin Butterfield, Jr. of Brattleboro.
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.
We’re also announcing two new sketches in Western Massachusetts Families in 1790. The new sketches focus on Ebenezer Payne and Stephen Payne, both of Partridgefield (Peru), MA. The current town of Peru was originally incorporated as Partridgefield. You can read more about the changing borders of this town in our database Massachusetts: Historical Data Relating to Cities and Towns.
This study project focuses on individual enumerated in the 1790 census in historic Berkshire and Hampshire counties, also including modern Franklin and Hampden counties. Sketches for this project are submitted to editor Helen Schatvet Ullmann, CG, FASG by NEHGS members and other interested researchers.
We’d like to thank Sam Sturgis for his work on the Western Massachusetts Families update.
Please note: These databases are available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
Today we have added 12 new volumes to the Massachusetts: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1789-1920 database. Today’s addition delivers the parishes of Blessed Sacrament in Cambridge and St. Patrick in Brockton. This update includes over 2,500 pages, 22,000 records and over 77,000 searchable names.
In 1905, St. Mary’s Parish of Cambridge was divided. The portion between Massachusetts Avenue and the Charles River became Blessed Sacrament, under Father John A. Crowe.
Prior to 1856, Catholics in Brockton travelled to Randolph for Mass. In 1856, a priest was assigned to Brockton to build a new parish. St. Patrick’s church was dedicated in 1859.
The volumes published today are:
• Blessed Sacrament (Cambridge) Baptisms, 1905-1908
• Blessed Sacrament (Cambridge) Baptisms, 1909-1915
• Blessed Sacrament (Cambridge) Baptisms, 1915-1920
• Blessed Sacrament (Cambridge) Confirmations, 1919-1920
• Blessed Sacrament (Cambridge) First Communions, 1907-1920
• Blessed Sacrament (Cambridge) Marriages, 1905-1908
• Blessed Sacrament (Cambridge) Marriages, 1909-1920
• St. Patrick (Brockton) Baptisms, 1904-1910
• St. Patrick (Brockton) Baptisms, 1910-1920
• St. Patrick (Brockton) Baptisms, 1920
• St. Patrick (Brockton) Confirmations, 1903-1917
• St. Patrick (Brockton) Marriages, 1910-1920
We’d like to thank Sam Sturgis for his help making these parishes available online. 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 Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
Today we have added 3 new volumes and updated 9 volumes for the Massachusetts: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1789-1920 database. Today’s addition provides the parishes of St. Ann in Dorchester, St. Mary Star of the Sea in Beverly, St. Peter in Cambridge. St. Mary in Randolph and Immaculate Conception in Malden. This update includes over 1,600 pages, 20,000 records and over 75,000 searchable names.
The first Mass at Immaculate Conception (Malden) was celebrated on Christmas Day in 1854. At the time, the parish attracted Catholics from many towns north of Boston including Medford, Melrose, Wakefield, South Reading, Stoneham, Winchester, and Everett.
The parish of St. Ann (Dorchester) celebrated its first Mass on Christmas in 1880 after breaking off from St. Gregory’s parish.
St. Mary’s in Randolph was built in 1849, as the Catholic population in Randolph expanded, no longer needing to travel to Quincy to worship.
St. Mary Star of the Sea in Beverly began as a mission of Immaculate Conception (Salem). The church was dedicated in Beverly in 1870, and in 1871 they became their own parish. St. Mary Star of the Sea in Beverly also ran missions in Manchester and Ipswich, and as the Catholic population grew, a second church was built in Beverly Farms, called St. Margaret.
St. Peter was established in 1848 as the Catholic population of Cambridge grew; it broke off from the parish of Sacred Heart of Jesus. At the beginning, this parish not only served Catholics of Cambridge, but also Catholics from many towns in northeast inland Massachusetts. The church is located in between Fresh Pond and Harvard Square.
The volumes delivered are as follows:
• Immaculate Conception (Malden) Marriages, 1868-1904
• St. Ann (Dorchester) Baptisms, 1889-1904
• St. Mary (Randolph) Baptisms, 1888-1908
• St. Mary (Randolph) Marriages, 1888-1907
• St. Mary Star of the Sea (Beverly) Baptisms, 1895-1909
• St. Mary Star of the Sea (Beverly) Baptisms, 1909-1920
• St. Mary Star of the Sea (Beverly) Baptisms, 1920
• St. Mary Star of the Sea (Beverly) Confirmations, 1898-1920
• St. Mary Star of the Sea (Beverly) Marriages, 1871-1915
• St. Mary Star of the Sea (Beverly) Marriages, 1915-1920
• St. Peter (Cambridge) Baptisms, 1890-1920
• St. Peter (Cambridge) Marriages, 1893-1920
We’d like to thank Sam Sturgis for his help making these parishes available online. 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 Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
Today we’ve added four new sketches to Early Vermont Settlers, 1700-1784, highlighting families who lived in Brattleboro. The new sketches are listed below:
Arms, Josiah (Brattleboro)
Atchison, Joel (Brattleboro)
Ball, Jacob (Brattleboro)
Ball, Shadrach (Brattleboro)
We’ve also updated two sketches: Arms, John (Fort Dummer) and Clay, James (Putney).
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.
Today we’ve added seven new volumes and updated two volumes in Massachusetts: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1789-1920 from St. Rose of Lima in Chelsea. This update adds over 16,900 records and over 67,200 names to search.
St. Rose of Lima was the first Catholic church established in Chelsea; the church building was dedicated in 1865.
We’d like to thank Sam Sturgis for his help making this parish available online.
The new volumes 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 in their complete form:
St. Rose of Lima (Chelsea) Baptisms, 1897-1902*
St. Rose of Lima (Chelsea) Baptisms, 1902-1906
St. Rose of Lima (Chelsea) Baptisms, 1906-1912
St. Rose of Lima (Chelsea) Baptisms, 1912-1916
St. Rose of Lima (Chelsea) Baptisms, 1916-1920
St. Rose of Lima (Chelsea) Confirmations, 1908-1920
St. Rose of Lima (Chelsea) Convert Baptisms, 1910-1920
St. Rose of Lima (Chelsea) Marriages, 1888-1912*
St. Rose of Lima (Chelsea) Marriages, 1913-1920
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
Today we have added 10 new volumes, and updated 3 volumes, for the Massachusetts: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1789-1920 (https://www.americanancestors.org/search/databasesearch/2726/massachusetts-roman-catholic-archdiocese-of-boston-records-1789-1920). Today’s additions include St. Margaret in Dorchester and Immaculate Conception in Lowell. This update includes 13 volumes, 1,200 pages, 19,000 records, and 70,000 searchable names.
St. Margaret branched off from an existing church, St. Peter’s in Dorchester in the late 1800s. The plans for constructing this church were officially embarked upon on June 10, 1893, the feast of St. Margaret.
Immaculate Conception in Lowell was run by the Oblate Order. The church was dedicated in 1877 as Lowell’s Catholic population grew.
The volumes in this release are:
• St. Margaret (Dorchester) Baptisms, 1901-1918 (Part 1)
• St. Margaret (Dorchester) Baptisms, 1901-1918 (Part 2)
• St. Margaret (Dorchester) Baptisms, 1918-1920
• St. Margaret (Dorchester) Confirmations, 1894-1915
• St. Margaret (Dorchester) Confirmations, 1919-1920
• St. Margaret (Dorchester) Marriages, 1893-1919
• St. Margaret (Dorchester) Marriages, 1919-1920
• Immaculate Conception (Lowell) Baptisms, 1901-1907
• Immaculate Conception (Lowell) Baptisms, 1908-1916
• Immaculate Conception (Lowell) Baptisms, 1917-1920
• Immaculate Conception (Lowell) First Communions, 1914-1920
• Immaculate Conception (Lowell) Confirmations, 1916-1920
• Immaculate Conception (Lowell) Marriages, 1896-1920
We’d like to thank Sam Sturgis for his help making these parishes available online. 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 Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
Today we’ve updated three databases that focus on three different towns throughout New England: Hinsdale, MA; Newport, RI and Nottingham West also known as Hudson, NH. These databases, based on manuscripts from the R. Stanton Avery Special Collections are now searchable by first name and last name, location, record type, date, and family members (where available). The page images from the original manuscripts were also added to these revamped databases.
These three updates are part of an on-going project to update some of our older databases that were formerly not indexed in as much detail on our website.
The updated databases include:
Hinsdale, MA: Records of the Congregational Church, 1797-1848
Newport, RI: Members of the Artillery Company of Newport, 1741-1854
Nottingham West (Hudson), NH: Records of First Church of Christ, 1737-1795
We’d like to thank the following volunteers for their work to make these updates possible: Tate Lehmann, Linda Weaver, Ida Nystrom, Margaret Parker and Nancy Borman.
Please note: These databases are available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
Today we’ve added 14 new volumes and updated three volumes in Massachusetts: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1789-1920 from St. Andrew (Billerica), St. Mary of the Annunciation (Cambridge), St. Paul (Cambridge) and St. John the Evangelist (Hopkinton). This update adds over 33,400 records and over 120,000 names to search.
We’d like to thank Sam Sturgis for his help making these parishes available online.
The new volumes are listed below. 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. Andrew (Billerica) Baptisms and Marriages, 1868-1904
St. Andrew (Billerica) Baptisms and Marriages, 1904-1914
St. Andrew (Billerica) Confirmations, 1868-1899
St. Mary of the Annunciation (Cambridge) Baptisms, 1910-1920
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, 1902-1908
St. Mary of the Annunciation (Cambridge) Marriages, 1908-1917
St. Mary of the Annunciation (Cambridge) Marriages, 1917-1920
St. Paul (Cambridge) Baptisms, 1875-1908*
St. Paul (Cambridge) Baptisms, 1908-1918
St. Paul (Cambridge) Baptisms, 1918-1920
St. Paul (Cambridge) Confirmations, 1875-1920*
St. Paul (Cambridge) Marriages, 1875-1908*
St. Paul (Cambridge) Marriages, 1908-1920
St. John the Evangelist (Hopkinton) Baptisms, 1908-1920
St. John the Evangelist (Hopkinton) Marriages, 1908-1920
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
Today we’ve added seven new volumes and updated one volume in Massachusetts: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1789-1920 from Sacred Heart in Boston. This update adds over 27,100 records and over 121,800 names to search.
Usually we add all the records of a single parish at once. Most parishes contain less than 10 volumes for the 20 year time period we’re currently working on (1901-1920). However, Sacred Heart in Boston’s North End consists of 37 volumes. So in this special case, I uploaded this parish in pieces over a series of weeks. This week I’ve added the final 7 new volumes (joining the thirty other recently added new volumes). So this parish is now complete–all the information we scanned is now available for search!
The new volumes are listed below. The starred volume was updated, adding the records from 1900-1902:
Sacred Heart (Boston) Marriages, 1899-1902*
Sacred Heart (Boston) Marriages, 1902-1905
Sacred Heart (Boston) Marriages, 1905-1908
Sacred Heart (Boston) Marriages, 1908-1911
Sacred Heart (Boston) Marriages, 1911-1913
Sacred Heart (Boston) Marriages, 1913-1916
Sacred Heart (Boston) Marriages, 1916-1918
Sacred Heart (Boston) Marriages, 1918-1920
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
Today we are releasing volumes 14 through 22 (1860-1868) of the in-depth re-indexing of all the genealogical records in the database Vital Records from the New England Historical and Genealogical Register. This update includes 9 volumes, 3,700 pages, 85,000 records and 175,000 searchable names and has about four times the number of records previously indexed for these volumes.
This ongoing project will unlock the value of all the information captured in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register since the first publication in 1847. We are reviewing every published article add extracting a broad set of records for those articles that are genealogical in nature. So, in addition to birth, marriage, and death records there are now records of type; residence, immigration, military records, church dismissals, and more. The indexing in this effort includes spouses, parents, and locations.
Users of American AncesTREES will also benefit by being able to get hints from the newly indexed volumes in their family trees.
This update is made possible by the splendid efforts of our volunteers: Valerie Abrahamsen, Nancy Borman, Carol Botteron, Becki Clarke, Patricia Dalpiaz, Fran Danico, Randy Hube, Karen Jarret, Toni Lattimer, Jan Lundquist, Kristina Magill, Ginny Marshall, Paula Muggleton, Ida Nystrom, Margaret Parker, Karen Ristic, Ray Ristic, Kay Sencabaugh, Olga Tugarina, Susan Van Allen, Charlie Watson, Jaimie Williams-Peterson, and Rich Wood. If you would like to become part of the team working on this rewarding project to revamp the index to the NEHGS Register, please contact Rachel Adams, Database Services Volunteer Coordinator via email at rachel.adams@nehgs.org.
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Published quarterly since 1847, The New England Historical and Genealogical Register is the flagship journal of American genealogy and the oldest journal in the field. The Register has featured articles on a wide variety of topics since its inception, including vital records, church records, tax records, land and probate records, cemetery transcriptions, obituaries, and historical essays. Authoritative compiled genealogies have been the centerpiece of the Register for more than 150 years. Thousands of New England families have been treated in the pages of the journal and many more are referenced in incidental ways throughout. These articles may range from short pieces correcting errors in print or solving unusual problems to larger treatments that reveal family origins or present multiple generations of a family.
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.