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Today we’re announcing four new sketches in Early Vermont Settlers, 1700-1784. These sketches feature heads of families from Strafford, Vermont.
Scott Andrew Bartley’s study project tracks heads of families who lived in Vermont prior to the Revolutionary War. His sketches so far have focused on Windham and Windsor counties.
The new sketches are listed below:
Pennock, William (Strafford)
Smith, Frederick (Strafford)
Thomas, Peter (Strafford)
West, Daniel (Strafford)
Two sketches were updated: Parish, Ezekiel (Strafford) and Pennock, James (Strafford).
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
Today we’ve added eight new volumes to Massachusetts: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1789-1920 from St. Mary in Dedham. This update adds over 11,700 records and over 48,100 names to search.
St. Mary (Dedham) was established as its own parish in 1866. It had previously been a mission of St. Joseph in Roxbury since 1846. The mission volumes for this parish also include records for St. Raphael (East Dedham) and St. Theresa of Avila (West Roxbury).
We’d like to thank Sam Sturgis for his help making these parishes available online.
The new volumes are listed below:
St. Mary (Dedham) Baptisms, 1866-1876
St. Mary (Dedham) Baptisms, 1877-1880 (Mission)
St. Mary (Dedham) Baptisms, 1877-1885
St. Mary (Dedham) Baptisms, 1885-1904
St. Mary (Dedham) Baptisms, 1900-1909
St. Mary (Dedham) Marriages, 1866-1876
St. Mary (Dedham) Marriages, 1877-1879 (Mission)
St. Mary (Dedham) Marriages, 1877-1908
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Today we’re announcing three new sketches in Western Massachusetts Families in 1790 featuring Joshua Crosby (Greenwich), Elijah Smith (Bethlehem) and Benjamin Kelton (Leyden).
This study project focuses on individuals 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. If you are interested in submitting a sketch for Volume 5, please review our project home page.
We’d like to thank Sam Sturgis for his help making this update possible.
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
Today we’ve added eight new volumes to Massachusetts: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1789-1920 from St. John the Evangelist in Hopkinton. This update adds over 14,600 records and over 49,700 names to search.
Hopkinton’s Catholics initially were served by the priests of Milford. St. Mary’s in Milford is now part of the Diocese of Worcester. It is worth consulting 100 Years of Progress by James S. Sullivan for his explanation of the changing parish boundaries in the western end of the Archdiocese in the late 1800s–according to Sullivan, the Milford priests were initially responsible for Catholics of at least ten different towns. As the population grew, these towns gradually split off into individual parishes. In the early 1850s, the first Catholic church was built in Hopkinton, initially called St. Malachi’s. In 1878, the first Mass was celebrated in the building that would be come St. John the Evangelist Church.
We’d like to thank Sam Sturgis for his help making these parishes available online.
The new volumes are listed below:
St. John the Evangelist (Hopkinton) Baptisms and Marriages, 1851-1866
St. John the Evangelist (Hopkinton) Baptisms and Marriages, 1866-1871
St. John the Evangelist (Hopkinton) Baptisms, 1870-1881
St. John the Evangelist (Hopkinton) Baptisms, 1881-1908
St. John the Evangelist (Hopkinton) Confirmations, 1867-1882
St. John the Evangelist (Hopkinton) First Communions and Confirmations, 1870-1881
St. John the Evangelist (Hopkinton) Marriages, 1870-1881
St. John the Evangelist (Hopkinton) Marriages, 1881-1908
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
Today we’ve added five new volumes to Massachusetts: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1789-1920 from St. Stephen in Framingham. This update adds over 9,900 records and over 40,000 names to search.
St. Stephen was established as a parish in 1878. St. George in the Saxonville neighborhood of Framingham was the first Catholic church in the area. St. Bridget and St. Stephen (in South Framingham) branched off from St. George.
We’d like to thank Sam Sturgis for his help making these parishes available online.
The new volumes are listed below:
St. Stephen (Framingham) Baptisms, 1877-1920
St. Stephen (Framingham) Baptisms, 1887-1901
St. Stephen (Framingham) Confirmations, 1888-1920
St. Stephen (Framingham) Marriages, 1877-1887
St. Stephen (Framingham) Marriages, 1887-1920
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
Today we’ve added three new volumes to Massachusetts: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1789-1920 from St. Michael in Lowell. This update adds over 12,900 records and over 46,400 names to search.
St. Michael’s parish began in 1883 when Lowell’s churches were mandated to become geographically-arranged parishes. It was initially served by the priests of St. Patrick’s before it became officially independent. This church was built in Lowell’s Centralville neighborhood, across the river from downtown Lowell.
We’d like to thank Sam Sturgis for his help making these parishes available online.
The new volumes are listed below:
St. Michael (Lowell) Baptisms, 1884-1908
St. Michael (Lowell) Confirmations, 1884-1900
St. Michael (Lowell) Marriages, 1884-1908
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
We are very happy to have posted a new volume to The American Genealogist database. This update adds volume 86, which was released in the years 2012 through 2013, adds 380 pages and 6,500 searchable names. The image selected for this update was inspired by the oath of Richard More taken in 1660 accusing John Baylies wife of being a witch. See page 10 of this volume for the full quote.
The indexing for these records includes full names, Publication year (not the year of the record), and article titles and authors.
Founded in 1922 by Donald Lines Jacobus, The American Genealogist (TAG) has been published quarterly and represents an important body of scholarly research covering the breadth of the United States. TAG is edited by a quartet of NEHGS members: Editor and publisher, Nathaniel Lane Taylor, FASG; coeditors Roger D. Joslyn, FASG and Joseph C. Anderson II, FASG, who is also editor of The Maine Genealogist; and consulting editor, David L. Greene, FASG. These distinguished genealogists, along with dozens of highly-regarded contributors, uphold and advance the standards for genealogical scholarship so carefully articulated by Jacobus and the Jacobus “School.”
This update is made possible by the efforts of our volunteer David Anderson. If you are interested in getting involved in the database digitization and indexing process please contact Rachel Adams, Database Services Volunteer Coordinator via email at rachel.adams@nehgs.org.
The entire run of The American Genealogist is available at the NEHGS Boston research library, call number F104.N6 A6.
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
Today we are releasing volumes 7, 8 and 9 (1853-1855) of the in-depth re-indexing of all the genealogical records in the database Vital Records from The NEHGS Register. This update includes 41,000 records and 83,000 searchable names, and is about eight 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 we create is at the same level we have used for the Archdiocese of Boston and the Mayflower Silver Books. It 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.
We will release each re-indexed volume of the register as it is completed. 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. This update is made possible by the efforts of our volunteers: Diane Arbuckle, Nancy Borman, Carol Botteron, Tom Clements, Pat Dalpiaz, Fran Danico, Elizabeth Handler, Pat Harney, Jan Lundquist, Julie Nathanson, Liz Odell, Margaret Parker, Linda Peterson, Karen Ristics, Ray Ristics, Kay Sencabaugh, Renda Smith, Gale Stevenson, Rich Turnblom, Susan Van Allen, Charlie Watson, Jaimie Williams-Peterson, Rich Wood, Erica Yee.
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. The indexing for these records includes full names, Publication year (not the year of the record), and article titles and authors.
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
Today we’ve added seven new volumes to Massachusetts: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1789-1920 for St. Vincent de Paul of South Boston. This update adds over 32,000 records and 120,000 names to search.
Saint Vincent de Paul of South Boston is at the corner of E and Third Street, and was just one block from the water when it was built. The church was dedicated on the Festival of St. Vincent de Paul on July 19, 1874 in a ceremony performed by Bishop Williams.
The new volumes are:
- St. Vincent de Paul (South Boston) Baptisms, 1862-1871
- St. Vincent de Paul (South Boston) Baptisms, 1872-1882
- St. Vincent de Paul (South Boston) Baptisms, 1898-1909
- St. Vincent de Paul (South Boston) Baptisms and Marriages, 1862-1897
- St. Vincent de Paul (South Boston) Baptisms and Marriages, 1872-1885
- St. Vincent de Paul (South Boston) Confirmations, 1870-1920
- St. Vincent de Paul (South Boston) Marriages, 1880-1909
We would be delighted to have new volunteers to help us with the Catholic Records project. If you have a few available hours a week and are interested in learning more about this exciting project, 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.
Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850 is one of our most popular databases. In the past three months it has consistently been one of our top 10 most-accessed databases; in July it was 5th on the list, in August it was 9th, and in September it was 8th. I’m sure it will stay on the list for October!
This database builds on the work of transcribers from the early 1900s– at that time original town records that were often in varying states of disrepair due to problems such as age. In 1902, NEHGS used the bequest of a benefactor, Robert Henry Eddy, to set up the Eddy Town-Record Fund. Read Sam Sturgis’ Vita Brevis post, “Who was Robert Henry Eddy and Why Should You Care?” to learn more about this project. In summary, the Eddy fund and the Massachusetts “Vital Records Act” provided resources to transcribe and preserve many of the early vital records of Massachusetts that are now presented in this database.
This database offers 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 (thanks to the Eddy Fund), 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.
Since each volume in this database comes from a different source, we have created a new resource to help researchers understand exactly what they are looking at and trying to cite. We’re offering a new “Source Citation PDF” that lists the volumes in this database with a citation in Chicago style to the physical source from which they come. Each of these physical sources is available in the NEHGS Research Library.
This PDF is now available in the Database Description, which you can find on the Database-specific search page (scroll down), and on any image, record display, or transcript page (again, scroll down underneath the image).
We’re always trying to use the Database Description to provide context for researchers, so that they understand the links between digital words on a screen and the physical source that they come from. This is another tool towards this goal!
We’d like to thank Sam Sturgis and Linda Weaver for their work on this project.
Please note: This database is available to all NEHGS members. Membership options.