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Today we’ve added eleven new volumes to Massachusetts: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1789-1920 from Sacred Heart (East Boston) and St. Gregory (Dorchester). This update adds over 45,100 records and over 150,200 names to search.
The first Mass was said in Sacred Heart (East Boston) in 1873.
The congregation that would become St. Gregory’s began to coalesce around 1863 from an area that formerly belonged to the parish of Sts. Peter and Paul in South Boston. The initial territory of this parish was quite large–before the year 1900, it was already divided at least five times. Some territory was given to the parishes in Hyde Park and Quincy and new churches were started in Dorchester including St. Peter, St. Ann, and St. Matthew.
We’d like to thank volunteers Julie Bliss-Hammons, Stacey-Rae McCue, Toni Lattimer, Arlys LaFehr, Fran Weaver, Sandy Caldwell, Judy Welna, Nancy Johnson, Marie Wells, Kiera Breitenbach , Alayna Travaglione, Holly Caughlan, Barbara Macken , Bob Rainville, Carolyn Jack , Kathleen Oberley , Meghan McDonagh , Matthew Murphy , Eldon Gay , Mary Alice Yost, Maureen McCarthy , Rick Lagueux, Katherine Marshall-Mayer, Jane Papa, Kayla Hinrichsen, Susan Dickinson, Sandy Murphy Mauer, Angela Napolitano, Paul McCool, Diane Rogers, Mary Coyne, Meredith Madyda, Eileen McCarthy, and Sam Sturgis for their help making these parishes available on our site.
The new volumes are listed below:
Sacred Heart (East Boston) Baptisms and Confirmations, 1873-1895
Sacred Heart (East Boston) Baptisms, 1896-1906
Sacred Heart (East Boston) Confirmations, 1896-1920
Sacred Heart (East Boston) Marriages, 1874-1906
St. Gregory (Dorchester) Baptisms, 1859-1871
St. Gregory (Dorchester) Baptisms, 1872-1875
St. Gregory (Dorchester) Baptisms, 1876-1895
St. Gregory (Dorchester) Baptisms, 1896-1913
St. Gregory (Dorchester) Confirmations, 1866-1920
St. Gregory (Dorchester) Marriages, 1863-1875
St. Gregory (Dorchester) Marriages, 1876-1913
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
Today we’ve added ten new volumes to Massachusetts: (Image-Only) Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1789-1920 from Our Lady of Good Voyage (Gloucester) and St. Joseph (Lynn). This update adds over 2,300 new pages to browse.
In 1888, the Catholics of Gloucester, largely of Portuguese descent, many from the Azores established the need for their own parish. Work began on their church building in 1875.
St. Joseph (Lynn) began as an offshoot of St. Mary (Lynn) in 1875; the cornerstone of the church was laid on the 4th of July of that year.
We’d like to thank volunteers Ross Weaver, Bill Wolfendale, and Kim Bonner for their help making this update possible.
If you need help navigating this collection, please consult our how-to video. The new volumes are listed below:
Our Lady of Good Voyage (Gloucester) Baptisms, 1891-1913
Our Lady of Good Voyage (Gloucester) Baptisms, 1913-1920
Our Lady of Good Voyage (Gloucester) Confirmations, 1898-1908
Our Lady of Good Voyage (Gloucester) Marriages, 1890-1920
St. Joseph (Lynn) Baptisms, 1874-1899
St. Joseph (Lynn) Baptisms, 1900-1920
St. Joseph (Lynn) Confirmations, 1877-1920
St. Joseph (Lynn) Index to Baptisms, 1900-1920
St. Joseph (Lynn) Marriages, 1874-1908
St. Joseph (Lynn) Marriages, 1920
Please note: This database is available to all NEHGS members. Learn more about becoming a NEHGS guest member (free).
Today we’ve added ten new volumes to Massachusetts: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1789-1920 from St. Patrick (Roxbury). This update adds over 72,600 records and over 270,400 names to search.
St. Patrick’s was established in 1836 to serve the Catholics of “Roxbury, Brookline, and Brighton” (Sullivan, p. 49). Originally the church was situated a little south of the South End, on Northampton Street in between Washington Street and Harrison Avenue. In the 1870s as the Catholic population grew, parish boundaries shifted. A new church (still in use) was built further south at the intersection of Dudley and Magazine Streets. The building of the new church began in 1873. The approximate location of the old church is about a 15 minute walk from the new church today. Below I’m including a map which shows the approximate locations of each church (again, the Northampton Street address is an estimate based on the description given in James Sullivan’s One Hundred Years of Progress).
We’d like to thank volunteers Sandy Caldwell, Matthew Murphy, Judy Welna, Pat Harney, Sarah Collins, Holly Caughlan, Tim Belgrad, Marie Wells, Kathleen Oberley, Gig Moineau, Nancy Johnson, Loretta Brown-Aldrich, Bob Rainville, Jeananne Piper Grady, Lauren Jefferson, Arlys LaFehr, Carolyn Jack, Fran Weaver, Rick Lagueux, Toni Lattimer, Michelle Kearns, Amelia Devin Freedman, Alayna Travaglione, Katherine Marshall-Mayer, Liz Barnett, Mary Coyne, Jim Alcauskas, Eileen McCarthy, Meredith Madyda, Maureen Keillor, Paul McCool, Sam Sturgis and Angela Napolitano for their help making this parish available on our site.
The new volumes are listed below:
St. Patrick (Roxbury) Baptisms, 1836-1852
St. Patrick (Roxbury) Baptisms, 1852-1858
St. Patrick (Roxbury) Baptisms, 1858-1871
St. Patrick (Roxbury) Baptisms, 1872-1882
St. Patrick (Roxbury) Baptisms, 1883-1890
St. Patrick (Roxbury) Baptisms, 1890-1906
St. Patrick (Roxbury) Confirmations, 1871-1894
St. Patrick (Roxbury) Confirmations, 1894-1920
St. Patrick (Roxbury) Marriages, 1836-1881
St. Patrick (Roxbury) Marriages, 1881-1902
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
Today we’ve added six new volumes to Massachusetts: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1789-1920 from Our Lady of Perpetual Help (Roxbury). This update adds over 21,300 records and over 76,700 names to search.
The original Our Lady of Perpetual Help church was blessed in 1871, founded by the Redemptorists. It was a mission church, meaning that they only provided the sacraments of communion and reconciliation. As the Catholic population in Mission Hill grew, they needed a new parish church in the area. In 1883, this church joined the Archdiocese of Boston as a “regular canonical parish.” Since its beginning, this church has been known as the Mission Church.
We’d like to thank Sam Sturgis for his help making this parish available on our site. The new volumes are listed below:
Our Lady of Perpetual Help (Roxbury) Baptisms, 1883-1889
Our Lady of Perpetual Help (Roxbury) Baptisms, 1889-1895
Our Lady of Perpetual Help (Roxbury) Baptisms, 1895-1901
Our Lady of Perpetual Help (Roxbury) Confirmations, 1885-1893
Our Lady of Perpetual Help (Roxbury) Confirmations, 1894-1909
Our Lady of Perpetual Help (Roxbury) Marriages, 1883-1913
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
We are very happy to provide you a new enhancement to the search experience on American Ancestors. Now you have the ability to link directly to Google Maps using the location text from a record. The example above shows the Record Detail page where the location text is highlighted in blue and followed by a push-pin icon; indicating that you can click on the location to display the location in Google Maps.
This new capability is also available for locations on the Transcript display page, as shown in the example below.
The Google Maps link is provided for all validated locations. You can see the Google Maps page from the previous examples in the image below. A valid location is defined as having a known modern name for the city, county, region/state, and country components of the location. This means that the location will properly be understood and displayed by Google Maps. In cases where the location is not a modern location, or has some sort of error, the location text will still display on the form, but the link to the map option and icon will not be available.
Over time we will review and update locations to expand the number of records that can use this capability.
We hope you find this new capability helpful for your research. Please send us any feedback on this enhancement, or new suggestions to improve the search experience on American Ancestors, via email to webmaster@nehgs.org.
Today we’ve added six new volumes to Massachusetts: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1789-1920 from St. Peter in Dorchester. This update adds over 38,000 records and over 126,000 names to search.
Earlier this week we announced the extension of the Historic Catholic Records Online project up through the year 1920. This update includes 1901-1920 records when available in these volumes.
St. Peter (Dorchester) began in 1872 as an offshoot of St. Gregory in Dorchester. In James Sullivan’s One hundred years of progress, Joseph Byrne enthusiastically describes the appearance of the church which was dedicated in 1884, “No technical description can do more than faintly suggest the grandeur of St. Peter’s church which is a poem of architectural beauty” (175). The Dorchester Athenaeum’s history of the church has a very helpful paragraph (the sixth on the page) that explains the evolution of the Catholic parishes in Dorchester.
We’d like to thank Sam Sturgis for his help making this parish available on our site. The new volumes are listed below:
St. Peter (Dorchester) Baptisms, 1872-1887
St. Peter (Dorchester) Baptisms, 1887-1895
St. Peter (Dorchester) Baptisms, 1895-1908
St. Peter (Dorchester) Confirmations, 1882-1920
St. Peter (Dorchester) Marriages, 1872-1897
St. Peter (Dorchester) Marriages, 1897-1920
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
Today we’ve added 5 new parishes to Massachusetts: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, 1789-1920. This update includes 34 new volumes, 137,666 records, and 470,647 names. The new parishes are Sts. Peter and Paul in South Boston, St. Mary of the Annunciation in Melrose, St. Philip in Roxbury, St. Bridget in Abington, and Sacred Heart in Newton.
Yesterday we announced the extension of the Historic Catholic Records Online project up through the year 1920. This update includes 1901-1920 records when available in these volumes.
We’d like to thank Sam Sturgis for his extensive help making these parishes available on our site. The new volumes are listed below:
Sts. Peter and Paul (South Boston) Baptisms Part 1, 1900-1911
Sts. Peter and Paul (South Boston) Baptisms Part 2, 1900-1911
Sts. Peter and Paul (South Boston) Baptisms, 1847-1853
Sts. Peter and Paul (South Boston) Baptisms, 1854-1862
Sts. Peter and Paul (South Boston) Baptisms, 1862-1868
Sts. Peter and Paul (South Boston) Baptisms, 1869-1872
Sts. Peter and Paul (South Boston) Baptisms, 1872-1876
Sts. Peter and Paul (South Boston) Baptisms, 1877-1881
Sts. Peter and Paul (South Boston) Baptisms, 1881-1884
Sts. Peter and Paul (South Boston) Baptisms, 1884-1888
Sts. Peter and Paul (South Boston) Baptisms, 1888-1891
Sts. Peter and Paul (South Boston) Baptisms, 1891-1900
Sts. Peter and Paul (South Boston) Marriages, 1847-1853
Sts. Peter and Paul (South Boston) Marriages, 1854-1876
Sts. Peter and Paul (South Boston) Marriages, 1877-1894
Sts. Peter and Paul (South Boston) Marriages, 1894-1910
Sts. Peter and Paul (South Boston) Mission Baptisms, 1849-1853
Sts. Peter and Paul (South Boston) Confirmations, 1865-1890
Sts. Peter and Paul (South Boston) Confirmations, 1892-1905
St. Mary of the Annunciation (Melrose) Baptisms, 1875-1894
St. Mary of the Annunciation (Melrose) Baptisms, 1894-1906
St. Mary of the Annunciation (Melrose) Confirmations, 1897-1920
St. Mary of the Annunciation (Melrose) Marriages, 1894-1920
St. Philip (Roxbury) Baptisms, 1895-1898
St. Philip (Roxbury) Baptisms, 1898-1908
St. Philip (Roxbury) Confirmations, 1896-1913
St. Philip (Roxbury) Marriages, 1895-1908
Sacred Heart (Newton) Baptisms, 1908-1920
Sacred Heart (Newton) Baptisms, 1890-1907
Sacred Heart (Newton) Marriages, 1890-1920
St. Bridget (Abington) Baptisms, 1864-1900
St. Bridget (Abington) Confirmations and Financial Records, 1857-1883
St. Bridget (Abington) Confirmations, 1870-1920
St. Bridget (Abington) Marriages, 1864-1908
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
Today we announce an update to the year range for our Historic Catholic Records Online project. Phase One of the project spanned the years 1789-1900. We will now be staring Phase Two of this project, in which we are digitizing and indexing volumes ranging from 1901-1920. In addition to updating many parishes that are already part of the project, we will add over 60 new parishes established after 1900.
A recap on how this project works: We’re currently creating two databases, Massachusetts: (Image-Only) Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1789-1920 and Massachusetts: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1789-1920. The first database displays images of the pages online. Users can browse through the images to find what they are looking for. This database is available to all NEHGS guest members (which is a free membership). Massachusetts: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1789-1920 is fully searchable and is available to all paying NEHGS members.
If you are curious about the geographic range of this project, be sure to view this map from the Archdiocese of Boston, outlining the modern boundaries of the archdiocese. We anticipate that Phase Two will be as large as Phase One, consisting of at least 720 volumes and 10 million names.
As we implement Phase Two, there will generally be two types of updates–new volumes, and additions to existing volumes that extend beyond 1900. Today we’ve added 72 new volumes from 17 parishes to Massachusetts: (Image-Only) Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1789-1920. The above link leads to the first page of the first new volume of Blessed Sacrament (Walpole). If you need help navigating this collection to view the other new volumes, please consult our how-to video. 39 of these volumes are additions to previously existing volumes on our site, and 33 are brand new volumes. All new and updated volumes are listed below.
We’d like to thank volunteers Eileen McCarthy, Bill Wolfendale, Max Agigian, Colleen Alm, Ross Weaver, Francis Alix, Tate Lehmann , Tim Belgrad, Angela Napolitano, Kim Bonner, and others for their help making this update possible. If you would like to contribute to this project by volunteering (either at home, or here at our research library on Newbury Street in Boston), please email Rachel Adams at rachel.adams@nehgs.org.
Blessed Sacrament (Walpole) Baptisms, 1901-1908
Blessed Sacrament (Walpole) Baptisms, 1908-1920
Blessed Sacrament (Walpole) Marriages and Confirmations, 1901-1916
Blessed Sacrament (Walpole) Marriages, 1896-1900 and Confirmations, 1920
Blessed Sacrament (Walpole) Marriages, 1908-1920
Boston Harbor Islands Baptisms and Marriages, 1877-1920 (Mission)
Boston Harbor Islands Baptisms, 1877-1920 (Mission)
Boston Harbor Islands Sick Calls, 1894-1920 (Mission)
Holy Ghost (Whitman) Baptisms, 1897-1920
Holy Ghost (Whitman) Confirmations, 1898-1920
Holy Ghost (Whitman) Marriages, 1897-1908
Holy Ghost (Whitman) Marriages, 1908-1920
Mary Immaculate of Lourdes (Newton) Baptisms, 1893-1907
Mary Immaculate of Lourdes (Newton) Baptisms, 1908-1920
Mary Immaculate of Lourdes (Newton) Baptisms, 1920
Mary Immaculate of Lourdes (Newton) Marriages, 1871-1920
Sacred Heart (Newton) Baptisms, 1908-1920
Sacred Heart (Newton) Baptisms, 1890-1907
Sacred Heart (Newton) Marriages, 1890-1920
St. Anthony of Padua (Cohasset) Baptisms, 1886-1909
St. Anthony of Padua (Cohasset) Baptisms, 1909-1920
St. Anthony of Padua (Cohasset) Confirmations, 1918
St. Anthony of Padua (Cohasset) First Communions, 1919
St. Anthony of Padua (Cohasset) Marriages, 1886-1920
St. Bridget (Framingham) Baptisms, 1911-1920
St. Bridget (Framingham) Marriages, 1911-1920
St. Brigid (Lexington) Baptisms, 1886-1910
St. Brigid (Lexington) Baptisms, 1911-1920
St. Brigid (Lexington) Confirmations, 1908-1920
St. Brigid (Lexington) Marriages, 1886-1916
St. Brigid (Lexington) Marriages, 1916-1920
St. Casimir (Brockton) Baptisms, 1900-1909
St. Casimir (Brockton) Baptisms, 1909-1920
St. Casimir (Brockton) Deaths, 1900-1920
St. Casimir (Brockton) Marriages, 1900-1906
St. Casimir (Brockton) Marriages, 1906-1920
St. Edward the Confessor (Medfield) Baptisms, 1890-1908
St. Edward the Confessor (Medfield) Various, 1889-1920
St. John the Evangelist (Wellesley) Baptisms, 1890-1914
St. John the Evangelist (Wellesley) Baptisms, 1914-1920
St. John the Evangelist (Wellesley) Confirmations, 1892-1920
St. John the Evangelist (Wellesley) Marriages, 1890-1920
St. Mary (Holliston) Baptisms, 1870-1920
St. Mary (Holliston) Marriages, 1871-1920
St. Matthew (Dorchester) Baptisms, 1900-1912
St. Matthew (Dorchester) Baptisms, 1900-1916
St. Matthew (Dorchester) Baptisms, 1912-1920
St. Matthew (Dorchester) Baptisms, 1920
St. Matthew (Dorchester) Confirmations, 1903-1920
St. Matthew (Dorchester) Marriages, 1900-1915
St. Matthew (Dorchester) Marriages, 1900-1920
St. Matthew (Dorchester) Special Marriages, 1912-1920
St. Michael (Hudson) Baptisms and Marriages, 1920
St. Michael (Hudson) Baptisms, 1898-1914
St. Michael (Hudson) Baptisms, Marriages, and Confirmations, 1912-1919
St. Michael (Hudson) Marriages, 1876-1914
St. Patrick (Lawrence) Baptisms, 1872-1908
St. Patrick (Lawrence) Baptisms, 1908-1914
St. Patrick (Lawrence) Baptisms, 1914-1920
St. Patrick (Lawrence) Confirmations, 1894-1916
St. Patrick (Lawrence) Marriages, 1872-1908
St. Patrick (Lawrence) Marriages, 1908-1920
St. Patrick (Stoneham) Baptisms, 1868-1902
St. Patrick (Stoneham) Baptisms, 1903-1920
St. Patrick (Stoneham) Confirmations, 1884-1920
St. Patrick (Stoneham) First Communions, 1911-1920
St. Patrick (Stoneham) Marriages, 1868-1920
St. Paul (Hingham) Baptisms, 1914-1920
St. Paul (Hingham) Baptisms, Marriages, and Conversions, 1876-1913
St. Paul (Hingham) Confirmations, 1888-1920
St. Paul (Hingham) First Communions, 1887-1920
St. Paul (Hingham) Marriages, 1876-1920
Today we’ve added three new volumes to Massachusetts: (Image-Only) Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1789-1900 from St. Anthony of Padua in Cohasset and St. Patrick in Stoneham. This update adds over 300 new pages to browse.
A note on the process of implementing this project that explains this update: At the Archdiocesan archives in Braintree, they have many, but not all of the parish registers. Some parish registers may still be located in the parish to which they belong. To scan the volumes for this project, about 40 books are brought to NEHGS at a time. We scan the volumes, then return them to the archives. For these parishes in particular, the Archdiocese already had the baptism volumes, which we scanned and published at an earlier date. A recent collecting trip brought these new volumes into their collection. So now we are updating our database with all of the pre-1901 volumes for both these parishes. While we prefer to release an entire parish at once, occasionally varying circumstances lead us to publish parishes in two parts.
We’d like to thank volunteers Eileen McCarthy, Bill Wolfendale, Ross Weaver and Kim Bonner for their help making this update possible.
If you need help navigating this collection, please consult our how-to video. The new volumes are listed below:
St. Anthony of Padua (Cohasset) Marriages, 1886-1900
St. Patrick (Stoneham) Confirmations, 1884-1900
St. Patrick (Stoneham) Marriages, 1868-1900
St. Anthony of Padua (Cohasset) Baptisms, 1886-1900 and St. Patrick (Stoneham) Baptisms, 1868-1900 are already available on our site.
Please note: This database is available to all NEHGS members. Learn more about becoming a NEHGS guest member (free).
Today we are releasing volumes 4, 5, and 6 (1850-1852) of the in-depth re-indexing of all the genealogical records in the database Vital Records from The NEHGS Register. This update adds 32,000 records and 86,000 searchable names.
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 and 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 index 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.
This update is made possible by the efforts of our volunteers: Nancy Borman, Rich Wood, Jan Lundquist, Charlie Watson, Gale Stevenson, Ron Wilson, Karen Ristic, Ray Ristic, Linda Peterson, Erica Yee, Susan Van Allen, Tom Clements, James Cox, Ginny Marshall, Larry Akin, Margaret Sears Lindley, Ellen Anderson, Cannot Release Name, Karen Buchinger, Kay Sencabaugh, Jaimie Williams-Peterson, Randy Hube, Fran Danico, Julie Bliss Hammons, Julie Nathanson, and Pat Harney. 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.
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.
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