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Today we’ve added two new volumes to Massachusetts: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1789-1900 from St. Joseph in Pepperell.
This update adds 1,725 records and 6,845 names to search.
St. Joseph (Pepperell) began when Catholics in the area worshipped in private homes when visiting priests were able to come. It coalesced into a mission of St. Mary (Ayer). In 1885 the church became an independent parish.
The above image comes from Julius Schiller’s 1627 star atlas, Coelum Stellatum Christianum. He tried to replace “pagan” constellations with Christian interpretations of the stars. In this case, Orion becomes St. Joseph.
We’d like to thank Sam Sturgis for his help making this parish available on our site. The new volumes are listed below:
St. Joseph (Pepperell) Baptisms, 1885-1900
St. Joseph (Pepperell) Marriages, 1885-1900
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
Today we’ve added 20 new volumes to Massachusetts: (Image-Only) Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1789-1900. These volumes come from St. Edward (Brockton), St. Joseph (Amesbury), St. Mary of the Annunciation (Cambridge) and St. Patrick (Brockton). This update adds over 3,700 pages to browse.
We’d like to thank the following volunteers for their help scanning these volumes: Bill Wolfendale, Eileen McCarthy, Angela Napolitano, Ross and Linda Weaver, Francis Alix, and Kim Bonner.
If you need help navigating this collection, please consult our how-to video. The new volumes are listed below:
St. Edward (Brockton) Baptisms, 1897-1900
St. Edward (Brockton) Confirmations, 1898-1900
St. Edward (Brockton) Marriages, 1897-1900
St. Joseph (Amesbury) Baptisms, 1867-1887
St. Joseph (Amesbury) Baptisms, 1887-1900
St. Joseph (Amesbury) Confirmations, 1867-1894
St. Joseph (Amesbury) Confirmations, 1883-1900
St. Joseph (Amesbury) First Communions, 1895-1900
St. Mary of the Annunciation (Cambridge) Baptisms, 1867-1878
St. Mary of the Annunciation (Cambridge) Baptisms, 1878-1896
St. Mary of the Annunciation (Cambridge) Baptisms, 1897-1900
St. Mary of the Annunciation (Cambridge) Confirmations, 1868-1884
St. Mary of the Annunciation (Cambridge) Confirmations, 1885-1900
St. Mary of the Annunciation (Cambridge) Marriages, 1867-1900
St. Patrick (Brockton) Baptisms and Marriages, 1856-1885
St. Patrick (Brockton) Baptisms, 1891-1897
St. Patrick (Brockton) Baptisms, 1897-1900
St. Patrick (Brockton) Confirmations, 1885-1900
St. Patrick (Brockton) Marriage Promises, 1889-1896
St. Patrick (Brockton) Marriages, 1886-1900
Please note: This database is available to all NEHGS members. Learn more about becoming a NEHGS guest member (free).
We have revamped the database Madison, CT: Vital Records, 1718-1890. 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).
This database is indexed from birth, marriage and death records transcribed by Louise R. Allen in 1935. Madison was first settled in 1641 and was known as East Guilford until it was incorporated as a separate town in 1826.
This update is made possible by the efforts of our team our volunteers, including; Ron Wilson, Meg Mills, Judi Schauner, and Edna Curtin. 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.
Today we’ve added five new volumes to Massachusetts: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1789-1900 from Most Precious Blood in Hyde Park. This update adds 9,395 records and 31,403 names to search.
Most Precious Blood was established in 1870 as the Catholic population of Hyde Park grew, although their church building would not be complete until 1885 due to a fire and other delays.
We’d like to thank Sam Sturgis for his help making this parish available on our site. The new volumes are listed below:
Most Precious Blood (Hyde Park) Baptisms and Marriages, 1870-1888
Most Precious Blood (Hyde Park) Baptisms, 1889-1896
Most Precious Blood (Hyde Park) Baptisms, 1896-1900
Most Precious Blood (Hyde Park) Confirmations, 1880-1900
Most Precious Blood (Hyde Park) Marriages, 1889-1900
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
by ToddC4176 at en.wikipedia [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)]
Alexander Berry lived from 1747-1830 and married Martha “Patty” Smith. They had five children. Jacob Chamberlin lived from 1766 to about 1851. He and his wife, Dorothy Cleveland had nine children. Mary [Griffon] Cleveland was born in 1743/4 and died in 1812. She married Ephraim Cleveland and together they had six children.
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. If you are interested in submitting a sketch for Volume 5, please review our project home page.
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
The Tobin Bridge connecting Chelsea nad Boston, Tichnor Bros. Inc., Boston, Mass. [Public domain]
This database contains 306 marriages and 4,076 searchable names. David Rosen of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Boston provided the scanned images and the index upon which this collection is based; Susan Posner also contributed work to the index.
This database offers the following indexed fields (where the information was provided):
- Last name
- First name
- Parents’ names
- Spouse’s name
- Date
- Location
- Age
- Street address
- Occupation
- Marital status
- Place of birth
- Parents’ places of birth
While Rabbi Benkovitz was based in Chelsea, some of the marriages took place in nearby towns such as Boston, Brookline, Everett, and Revere. The “Street address” and “Place of birth” fields bring even further geographic diversity, encompassing brides and grooms from Maine, New York, Vermont, Wisconsin, Michigan, Russia, Lithuania, Romania, Latvia and more.
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
Today we are releasing volumes 2 and 3 (1848-1849) of the in-depth re-indexing of all the genealogical records in the database Vital Records from The NEHGS Register. This update includes over 23,000 records and 93,000 searchable names; almost 8 times as many as the original index 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. This update is made possible by the efforts of our volunteers Barbara Holt, Charlie Watson, Diane Arbuckle, Fran Danico, Jan Lundquist, Jeanne Brown, Julie Nathanson, Karen Ristic,, Kay Sencabaugh, Linda Peterson, Margaret Parker, Meghan McDonagh, Nancy Borman, Patricia Dalpiaz, Ray Ristic, and Richard Wood. If you would like to 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.
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
Map of Canton, 1878 by http://maps.bpl.org [CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)]
Early Catholics in Canton were ministered to as part of missions from the Quincy churches or Sts. Peter and Paul in South Boston. In 1861, Canton became an independent parish of its own, with responsibility for the church in Stoughton as well (Immaculate Conception (Stoughton) would later in turn become an independent parish).
We’d like to thank volunteers Francis Alix, Bill Wolfendale and Eileen McCarthy for their help scanning this parish.
If you need help navigating this collection, please consult our how-to video. The new volumes are listed below:
St. John the Evangelist (Canton) Baptisms, 1859-1878
St. John the Evangelist (Canton) Baptisms, 1859-1900
St. John the Evangelist (Canton) Confirmations, 1867-1900
St. John the Evangelist (Canton) Marriages, 1861-1900
Please note: This database is available to all NEHGS members. Learn more about becoming a NEHGS guest member (free).
View of the Beach at Beverly, Massachusetts, 1860
by John Frederick Kensett [Public domain]
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.
We’d like to thank Sam Sturgis for his help making this parish available on our site. The new volumes are listed below:
St. Mary Star of the Sea (Beverly) Baptisms, 1871-1895
St. Mary Star of the Sea (Beverly) Baptisms, 1895-1900
St. Mary Star of the Sea (Beverly) Confirmations, 1898-1900
St. Mary Star of the Sea (Beverly) Marriages, 1871-1900
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
Green Mountain Boy Memorial in Rutland Vermont, 1915. Public Domain courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
We are very happy to announce a new database today that is related to our Early Vermont Settlers Study Project; Early Vermont Settlers Index Cards, 1750-1784.
This database contains the indexed images of the index cards prepared by Donald Alan Smith for his thesis, Legacy of Dissent: Religion and Politics in Revolutionary Vermont, 1749 to 1784 (Clark Univ., PhD., 1980). This information represents one of the key resources for the NEHGS study project Early Vermont Settlers to 1784.
The index cards in this database provide excellent information about personal data on individuals (only a few women) who lived within the borders of present-day Vermont. The index cards are not standardized in their format but do follow a general layout. The upper left of the card is the name of the settler, sometimes with several spellings. These names have been standardized for the ease of finding them. The upper right is the town or towns of settlement. This index records the first town settled in Vermont only. Sometimes that town’s name does not appear here, but it found in the settlement date area. Detailed information on the layout and abbreviations can be found in the database description that appears below the search form on the link above.
The Early Vermont Settlers Index Cards database provides over 12,000 pages of index cards, organized into 18 volumes, and over 12,100 searchable names. The database supports the following searchable fields:
- First and last name
- Year
- Location
In cases where the card relates directly to people in one of the sketches from the database Early Vermont Settlers, 1700-1784 https://www.americanancestors.org/search/databasesearch/1565/early-vermont-settlers-1700-1784, a link is provided to the sketch in both the record display page and the transcript page.
This new database is made possible by the indexing effort Scott Andrew Bartley, who is also responsible for the Early Vermont Settlers Study Project. We genuinely appreciate the support of everyone who helps create online databases. If you are interested in joining the team, for even a few hours a month, 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.