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Interior of Our Lady of the Assumption, from One Hundred Years of Progress by James Sullivan, page 105
Today we’ve added three new volumes to Massachusetts: (Image-Only) Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1789-1900, from Our Lady of the Assumption in East Boston. Our Lady of the Assumption was the third Catholic church in East Boston. Construction commenced on the building in 1869. It was not completed until 1873. This new update adds over 800 new pages to browse. The update was possible thanks to the help of our wonderful scanners Eileen McCarthy, Kiera Breitenbach, Maddie Silberman, John Phlo, and Francis Alix. Be sure to watch our how-to video for tips on how to navigate this collection. The new volumes are listed below:
Our Lady of the Assumption (East Boston) Baptisms and Confirmations, 1869-1892
Our Lady of the Assumption (East Boston) Baptisms, 1892-1900
Our Lady of the Assumption (East Boston) Marriages, 1870-1896
Fall in Vermont
Today we’re announcing two new sketches and three updated sketches in our New England study projects. The first new sketch profiles Job Colman of Shelburne, MA, in Helen Schatvet Ullmann’s Western Massachusetts Families in 1790. This study project focuses on heads of families enumerated in the 1790 census in historic Berkshire and Hampshire counties, also including modern Franklin and Hampden counties.
The other new sketch highlights Benjamin Cole, 2nd of Shaftsbury, VT in Scott Andrew Bartley’s Early Vermont Settlers, 1700-1784. This study project tracks heads of families who lived in Vermont prior to the Revolutionary War.
Three existing sketches in Early Vermont Settlers, 1700-1784 were also updated. These volumes are listed below:
Bennett, John (Hartford)
Bramble, William (Hartford)
Marsh, Joel (Sharon)
Please note: These databases are available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
Cover of the Autumn 2012 issue of the Mayflower Descendant.
Volume 60 and 61, for the years 2011 and 2012, have been added to The Mayflower Descendant database and are fully searchable. This update adds approximately 450 new pages and 3,800 searchable names.
Mayflower Descendant has been published by the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants since 1899. It is an essential source of information on many New England families, and its focus is not limited to those with Mayflower lineage. The journal includes transcriptions and abstracts of deeds, wills, vital records, and other original documents. In addition, it features compiled genealogies and analytical studies of genealogical problems.
The indexing for these records includes full names, Publication year (not the year of the record), and article titles and authors.
This update is made possible by the efforts of our volunteer David Anderson. If you have some time and would like to get involved in the digitization and indexing process 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.
Sample Annotation to correct an error in the birth year.
We are very happy to announce a new enhancement to the search experience today called Record Annotations.
Users are always welcome to report errors they find on our site. In many cases, the problem is mis-transcribed handwriting that we can easily fix. In the past, we have not been able to fix actual errors in our sources. For example, the published version of Torrey’s New England Marriages has printed information that is incorrect. We opted not to correct a wrong name, since any correction would appear to be a mis-transcription to anyone else doing a search. Record Annotations solves the problem of alerting researchers to issues in our source documents.
Annotations now make it possible to clearly identify errors in underlying records. With annotations we can highlight one or more fields on the record display page and provide corrections with supporting reference information.
If you are reporting an annotation, please provide a reference, preferably in the form of a freely available link. We want to maintain our high standards of scholarship, and hence will require documentation to make a change, so that other researchers can understand why the change was made.
In the example above (https://www.americanancestors.org/DB2728/rd/48580/164/1415732055) from the Mayflower Families Fifth Generation Descendants, 1700-1880 the birth year for Celia Little was incorrectly recorded in the book as 1754. The General Society of Mayflower Descendants has provided us their hand-amended copy of that book and a source reference to Marshfield Massachusetts Vital Records to document the corrected date. On the record display page, you see highlighted birth information. At the bottom of the display area you can see the Corrected Value and supporting Reference information. In this case, we were able to provide a hyperlink directly to the Marshfield birth record which has the correct information.
With this capability in place, we can now respond to members who have found a factual error in a database and can provide one or more references to support the correction. Once the annotation is made, it is available to anyone who displays the information about that record by visiting the record display page.
A new Report Error button was added to the record display, image display and transcript display pages. Clicking on this button will open a form with your email address automatically populated based on your log in id. You can provide corrections and reference documentation in the Comment field, the press Submit Request to send it to webmaster@nehgs.org. Feel free to use the new Report Error button or the older Comment or Question box to report all types of errors, annotations and questions about databases.
Sample report error form
Once you’ve reported the suggested annotation, we will review then request and the reference information before adding the annotation.
We hope you will enjoy both this new capability and the increased record quality this enables for American Ancestors.
Attribution: This post was a collaboration between Don LeClair and Molly Rogers.
Detail from 1886 Map of Boston by G.W. Bromley & Co. See Sts. Peter and Paul labelled Cath. Ch. in left corner on W. Broadway. By G.W. Bromley & Co. [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Sts. Peter and Paul (South Boston) Baptisms, 1847-1853
Sts. Peter and Paul (South Boston) Baptisms, 1849-1853 (Missions)
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) Baptisms, 1900
Sts. Peter and Paul (South Boston) Confirmations, 1865-1890
Sts. Peter and Paul (South Boston) Confirmations, 1892-1900
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, 1894-1900
Fall in Vermont
Today we’ve added 14 new sketches to Early Vermont Settlers, 1700-1784. Scott Andrew Bartley’s study project focuses on heads of families who lived in Vermont prior to the Revolutionary War. So far his sketches center on counties in southeast Vermont. This update includes over 700 new records and over 3,000 new names. The new volumes are listed below:
Bourne, Nathaniel (Manchester)
Burr, Jonathan (Rockingham)
Corey, Oliver (Rockingham)
Gardner, Andrew (Rockingham)
Lovell, Elijah (Rockingham)
Lovell, John (Rockingham)
Lovell, Michael (Rockingham)
Lovell, Oliver (Rockingham)
Lovell, Timothy (Rockingham)
McIntyre, Richard (Manchester)
White, John (Rockingham)
White, Jonathan (Rockingham)
White, Lemuel (Rockingham)
Wright, Moses (Rockingham)
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
St. Francis de Sales in Charlestown Courtesy of Reverend Wolcott Cutler, Boston Public Library, Charlestown Branch
Today we’re announcing four new volumes in Massachusetts: (Image-Only) Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1789-1900 from St. Francis de Sales in Charlestown. This update adds over 1,900 new images to browse. St. Francis de Sales Church was dedicated in 1862, three years after the cornerstone was first laid. We’d like to thank the following scanners for their help: Francis Alix, Angela Napolitano, Ross and Linda Weaver, and John Phlo. Be sure to watch our how-to video if you need help understanding how to navigate this collection. The new volumes are listed below:
St. Francis de Sales (Charlestown) Baptisms, 1861-1879
St. Francis de Sales (Charlestown) Baptisms, 1880-1893
St. Francis de Sales (Charlestown) Baptisms, 1893-1900
St. Francis de Sales (Charlestown) Marriages, 1862-1900
St. Mary in Randolph from One Hundred Years of Progress by James Sullivan, p.695
Today we’re announcing an update to Massachusetts: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1789-1900. The seven new volumes come from St. Mary in Randolph. This update adds over 20,000 new records to search and over 75,000 new names. There are now more than 200 volumes available to search in this database. 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. The new volumes are listed below:
St. Mary (Randolph) Baptisms, 1853-1860
St. Mary (Randolph) Baptisms, 1861-1876
St. Mary (Randolph) Baptisms, 1876-1894
St. Mary (Randolph) Baptisms, 1888-1900
St. Mary (Randolph) Confirmations and First Communions, 1869-1884
St. Mary (Randolph) Marriages, 1853-1894
St. Mary (Randolph) Marriages, 1888-1900
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
Excerpt from Thomas Hyde Page’s Boston, its Environs and Harbor…in 1775 By http://maps.bpl.org [CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
Our Lady Help of Christians Church in Newton By Gms0700 [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)], from Wikimedia Commons
Our Lady Help of Christians (Newton) Baptisms, 1879-1885
Our Lady Help of Christians (Newton) Baptisms, 1885-1898
Our Lady Help of Christians (Newton) Baptisms, 1898-1900
Our Lady Help of Christians (Newton) Marriages, 1879-1885
Our Lady Help of Christians (Newton) Marriages, 1885-1900
Sacred Heart (Natick) Baptisms, 1890-1900
Sacred Heart (Natick) Confirmations, 1893-1900
Sacred Heart (Natick) Marriages, 1890-1900