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The Virgin and Child (The Madonna of the Book) by Sandro Botticelli [Public domain]
If you need help navigating this collection, please consult our how-to video.
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Detail from the title page of Sacred Heart (Watertown) Confirmations, 1898-1900 (Book 2)
Today we’ve added seven new volumes to Massachusetts: (Image-Only) Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1789-1900. These new volumes come from Our Lady of Pity (Cambridge) and Sacred Heart (Watertown). This update adds over 300 new images to browse.
Also known as Notre Dame de Pitie, Our Lady of Pity was the French parish in North Cambridge, established in 1892.
Sacred Heart (Watertown) was established in 1896 as the Catholic population grew in Watertown; it was previously part of the parish of St. Patrick. It is located across the road from the Mount Auburn Cemetery.
We’d like to thank scanners John Phlo, Ross and Linda Weaver, Angela Napolitano, and Eileen McCarthy for their help with these volumes. If you need help navigating this collection, please consult our how-to video. The new volumes are listed below.
Our Lady of Pity (Cambridge) Baptisms, 1892-1900
Our Lady of Pity (Cambridge) Confirmations, 1897-1900
Our Lady of Pity (Cambridge) Marriages, 1892-1900
Sacred Heart (Watertown) Baptisms, 1896-1900
Sacred Heart (Watertown) Confirmations, 1898-1900 (Book 1)
Sacred Heart (Watertown) Confirmations, 1898-1900 (Book 2)
Sacred Heart (Watertown) Marriages, 1896-1900
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St. Catherine of Genoa (Somerville), January 2019
Today we’ve added five new volumes to Massachusetts: (Image-Only) Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1789-1900. These new volumes come from St. Catherine of Genoa (Somerville) and St. Catherine of Siena (Norwood). This update adds over 500 new pages to browse.
St. Catherine of Genoa in Somerville was established in 1890 as the Catholic population grew. This parish in the Spring Hill neighborhood was created out of land that used to belong to St. Joseph in Somerville.
St. Catherine of Siena in Norwood was established as a mission of St. Mary (Dedham) in 1863. It became its own parish in 1890.
We’d like to thank Angela Napolitano and Linda Weaver for their help scanning these parishes. If you need help navigating this parish, be sure to watch our how-to video. The new volumes are listed below:
St. Catherine of Genoa (Somerville) Baptisms, 1892-1900
St. Catherine of Genoa (Somerville) Marriages, 1892-1900
St. Catherine of Siena (Norwood) Baptisms, 1890-1900
St. Catherine of Siena (Norwood) Confirmations, 1890-1900
St. Catherine of Siena (Norwood) Marriages, 1890-1900
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From the September 10, 1900 issue of the Boston Daily Globe, depicting the dedication of St Mary’s Church in Dedham, Massachusetts, Image by M. Glaskey [Public domain]
Priests traveled to the Boston Harbor Islands to say Mass and administer sacraments. They recorded their work in two volumes which may have some overlapping content.
There is overlapping content in the Immaculate Conception (Lowell) volumes. Baptisms and Marriages 1868-1878, Baptisms 1879-1895, and Marriages 1879-1895 appear to be the original records which are unindexed. The other volumes are typewritten, and overlap these volumes. However, the typewritten volumes are indexed. We have provided all the volumes here so that researchers can find the information more easily using the indexes, but also view the original records. Immaculate Conception in Lowell was run by the Oblate Order. The church was dedicated in 1877 as Lowell’s Catholic population grew.
St. Lawrence (Brookline) was established in 1897 as the Catholic population in Brookline expanded. It was created from an area that was previously part of St. Mary of the Assumption (Brookline).
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 the following volunteers for their help scanning these volumes: Eileen McCarthy, Francis Alix, Mary Hagearty, Angela Napolitano, Ross and Linda Weaver and Kim Bonner. If you need help navigating this collection, be sure to watch our how-to video. The new volumes are listed below:
Boston Harbor Islands Baptisms, 1877-1900 (Mission) (Book 1)
Boston Harbor Islands Baptisms, 1877-1900 (Mission) (Book 2)
Immaculate Conception (Lowell) Baptisms and Marriages, 1868-1878
Immaculate Conception (Lowell) Baptisms, 1868-1870
Immaculate Conception (Lowell) Baptisms, 1871-1875
Immaculate Conception (Lowell) Baptisms, 1876-1880
Immaculate Conception (Lowell) Baptisms, 1879-1895
Immaculate Conception (Lowell) Baptisms, 1881-1886
Immaculate Conception (Lowell) Baptisms, 1887-1895
Immaculate Conception (Lowell) Baptisms, 1896-1900
Immaculate Conception (Lowell) Marriages, 1868-1895
Immaculate Conception (Lowell) Marriages, 1879-1895
Immaculate Conception (Lowell) Marriages, 1896-1900
St. Lawrence (Brookline) Baptisms, 1898-1900
St. Lawrence (Brookline) Marriages, 1898-1900
St. Mary (Dedham) Baptisms, 1866-1876
St. Mary (Dedham) Baptisms, 1877-1880 (Mission)
St. Mary (Dedham) Baptisms, 1877-1885
St. Mary (Dedham) Baptisms, 1885-1900
St. Mary (Dedham) Baptisms, 1900
St. Mary (Dedham) Marriages, 1866-1876
St. Mary (Dedham) Marriages, 1877-1879 (Mission)
St. Mary (Dedham) Marriages, 1877-1900
Please note: This database is available to all NEHGS members. Learn more about becoming a NEHGS guest member (free).
St. Charles Borromeo giving Communion to St. Aloysius Gonzaga (tapestry) image by G.dallorto, via Wikimedia Commons
Today we’re announcing eight new volumes in Massachusetts: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1789-1900 from St. Charles Borromeo in Woburn. There are 21,261 new records and 82,907 names included in this update. St. Charles Borromeo was the Archbishop of Milan in the 1500s who was known for his Counter-Reformation work within the Catholic Church. St. Charles Borromeo in Woburn was established around 1852. We’d like to thank Sam Sturgis for his work on this parish. The new volumes are listed below:
St. Charles Borromeo (Woburn) Baptisms, 1857-1878
St. Charles Borromeo (Woburn) Baptisms, 1878-1888
St. Charles Borromeo (Woburn) Baptisms, 1888-1895
St. Charles Borromeo (Woburn) Baptisms, 1895-1899
St. Charles Borromeo (Woburn) Baptisms, 1899-1900
St. Charles Borromeo (Woburn) Confirmations, 1898-1899
St. Charles Borromeo (Woburn) Marriages, 1857-1895
St. Charles Borromeo (Woburn) Marriages, 1895-1900
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Columbian Square, South Weymouth by Hunt Quality Views [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Sacred Hearts (Malden) Baptisms, 1891-1898
Sacred Hearts (Malden) Baptisms, 1898-1900
Sacred Hearts (Malden) Marriages, 1891-1900
St. Francis Xavier (Weymouth) Baptisms and Marriages, 1866-1869
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The cover of Volume 1 of the NEHGR from January 1847.
We are very excited to announce the very first installment of a major new project to provide in-depth re-indexing of all the genealogical records in the database Vital Records from The NEHGS Register. Today we are delivering the full re-indexing of Volume 1 of the NEHGS Register published in 1847. This update includes over 6,500 records and 26,000 searchable names.
This initiative will unlock the value of all the information captured in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register since its 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. This database previously only contained birth, marriage, and death records. We are now adding records of every type including; residence, immigration, military records, church dismissals, and more. The in-depth indexing for the new records includes, dates, locations, parents and spouses. This is the same approach we have used for the major Archdiocese of Boston and the Mayflower Silver Books projects.
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: Larry Akin, Diane Arbuckle, Julie Bliss Hammons, Nancy Borman, Edna Curtin, Patricia Dalpaiz, Julie Esposito, Elizabeth Handler, Susan Hurlburt, Meghan McDonagh, Julie Nathanson, Liz Odell, Margaret Parker, Keenan Pawley, Kay Sencabaugh, Charlie Watson, Irene Weinmann, Marie Wells, and Mearte Winter.
WIth over 170 volumes yet to be reindexed, this is a large project and it is just beginning. To become part of the team working on this rewarding initiative and help your fellow family researchers; please contact Rachel Adams, Database Services Volunteer Coordinator via email at rachel.adams@nehgs.org.
The Vital Records from The NEHGS Register database is actually not new. Today, it contains records extracted from articles in the NEHGR that were published in a tabular format. These records will still be available, and there will be a dramatically larger set of records and searchable names. For example, today’s release of Volume 1 provides over 20 times as many records as were originally available for this volume. This database complements our other Register database, the New England Historical and Genealogical Register (NEHGR). The NEHGR database provides searchable access based the names in the printed index from each volume. The Vital Records from the NEHGS Register database is indexed in much greater detail.
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.
1916 Map of Lynn by Norman B. Leventhal Map Center [CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
Sacred Heart (Lynn) Baptisms, 1894-1900
Sacred Heart (Lynn) Baptisms, 1900
Sacred Heart (Lynn) Marriages, 1894-1900
St. Ann (Somerville) Index to Baptisms, 1881-1897
St. Ann (Somerville) Baptisms, 1881-1897
St. Ann (Somerville) Index to Baptisms, 1898-1900
St. Ann (Somerville) Baptisms, 1898-1900
St. Ann (Somerville) First Communions and Confirmations, 1883-1900
St. Ann (Somerville) Marriages, 1881-1900
St. Jean Baptiste (Lynn) Baptisms, 1886-1892
St. Jean Baptiste (Lynn) Baptisms, 1893-1900
St. Jean Baptiste (Lynn) Marriages, 1886-1900
Please note: This database is available to all NEHGS members.
St. Peter (Lowell) from One Hundred Years of Progress, page 328
Today we’ve added 9 new volumes to Massachusetts: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1789-1900 from St. Peter in Lowell. This update adds 41,579 records and 172,137 names to our database. St. Peter (Lowell) was the second Catholic church in Lowell. In One Hundred Years of Progress, James Sullivan relates how to establishment of this congregation was contentious, as some parishioners who lived far from St. Patrick’s (the original parish) wanted a geographically convenient church, while others would have preferred not to split the church. The first Mass was held in 1842, and from then the parish continued to grow. We’d like to thank Sam Sturgis for his help making this update possible. The new volumes are listed below:
St. Peter (Lowell) Baptisms, 1841-1865
St. Peter (Lowell) Baptisms, 1866-1883
St. Peter (Lowell) Baptisms, 1883-1888
St. Peter (Lowell) Baptisms, 1888-1894
St. Peter (Lowell) Baptisms, 1894-1898
St. Peter (Lowell) Baptisms, 1898-1900
St. Peter (Lowell) Marriages, 1842-1862
St. Peter (Lowell) Marriages, 1863-1883
St. Peter (Lowell) Marriages, 1883-1900
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
Geological map of Essex County, Massachusetts, Author: Sears, John Henry. Publisher: Essex Institute Date: 1893. Boston Public Library, Norman B. Leventhal Map Center under the Creative Commons 2.0 Generic License in 2008.
We are very happy to have added Volume 33, covering the year 2013, to the genealogical journal The Essex Genealogist. This update contains over 200 pages and 2,400 searchable names.
The leading publication for genealogical research in Essex County, Massachusetts, this quarterly journal has been published since 1981 by The Essex Society of Genealogists (founded in 1975). Within the pages of this journal are selections of cemetery transcriptions, bible records, vital and church records relating to families from Essex County, Massachusetts. The Essex Genealogist has had published numerous Ahnentafel’s (Ancestor Tables) of the ancestry of their members, as well as verbatim transcriptions of lectures over the years. This journal continues to serve those researching Essex County families with valuable resources now entering nearly four decades in print.
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 volunteers David Anderson and Meghan McDonagh. If you would like to get involved in the database digitization and indexing process, or just find out more, please contact Rachel Adams, Database Services Volunteer Coordinator via email at rachel.adams@nehgs.org.
The entire run of The Essex Genealogist is available at the NEHGS Boston research library, call number F72.E7 E62.
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.