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By Tichnor Bros. Inc., Boston, Mass. [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
This database was created from digital images and index contributed to NEHGS by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives. The probate cases include wills, guardianships, administrations, and various other types of probate records. We’d like to thank our wonderful volunteers Sam Sturgis, Bruce Shaw, and David Anderson without whom this update would not have happened.
The complete Suffolk County File Papers collection will eventually cover cases 1-94,757, which includes years up to 1893. The cases are indexed chronologically, which allows us to present them in sections while digital photography is taking place. The digital photography is expected to continue through 2020. We will continue to add additional cases as they become available.
If you have questions on how to search this database, or about our collaboration with the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives, please watch our video, How to Search Massachusetts Probate File Papers. The Massachusetts Archives also have a very helpful website that serves as a directory as to where you can find which pieces of probate information.
Please note: This database is available to all NEHGS members.
Wesselhoeft Water Cure. Photograph 1869?-1890? by D. A. Henry. Public Domain, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
Today we are making a new database available: Brattleboro, VT: Wesselhoeft Water Cure, 1845-1848. This database provides an indexed listing of the many people who came to Brattleboro Vermont to take advantage of the therapeutic benefits of a spa run by Dr. Wesselhoeft. Notable people included author and abolitionist, Harriet Beecher Stowe (Uncle Tom’s Cabin), poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Song of Hiawatha and Evangeline); and American historian, Francis Parkman Jr, to name a few.
There are over 600 pages of information about the Wesselhoeft Water Cure, lists of patients, and the kinds of conditions that were treated there. The patients came from most every state east of the Mississippi and includes over 1,000 records.
This database comes as a result of our partnership with Jerry Carbone and Whetstone Brook Genealogy and the Brooks Memorial Library who provided access to the Green Mountain Spring. The Wesselhoeft Water Cure is also featured as part of the Brattleboro Words Trail, a project of the Peoples, Places, and Words in Brattleboro, funded in part by the National Endowment of Humanities. More information on the Trail may be found here.
The volumes in this database include:
- The Description of the Brattleboro Hydropathic Establishment – which is browseable, and provides a perspective on the institution
- The Green Mountain Spring from 1845 through 1848 – a regular publication of the Water Cure that descibes treatments and include names and dates for patents who visited
- The pages from The Second Report of the Brattleboro Hydropathic Establishment which contain a full list of the patients who were treated there
This database can be searched with the following:
- First and last name – in many records the first name only contains initials. For best results use just the last name.
- Year
- Location – this is the home residence of the patient who came to the Water Cure
Please note: This database is available to all NEHGS members.
The Bridge to South Harpswell, Maine, 1914. Public Domain in the United States, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
We are very happy to have added volume 35 (2013) to the database of the genealogical journal The Maine Genealogist. This update adds over 220 pages and 5,100 searchable names to the database.There image above was inspired by the article beginning on page 165 of this volume: “Daniel Ridley of Harpswell and Bowdoin Maine”.
Published since 1977, The Maine Genealogist is the quarterly journal of Maine Genealogical Society, founded in 1976. Beginning as a newsletter for the society, the publication evolved into The Maine Seine, published until 1990. The title was changed to The Maine Genealogist in 1991, and each issue, now 48 pages, contains scholarly articles on Maine families, emphasizing the solving of long-standing problems and primary source documentation.
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 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 New England Historical and Genealogical Register is available at the NEHGS Boston research library, call number F16.M345.
Please note: This database is available to all NEHGS members.
Today we’re announcing six new volumes in Massachusetts: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1789-1900 from St. Thomas Aquinas in Jamaica Plain. As the population of Jamaica Plain grew, St. Thomas Aquinas was created out of St. Joseph’s parish in Roxbury. Mass was held for the first time here in 1869. Jamaica Plain is currently a neighborhood of Boston. When the parish began, Jamaica Plain was still part of West Roxbury, which did not become part of the city of Boston until 1874. This update adds over 18,300 new records and 58,000 new names. We’d like to thank all of our volunteers who have helped make this update possible, including Kayla Hinrichsen, Meredith Madyda, and Sara Calautti. The new volumes are listed below:
St. Thomas Aquinas (Jamaica Plain) Baptisms and Confirmations, 1869-1884
St. Thomas Aquinas (Jamaica Plain) Baptisms, 1885-1893
St. Thomas Aquinas (Jamaica Plain) Baptisms, 1893-1900
St. Thomas Aquinas (Jamaica Plain) Confirmations, 1869-1900
St. Thomas Aquinas (Jamaica Plain) First Communions, 1899-1900
St. Thomas Aquinas (Jamaica Plain) Marriages, 1869-1900
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
Scan by NYPL [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Justin Cole (Dalton)
Abraham Porter (Dalton)
Andrew Spaford (Dalton)
Please note: These databases are available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
Rhode Island from a 1929 New England Rhode Map. Public Domain, courtesy of Wikimedia.org.
We are very happy to have expanded the content in the Rhode Island: Historical Cemeteries, 1647-2000 database. In this update we have added gravestone images for over 7,100 pages that did not have them before. In addition, we have added over 16,300 new records and searchable names to the database.
The new records are spread across 29 cemeteries. About 60% of the new records are in Bristol County, and 35% are in Providence County. In addition to Rhode Island records, this update includes some burial information for native Rhode Islanders who were buried out of state. You can find these new volumes added to the database:
- Chelsea, Maine – Veteran’s Cemetery Togus, Maine
- Mechanicsville, Virginia – Cold Harbor National Cemetery
- Petersburg, Virginia – City Point National Cemetery
This update was made possible by support from John Sterling and the transcriptions and images produced by the volunteers of Rhode Island Historical Cemeteries Transcription Project who work in cemeteries across Rhode Island.
This database is organized into volumes based on the city or town of the cemetery and provides information for 450,000 people and over 900,000 searchable names. The efforts to capture images of the gravestones is not complete, and approximately 25% of the records have an image to go with them. For the remainder, there is a placeholder noting that the image is not available and noting that you can see the birth and death details on the transcript page.
For most of the cemeteries, there GPS coordinates displayed on the transcript. This can be copied and pasted into a web site such as Google Maps to see where the cemetery is located.
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
An icy Vermont river
Today we’re announcing five new sketches in Early Vermont Settlers, 1700-1784. These sketches feature heads of families from Sharon, Vermont. Sharon was established in 1761, named for Sharon, Connecticut. In 1805 it became the birthplace of Joseph Smith, founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. 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:
Howe, Jonathan (Sharon)
Hutchins, Silas (Sharon)
Marsh, Isaac (Sharon)
Russell, Josiah (Sharon)
Spaulding, Reuben (Sharon)
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
1858 map of Franklin County by http://maps.bpl.org [CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
Franklin County was created in 1811 from the northern third of Hampshire County. Earlier probate records in the area may be searched in our companion database, Hampshire County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1660-1889.
To learn more about how to navigate this collection, be sure to watch our short video, How to Search Massachusetts Probate File Papers.
We want to thank the amazing volunteers who have made this database possible including Sam Sturgis, David Anderson, Bruce Shaw, Fran Danico, and Arlys LaFehr.
This database is free; you just need an NEHGS guest membership to view these records.
http://maps.bpl.org [CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
St. Joseph (Waltham) is new to Massachusetts: (Image-Only) Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1789-1900. This seven volume update adds over 360 new pages to browse. St. Joseph was the French Canadian parish in Waltham. The first Mass was said in 1894.
We’d like to thank the following volunteers for their help in making these updates possible: Eileen McCarthy, Angela Napolitano, Ross and Linda Weaver, and Francis Alix.
The new volumes are listed below:
Immaculate Conception (Malden) Baptisms, 1859-1868
Immaculate Conception (Malden) Baptisms, 1868-1883
Immaculate Conception (Malden) Baptisms, 1884-1897
Immaculate Conception (Malden) Marriages, 1861-1868
Immaculate Conception (Malden) Marriages, 1868-1900
St. Joseph (Waltham) Baptisms, 1894-1900
St. Joseph (Waltham) Confirmations, 1896-1900
St. Joseph (Waltham) Deaths, 1895-1900
St. Joseph (Waltham) First Communions and Confirmations, 1895-1900
St. Joseph (Waltham) First Communions, 1895-1900
St. Joseph (Waltham) Marriages and Deaths, 1895-1900
St. Joseph (Waltham) Marriages, 1895-1900
Please note: Massachusetts: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1780-1900 is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
The NEHG Register Winter 2018 issue
We have just posted a new volume to The New England Historical and Genealogical Register database. This update adds volume 178, which includes the 2018 Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall issues. This update adds 430 pages and 10,600 searchable names.
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.
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 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 New England Historical and Genealogical Register is available at the NEHGS Boston research library, call number F1.N56.
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.