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Today we’re announcing two new volumes in Massachusetts: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1789-1900.  These two volumes come from St. Theresa of Avila in West Roxbury.  This update adds over 300 new records and 1,600 new names to search.  We’d like to especially thank Catholic Memorial School, particularly John Dashe and the students of Mr. Vin Bradley’s AP US History class who helped us transcribe many of the pages in these volumes.  We enjoyed the opportunity to engage students in local history; the school is just around the corner from St. Theresa’s.  Other volunteers who worked on these volumes include Sandy Caldwell, Kathleen Oberly, Margaret Parker, Ruth Ann Rogers, Ellynmarie Theep, Fran Weaver, and Judy Welna.  We so appreciate the help of all of our volunteers who make these updates possible.

The new volumes are:

St. Theresa of Avila (West Roxbury) Baptisms, 1896-1900
St. Theresa of Avila (West Roxbury) Marriages, 1896-1900

Please note: These databases are available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.

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Today we’re announcing five new volumes in Massachusetts: (Image-Only) Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1789-1900 from Sacred Heart in East Boston.  This church was dedicated in 1874 and continues to serve parishioners in East Boston today.  If you need help navigating this browsable collection, be sure to watch our how-to video.  The new volumes are listed below:

Sacred Heart (East Boston) Index to Baptisms, 1873-1900
Sacred Heart (East Boston) Baptisms and Confirmations, 1873-1895 (Vol. 1)
Sacred Heart (East Boston) Baptisms, 1896-1900 (Vol. 2)
Sacred Heart (East Boston) Confirmations, 1896-1900
Sacred Heart (East Boston) Marriages, 1874-1900

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Two new volumes have been added to the North American Cemetery Transcriptions from NEHGS Manuscripts, 1642-1977 database which provide extensive coverage of Weston and Wilton in Fairfield County, Connecticut. The indexing efforts of our volunteers has produced over 15,000 new records and 45,000 searchable names. The new volumes are:

• CT, Fairfield: Weston (CT WES 40)
• CT, Fairfield: Wilton (Mss A 2777)

Both manuscripts were written by Francis Ferdinand Spies in 1934 and are in the NEHGS manuscripts collection. They contain inscriptions copied from the graveyards, arranged with genealogical and historical notes and an index. Weston and Wilton are next to each other in southwestern Connecticut. The indexing for these records includes birth and death records with full names, cemetery locations, and names of parents and spouses where available.

This update is made possible by the efforts of our volunteer Edna Curtin. If you have some time available and would like to get involved in the digitizing and indexing process, locally or remotely, 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.

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Today we’re announcing 23 new sketches from Norwich, VT in Early Vermont Settlers, 1700-1784 and two updated sketches.  Scott Andrew Bartley’s study project focuses on heads of families who lived in Vermont prior to the Revolutionary War.  He has so far focused on Windsor and Windham counties in southeast Vermont.  This update includes over 1,000 new records and over 2,700 new names.  The new volumes are listed below:

Babcock, Oliver (Norwich)
Ball, Ebenezer (Norwich)
Ball, Humphrey (Norwich)
Ball, Joseph (Norwich)
Benton, Medad (Norwich, Royalton)
Brown, Samuel (Norwich)
Brown, Samuel, Jr. (Norwich)
Closson, John (Norwich, Thetford)
Crane, Elisha (Norwich)
Curtis, Elias (Norwich, Royalton, Tunbridge)
Curtis, Simeon (Norwich)
Fenton, Benjamin (Norwich)
Fenton, Francis (Norwich)
Messenger, Nathan (Norwich)
Messenger, Nathaniel (Norwich)
Partridge, Elisha (Norwich)
Partridge, Samuel (Norwich)
Partridge, Samuel, Jr. (Norwich)
Richards, Jonas (Norwich)
Turner, David (Norwich, Randolph)
Waterman, Elijah (Norwich)
Wright, Aaron (Norwich)
Wright, John (Norwich)

Updated sketches:

Baldwin, Daniel (Norwich)
Bennett, John (Hartford)

Please note: These databases are available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.

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Today we’ve added seven new volumes to Massachusetts: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1789-1900.  The new volumes come from St. James in Haverhill.  St. James was established in 1850, originally called St. Gregory.  The name of the church was changed when the parish expanded to a larger building in 1884.  In its early years, Catholics from Bradford, Groveland, and Georgetown also worshiped at St. James.  This update adds 21,538 new records and 67,652 new names to our database.  The new volumes are listed below:

St. James (Haverhill) Baptisms, 1851-1859
St. James (Haverhill) Baptisms, 1868-1897
St. James (Haverhill) Baptisms, 1898-1900
St. James (Haverhill) First Communions and Confirmations, 1884-1900
St. James (Haverhill) Marriages, 1850-1859
St. James (Haverhill) Marriages, 1868-1900
St. James (Haverhill) Deaths, 1885-1900

Please note: These databases are available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.

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Today we’ve added seven new volumes to Massachusetts: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1789-1900 from Our Lady of Victories in Boston.  Also known as Notre Dame des Victoires, this church served Boston’s French Catholic population.  The church was located on Isabella Street, in the Bay Village Historic District.  The parish was closed in 2016.  This addition includes over 9,000 new records and over 39,000 new names to search.  The new volumes are listed below:

Our Lady of Victories (Boston) Baptisms, 1880-1882, 1890-1898
Our Lady of Victories (Boston) Baptisms, 1883-1890
Our Lady of Victories (Boston) Baptisms, 1898-1900
Our Lady of Victories (Boston) Deaths, 1889-1900
Our Lady of Victories (Boston) Marriages, 1884-1899
Our Lady of Victories (Boston) Marriages, 1899-1900
Our Lady of Victories (Boston) Various, 1880-1890

Please note: These databases are available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.

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We have revamped the database Bath, NH: Births Attended by Dr. John French, 1807-1857. 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). Record types include Birth and Death records.

Please note that Dr. French tended to record the name of the mother or father and often not the name of the child. It will often be helpful to search with just the last name and year to find records.

These records were copied, and the index compiled, by John Hibbard, town clerk of Bath, New Hampshire. Dr. John French was born in South Hampton, N.H., and commenced his practice at Warren, N.H., in 1807. Early in 1808 he located in Landaff, where he practiced until April 1822, when he removed to Bath. He remained there in active practice until the latter part of 1857. These records contain the names of 2,336 fathers and the dates of birth of their children. In addition to Bath, they list births in the surrounding towns of Landaff, Lisbon, Lyman, Benton, and Haverhill. All of these towns are in Grafton County, N.H.

The transcription is kept in the R. Stanton Avery Collections at NEHGS, call number, Mss A 6921.

This update is made possible by the efforts of our team our volunteers. If you have some time and would like to get involved in the digitizing 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.

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Today we’re announcing an addition to Early New England Families, 1641-1700, a sketch for Robert Williams (m.1641).  Robert Williams was a ferryman who lived from about 1615-1677.  He had four children.  More research is needed to determine who his wife was.  Alicia Crane Williams’ Early New England Families, 1641-1700 highlights heads of families mentioned in Torrey’s New England Marriages to 1700.  To learn more about this study project, be sure to check out our information page.

Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.

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Today we’ve added three new sketches to 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.  If you would like to learn more about this project, be sure to visit our information page. The three new sketches are listed below:

Eleazer Brown (Adams)
George Hall (Hancock)
David Wells (Shelburne)

Please note: These databases are available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.

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We are very happy to add Volume 10 to our database Dutchess County, NY: The Settlers of the Beekman Patent. This series is an invaluable resource for researching the early settlers of Dutchess county, New York. Volume 10 contains over 1,200 pages and is focused on families with last names between Paine to Rogers. Almost 30,000 names have been added with this volume.

Note that this database has a name-only index, derived from the book index itself. Search terms should be focused on First and Last names. You may also specify a volume to restrict your search results.

The Settlers of the Beekman Patent series, by Frank J. Doherty, contains data on over thirteen hundred families who settled in the Beekman Patent, an original land grant given to Col. Henry Beekman in 1697 by the English Crown and the second largest patent in present-day Dutchess County, New York. Many emigrants from New England lived in and passed through the Beekman Patent on their way west. Others, such as the Palatines and Quakers (almost all from New England), were early settlers and remained for several generations or more. Mr. Doherty has published a total of 13 volumes in this series, we are now adding volume 10 in accordance with our agreement to make them available as searchable database after 7 years have passed.

The printed index is also available at the end of this volume, starting on page 1004. As noted in the book (see here), there are some errors in the printed index which we have corrected when indexing the online version.

This update is made possible by the efforts of our team 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.

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