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The Pilgrims at Plymouth. Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909.
Public Domain in the United States, courtesy of Wikimedia.
We have added the William Bradford volume to the searchable database of authenticated Mayflower Pilgrim genealogies, Mayflower Families Fifth Generation Descendants, 1700-1880. This update adds 570 pages, 11,000 records, and over 32,000 searchable names in the following volume:
- Bradford, William (Vol. 22)
This database is being constructed from the General Society of Mayflower Descendants (GSMD) very well-known series of books Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Descendants of the Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth, Mass., December 1620 which document the first generation of descendants of the Pilgrims. Through our partnership with GSMD, American Ancestors is delivering this database with a full index of the fifth-generation descendants, and their children, coupled with the page images for those people.
William Bradford was born in 1590 in Austerfield, England. He became interested in Separatist religious beliefs as a young man. William married Dorothy May in Amsterdam in 1613. They traveled on Mayflower together, leaving behind their son, John, who would join them on a later ship. Bradford served as Governor of Plymouth Colony for 31 terms, succeeding John Carver after his death in 1621. Bradford kept extensive journals relating the experience of the Pilgrims and had the most extensive library of first generation New Englanders. After Dorothy fell off the deck of Mayflower and drowned in the Provincetown Harbor, Bradford married Alice (Carpenter) Southworth in 1623, with whom he had 3 children. He died in 1657. This biography is also available on our Mayflower 2020 site here.
This database index includes birth, baptism, marriage, death, and deed records for these individuals, and where available, the names of parents and spouses. We thank our volunteers for all their efforts in bringing this newly searchable data to you!
This update is made possible by the invaluable efforts of our growing team of volunteers, including; Jeanne Brown, Fran Danico, Kathleen Hash, Nell Nies, Margaret Parker, Rich Wood, and David Anderson. We genuinely appreciate their dedication. If you are interested in joining the team, please contact Bianca Renzoni, Database Services Volunteer Coordinator bianca.renzoni@nehgs.org.
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
By John Phelan [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], from Wikimedia Commons
Christopher Billings (Hartland)
Ebenezer Call (Hartland, Woodstock)
Joseph Call (Hartland, Woodstock)
Elisha Harding (Hartland, Brattleboro)
James Harwood (Hartland, Woodstock)
Charles Killam (Hartland, Woodstock)
Andrew Powers (Hartland, Woodstock)
James Sanderson (Hartland, Woodstock, Hartford)
Oliver Willard, Jr. (Hartland)
Oliver Farnsworth (Springfield, Fairfax)
Revised Sketches
Today we’re announcing three new sketches to Western Massachusetts Families in 1790. This database focuses on families listed in the 1790 census in historic Berkshire and Hampshire counties, an area which includes parts of modern Franklin and Hampden counties. Sketches are submitted by NEHGS researchers and members and edited by Helen Schatvet Ullmann, CG, FASG. The new sketches are listed below:
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
After some delay, the Newest Transcription Challenge is up! Check out our Transcription Challenge page to keep up to date with the newest challenge and to offer your suggestions!
We really appreciated all of your help and suggestions from the last couple weeks! We received over 40 responses and we have sorted out the issue some of you had with not being able to open the images! There are only a couple images for this week, like last week, but we hope to have more images for you soon!
#1: Saint Mary Boston Communion and Confirmation 1866
Under Further Review
#2: Saint Mary Boston Communion and Confirmation 1866
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Canopy over Plymouth Rock, Cole’s Hill, Plymouth Rock Hotel, unknown date Public Domain, courtesy of Wikimedia.org.
We have added part two of the Henry Samson volume to the searchable database of authenticated Mayflower Pilgrim genealogies, Mayflower Families Fifth Generation Descendants, 1700-1880. This addition adds 650 pages, 14,000 records and over 45,000 searchable names related to the descendants of Thomas Rogers.
This database is being constructed from the General Society of Mayflower Descendants (GSMD) very well-known series of books Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Descendants of the Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth, Mass., December 1620 which document the first generation of descendants of the Pilgrims. Through our partnership with GSMD, American Ancestors is delivering this database with a full index of the fifth-generation descendants, and their children, coupled with the page images for those people.
Henry Samson was about 16 when he arrived on the Mayflower. He was a cousin of, and in the company of, Edward Tilley and his family. Edward and Agnes Tilley died during the first winter, but Henry survived. In February of 1636 Henry married Anne Plummer. The two went on to have 9 children. Henry died in 1684, and he and Ann are buried in Cole’s Hill Burial Ground in Plymouth. This biography is also available on our Mayflower 2020 site here.
This database index includes birth, baptism, marriage, death, and deed records for these individuals, and where available, the names of parents and spouses. We thank our volunteers for all their efforts in bringing this newly searchable data to you!
This update is made possible by the invaluable efforts of our growing team of volunteers, including; Nancy Borman, Jeanne Brown, Fran Danico, Margaret Parker, Charlie Watson, Ron Wilson, Rich Wood, and David Anderson. We genuinely appreciate their dedication. If you are interested in joining the team, please contact Bianca Renzoni, Database Services Volunteer Coordinator bianca.renzoni@nehgs.org.
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
Most Holy Redeemer Church By DickClarkMises [Public domain], from Wikimedia Commons
Most Holy Redeemer (East Boston) Baptisms and Marriages, 1844-1851
Most Holy Redeemer (East Boston) Index to Baptisms, 1856-1861
Most Holy Redeemer (East Boston) Baptisms and Confirmations, 1851-1862
Most Holy Redeemer (East Boston) Baptisms and Confirmations, 1862-1882
Most Holy Redeemer (East Boston) Baptisms and Confirmations, 1883-1900
Most Holy Redeemer (East Boston) Confirmations, 1896-1900
Most Holy Redeemer (East Boston) Marriages, 1851-1900
Sacred Hearts (Malden) Baptisms, 1891-1898
Sacred Hearts (Malden) Baptisms, 1898-1900
Sacred Hearts (Malden) Marriages, 1891-1900
St. James (Haverhill) Baptisms, 1851-1859
St. James (Haverhill) Baptisms, 1868-1897
St. James (Haverhill) Baptisms, 1898-1900
St. James (Haverhill) Confirmations and First Communions, 1884-1900
St. James (Haverhill) Deaths, 1885-1900
St. James (Haverhill) Marriages, 1850-1859
St. James (Haverhill) Marriages, 1868-1900
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
By http://www.geographicus.com/mm5/cartographers/murphy.txt [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Today we’re announcing two new sketches:
Daniel Bacon (m. 1639) Daniel Bacon was born in England around 1615. He died in Newton in 1691. He married Mary Read and had 10 children. He was a tailor and a yeoman.
Thomas Hinckley (m.1641, 1660) Thomas Hinckley was from Hawkhurst in Kent, England. His family settled Barnstable, where he lived the rest of his life. He first married Mary Richards, then Mary [Smith] Glover after Mary Richards’s death. He was the last governor of Plymouth Colony, serving for almost 10 years before it became part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He had seventeen children.
Download a complete pdf list of all Early New England Families sketches with links to each sketch.
Visit our bookstore to purchase a print compilation of the first 50 sketches in the series.
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
New menu structure with the Search items expanded
There is a new structure to the menus on American Ancestors! There are now seven top level menu items to help you navigate more easily through the breadth of content and services available from NEHGS. Each of the menu items has a short description below it, and by hovering over it you can see the organization of the resources for each area.
From the database perspective, all links related to search of any kind of database can be found under the Search heading. As shown in the image above, once you hover over Search, you can then select from the sub-menus to get to directly to what you need. The key items included are:
- Search All Databases – the standard Advanced Search page to search across over 450 databases
- Category searches – the recently announced category specific search pages, are available for a tailored search experience to each category of databases; such as Vital Records
- Browse Databases A to Z – previously on a separate menu, the database lets you find a specific database to use for your research
- Special Interest Databases –the externally provided searchable databases, made available to NEGHS members
- Articles Guides and Study projects – provides access to the ongoing study projects that are used to create unique searchable databases and publications
- Library Catalog – lets you search through the entire NEHGS library catalog
- Digital Book and Manuscript Collection – the place to search through our digital collections from the NEHGS Library and the Jewish Heritage Center.
If you have any questions or comments, please send them to us at webmaster@nehgs.org.
By http://maps.bpl.org (View of Waltham, Mass. Uploaded by tm) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia CommonsBy http://maps.bpl.org (View of Waltham, Mass. Uploaded by tm) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
St. Mary (Waltham) Baptisms, 1852-1855
St. Mary (Waltham) Baptisms, 1864-1889
St. Mary (Waltham) Baptisms, 1889-1896
St. Mary (Waltham) Baptisms, 1896-1900
St. Mary (Waltham) Marriages, 1850-1855
St. Mary (Waltham) Marriages, 1864-1890
St. Mary (Waltham) Marriages, 1891-1900
St. Mary (Waltham) Confirmations, 1877-1891
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
Today we’re announcing a new database, Norfolk County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1793-1877. This database was created from digital images and index contributed to NEHGS by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives. The collection contains the records of 20,904 Norfolk County probate cases filed between 1793 and 1877. The probate cases include wills, guardianships, administrations, and various other types of probate records except adoptions, which are not public records in Massachusetts. The cases range in length from one to over 2,500 pages, with a total of over 515,000 individual file papers. If you have questions about using this collection, or our partnership with the Massachusetts Supreme Court Judicial Archives, be sure to watch our short video, How to Search Massachusetts Probate File Papers.