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Excerpt from Rigobert Bonne and Guilleme Raynal’s 1780 map, L’Isle de Terre-Neuve, L’Acadie ou La Nouvelle Ecosse [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Peter Oliver (m. 1643) is new to Early New England Families, 1641-1700, Alicia Crane Williams’ study project which focuses on immigrants to New England, using Torrey’s New England Marriages as a guide.
Please note: These databases are available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
New North Church from Sketches of Boston, past and present, and of some few places in its vicinity by Isaac Smith Homans
We’ve added twelve new volumes to Massachusetts: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1789-1900 from St. Stephen in Boston’s North End. At its inception, this church was known as St. John the Baptist. As the parish grew, it became St. Stephen’s after taking over the former New North Church building. The new volumes include:
St. Stephen (Boston) Baptisms and Marriages, 1842-1845
St. Stephen (Boston) Baptisms, 1846-1853
St. Stephen (Boston) Baptisms, 1854-1862
St. Stephen (Boston) Baptisms, 1862-1870
St. Stephen (Boston) Baptisms, 1870-1877
St. Stephen (Boston) Baptisms, 1877-1882
St. Stephen (Boston) Baptisms, 1883-1889
St. Stephen (Boston) Baptisms, 1889-1900
St. Stephen (Boston) Baptisms, 1900
St. Stephen (Boston) Confirmations and First Communions, 1875-1930
St. Stephen (Boston) Marriages, 1846-1872
St. Stephen (Boston) Marriages, 1872-1900
We’d like to thank all of our volunteers who worked on this parish and helped make it available to you!
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By Hugh C. Leighton Co, Portland, Me. (Original) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Barrett, Joseph (Sharon)
Carpenter, John (Sharon)
Crary, John (Sharon)
Harrington, Matthew (Sharon)
Havens, Robert (Sharon, Royalton)
Howe, Simeon (Sharon)
Hunter, William (Sharon)
Kingsbury, Jeduthan (Sharon)
Marsh, Joel (Sharon)
Parkhurst, Ebenezer (Sharon)
Parkhurst, Joseph (Sharon, Royalton)
Shepard, Willard (Sharon)
Spaulding, Benjamin (Sharon, Waitsfield, Moretown)
Wheeler, Isaac (Sharon)
Williams, Joseph (Sharon)
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By http://maps.bpl.org (Weymouth, Mass., 1880Uploaded by tm) [CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
Immaculate Conception (Weymouth) Baptisms, 1882-1892
Immaculate Conception (Weymouth) Baptisms, 1892-1900
Immaculate Conception (Weymouth) Marriages, 1892-1900
Immaculate Conception (Weymouth) Marriages, First Communions, and Confirmations, 1882-1900
Sacred Heart (Weymouth) Baptisms, 1870-1895
Sacred Heart (Weymouth) Marriages, 1870-1892
St. Francis Xavier (Weymouth) Baptisms and Marriages, 1866-1869
We have expanded and renamed the Great Migration Newsletter database to include the remaining five years of issues of the newsletter. The newly titled Great Migration Newsletter, V.1-25 now includes all the records for volumes 21-25 in addition to volumes 1-20. The new records are contained in a single volume named Volume 21-25 which corresponds to the book form in which they were previously published. This update added over 200 pages and 3,300 records to the database.
This database is searchable by first and last name and article titles.
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By Haas, David W., creator [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
The new sketches are listed below:
Allen, David (Pomfret)
Bosworth, John (Pomfret)
Burtch, Jacob (Pomfret)
Child, Abijah (Pomfret)
Dana, Isaac (Pomfret)
Dana, William (Pomfret)
Hodges, George (Pomfret)
Knox, Timothy (Pomfret, Woodstock)
Lyon, Amasa (Pomfret)
Lyon, Nathaniel (Pomfret)
Lyon, William (Pomfret)
Mason, Elias (Pomfret)
Morse, Jedidiah (Pomfret)
Newcomb, William (Pomfret)
Paine, Noah (Pomfret)
Paine, Samuel (Pomfret, Randolph)
Powers, Abraham (Woodstock)
Powers, James (Woodstock)
Powers, William (Woodstock)
Sanderson, John (Woodstock)
Sessions, Darius (Pomfret)
Sessions, Simeon (Pomfret)
Slapp, John (Pomfret)
Smith, Abida (Pomfret)
Whitcomb, Mr. (Pomfret)
Wilson, William (Pomfret)
We also updated six existing sketches:
Chedel, John (Pomfret)
Cheney, Oliver (Pomfret, Weathersfield)
Dana, John W. (Pomfret)
Deming, Penuel (Pomfret)
Durkee, Bartholomew (Pomfret, Sheldon)
Farnsworth, Oliver (Woodstock)
Waldo, Daniel (Pomfret)
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The state seal of Massachusetts
We are very happy to announce a new database today; Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1916-1920. This is the fourth in our series of Massachusetts Vital Records databases, now covering the years from 1620 through 1920.
The database includes vital records from across the state between 1916 and 1920. It also includes amended records from 1840 through 1920. The amended records are published in separate volumes. The volumes names specify the type of record, the year, and the location of the contents.
The records in this database are indexed to allow search by: the person’s name, year of the record, record type (Birth, Marriage, and Death), location, and spouse, mother and father names (where available). Occaisonally there are additional documents, such as an affidavit, on the image immediately following the birth, marriage or death certificate. So it can be useful to use the blue arrows bracketing the page number to review the page following the record you have selected.
The Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1916-1920 database contains over 1,300 volumes, 740,000 pages, 1.4 million records, and 4.2 million searchable names. We are pleased to make this new database available as part of our partnership with FamilySearch.
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
Stamp from St. Mary Star of the Sea (Beverly) Marriages, 1871-1900
Today we’ve added five new parishes to Massachusetts: (Image-Only) Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1789-1900. This update adds over 4,400 new pages from Most Precious Blood (Hyde Park), St. Joseph (Salem), St. Mary (Winchester), St. Mary Star of the Sea (Beverly), and St. Mary Star of the Sea (East Boston). The new volumes are listed below, with links to the first page of each. Please be sure to watch our how-to video if you have questions about browsing this collection.
Most Precious Blood (Hyde Park) Baptisms and Marriages, 1870-1888
Most Precious Blood (Hyde Park) Baptisms, 1889-1896
Most Precious Blood (Hyde Park) Baptisms, 1896-1900
Most Precious Blood (Hyde Park) Confirmations, 1880-1900
Most Precious Blood (Hyde Park) Marriages, 1889-1900
St. Joseph (Salem) Index to Baptisms, 1873-1900
St. Joseph (Salem) Baptisms, 1873-1887
St. Joseph (Salem) Baptisms, 1887-1892
St. Joseph (Salem) Baptisms, 1892-1900
St. Joseph (Salem) Burials, 1890-1900
St. Joseph (Salem) Confirmations, 1888-1900
St. Joseph (Salem) Marriages, 1873-1890
St. Joseph (Salem) Marriages, 1890-1900
St. Mary (Winchester) Baptisms, 1875-1900
St. Mary (Winchester) Marriages, 1875-1900
St. Mary Star of the Sea (Beverly) Baptisms, 1871-1895
St. Mary Star of the Sea (Beverly) Baptisms, 1895-1900
St. Mary Star of the Sea (Beverly) Confirmations, 1898
St. Mary Star of the Sea (Beverly) Marriages, 1871-1900
St. Mary Star of the Sea (East Boston) Baptisms, 1866-1897
St. Mary Star of the Sea (East Boston) Baptisms, 1898-1900
St. Mary Star of the Sea (East Boston) Confirmations, 1884-1900
St. Mary Star of the Sea (East Boston) Marriages, 1866-1900
Word cloud of the top 100 surnames in the Mayflower Families Fifth Generation Descendants database
We are extremely happy to announce that we have added our final volume to the Mayflower genealogies, and this database is now complete! This project started over a year ago, and our volunteers have invested over six thousand hours of work to scan and index this invaluable information.
Overall the Mayflower Families Fifth Generation Descendants database contains 31 volumes, 10,155 pages, and over 575,000 searchable names. The word cloud image presented above, shows the 100 most common surnames found in the database.
Today’s addition, part three of Henry Samson volume 20, is the final part the searchable database of authenticated Mayflower Pilgrim genealogies, Mayflower Families Fifth Generation Descendants, 1700-1880. This addition adds 726 pages, over 16,000 records and over 50,000 searchable names related to the descendants of Henry Samson. This database index includes birth, baptism, marriage, death, and deed records, and where available, the names of parents and spouses.
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 update is made possible by the efforts of our growing team of volunteers, including; Nancy Borman, Patricia Collette, Fran Danico, Julie Esposito, Tami Jurgensen, Jan Lundquist, Julie Nathanson, Nell Nies, 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.
This database has been 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.
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[Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
St. Mary (Lynn) Baptisms 1872-1893, Part 1
St. Mary (Lynn) Baptisms 1872-1893, Part 2
St. Mary (Lynn) Baptisms 1893-1897
St. Mary (Lynn) Baptisms 1897-1900
St. Mary (Lynn) Baptisms and Marriages 1837-1841
St. Mary (Lynn) Baptisms and Marriages 1851-1861
St. Mary (Lynn) Baptisms and Marriages 1862-1872
St. Mary (Lynn) First Communions and Confirmations 1881-1900
St. Mary (Lynn) Marriages 1872-1893
St. Mary (Lynn) Marriages 1893-1900
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