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The NEHGS is proud to announce that we have just added 7 new volumes to Massachusetts: (Image Only) Archdiocese of Boston
Randolph, MA Town Hall Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Records, 1789-1900 from St. Mary in Randolph. This database was made possible by a continued partnership with the Archdiocese of Boston and the work of our volunteers to bring these records to the public. The new volumes are listed at the bottom of this article!
This Romanesue style church is located on North Main Street in Randolph.[1] The land was bought, and foundation laid in 1847 under Father O’Beirne but the church was not completed until 1849 under Reverend John T. Roddan, who would also purchase the land the cemetery of the church would later be founded on. The Church was dedicated to St. Mary in 1850.[2] As the Catholic community of Randolph grew, so did the Church. The final addition to the church, built in 1872, would complete the structure that we see today.[3]
Volumes Added:
Saint Mary – Randolph Baptisms 1853 -1860
Saint Mary – Randolph Baptisms 1861-1875
Saint Mary – Randolph Baptisms 1876 -1894
Saint Mary – Randolph Baptisms 1888 -1900
Saint Mary – Randolph Marriages 1853 -1894
Saint Mary – Randolph Marriages 1888 -1900
Saint Mary – Randolph First Communions & Confirmations 1867 -1884
[1] Page 698 of “One Hundred Years of Progress: A Graphic Historical, and Pictorial Account of the Catholic Church of New England, Archdioses of Boston” by James S. Sullivan, M.D., ed., Boston & Portland Illustrated Publishing Company, Henry O’Brien 1895.
[2] Page 696 of “One Hundred Years of Progress: A Graphic Historical, and Pictorial Account of the Catholic Church of New England, Archdioses of Boston” by James S. Sullivan, M.D., ed., Boston & Portland Illustrated Publishing Company, Henry O’Brien 1895.
[3] Page 697 of “One Hundred Years of Progress: A Graphic Historical, and Pictorial Account of the Catholic Church of New England, Archdioses of Boston” by James S. Sullivan, M.D., ed., Boston & Portland Illustrated Publishing Company, Henry O’Brien 1895.
The Newest Transcription Challenge is now up! Visit our Transcription Challenge page to offer a suggestion.
These new challenges come from Saint Gregory in Dorchester and Saint Catherine of Siena in Charlestown
We really appreciated all of your help and suggestions from the last couple weeks! We received over 40 responses!
Here are the names we have decided on:
#1: Annum Lucindum – Anna Lucinda
#2: Under Further Review
#3: Kehnne
#4: Fricye
#5: Ennias
Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
We’re announcing nine new volumes in Massachusetts: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1789-1900 from Immaculate Conception in Marlborough. This latest update adds over 26,000 new records and more than 103,000 new names to this database. The new volumes are listed below:
Immaculate Conception (Marlborough) Baptisms and Marriages, 1854-1869
Immaculate Conception (Marlborough) Baptisms, 1854-1861
Immaculate Conception (Marlborough) Baptisms, 1861-1869
Immaculate Conception (Marlborough) Baptisms, 1869-1896
Immaculate Conception (Marlborough) Baptisms, 1875-1886
Immaculate Conception (Marlborough) Baptisms, 1897-1900
Immaculate Conception (Marlborough) Confirmations, 1897-1900
Immaculate Conception (Marlborough) Marriages, 1854-1869
Immaculate Conception (Marlborough) Marriages, 1869-1896
Please note: These databases are available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
Stamp of the Kingdom of Italy; 1931; commemorative of the “700th anniversary of the death of Saint Anthony” Anthony of Padua [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Please note: These databases are available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
St. Joseph’s Cemetery
By Beckwith-Zink (Diane) (Flickr: St. Joseph Cemetery in Haverhill, MA) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
St. Joseph (Haverhill) Mixed, 1871-1879
St. Joseph (Haverhill) Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths, 1880-1887
St. Joseph (Haverhill) Mixed, 1887-1893
St. Joseph (Haverhill) Baptisms, 1894-1898
St. Joseph (Haverhill) Baptisms, 1899-1900
St. Joseph (Haverhill) Marriages, 1894-1900
The Newest Transcription Challenge is now up! Visit our Transcription Challenge page to offer a suggestion.
These new challenges come from Saint Gregory in Dorchester and Saint Catherine of Siena in Charlestown
We really appreciated all of your help and suggestions from the last couple weeks! We received over 60 responses!
Here are the names we have decided on:
- Hailey
- Under Further Review
- Palraug
- Ridge
- Whalen
The Newest Transcription Challenge is now up! Visit our Transcription Challenge page to offer a suggestion.
These new challenges come from Saint Gregory in Dorchester, Saint Catherine of Siena in Charlestown, and Saint Patrick’s in Natick.
We really appreciated all of your help and suggestions from last week! We received over 50 responses!
Here are the names we have decided on:
- Weatherborn
- Gentry
- Ivery
- Mary Caverny
- Sterey
Gravestone of Ann Tiffany (1693-1721) from Tyler Point Burying Ground in Barrington, Rhode Island.
We are very happy to announce a new database today; the Rhode Island: Historical Cemeteries, 1647-2000. John Sterling has partnered with us and provided transcriptions and images produced by the volunteers of Rhode Island Historical Cemeteries Transcription Project for cemeteries across Rhode Island.
This database is organized into 39 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 more recent, however, 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 site such as Google Maps to see where the cemetery is located.
This database supersedes the index-only collection; Rhode Island: Historical Cemeteries Database Index, 1600-2001 which had about one-half the number of records. Anyone who has saved links to that database will still be able to access them.
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
Sample of Database specific search page for American Ancestors Magazine with custom fields.
We are very happy to deliver a new search option for you today: Database Search. We are now providing separate search pages for every one of our databases. You can access this by selecting the magnifying glass image on the Database List A-Z.
Select the database specific search page right from the Database List A to Z.
The new database specific search pages include:
- Focused search fields – the search fields available for each category are only those that are commonly used in that category. This avoids the common problem of using search terms which will yield no results (See Image at top).
- Search tips and category descriptions right on the search screen – you don’t need to perform a search or click to another screen to get tips on the available fields. You just need to scroll down to see this. (See image below)
- See other databases within the category – if you want to see what other databases are in same category, you can click on the button at the top right and it will list the relevant databases.
- Sample page images – A few sample page images are included for each category to provide you some perspective of what you can find in the databases for that category (See Image 3).
- Inclusive search results! – The results will include results that match any of your criteria. This is an important change. Results that match all or most of your search criteria appear at the top, and partial matches appear below. Of course, if you select Exact search for the Name or Location, you will only get results that match your criteria.
- Go directly to Browse Records – If you just want to view records without doing a search, just select a volume and page at the top right and press the Browse button.
- Switch to Advanced Search – If you would still prefer to use the general purpose Advanced Search, you can click Switch to Advanced Search button on the right to launch the traditional search experience for the database you are currently looking at.
We hope you enjoy these new capabilities. Please address any feedback and comments to webmaster@nehgs.org.
Search tips, sample images and database description are on the bottom of the search page.
Portsmouth Harbor — detail of 1893 U. S. Geological Survey map. Courtesy of the Dimond Library, Documents Department & Data Center, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH. This shows Seavey’s Island before it was conjoined with Fernald’s Island, site of the Navy Yard. Public Domain in the United States.
We have updated the index to New Hampshire Gazette: Vital Records, 1756-1800 so that it is now searchable by first name and last name, location, record type, and family members (where available). The text of these extracted marriage and death records published in the New Hampshire Gazette newspaper continues to be searchable via Keyword search.
The New Hampshire Gazette claims the distinction of being the nation’s oldest newspaper and was established in 1756. These records were compiled by Otis G. Hammond, former director of the New Hampshire Historical Society. They were abstracted by Priscilla Hammond in 1937, and this manuscript is part of the R. Stanton Avery Collections at NEHGS.
This is update is made possible by the invaluable efforts of our team of volunteers, particularly; Elizabeth Handler and Marie Wells. We genuinely appreciate the work of all our volunteers. If you would like to join 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.