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Eugene D. Moran Wildlife Management Area near Windsor, MA By John Phelan (Own work) [CC BY 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
Noah Benson, Jr. (Partridgefield) Partridgefield is the modern town of Peru, MA.
Noah Benson, Sr. (Plainfield)
Amasa Converse (Windsor)
Robert Walker (Windsor)
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We are happy to launch two enhancement to the Search Results page today, as part of our ongoing efforts to improve your search experience. They are particularly helpful when using Category Search or the new Database specific search, since the default is to show a broad array of results.
Search Sliders – located on the top left side of the search results, you will see some sliders on the search results. They apply to Name, Location and Years parameters of your search. The values of your current search are displayed on the left, and the slider is to the right. An example is shown above.
To use them, just move the slider to the right to ensure results match your request exactly, and to the left for broader search results. As soon as you let go of the slider the search results are updated.
If you want to change the values you are searching for, just use the Refine button as in the past.
Cutoff bar – our search technology seeks to list the most relevant results first. This cutoff bar will appear as a blue bar to help mark a point where results that only partially match your results start. It is just informational, and in cases where large numbers of results meet your criteria, you may not see it on the first page. Also, if you choose to order your results by any value other than relevance, the bar will not appear.
We hope you enjoy these new capabilities. We expect to add some additional options to the filters in the near future. Please address any feedback and comments to webmaster@nehgs.org. We love to hear from you!
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
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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.