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By Debivort (Own work) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)], via Wikimedia Commons
We’ve added a new volume of Chatham vital records to Massachusetts Vital Records, 1620-1850. This new volume appears as “Chatham – V3” in Massachusetts Vital Records, 1620-1850. The first 100 or so pages of vital records in the current volume were also published in “Chatham – V1” in the same collection. Chatham – V1 includes records originally published in the Mayflower Descendant between 1907 and 1917. This set of records (Chatham – V3) was originally published by the Chatham Historical Society in 1991. They are electronically published here with permission of the Society. Records are indexed by first name, last name, spouse’s name, parents’ names, location, date, and record type.
By Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the BPL [Public domain or CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
We have 6 new sketches for Early Vermont Settlers to 1784. This database focuses on families that lived in Vermont prior to the end of the Revolutionary War, as identified in Donald Alan Smith’s thesis “Legacy of Dissent: Religion and Politics in Revolutionary Vermont 1749 to 1784” (Clark U., Ph.D., 1980).
As NEHGS prepares to publish Scott Andrew Bartley’s first volume of these sketches, we welcome any corrections, especially regarding the children of the principal subjects of the sketches. Send any potential revisions to webmaster@nehgs.org for review.
In this update, the heads of families are all from Pomfret, VT. Bartholomew Durkee, whose sketch is included in this update was the first permanent settler of Pomfret, VT, who moved there with his family from Pomfret, Connecticut.
The latest new sketches are listed below:
Oliver Cheney (Pomfret, Weathersfield)
Bartholomew Durkee (Pomfret, Sheldon)
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
Image Credit: By http://maps.bpl.org [CC BY 2.0(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
This database focuses on families listed in the 1790 census in historic Berkshire and Hampshire counties, an area which also includes parts of modern Franklin and Hampden counties.
If you are particularly interested in this area of research, you may want to consult one of our newest publications–the 3rd volume of Western Massachusetts Families in 1790!
The following sketches are new to this update:
James Kendall (Ludlow)
Oliver Knox (Blandford)
Gad Wait (Ashfield)
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
Image Credit: Salem Harbor, Fitz Henry Lane [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
St. Mary (Salem) Baptisms, 1840-1854
St. Mary (Salem) Marriages, 1842-1870
Immaculate Conception (Salem) Baptisms and Marriages, 1824-1828
Immaculate Conception (Salem) Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths, 1831-1841
Immaculate Conception (Salem) Baptisms, 1855-1864
Immaculate Conception (Salem) Baptisms, 1865-1873
Immaculate Conception (Salem) Baptisms, 1874-1883
Immaculate Conception (Salem) Baptisms, 1883-1888
Immaculate Conception (Salem) Baptisms, 1889-1900
Immaculate Conception (Salem) Baptisms, 1900
Immaculate Conception (Salem) Marriages, 1871-1900
Immaculate Conception (Salem) Confirmations, 1888-1900
If you have found any interesting stories or important information about your ancestors within the Archdiocese of Boston records, we would love to hear from you! Please email me (Molly Rogers) at webmaster@nehgs.org.
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
Note added November 29, 2017:
Our policy is to name volumes as they are named in the Archdiocesan archives. They have decided to name the two St. Mary’s volumes as Immaculate Conception, so we have changed the volume names accordingly. This change is based upon the following research, “Saint Mary’s, Salem, was the second parish in the diocese founded in 1826. The parish was split in two with the establishment of Saint James in 1850, this to help serve the immediate area but also the large number of missions Saint Mary’s had become responsible for in the surrounding area. By 1857, a new church was completed to replace the old wooden church of Saint Mary’s, but because few priests were available they decided to merge the two parishes into one again, and rename this large parish the Immaculate Conception.”
Graffito of a schooner in Barnstable’s Old Jail, built in the late 1600s. Image Credit: [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
The newest sketch in this collection highlights Roger Goodspeed who was married in 1641 in Barnstable, Massachusetts to Alice Layton. Roger came from Wingrave, England and died in Barnstable in 1685. He and Alice had 7 children.
We have a new transcription challenge for this week! Visit our Transcription Challenge page to offer a suggestion. These new challenges come from Sacred Heart of Jesus in Cambridge.
We really appreciated all of your help and suggestions from last week! Over 80 participants offered suggestions. Here are the final answers we have settled on:
- Garvey
- Mulski
- Mulski
- Cedagan, Cadigan
- Uart
Falls on the Saco river in West Buxton, Maine
We have updated the index to Maine: Marriages by Reverend H.F.A. Patterson, 1854-1892 to enable searches by first name and last name, spouse names, dates and locations. It is also still possible to do a Keyword search on the full transcription. Reverend Henry Fitz Allen Patterson served the Maine Conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, primarily in the counties of Cumberland, York, and Penobscot, but performed marriages in other counties and states as well. This database is an index of Rev. Patterson’s hand-written marriage records.
© José Luiz Bernardes Ribeiro via Wikimedia Commons
We have added over 1,200 new pages to Massachusetts: (Image Only) Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1789-1900! These new records come from the parishes of St. Ann in Dorchester and St. Catherine of Siena in Charlestown. The history of both these churches demonstrates the expansion of Catholicism in Boston–both parishes broke off from previously established parishes as the numbers of worshipers grew. The parish of St. Ann celebrated its first Mass on Christmas in 1880 after breaking off from St. Gregory’s (records coming soon!). St. Catherine of Siena, located at the bottom of Bunker Hill, celebrated its first mass on Christmas in 1887, after branching from St. Francis de Sales. Above is a stained glass window featuring St. Catherine of Siena (not located in the church in Charlestown), below is an image of the interior of St. Ann’s, taken from One Hundred Years of Progress by James S. Sullivan. The new volumes consist of the following:
St. Ann (Dorchester) Baptisms, 1889-1900
St. Catherine of Siena (Charlestown) Baptisms, 1888-1893
St. Catherine of Siena (Charlestown) Baptisms, 1893-1898
St. Catherine of Siena (Charlestown) Baptisms, 1898-1900
St. Catherine of Siena (Charlestown) Confirmations, 1894-1900
St. Catherine of Siena (Charlestown) Marriages, 1888-1900
p. 185, James S. Sullivan’s One Hundred Years of Progress
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We have updated the index to Kennebunkport, ME: Voters for Town Officers, March 1833 so that it is now searchable by first name and last name, in addition to Keyword search. This database provides a list of all the residents who voted in the town officer elections of 1833. The records include the name, date and location (Kennebunkport)
Sample search results
We have a new transcription challenge for this week! Visit our Transcription Challenge page to offer a suggestion. These new challenges come from Immaculate Conception (Salem) and St. Mary (Charlestown).
Last week had some tricky names. We really appreciated all of your help and suggestions! Here are the final answers we have settled on:
- Seragh, Sarah
- Genoveffam, Genevieve
- Annie Downey
- Janie Heeney
- Gideon, Gidoen
- Nunan, Newman, Mussau, Musau
- Colter, Cotter, Collet
- Comboy