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We have added 12 new volumes to Massachusetts: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1789-1900 from Sacred Heart of Jesus in Cambridge.  The first Catholic church in Cambridge, Sacred Heart of Jesus was originally called St. John.  The twelve new volumes are listed below:

Sacred Heart of Jesus (Cambridge) Baptisms, 1842-1856

Sacred Heart of Jesus (Cambridge) Baptisms, 1857-1871

Sacred Heart of Jesus (Cambridge) Baptisms, 1871-1874

Sacred Heart of Jesus (Cambridge) Baptisms, 1874-1878

Sacred Heart of Jesus (Cambridge) Baptisms, 1878-1885

Sacred Heart of Jesus (Cambridge) Baptisms, 1885-1891

Sacred Heart of Jesus (Cambridge) Baptisms, 1891-1895

Sacred Heart of Jesus (Cambridge) Baptisms, 1895-1899

Sacred Heart of Jesus (Cambridge) Marriages, 1842-1873

Sacred Heart of Jesus (Cambridge) Marriages, 1874-1897

Sacred Heart of Jesus (Cambridge) Sick Calls, 1884-1900

Sacred Heart of Jesus (Cambridge) Sick Calls, 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.

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After a busy August, we’re back with our next Transcription Challenge!  Visit our Transcription Challenge page to offer a suggestion.  These new challenges come from Immaculate Conception in Salem.

We really appreciated all of your help and suggestions from last month!  Over 50 participants offered suggestions.  Here are the final answers we have settled on:

1. McCourt, McCant
2. Sre.
3. Finucane, Finnegan
4. Kell, Ted
5. Sunnig, Shunig

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We’re announcing 7 new volumes in Massachusetts: (Image Only) Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1789-1900.  These volumes come from St. George in Framingham and St. Patrick in Natick.  The Catholic population swelled in these towns as immigrants from Ireland, French Canada, and elsewhere came to work in the mills. The new volumes are listed below.

St. George (Framingham) Baptisms, 1878-1900

St. George (Framingham) Baptisms and Marriages, 1848-1859

St. George (Framinhgam) Marriages, 1894-1900

St. Patrick (Natick) Baptisms, 1890-1900

St. Patrick (Natick) Baptisms and Marriages, 1860-1890

St. Patrick (Natick) First Communions and Confirmations, 1866-1900

St. Patrick (Natick) Marriages, 1890-1900

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We have added two new volumes to the searchable database of authenticated Mayflower Pilgrim genealogies, Mayflower Families Fifth Generation Descendants, 1700-1880:

• Warren, Richard (Vol. 18, p. 3)
• White, William (Vol. 13)

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.

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 data to you.

Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.

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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.

 

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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:

John Chedel (Pomfret)

Oliver Cheney (Pomfret, Weathersfield)

John W. Dana (Pomfret)

Penuel Deming (Pomfret)

Bartholomew Durkee (Pomfret, Sheldon)

Daniel Waldo (Pomfret)

Please note:  This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.

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Today we’re announcing three new sketches in Western Massachusetts Families in 1790, one of our study projects by Helen Schatvet Ullmann, CG, FASG.

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.

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We’ve added 12 new volumes to Massachusetts: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1789-1900, from the parish of Immaculate Conception in Salem.  This update consists of 2,860 pages, 23,972 records and roughly 90,300 names.  St. Mary’s was originally the name of Immaculate Conception; as the parish grew and built a new church, the name changed.  St. Mary’s was established in 1821, the 3rd Catholic church in Massachusetts.  The new Immaculate Conception church was dedicated in 1858.  The volumes below are named according to the name written in the actual record book.  We want to thank all of our marvelous volunteers who contributed work towards making this parish available; their time and effort is so appreciated.  The new volumes are listed below:

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.”

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Alicia Crane William’s study project, Early New England Families, 1641-1700 focuses on immigrants to New England , using Torrey’s New England Marriages as a guide.

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.

Click here to download a complete pdf list of all Early New England Families sketches with links to each sketch.

Click here to visit our bookstore to purchase a print compilation of the first 50 sketches in the series.

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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:

1. Garvey
2. Mulski
3. Mulski
4. Cedagan, Cadigan
5. Uart

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