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Replica of Mayflower in Plymouth, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Uploaded by creator. Relased as CC-by-SA. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
We have added a new volume to the searchable database of authenticated Mayflower Pilgrim genealogies, Mayflower Families Fifth Generation Descendants, 1700-1880:
- Billington, John (Vol.21)
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.
John Billington travelled on Mayflower with his wife Elinor and sons John and Francis. His family was particularly troublesome for the order-loving Puritans. Billington killed a fellow colony member with whom he had a long-running feud, John Newcomen, and was hanged for the crime in 1630. He was the first man executed by hanging in the colony.
This database index includes birth, baptism, marriage, death, and deed records for these individuals, and where available, the names of parents and spouses.
This update is made possible by the invaluable efforts of our team of volunteers, including; Rich Wood, Marie Wells, and David Anderson. We 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.
Last name cloud for the Billington Volume
By http://maps.bpl.org (View of Saxonville, Mass. Uploaded by tm) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
St. George (Framingham) Baptisms, 1878-1900
St. George (Framingham) Baptisms and Marriages, 1848-1859
St. George (Framingham) Marriages, 1894-1900
Interior, St. George From One Hundred Years of Progress by James S. Sullivan (1895) p.778
1896 Map of Boston by http://www.geographicus.com/mm5/cartographers/sampsonmo.txt [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
A note on St. Margaret (Dorchester) Baptisms and Marriages, 1893-1900: This volume consists of two books which began separately and were later bound together. Usually at the front of a volume in this collection, we have an “Index” page which should give you an idea of how best to browse through the book. This volume has two different indexes, one for the marriages, and one for the baptisms. I’ve created Index_1 which explains how to browse the marriages, and Index_2 which explains how to browse the baptisms. Pages are numbered as B_1 or M_1 to allow for the fact that there are two pages called one, for example, in this volume.
This update consists of the following volumes:
St. Anthony of Padua (Allston) Baptisms, 1986-1900
St. Anthony of Padua (Allston) Marriages, 1896-1900
St. Margaret (Dorchester) Baptisms, 1893-1899
St. Margaret (Dorchester) Baptisms and Marriages, 1893-1900
Sudden Showers, Newbury Marshes, Martin Johnson Heade [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
The newest sketch in this collection features Richard Lowell. It isn’t exactly clear when Richard came to Massachusetts, but he had certainly arrived by 1641/2 when his daughter was born in Newbury, MA. He had one or two wives, one of whom was named Margaret. See Williams’s commentary on page six for more details on Richard Lowell’s potential marriages. He had four children, one of whom, Samuel, is particularly well-documented due to disputes relating to a relationship with a woman to which he was not married. Richard died in 1682 in Newbury.
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
Image Credit: yeowatzup from Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany (Saint Leonard’s Church, North End, Boston) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
St. Leonard of Port Maurice Baptisms, 1873-1887
St. Leonard of Port Maurice Baptisms, 1887-1897
St. Leonard of Port Maurice Baptisms, 1897-1900
St. Leonard of Port Maurice Baptisms, 1900
St. Leonard of Port Maurice Confirmations, 1876-1900
St. Leonard of Port Maurice Index to Baptisms, 1873-1900
St. Leonard of Port Maurice Marriages, 1873-1899
Peter Brown’s Tankard: At the Pilgrim Hall Museum, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA.
We have added a new volume to the searchable database of authenticated Mayflower Pilgrim genealogies, Mayflower Families Fifth Generation Descendants, 1700-1880:
- Brown, Peter (Vol. 7)
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.
This update is made possible by the invaluable efforts of our team of volunteers, including; Jane Kivlin, Nancy Borman, and David Anderson. We 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.
Kingfisher Tower on Late Otsego. Public Domain, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
We have updated the indexes for three of our early databases of marriages and death notices from newspapers, that were originally only searchable by keywords. For the following three index-only databases you can now search by first name and last name, spouse names, dates and locations, and you can still do a Keyword search on the original text:
- New Canaan [CT] Era: Marriages and Deaths in New York State, 1868-1871
- New Hampshire: Marriage and Death Notices Published in Newspapers, 1848-1856
- Otsego County, NY: Newspaper Records, 1808-1831
This update is made possible by the invaluable efforts of our team of volunteers, including; Barbara Holt, Bob Rainville, and Marie Wells. We 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.
Image Credit: ToddC4176 at en.wikipedia [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)], via Wikimedia Commons
We have added five new sketches to Western Massachusetts Families in 1790. This database focuses on families listed in the 1790 census in historic Berkshire and Hampshire counties, an area which includes parts of modern Franklin and Hampden counties as well. Sketches are submitted by NEHGS researchers and members and edited by Helen Schatvet Ullmann, CG, FASG. The following sketches comprise this update:
Isaac Sanderson – Whately
Asa Sanderson – Whately
David Prince – Windsor
Asa Hall – Windsor
Josiah Wright – Pittsfield
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
Bottom of Image and Transcript pages showing the database; citation, description, search tips, and help links
We are happy to deliver some new capabilities tooday to improve your search experience. The new capabilities include:
- Database information at bottom of Image and Transcript Pages – the database citation, description, search tips and help links are now displayed at the bottom of the page. This saves you the trouble of having to link off to a new page to get valuable contextual information when reviewing search results. So, don’t forget to page down!
- Streamlined headings for the Image and Transcript pages – with the database information now on the results page, we have been able to shrink the space at the top of the page by about an inch. This gives you more visibility on your results with less scrolling
- Print Search Results – When you are viewing your search results, you can now print the page out using the new button on the screen. The print includes only the actual search results, and just for the page you have currently selected.
The pictures below highlight where to look for these new capabilities.
Top of Image and Transcript pages showing streamlined headings and new buttons for New Search and Favorites
Search results page with the new Print button highlighted
As we deliver updates to the database search capabilities on American Ancestors, we will continue to let you know through DB News. We hope you enjoy this update, and wish you the best of luck in your research!
Comfort Starr House, Guilford, New Haven County, CT Everett H. Keeler, Historic American Buildings Survey August 1938 Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
We have updated an old database with new information! The new name of the database is: Guilford, CT: Deaths, 1883-1890.
To this database we have added First & Last Names, and complete dates. Previously the database only contained the year. This database includes death records for residents of Guilford, CT in the years 1883-1890. Alvin Bates Palmer kept these records during this period. In about 1880 Palmer moved his family from Cornwall to Guilford in New Haven County, where he lived the rest of his life. He is buried in the West Side Cemetery in Guilford. The original text may be accessed at the NEHGS Research Library. The call number is Mss A 2407
The database index includes, name, death date, and death location where available. We thank our volunteers for all their efforts in bringing this newly searchable data to you!
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.