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John Alden House post card – Public Domain, courtesy of Digital Commonwealth
We have added three new volumes to the searchable database of authenticated Mayflower Pilgrim genealogies, Mayflower Families Fifth Generation Descendants, 1700-1880:
- Alden, John (Vol. 16, p. 2)
- Alden, John (Vol. 16, p. 3)
- Alden, John (Vol. 16, p. 4)
This update adds over 65,000 names, and delivers three of the four volumes dedicated to the descendants of John Alden and Priscilla Mullins.
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.
The 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 newly searchable data to you!
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
We’ve added St. Mary’s parish in Charlestown to our searchable collection of Archdiocese of Boston records, Massachusetts: Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1789-1900. St. Mary’s was the first parish established as a separate parish from the Cathedral of the Holy Cross, in 1828. The Boston Public Library has a Charlestown Flickr page with images of St. Mary’s interior, repairs to the roof, and a fire that happened in the building. Scroll about three quarters of the way down the page to view these images. This update adds over 44,000 new records and over 168,000 new names. We’ve added the following 10 volumes:
St. Mary (Charlestown) Baptisms, 1829-1855
St. Mary (Charlestown) Baptisms, 1856-1868
St. Mary (Charlestown) Baptisms, 1869-1887
St. Mary (Charlestown) Baptisms, 1887-1894
St. Mary (Charlestown) Baptisms, 1894-1897
St. Mary (Charlestown) Baptisms, 1897-1900
St. Mary (Charlestown) Deaths and Burials, 1823-1831
St. Mary (Charlestown) Deaths and Burials, 1830-1836
St. Mary (Charlestown) Marriages, 1830-1868
St. Mary (Charlestown) Marriages, 1869-1900
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.
By http://maps.bpl.org (West Newton, Massachusetts Uploaded by tm) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
St. Bernard (Newton) Baptisms, 1876-1894
St. Bernard (Newton) Baptisms, 1894-1900
St. Bernard (Newton) Marriages, 1876-1900
Detail from above map of St. Bernard’s
By Daderot (Own work) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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.
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:
- McCourt, McCant
- Sre.
- Finucane, Finnegan
- Kell, Ted
- Sunnig, Shunig
By O.H. Bailey & Co. [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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
“Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor,” by William Halsall, 1882 at Pilgrim Hall Museum, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA. United States Public Domain.
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.
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.