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We’re excited to announce a new database, in celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party: Boston Tea Party Participant Biographies.
The goal of this project is to create comprehensive biographical sketches for all individuals associated with or known to have participated in the Boston Tea Party, which took place on December 16, 1773 in Boston Harbor. This project is launched in conjunction with the announcement of the Boston Tea Party Descendants Program, a new lineage society for those whose ancestors participated in the historic revolutionary event. This project, as well as the Descendants Program, are both in collaboration with the Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum. You can learn more about the Boston Tea Party Descendants Program here.
Today, we’re releasing the first 20 sketches of participant biographies for the following individuals:
- Abraham Tower (1752-1832)
- Amasa Davis (1744-1825)
- Bartholomew Trow (1736-1806)
- Benjamin Edes (1732-1803)
- Benjamin Tucker (1734-1806)
- David Bradlee (1742-1811)
- Elisha Story (1743-1805)
- Francis Moore (1740-1833)
- James Stoddard (1756-1833)
- James Swan (1754-1831)
- Jeremiah Cady (1752-1848)
- Jeremiah Williams (1718-1762)
- Joshua Wyeth (1758-1829)
- Josiah Wheeler (1743-1817)
- Lemuel Trescott (1750-1826)
- Phineas Stearns (1735-1798)
- Nathaniel Frothingham (1746-1825)
- Samuel Barnard (1737-1782)
- Thomas Crafts, Jr. (1740-1799)
- Thomas Urann (1723-1792)
New sketches will be released regularly, so stay tuned for more.
Please note: This database is available to all NEHGS members, including Guest Members, at no cost. Consider membership.
Thank you to everyone who participated in the last Transcription Challenge! Everyone provided helpful feedback and suggestions!
These last challenges are tough! After discussing the possibilities with others, and going back and forth on the letters many times, we have only settled on one name:
#2a. Folardeau
We have saved all of your suggestions from the last set of challenges and have decided leave them up a bit longer for anyone new or anyone who wants to try again with fresh eyes!
Please check out our new set of challenges by going to the “Transcription Challenge” tab at the top of the page and submitting your suggestions in the comments.
Thanks again for all of your help!
Today, American Ancestors and the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston (RCAB) are announcing a new database of Catholic cemetery records: Massachusetts: Roman Catholic Parish Cemetery Records, 1866-1940.
The cemeteries selected for this database are administrated by local parishes, which are distinct from those managed by the Catholic Cemetery Association. Most of the volumes contain records of lot sales or interments, and may include lot owners, date of burial and location of burial. This includes information for some people who no longer have, or may never have had, headstones, making this collection essential for research into Catholic burials in this region. This database offers records through 1940, with the exception being St. Joseph Cemetery (Plymouth) which offers records through 1970.
This database currently features eight parishes administered in eastern Massachusetts. Today we’re releasing 45 volumes from eight cemeteries, including nearly 25,000 records and over 70,000 searchable names. Records from additional parishes will be added in the future as we expand our collaboration.
Records are currently available from the following cemeteries:
- St. Mary (Ayer)
- St. Mary (Canton)
- Annunciation Cemetery (Danvers)
- St. Mary (Middleborough)
- St. Joseph (Plymouth)
- St. Mary (Quincy)
- St. Joseph (Roxbury)
- St. Anthony of Padua (Shirley)
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
Thank you to everyone who participated in the last Transcription Challenge! We had 40 responses and everyone provided helpful feedback and suggestions! Please check out our new set of challenges by going to the “Transcription Challenge” tab at the top of the page and submitting your suggestions in the comments.
This week was difficult! After discussing the possibilities with others, and going back and forth on the letters many times, the names we have settled on are:
1a – Dinivan
1b – Meloy
2 – Hoogs
3a – Divner
3b – Maredin, Mardin
We appreciate everyone’s help and are excited to see the suggestions for the next set of challenges!
Today we’ve added 3 new sketches and updated 4 sketches in Early Vermont Settlers, 1700-1784. The people profiled in the new and updated sketches lived in Brattleboro, Chester and Putney.
With this study project, Scott Andrew Bartley researches the heads of families who lived in Vermont prior to the Revolutionary War. These sketches illustrate major players on political and religious fronts, uncover the migration patterns for this period in the region, and identify all those just looking to better their lives on the new frontier. This project is proceeding in two series, settlers to 1771 and 1772-1784. The work so far has been geographical, focusing on Windsor and Windham Counties.
The new sketches are listed below:
The updated sketches are listed below:
Wilder, Tilly (Brattleboro, Newfane, Townshend)
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
Today we’ve updated our database: Vermont Genealogy, adding Volume 21 from 2016. This database is available thanks to our partnership with the Genealogical Society of Vermont. This update adds over 4,200 new records.
The indexing for this database includes full names, Publication year (not the year of the record), and article titles and authors.
Vermont Genealogy made its debut as a quarterly journal in January 1996. In addition to featuring compiled genealogies, the journal often contains other material including: freeman’s lists; church memberships and dismissals; newspaper vital record abstracts; probate abstracts, cemetery transcriptions, Bible records; Civil War journals; 1890 Census reconstructions; book reviews; and “Seen Elsewhere,” a bibliography of other journal articles relevant to Vermont.
In 2009, Vermont Genealogy switched to semi-annual publication with spring and fall issues. Appointed editor in 2016, Michael F. Dwyer, FASG, has expanded the scope of coverage to include nineteenth-century century immigrant studies, “Gems from the Vermont State Archives,” and continuation of family sketches from “Vermont Families in 1791.”
This update is made possible by the efforts of our volunteer David Anderson. We’d also like to thank Sam Sturgis for his help in making this volume available online.
The entire run of Vermont Genealogy is available at our NEHGS Boston research library, call number F48.V48 1996.
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
Today, we have added Volume 50 (2017) to The Connecticut Nutmegger database. This update adds over 240 pages and more than 1,800 searchable names.
The Connecticut Nutmegger has served as the “journal of record” for the Connecticut Society of Genealogists, Inc. (CSG) for forty years. During this time, it has captured a wealth of information for genealogists. Vital records, probate records, bible records, headstone records, memorials and other useful records have been published and made readily accessible for genealogical research. Well-documented family histories and genealogical articles, covering hundreds of families – mainly with Connecticut ties – have been presented. Published articles include commentary on and corrections to previously published family lines, vital records and town histories. Book reviews, research tips, queries and other valuable tools for genealogists have been presented.
The index for these records includes full names, publication year (not the year of the record), and article titles and authors.
This update is made possible by the efforts of our volunteer David Anderson. If you have some time and would like to get involved in the database digitization and indexing process please contact Rachel Adams, Database Services Volunteer Coordinator via email at rachel.adams@nehgs.org.
We would also like to than Sam Sturgis for his help in making this volume available online.
The entire run of The Connecticut Nutmegger is available at the NEHGS Boston research library, call number F91.C82.
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
Thank you to everyone who participated in the last Transcription Challenge! We had 60 responses, and everyone provided helpful feedback and suggestions! Please check out our new set of challenges by going to the “Transcription Challenge” tab at the top of the page and submitting your suggestions in the comments.
After going through every response, the names we have settled on are:
#1a – Donolan
#1b – Dowely
#1c – Desmond
#1d – Kaefes, Keefes
#1e – McGinnis
#2 – Demeris, Demaris
#3 – Rooney
We appreciate everyone’s help and are excited to see the suggestions for the next set of challenges!
Volume 37 (2017) of The Essex Genealogist is now available! This update adds over 200 pages and 1,200 searchable names.
The leading publication for genealogical research in Essex County, Massachusetts, this quarterly journal has been published since 1981 by The Essex Society of Genealogists. Within the pages of this journal are selections of cemetery transcriptions, bible records, vital and church records relating to families from Essex County. The Essex Genealogist has had published numerous Ahnentafels (Ancestor Tables) for the ancestry of their members, as well as verbatim transcriptions of lectures over the years.
The indexing for these records includes full names, publication year (not the year of the record), and article titles and authors.
This update is made possible by the efforts of our volunteer David Anderson. If you have some time and would like to get involved in the database digitization and indexing process please contact Rachel Adams, Database Services Volunteer Coordinator via email at rachel.adams@nehgs.org.
We’d also like to thank Sam Sturgis for his assistance in making this volume available online.
The entire run of The Essex Genealogist is available at the NEHGS Boston research library, call number F68 .S64.
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
Thank you to everyone who participated in the last Transcription Challenge! We had 58 responses, and everyone provided helpful feedback and suggestions! Please check out our new set of challenges by going to the “Transcription Challenge” tab at the top of the page and submitting your suggestions in the comments.
It was really interesting and helpful to see how many ways everyone transcribed this difficult handwriting. After going through every response, the names we have settled on are:
#1 – Nighy
#2 – Carleman
#3 – Dwyre
We appreciate everyone’s help and are excited to see the suggestions for the next set of challenges!