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Image Credit: Daderot (Own work) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Also, Alicia has revised the sketches of Joseph Andrews of Hingham., MA (m. 1621, w. unknown, m. 1632, Elizabeth ___); and Samuel Jenney of Plymouth, MA, Portsmouth, RI and Dartmouth, MA (m. 1646, Susannah Wood, m. 1654, Anne/Anna Lettice)
Image Credit: Historic American Engineering Record (HAER), creator (Daderot) [Public domain or Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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.
The latest new sketches are listed below:
We have a new addition to Massachusetts: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1789-1900: the records from St. Mary in Charlestown. 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 addition consists of 10 new 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
Thank you to everyone who participated in our very first Transcription Challenge last week. We had over 55 responses, giving us many helpful suggestions for the 8 names we needed to transcribe. This week we have 8 more mystery names to decipher and we would love your help! Visit our Transcription Challenge page to offer a suggestion.
Here are the chosen transcriptions from last week’s challenge:
- Feely
- Philip McDermott
- Mary McDermott
- Timothy Hannifier, Hennifin
- Johanna Gallagher
- Edna Furber
- Divver
- Keat, Kate
Image Credit: TrunkJunk (author) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Explore the new sketches, listed below:
Asaph Butler (Windsor, Weathersfield, Waterbury)
William Chamberlain (Strafford)
Great Migration Begins 3 volume set
We have greatly expanded the index to Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to N.E. 1620-1633, Vols. I-III. There are nearly 15,000 new birth, baptism, marriage, death and burial records that include the person’s full name and event date, as well as spouse and parent names where available. Searchable emigration and residence records for the featured persons in these volumes have also been added. For those people that may have saved URL’s from the original name-only index, these records are still available.
Search Tip: You can now try to include family members to help focus results. For example, a search for records on Priscilla Mullins that includes father of William returns the following:
Priscilla Mullins sample search
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
We’re offering a new challenge as part of Database News! As we work on Massachusetts: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1798-1900, we occasionally run into some words or names that are very hard to decipher. Our volunteers and proofreaders do their very best to turn these scribbles into viable names, but occasionally we all get stumped. Sometimes if you stare at the name for a long enough time, you can figure out what name it’s supposed to be, so we’re enlisting your help.
Each week we will post some transcription challenges, with the problem names circled. Each problem name will be numbered. You can comment on the page with your idea of what the problem name should be, referencing the number of the problem name.
The Transcription Challenge page is accessible from Database News Home—you can find it on the right in the navigation bar (see the screenshot above).
Names: #1 (child and father’s last name), #2 (mother’s maiden name)
Here’s an example image with 2 names labelled #1 and #2 (the first name appears twice, hence the 3 circles). I can click on the image to enlarge the page. I’ve looked at it for a while and I’ve come to think the circled names are McCarty and White. I would comment the following, “#1: McCarty, #2: White.”
Thanks for any help, and happy puzzling!
Image Credit: Tichnor Bros. Inc., Boston, Mass. [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Make sure you watch our video, How to Search Massachusetts Probate File papers to learn how to search these collections. Don’t get frustrated when the first page you find is just the upper portion of a file folder–this is the first page of every case. Use the blue arrows on the upper right to move to the next pages in the case. You can visit the transcript page to know how many pages are in a given file folder. You can find more tips and resources on searching probate records on our Probate Records Resource Page.
We have just added 6 new sketches to 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).
Most of the men in this update were from Chester, VT. Chester was initially formed as part of New Hampshire. As New Hampshire, New York, and Vermont’s boundaries conflicted and coalesced, it also was known as Flamstead and New Flamstead. The History of Windsor County, Vermont edited by Lewis Cass Aldrich and Frank R. Holmes has a helpful summary of the early history of the town.
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership .
Database Tip: On the transcript page, click the plus sign next to any person’s name. You can download a PDF of the entire sketch rather than having to download each page image separately. You can also download the PDF from the search results page (see image below).
We have just updated the database Salisbury, MA: Marriages by Elder Jabez True, 1812-1835. It can now be searched by both spouse’s first and last names and the date of the marriage. The images of the original fragile manuscript are provided. Elder True lived from 1764 to 1835, and was a minister in Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts for forty years.
