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We have two new additions to Massachusetts: (Image Only) Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1789-1900.
Saint Joseph’s Parish in Boston served the Irish community in the West End. The following volumes are included in this update:
St. Joseph (Boston, MA) Baptisms, 1862-1876
St. Joseph (Boston, MA) Baptisms, 1877-1879
St. Joseph (Boston, MA) Baptisms, 1879-1882
St. Joseph (Boston, MA) Baptisms, 1882-1884
St. Joseph (Boston, MA) Baptisms, 1884-1889
St. Joseph (Boston, MA) Baptisms, 1889-1895
St. Joseph (Boston, MA) Baptisms, 1895-1900
St. Joseph (Boston, MA) Baptisms, 1900
St. Joseph marriages will be included in a future update.
Saint Theresa of Avila Parish in West Roxbury was established in 1895. The following volumes comprise the pre-1901 records of this parish:
St. Theresa of Avila (West Roxbury, MA) Baptisms, 1896-1900
St. Theresa of Avila (West Roxbury, MA) Marriages, 1896-1900
If you need any help navigating this collection, be sure to watch our video on how to browse!
Search Improvements. We are very happy to introduce several enhancements to your search experience this week. The new capabilities include:
- Copy Citation to clipboard – When you have a search result and you would like to copy the citation information, you can click on Citation Information button on the top of the page. There you will see the convenient blue button to “Copy Citation” which will put the Citation information and the URL of the record to your computer’s clipboard. Then simply paste it wherever you would like.
- Shorter Citation URLs – Many people have noticed that the URLs for search results can be very long (as many as 185 characters!). So, as part of the Citation enhancement you get a much more compact URL that you can save in your family tree software or document.
- Image Print – If you click the Print button while looking at the image for a record, we will include the citation information and the citation URL underneath the image for your convenient reference.
- Search help – We have added the “Need Help?” button on the right-hand margin of the Advanced Search page. Now you have convenient access to Tips on how to search, a video tutorial and other information available from both the Advanced Search and Search Results pages.
These pictures below highlight the new Citation and Search Help enhancements. We hope you will enjoy these new capabilities!
Minnie L.C. Coleman was a passionate genealogist in the 1930s who transcribed many records from the Surrogate’s Office in Syracuse, NY. Among other work, she abstracted names and dates from wills, compiling seven volumes worth of material that she donated to NEHGS. We hold these typescripts in our manuscript collection and have just updated our database, Onondaga County, NY: Abstracts of Wills, 1795-1883 to be searchable by first and last name, location, record type, year, and parents’ or spouse’s names when available.
Onondaga County is located in central New York on the eastern edge of the Finger Lakes. Many of the towns in this county have names inspired by Greek and Roman antiquity such as Cicero, Pompey, Manlius, Fabius, Lysander, Camillus, Marcellus, and of course, Syracuse.
For those further interested in Onondaga County, we also have Minnie L.C. Coleman’s collection of guardianship records from 1815-1849.
The image above is the General Orrin Hutchinson House, a building on the National Register of Historic Places. Orrin’s father James Hutchinson’s record is found in Volume D.
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Photo by Scott Bauer / Courtesy of USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service., via Wikimedia Commons
Connecticut Marriages and Deaths 1790-1833 is our newest updated collection. This database is now searchable by first name, last name, year, location, record type, spouse name, and parents’ names.
Between 1928 and 1933 Rev. John Elliot Bowman compiled typescript volumes of Connecticut death and marriage notices transcribed from area newspapers such as the Norwich Courier, Connecticut Observer (Hartford), Columbian Centinel (Boston), Massachusetts Spy, Hartford Gazette, New Hampshire and Vermont Journal, and other publications.
While most records are from CT, the newspapers compiled in this database collected death notices from 22 countries, many in the Carribean or at sea, reflecting Connecticut’s rich seafaring heritage.
Another common non-Connecticut place of death was Ohio. A pair of Connecticut twins, the Wilcox brothers moved to Ohio and married two sisters. These enterprising twins convinced the people of the town to change its name to Twinsburg and finally died in 1827on the same day of the same illness.
Use this database to learn more about the stories of your ancestors!
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Londonderry, NH: Vital Records 1720-1910 is now searchable by first name, last name, year, record type, spouse name, and parents’ names. The location for all records this database is set to Londonderry, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States.
Londonderry, NH was settled by a group of Scotch-Irish immigrants who came from Londonderry in Northern Ireland. These immigrants reached this promising area for settlement in New Hampshire in 1719 and established a charter for the township of Londonderry in 1722. Learn more about this database, created from Daniel Annis Gage’s, Vital records of Londonderry, New Hampshire on our About this Database page.
Plaistow, NH: Vital Records 1726-1821 is also now searchable by first name, last name, year, record type, spouse name, and parents’ names. The location for all records in this database is set to Plaistow, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States.
Plaistow, NH was originally part of Haverhill, MA. A border dispute between the Province of Massachusetts Bay and the Province of New Hampshire was settled in the 1740s. Plaistow, NH officially became a town in 1749. This database is created from Priscilla Hammond’s Vital records of Plaistow, New Hampshire. The town of Plaistow’s website includes a helpful PDF with an overview of the history of the town.
We’re experimenting with some new statistics now available to us behind the scenes. Here are two word clouds representing the twenty-five most common last names in each collection. Many of our collections have Smith as the most common last name, like Londonderry. However, in Plaistow, the most common last name in these vital records is Harriman. Take a look!
Top 25 Last Names in Londonderry VRs
Top 25 Last Names in Plaistow VRs
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Our database, United States 1910 Federal Census is now accompanied by images, thanks to our partnership with FamilySearch.org.
This census collected the following set of information:
- Location: street, house number
- Name: First, Last, Relationship of this person to the head of the family
- Personal Description: Sex, Color or Race, Age at last birthday, Whether single, married, widowed, or divorced, Number of years of present marriage, Mother of how many children–number born, number now living
- Nativity: Place of Birth, Mother’s Place of Birth, Father’s Place of Birth, Citizenship–year of immigration to the United States, whether naturalized or alien, Whether able to speak English; or if not, language spoken
- Occupation: Trade or Profession, Industry, Whether employer, employee, or working on own account, If an employee–Whether out of work on April 15, 1910, Number of weeks out of work in 1909
- Education: Whether able to read, Whether able to write, Attended school since September 1, 1909
- Home Ownership: Owned or rented, Owned free or mortgaged, Farm or home, Number of farm schedule
- Other: Whether a survivor of the Union or Confederate Army or Navy, Whether blind in both eyes, Whether deaf and dumb
1845 Map of Rhode Island’s coast, cropped to show Newport and environs By http://maps.bpl.org [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
Tip: If you want to print multiple pages from this database at once, visit the PDF of Ullman’s manuscript and choose to print only the page range that interests you.
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The New England Historical and Genealogical Register Volume 170 is now available as part of our database New England Historical and Genealogical Register. This update consists of the four issues: Winter 2016, Spring 2016, Summer 2016, and Fall 2016.
For more information about how to search our journals and periodicals in general, watch our webinar, Searching Journals on AmericanAncestors.org in which Don LeClair and Molly Rogers explain search strategies.
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We have added six 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.
Ebenezer Peirce (Partridgefield)
Smith Phillips (Partridgefield)
Elijah Powell (Lanesborough)
John Safford (Windsor)
Sylvina Safford (Windsor)
Nathaniel Williams (Lanesborough)
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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.
From 1816-1819, priests from Boston ministered to Catholics in New Brunswick, Canada, and their record book became part of the Archdiocese of Boston’s collection. St. John, New Brunswick 1816-1819 is the newest volume in our Massachusetts: (Image Only) Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston 1789-1900 database. Some of the records come from St. Malachi’s, the first Catholic church established in St. John. To learn more about this collection, please visit our website catholicrecords.americanancestors.org. For information on how to browse this collection, watch this video.
Please note: This database is available to browse for NEHGS Guests (free) and higher-level membership. Please sign up as a Guest or consider full membership.