New England Family Histories and Genealogies : State of Massachusetts by Lu Verne V. Hall
New England Historic Genealogical Social club (NEHGS)
Contact Data [edit | edit source]
Electronic mail: [1] info@nehgs.org
Address: [2]
- 101 Newbury Street
- Boston, Massachusetts 02116-3007
Phone: [three] 617-536-5740; Library 617-226-1231
Fax: 617-536-7307
Hours and holidays: [1]
- Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Sabbatum ix a.m.-5 p.m.
- Wednesday ix a.k.-nine p.m.
- Airtight Dominicus and Monday
- For the holiday schedule , click here.
Access fee: [1] Library admission is free to NEHGS research members and higher up; non-members (including seniors, students, and subscription level members) will be charged $twenty (U.Due south.)
Directions, public transportation, and parking: [four] [5]
- For directions and public transportation, click here.
- For public parking, click here.
Key Internet sites and databases:
- AmericanAncestors.org About NEHGS, visiting, manuscripts, virtual bout and exhibits, library catalog, drove guides, hire the experts, forums, publications, programs and events, and databases including the Corking Migration Study Project, The NEHG Register, and boondocks records.News: Calendar, CEO's Corner, Blog, and Question of the Mean solar day; Explore: Search, Alphabetize, Databases, Experts, and Library; Connect: Experts, Facebook, Events; and Store.
- Online NEHGS Library Catalog has keyword, title, author, bailiwick, call number, and advanced searches. Also available on WorldCat.
- Smashing Migration Report Projection 1620-1635 index to seven,192 names, 2,040 places, and 249 ships.
- Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850 birth, baptism, admit, dismiss, intent, matrimony, death, burial.
- Massachusetts Vital Records 1841-1910 birth, spousal relationship, and death.
- Massachusetts Vital Records 1911-1915 birth, marriage, and death.
- New York Abstracts of Wills, Administrations, and Guardianships 1787-1835 from 51 NY counties.
- The Register database including articles about vital records, church records, tax records, country and probate records, cemetery transcriptions, obituaries, and historical essays.
- The Order'southward flagship publication is The Annals. For links to online copies of The Annals, encounter our New England Historical Genealogical Register online Wiki page.
Collection Description [edit | edit source]
Founded in 1845, the New England Historic Genealogical Order (NEHGS) is the oldest such society in the United States. They maintain an Internet database of over 100 million names, including vital records, compiled genealogies, and scholarly journals. They publish bothAmerican Ancestors and The New England Historical Genealogical Register (The Register). Their itemize lists over 200,000 books, 100,000 microfilms, and other sources. The manuscript collection has over 20 one thousand thousand items with an emphasis on New England since the 1600s. The Society has educational inquiry tours, lectures, seminars, and other events throughout the year.[half dozen] [vii] [8]
The Inquiry Library drove is national in scope. They likewise take significant material for the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, and other nations. NEHGS has a fine arts drove, and an antiquarian article of furniture drove.[6]
The Great Migration Study Projection seeks to identify every European settler in Massachusetts from 1620 to 1640. This effort has already produced several published volumes in add-on to the Internet database.[vi]
Their staff includes experts in early American, New England, New York, Irish, English, Italian, Scottish, Atlantic and French Canadian, African American, Native American, Chinese, and Jewish genealogy[ix]
The NEHGS Research Library is arranged by floor every bit follows:
- sixth Floor: laptop hookups, Massachusetts vital records, periodicals, genealogies, full general reference in open stacks, and access to rare books past call slip.
- 5A Floor: access to manuscripts by call slip.
- fifth Floor: local history drove, maps and atlases in open stacks.
- 4th Flooring: microfilm, microfiche, U.South. and Canadian censuses and census indexes, New England metropolis directories, CD-ROMs, computers, Internet access, FamilySearch Itemize, International Genealogical Index, and Ancestral File in open stacks.
- Ground Floor: welcome, orientation, bookstore, British Isles, European, Asian, and Pacific books in open up stacks, and access to the "Vault" materials by call sideslip.[ten]
NEHGS is besides a family history centre chapter library.
Tips [edit | edit source]
NEHGS members have access to a lending library, and bookstore discounts.
Guides [edit | edit source]
- Library Users Guide flooring maps, services, policies, obtaining copies, catalog use and symbols.
- NEHGS Enquiry Library Resources moderately detailed floor-by-flooring collection description.
- "New England Historic Genealogical Order," Ancestry Magazine 20 no. 5 on the Internet at http://www.beginnings.com/learn/library/article.aspx?article=6815 (accessed 30 Baronial 2010).
- African American Genealogical Resources at NEHGS.
- Gazetteers of the World, Countries, and States at NEHGS.
- Italian Genealogical Resource at NEHGS.
- Jewish Genealogical Resource at NEHGS.
- William Prescott Greenlaw, Greenlaw Index of the New England Historic Genealogical Society (Boston, Mass.:G.One thousand. Hall, 1979) (FHL 974 D22g). Genealogies caused at NEHGS 1900-1940.
Alternating Repositories [edit | edit source]
If you cannot visit or detect a source at the New England Historic Genealogical Order , a similar source may be available at one of the following.
Overlapping Collections
- American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, collects newspapers, history, genealogy, Bibles, maps, biography, directories, Native Americans, women, canals, railroads, photos, manuscripts.
- National Archives at Boston (that is Waltham), federal censuses, Beginnings.com, military, pensions, bounty land, photos, passengers arrival indexes, naturalizations, Native Americans, African Americans, workshops.
- National Archives at New York Urban center, census, naturalization, rider arrivals, Canadian border crossings, customs, draft, military service, military pension and bounty land, Chinese Exclusion Act cases, Freedmen's Bureau, Indians, and vital records. Moving shortly.
- Connecticut Land Library, Hartford, has the Barbour Collection, Bibles, census, church building, Hale Collection newspaper marriages and deaths, cemeteries, probates, vital records, directories, country, local histories, military, naturalization, rider arrivals, and electronic mail questions.
- Maine State Archives, Augusta, has vital records, land, function records, military, judicial, legislative records, and a list of professional genealogists.
- New Hampshire State Archives, Concur, has records of probate, state, petitions, state papers, military, demography, proper name changes, photos, naturalizations, voters, warnings out, boondocks records and inventories, prisoners, union intentions, paupers, maps, and courtroom records.
- New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, New York Urban center, has censuses, city directories, church, cemetery, Bible, land, probates, genealogy, local history, and manuscripts.
- Rhode Isle Historical Society, Providence, includes local, military machine, economical, social, church, political histories, newspapers, genealogy, women's history, and business concern records.
- Vermont Historical Society Library, Barre, houses town histories, an index to vital records to 1870, cemeteries, letters, diaries, ledgers, early maps, photographs, and printed genealogies.
Similar Collections
- New York Public Library Genealogy Partition has an outstanding collection of American history at national, country and local levels; international genealogy and heraldry in Roman alphabets; Dorot Jewish collection; photos; New York censuses, directories, and vital records.
- Allen County Public Library, Fort Wayne, Indiana, features a premier genealogical journal collection, genealogies, local histories, databases, military, censuses, directories, rider lists, American Indians, African Americans, and Canadians.
- Family unit History Library, Common salt Lake Urban center, Utah, holds 450 computers, 3,400 databases, iii.1 meg microforms, 4,500 periodicals, 310,000 books of worldwide family and local histories, ceremonious, church building, immigration, ethnic, military, and records of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Neighboring Collections
- Boston Public Library, has authorities docs, newspapers, biographies, obituaries, Ancestry.
- Boston Athenaeum, a member library with newspapers, maps, photos, Civil War letters, diaries.
- Suffolk Canton Courthouse, maintains criminal and probation records.
- Suffolk Probate and Family unit Court, wills, guardianship, divorce, adoptions, name changes.
- Suffolk County Registry of Deeds, preserves country records.
- Bostonian Club, does historical records enquiry, and structures preservation.
- Mayflower Society Library, family unit and local histories, censuses, published town records, CDs.
- Massachusetts State Library, holds government documents, boondocks, county and state histories.
- Massachusetts Archives, vital records, passenger lists, census, military, Maine, Plymouth Colony, court, natuaralizations, divorces, probate, name changes, and country institutions.
- Massachusetts Historical Society, has personal papers of families who lived in Massachusetts.
- Massachusetts Registry of Vital Records and Statistics, keeps births, marriages, and deaths.
- Harvard Academy Libraries, history, Afro-American studies, and women's history libraries.
- Congregational Library, church and mission records, histories, sermons, 25,000 obituaries.
- Berkshire Archives, Cooke Drove church and cemetery records, paper notices, ministers' records, BMDs from New England and New York, genealogy databases.
- Massachusetts Society of Genealogists, Ashland, is an educational organisation.
- Peabody Essex Museum Library, Salem, collects published MA vital records to 1850, city directories, Essex County probate records 1638-1914, courtroom records, and ship logbooks.
- Connecticut Valley Historical Museum, local archives, French Canadian, Irish, African American.
- Mystic Seaport Museum, Mystic, Connecticut, has steamship photos, logbooks, and crew lists.
Sources [edit | edit source]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Library Hours and Fees in AmericanAncestors.org (accessed 29 August 2010).
- ↑ Visit NEHGS in AmericanAncestors.org (accessed 28 August 2010).
- ↑ Library in AmericanAncestors.org (accessed 28 August 2010).
- ↑ Directions to NEHGS in NewEnglandAncestors.org (accessed 29 August 2010).
- ↑ Parking in NewEnglandAncestors.org (accessed 29 Baronial 2010).
- ↑ half dozen.0 6.ane 6.2 New England Historic Genealogical Society in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia (accessed 30 Baronial 2010).
- ↑ Using the NEHGS Library in American Ancestors (accessed 21 September 2015).
- ↑ William Dollarhide and Ronald A. Bremer. America's All-time Genealogy Resource Centers (Bountiful, Utah: Heritage Quest, 1998), v, 57, and 59. WorldCat 39493985; FHL Ref Book 973 J54d.
- ↑ About NEHGS in American Ancestors (accessed 14 March 2017).
- ↑ New England Historic Genealogical Society, Using the NEHGS Library in American Ancestors (accessed 14 March 2017).
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