The following Data is from FamilySearch May 30, 2013: FamilySearch has added more than 7.3 million images this week from Austria, Brazil, China, Honduras, Luxembourg, Peru, Portugal, Switzerland, and the United States. Notable collection updates include the 5,766,135 images from the new U.S., Massachusetts, Land Records, 1620-1986, collection, the 337,367 images from the new Honduras, [...]

The following is from FamilySearch: FamilySearch has added 1.7 million indexed records and images this week with new browsable image collections from Austria, Paraguay, and the United States. Notable collection updates include the 13,110 images from the new Arizona, Maricopa, Mesa City Cemetery Records, 1885-1960, collection and the 105,745 indexed records and images from the [...]

The following teaser is from an article by Robin C. Mason, published in the February 28, 2013 edition of the examiner.com: Probate records can add more to your genealogy than heirs and possibly death dates; it can add stories and intrigue. At the Massachusetts Archives, I held the actual probate papers for my seventh great [...]

New England Historic Genealogical Society has purchased the adjacent brownstown building at 97 Newbury Steet for 3 million dollars. Following is an excerpt from an article by Thomas Grillio, posted in the January 3,2012 edition of Boston Business Journal. An 1870s brownstone in Boston’s Back Bay built by Jordan Marsh co-founder Eben Jordan has been [...]

The following excerpt is from a short article published in the Decmember 2, 2012 edition of CBS Boston. BOSTON [Massachusetts] (CBS) – A piece of local church history dating back to the Colonial Era could be up for sale, and worth millions of dollars. The Congregation of the Old South church is voting on whether [...]

FamilySearch added an additional 16.3 million new, free indexed records and images this week to its collection. Notable additions include the 1,984,100 records for the United States, World War I Draft Registration Cards from 1917-1918, the 2,056,187 added to U.S., California, Probate Estate Files from 1833-1991, and the 1,610,053 added to the new British Columbia, [...]

The post-Revolutionary period in Western Massachusetts found families and settlements in constant flux. People were moving westward into New York and northward into Vermont. The transient nature of the period presents certain difficulties for genealogical research. In an attempt to help researchers, members of the New England Historical and Genealogical Society (NEHGS) contributed 50 well-researched [...]

The following news release was received from NEHGS: This marks the second national and regional award for the Hannah Mather Crocker book. November 14, 2012, Boston, MA – The New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS) announced today that its book, Reminiscences and Traditions of Boston by Hannah Mather Crocker edited by Eileen Hunt Botting and [...]

If you have ancestors who lived and or died in Massachusetts then you will likely appreciate David Allen Lambert’s book, A Guide to Massachusetts Cemeteries. This book is a straightforward directory to cemeteries, old and new, as well as burial grounds in Massachusetts. This 2009 edition both corrects and updates the popular 2002 edition. The [...]

FamilySearch added 2.7 million indexed records and digital images to its growing collection, with a large portion being added to the Iowa County Marriages collection. The latest update to the Iowa County collection makes it 86 percent complete. The update includes 637,695 new images of marriage licenses and 1,623,576 new indexed records. Also of interest [...]

Genealogical Notes or Contributions to the Family History of Some of the First Settlers of Connecticut and Massachusetts is a reprint of a volume originally published in 1856. The book represents the compiled notes of an early American Genealogist, Nathaniel Goodwin. This collection is a effectively a descendants report, with extensive notes by Goodwin, on [...]

American Population Before the Federal Census of 1790 represents an exhaustive research project to extract population data for the area encompassed by the  United State as represented in 1790. Data was gathered from previous research studies, government studies, and independent research. The population lists, which are of paramount importance to the genealogist, include poll lists, [...]

The following is from Matthew Deighton at Ancestry.com: With today’s addition of 12 states (18 million records) to the 1940 US Federal Census, Ancestry.com now has 37 states and Washington DC fully indexed and searchable on the site. All of the 1940 US Census will be free through 2013. Number of records per state: Alaska: [...]

“There is no town so poor that its past hasn’t furnished something worth embalming for posterity.” – Boston Transcript, February 23, 1898 This quote stands as the leading page to Chapter1 of a History of Pelham, Massachusetts from 1738 to 1898, Including the Early History of Prescott. The book was originally publishing in 1898, serving [...]

The following U.S.A. vital-records oriented databases have been recently added or updated at FamilySearch.org. This blog covers 76 new and updated entries. We’ve also updated four of our five of the GenealogyBlog Online Database Links Files. See: United States Birth & Christening Records Found at FamilySearch.org United States Marriage Documents & Indexes Found at FamilySearch.org [...]