17th-Century Published Resources

17th-Century Published Resources Lindsay Fulton Director of Research Service Meet today s presenter Lindsay Fulton Director of Research Services OVERVIEW Presentation (60 mins.) Resources Finding Aids Study Projects Compiled Genealogies Q&A (30 mins.) Periodicals Published Vital Records Passenger Lists 1

Voice of Lindsay Fulton Director of Research Services Resources 2

AmericanAncestors.org/browse/town-guides/ Americanncestors.org/browse/town-guides/ Historical data relating to counties, cities, and towns in Massachusetts 4

Finding Aids Torrey s New England Marriages 5

AmericanAncestors.org/databases/torreys-new-england-marriages-to-1700/about 6

ebooks https://www.hathitrust.org/ https://books.google.com/ https://archive.org/index.php https://openlibrary.org/ https://books.familysearch.org http://library.si.edu/digital-library QUESTIONS? 7

Study Projects Great Migration Study Project Directed by Robert Charles Anderson, FASG Started in 1988 Genealogical and biographical sketch for immigrants to New England from 1620 to 1640 Thirteen published volumes Newsletter (bound versions available) Tours and other educational programs Searchable online databases Published Volumes The Great Migration Directory The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633 (3 vols.) The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635 (7 vols.) The Pilgrim Migration: Immigrants to Plymouth Colony 1620-1633 The Winthrop Fleet: Massachusetts Bay Company Immigrants to New England 1629-1630 The Great Migration Newsletter, vols. 1-25 8

Why this time period? Who is included? If person appeared in a record Direct or indirect implication of arrival Appearance of an immediate family of a person known to have arrived What information is included? Origin First Residence Removes Return Trips Occupation Freeman Education Offices Estate Birth Church membership Death Marriage Children Associations Comments Bibliographic note 9

Sources Used Passenger lists (original, published, and reconstructed) Lists of Freemen Colony and court records Notarial records Town records Vital records Land records Church records Journals and letters Citation in brackets with abbreviated source; see Key to Titles 10

www.greatmigration.org Early New England Families Directed by Alicia Crane Williams Genealogical and biographical sketch for those who married in New England from 1641 to 1700 Grouped by year of marriage One published volume Searchable online database New sketches posted online Who is included? Using Clarence Almon Torrey s New England Marriages Prior to 1700 as guide Anyone who married in New England in this time period and included in Torrey 11

What information is included? Name of groom Migrations/residences Parentage/family Birth/baptism Death/burial Land Community Married Name of bride Bride s parentage/family Bride s death/burial Church Military Court Occupation Personal Estate Children Resources Commentary 12

www.vita-brevis.org QUESTIONS? Compiled Genealogies 13

Tip Your family may have their own published genealogy http://library.nehgs.org/screens/mainmenu_subject.html 15

Periodicals Scholarly Journals New England Historical and Genealogical Register New York Biographical & Genealogical Record The Mayflower Descendant The American Genealogist... and more! 16

Vital Records Church Records Cemetery Records Probate Records Court Records Town Records Military Records Notarial Records 17

Published Vital Records Connecticut (Barbour Collection) Original records at the town level The complete Barbour collection contains information on 136 Connecticut towns records of marriages, births, and deaths in Connecticut towns from the 1640s to about 1850, some towns include records up to 1870. These records were collected, transcribed, and abstracted by Lucius Barnes Barbour (Connecticut Examiner of Public Records, 1911 1934) and his team of researchers between 1918 and 1928. donated to NEHGS by Mr. Barbour's wife and children in 1938. 18

Massachusetts (Tan Books) Original records at the town level 247 published volumes make up the Collection, Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850 originally published by NEHGS in the early 1900 s, and covers 158 towns available as a database on AmericanAncestors.org 19

Maine Original records at the town level Only five towns (Biddeford, Kittery, Kennebunkport, York, and Wells) have seventeenth-century records All Published by Picton Press and available at NEHGS library library.nehgs.org/ 20

New Hampshire Original Records at the town level There are printed versions of 17 th Century New Hampshire vital records for some towns including: Dover (1640 1850) Hampton (to 1900) Rhode Island (Arnold Collection) Original records at the town level The Complete Arnold Collection contains 21 Volumes of Rhode island Towns (Transcribed by James N. Arnold in the 19 th and 20 th centuries) Transcriptions of birth, marriage, and death records of towns, religious institutions, and newspapers in Rhode Island Borders between Massachusetts and Rhode Island were fluid 21

Tip: Can t find a VR? Use substitute sources! Passenger Lists 22

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