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Early Newburyport, MA, Haskell Family Records
These birth and death records are for Haskell family members from Newbury and Newburyport, MA, who were born before 1800. Most include names of parents.
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Early Newburyport Chase and Davis Family Records
These records of the Chase and Davis families of Newburyport, MA, primarily pertain to people born in the 1700s. A bonus: Often their parents are named.
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Drouins Compile Large Quebec Genealogy Database
The Drouin genealogy collection is a bonanza for researchers of French Canadian Families. This data is becoming available online.
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UK BMD Registration Certificate Info
Civil registration for the UK began in England and Wales in 1837. So what family history information can be found on those certificates of births, marriages and deaths?
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Cemetery and Death Records Trace Family History
Death records contain a wealth of genealogical information as well as provide key clues leading to other vital records and avenues of research.
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Book Has 10 Thousand Mayflower Family Marriages
George Bowman devoted more than 50 years to finding records of Mayflower families. A contemporary genealogist has extracted 10,000 marriages from his records.
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Two Sets of Corbet Family Bible Records
Genealogists love to find family Bible records and here are two sets of them for the Corbet family of Mendon and New Braintree, MA.
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Phinney Family Bible Records
These Phinney Family Bible records were started by Zenas Phinney (1752-1848) of Massachusetts. He kept them in a Bible printed in 1815.
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Higgins Family Bible Records
Nancy Choroszy moved into a home in Saco, Maine, where she found an old Higgins family Bible with the data genealogists consider a bonanza.
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Gideon Gifford Data from Overlooked Source
Only one of Gideon Gifford's 18 children is given in the 1896 Gifford Genealogy. How to find the others? Ah, the widow's Revolutionary War pension application.
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Finding Your Birth Records
Birth certificates are vital both for genealogy research and for validating your identity, but they aren't so easy to find. Here are tips to locate your birth records.
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1700s Births in York, Maine
Birth records for the 1700s in York, Maine were arranged by family groups when transcribed by genealogist Lester MacKenzie Bragdon more than 50 years ago.
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18th Century Births in York, Maine
Many of these birth records from the 1700s in York, Maine give a maiden name for mothers to assist genealogists in their family research.
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York, Maine Birth Records from 1700s
These York County, Maine, birth records, arranged by family unit and beginning in the early 1700s, are formatted for genealogical researchers.
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Vital Records of York, Maine in 1700s
These York County, Maine, vital records, arranged by family unit and beginning in the early 1700s, are extremely helpful to family researchers because of the format.
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Gorham Family Bible Records
Gorham family Bible Records found in the vault of a library in Norwich, NY, give birth, marriage and death dates, the data genealogists use to build family trees.
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Titcomb and Merrill Family Bible Records
These Titcomb and Merrill birth, marriage and death records were copied more than 50 years ago from three family Bibles and are a treasure trove for family researchers.
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Appleton Family Bible Records
These Appleton family Bible records, purchased at a Boston bookshop in 1950, ended up in the Princeton University Library, a place genealogists would not be apt to look.
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West Yarmouth MA Baptisms for 1746-1752
The original records of these West Yarmouth, MA, colonial baptisms are among archives of the Congregational Society of West Yarmouth.
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West Yarmouth MA Baptisms for 1742-1745
The original records of these hand copied colonial baptisms are among archives of the Congregational Society of West Yarmouth, MA.
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West Yarmouth MA Baptisms for 1737-1741
These early West Yarmouth, Massachusetts, baptisms were hand copied from the original church records more than 50 years ago by Florence Conant Howes.
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1840 Irish Catholic Baptisms in VT & NY
Canadian missionaries working in the Canadian-United States border region often baptized Irish Catholics in New York and Vermont. Here are some of those records.
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NY and VT Irish Baptisms Recorded in Quebec
Baptisms by Canadian missionaries for Irish Catholics living in nearby Vermont and New York are an unexpected treasure for genealogists tracing these families.
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Quebec Parish Records for US Irish Families
Baptisms by Canadian missionaries for Irish Catholics living in nearby Vermont and New York are an unexpected treasure for genealogists tracing these families.
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Wilmington Delaware Marriages in 1755
Old Swedes Church in Wilmington, Delaware has three centuries of records, the earliest naming Swedish, Dutch and English families. Here are marriage records for 1755.
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