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New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS)

6th flooring Ruth Bishop Reading Room reference collections and compiled genealogies.

New England Historic Genealogical Society outside, Newbury Street, Boston, Mass.

Contact Information [edit | edit source]

Email: info@nehgs.org
Accost:

101 Newbury Street

Boston, Massachusetts 02116-3007

Telephone: 617-536-5740; Library 617-226-1231
Fax: 617-536-7307

Hours and holidays
Visit: Admission, accessibility, photo-copying, etc.
Schedule a visit

Directions, public transportation and parking

Websites and databases:

AmericanAncestors.org Well-nigh NEHGS, visiting, manuscripts, virtual bout and exhibits, library catalog, drove guides, rent the experts, forums, publications, programs and events, and databases including the Neat Migration Study Projection, The NEHG Register, and town records.News: Calendar, CEO'southward Corner, Blog, and Question of the Solar day; Explore: Search, Index, Databases, Experts, and Library; Connect: Experts, Facebook, Events; and Store.
Online NEHGS Library Catalog has keyword, title, writer, subject, telephone call number, and advanced searches. Also available on WorldCat.
Database listing ($)
Great Migration Study Project: index to vii,192 names, 2,040 places, and 249 ships.
Early New England Research:

Accounts of New England Families from 1641 to 1700

Western Massachusetts Families in 1790

Early on Vermont Settlers to 1784

The Annals database including articles well-nigh vital records, church records, taxation records, country and probate records, cemetery transcriptions, obituaries, and historical essays.

The Society's flagship publication is The Annals. For links to online copies of The Register, run across our New England Historical Genealogical Register online Wiki folio.

Collection Clarification [edit | edit source]

Founded in 1845, the New England Celebrated Genealogical Society (NEHGS) is the oldest such society in the United States. They maintain an Cyberspace database of over 100 1000000 names, including vital records, compiled genealogies, and scholarly journals. They publish both American Ancestors and The New England Historical Genealogical Annals (The Annals). Their catalog lists over 200,000 books, 100,000 microfilms, and other sources. The manuscript collection has over xx meg items with an accent on New England since the 1600s. The Guild has educational research tours, lectures, seminars, and other events throughout the year.^[1] ^[2] ^[3]

The Research Library collection is national in telescopic. They also have significant material for the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, and other nations. NEHGS has a fine arts collection, and an antique piece of furniture collection.^[one]

The Great Migration Report Project seeks to place every European settler in Massachusetts from 1620 to 1640. This effort has already produced several published volumes in addition to the Internet database.^[1]

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^[4]

The NEHGS Research Library is arranged by flooring every bit follows:

6th Floor: laptop hookups, Massachusetts vital records, periodicals, genealogies, general reference in open up stacks, and access to rare books by phone call skid.
5A Floor: access to manuscripts past telephone call slip.
5th Floor: local history collection, maps and atlases in open stacks.
4th Floor: microfilm, microfiche, U.South. and Canadian censuses and census indexes, New England city directories, CD-ROMs, computers, Net access, FamilySearch Catalog, International Genealogical Index, and Ancestral File in open stacks.
Ground Floor: welcome, orientation, bookstore, British Isles, European, Asian, and Pacific books in open stacks, and access to the "Vault" materials past phone call slip.

NEHGS is likewise a family unit history center affiliate library.

Tips [edit | edit source]

NEHGS members accept admission to a lending library, and bookstore discounts.

Guides [edit | edit source]

Research Guides:

Genealogy 101 guides
Using AmericanAncestors.org
Using the NEGHS Library
Using The Wyner Family Jewish Heritage Center

...and more than!

Research Topics A-Z:

17th-C. New England Research
African American Genealogy
French-Canadian Genealogy
Native Nations of New England
Naturalization Records
Quaker Genealogy
Boondocks Guides
World State of war Veteran Inquiry

...and many more!

Visit and Contact: downloadable floor map, copying and imaging services, etc.

William Prescott Greenlaw, Greenlaw Index of the New England Celebrated Genealogical Guild (Boston, Mass.:Thousand.K. Hall, 1979) (FHL 974 D22g). Genealogies caused at NEHGS 1900-1940.

Alternate Repositories [edit | edit source]

If you cannot visit or observe a source at the New England Historic Genealogical Society , a like source may be bachelor at i 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, Ancestry.com, military, pensions, bounty land, photos, passengers inflow indexes, naturalizations, Native Americans, African Americans, workshops.
National Archives at New York City, census, naturalization, passenger arrivals, Canadian border crossings, community, draft, military service, war machine alimony and bounty state, Chinese Exclusion Human action cases, Freedmen's Bureau, Indians, and vital records. Moving presently.
Connecticut State Library, Hartford, has the Barbour Collection, Bibles, demography, church, Hale Collection newspaper marriages and deaths, cemeteries, probates, vital records, directories, country, local histories, military, naturalization, passenger arrivals, and e-mail questions.
Maine State Archives, Augusta, has vital records, land, office records, military, judicial, legislative records, and a list of professional genealogists.
New Hampshire State Archives, Concord, has records of probate, land, petitions, state papers, military, demography, name changes, photos, naturalizations, voters, warnings out, boondocks records and inventories, prisoners, marriage intentions, paupers, maps, and court records.
New York Genealogical and Biographical Guild, New York City has censuses, city directories, church building, cemetery, Bible, land, probates, genealogy, local history, and manuscripts.
Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence, includes local, military, economic, social, church, political histories, newspapers, genealogy, women's history, and business records.
Vermont Historical Social club 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 Division has an outstanding drove of American history at national, country and local levels; international genealogy and heraldry in Roman alphabets; Dorot Jewish drove; photos; New York censuses, directories, and vital records.
Allen County Public Library, Fort Wayne, Indiana, features a premier genealogical periodical collection, genealogies, local histories, databases, military, censuses, directories, passenger lists, American Indians, African Americans, and Canadians.
Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah, holds 450 computers, iii,400 databases, iii.1 million microforms, 4,500 periodicals, 310,000 books of worldwide family and local histories, civil, church, clearing, ethnic, armed forces, and records of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Neighboring Collections

Boston Public Library, has authorities docs, newspapers, biographies, obituaries, Beginnings.
Boston Athenaeum, a member library with newspapers, maps, photos, Civil State of war messages, diaries.
Suffolk County Courthouse, maintains criminal and probation records.
Suffolk Probate and Family Courtroom, wills, guardianship, divorce, adoptions, proper noun changes.
Suffolk Canton Registry of Deeds, preserves land records.
Bostonian Society, does historical records research, and structures preservation.
Mayflower Social club Library, family and local histories, censuses, published town records, CDs.
Massachusetts State Library, holds government documents, boondocks, canton and state histories.
Massachusetts Athenaeum, vital records, passenger lists, census, military, Maine, Plymouth Colony, court, naturalizations, divorces, probate, name changes, and state institutions.
Massachusetts Historical Guild, has personal papers of families who lived in Massachusetts.
Massachusetts Registry of Vital Records and Statistics, keeps births, marriages, and deaths.
Harvard University Libraries, history, Afro-American studies, and women'south history libraries.
Congregational Library, church and mission records, histories, sermons, 25,000 obituaries.
Berkshire Athenaeum, Cooke Collection church building and cemetery records, newspaper notices, ministers' records, BMDs from New England and New York, genealogy databases.
Massachusetts Order of Genealogists, Ashland, is an educational organization.
Peabody Essex Museum Library, Salem, collects published MA vital records to 1850, city directories, Essex Canton probate records 1638-1914, courtroom records, and transport 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.ane ^1.2 New England Historic Genealogical Society in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia (accessed 30 August 2010).
↑ About American Ancestors/NEHGS.
↑ William Dollarhide and Ronald A. Bremer. America's Best Genealogy Resource Centers (Bountiful, Utah: Heritage Quest, 1998), v, 57, and 59. WorldCat 39493985; FHL Ref Book 973 J54d.
↑ Most American Ancestors/NEHGS.