Trace your family history back to its English roots - possibly back to the 11th century.
Included here are some of the most sought-after immigrant-origin articles published in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. These articles will be of interest to almost all Americans with colonial heritage, and offer a wide variety of difficult-to-locate source materials, including genealogies and vital records...
These books contain family history articles on Rhode Island families published in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. This collection contains some of the best genealogical articles pertaining to Rhode Island of the past 140 years.
An interesting feature of this database is that it includes source records from at least fifteen early Rhode Island towns. Referencing approximately 46,000 individuals, the majority of the records included in this database originate from the late 1600s to the late 1800s. What you can learn about each listed individual varies according to the original record, but this database offers a wide variety of important genealogical source materials.
What you'll find:
- Genealogies
- Family histories
- Vital records
- Cemetery inscriptions
- Marriage records
- Birth and death lists
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The materials cover the entire state of Connecticut and even include information on some families whose ancestry is associated with other areas, largely Massachusetts, New York, Vermont, and the Midwest. What you can learn about each listed individual varies, depending on the original article. However, in this collection you will find birth, death, marriage, probate, land, and court records. These records may provide you with information such as the dates and locations of important family events, as well as the names of the participants, witnesses, or other family members.
Books Included:
- Genealogies of Connecticut Families, Volume I (A-Ga)
- Genealogies of Connecticut Families, Volume II (Ge-O)
- Genealogies of Connecticut Families, Volume III (P-W)
- Families of Ancient New Haven, Volumes I-III
- Families of Ancient New Haven, Volumes IV-VI
- Families of Ancient New Haven, Volumes VII-VIII
Together, these texts reference approximately 263,000 individuals. The records were primarily gathered from Maryland and Delaware churches and include birth, baptism, marriage, and burial records. You'll also find information taken from family histories, miscellaneous articles, abstracts from meeting minutes, monthly meeting registers, court records, and land records.
For each person you will learn information about an event in their life, such as a baptism, marriage, or death. The information available will vary depending on the type of record. In marriage records, for example, you will find the marriage date as well as the name of the bride and the groom. These records may also list the parents, place of residence, and/or witnesses of any or all people noted. Death records, on the other hand, can provide the name of the deceased and the date. Since this data set contains many different kinds of records, you may be able to find a great variety of information about an ancestor.
The records referenced in this title date mainly from 1750 to 1880 and name approximately 70,000 individuals. The information was collected from a great variety of resources including marriage records, gravestone inscriptions, local histories, newspaper abstracts, tax lists, settlements of estates, will abstracts, bible records, family histories, and land records.
What you can learn from these books about each listed individual varies, depending on the original article in which the individual appears. Articles in Ohio Cemetery Records consist mainly of tombstone inscriptions, which usually give the individual's age and date of death. In many cases, they also include the names of the individual's parents, spouse, or children. You will also find some burial records from cemeteries in East Haddam, Connecticut and Rutland, Massachusetts, which were important departure points for migrations into Ohio.