Hazen's History of Billerica, Massachusetts is now online. This free digital copy is every word searchable. You may download and keep a copy of this book.
Hazen, Henry Allen, (1849-1900). History of Billerica, Massachusetts, with a Genealogical register. Boston, MA: Williams, 1893. 509p. Thayer Public Library, 798 Washington St., Braintree, Massachusetts.
For more information, call 781-848-0405 x4420 or visit www.thayerpubliclibrary.net
Program: Discovering Your Ancestry Using the Internet
Speaker: Michael Brophy
When: Saturday, April 4, from 10 a.m. to 11:15 a.m.
Cost: Free and open to the public.
The most popular and useful features of www.newenglandancestors.org, www.familysearch.org, and www.genealogybank.com and other Internet resources will be discussed.
New England Ancestors is the database of the 150+ year old New England Historic Genealogical Society.
Family search is the website of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, UT.
Cyndi’s list is the most powerful search engine on the Internet for high quality genealogy databases and subjects.
Genealogy Bank is a fast growing website that contains one of the best newspaper collections on the Internet.
No prior knowledge is necessary.
You do not have to be a resident of Braintree to attend.
Passenger Lists: 1819-1820 passenger list (all ports) now free online.
See: http://www.genealogybank.com/free/
This is an important list as it gives info on deaths at sea & other family data. You can also not only the ships/passengers coming from overseas but see passengers from one US port to another US port - with their ages, home state/city locations etc.
If you are looking for digital copies of published genealogies and local histories try the University of Michigan's catalog of digital books. Click here to use it.
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There are more than 20 million books and items in this collection.
All of these books can be searched and read for free.
No fees, no registration - just click and read.
This project has cataloged digital books, journals, portraits and other items that are free and available on the Internet. All genealogists have to do is look in the online catalog for material about their family or town that they are researching. Then just click and start reading. It's that simple!
What can you expect to find online?
Here are some titles I have used:
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Hanscom, Constance Franklin Richardson. Ancestors and descendants of James Garcelon and Deliverance Annis : from Guernsey and Gloucester to Maine in the 18th Century.
This genealogy is about the descendants of Sea Captain James Garcelon who was born 4 April 1739 in St. Peter Port, Guernsey. His parents were Rev. Pierre Garcelon and Jeanne Bedat. He married Deliverance Annis, daughter of Isaac Annis and Experience Haraden, 29 February 1760 in Gloucester, Massachusetts. They had seven children. James died 18 November 1813 in Lewiston, Maine. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in France, Channel Islands, Massachusetts and Maine.
This index also includes the full-text digital copies of genealogical journals. These are fully indexed. I did a search for anything written about County Cavan, Ireland and quickly found this citation:
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Notes and Queries. Volume CXLVI, Number May17. pp. 353-355
Click here to see this issue
This article gives details about the soldiers and officers that were stationed in County Cavan in the 17th & 18th Centuries. Their names; spouses; dates of marriage, death etc.
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Runnels, Moses Thurston. History of Sanbornton, New Hampshire. Boston, MA: Mudge, 1882.
This is the standard history of Sanbornton, New Hampshire. It includes biographical sketches, genealogies and a history of the town.
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Libraries may catalog these digital books and add them directly into their own online catalogs. Instantly expand your genealogy collection and offer these free digital books to your researchers.
Let's make it easy for genealogists to find and use these eBooks.
No doubt about it -
It is a great day for genealogy!
Tom
The Genealogy Center of the Allen County Library (Ft. Wyane, IN) has received a $10 million gift - to be given as $1 million payments each year over 10 years from the Edward D. and Ione Auer Foundation.
The announcement is in the Ft Wayne News Sentinnel 1 August 2008
This landmark library has been active in genealogy for decades.
The Center will host a Military Records Symposium
Friday & Saturday, September 26 & 27, 2008
Speaker: Marie Varrelman Melchiori, CG, CGL
Friday, September 26, 2008
3:00 PM "Using Records at the National Archives: A Researcher's View"
This session will cover National Archive records, some that have been microfilmed or digitized, from a researcher’s point of view. The session will explain how and why the records are arranged the way they are. Ms. Melchiori will also discuss “archijive,” the short-cut phrases used by archivists that genealogists need to know in order to understand what they are being told.
6:30 PM Dinner, speaker Curt Witcher, Genealogy Center Manger, “Our Military Heritage Website: Record, Recall, & Revere”
Saturday, September 27, 2008
9:30 AM “If Grandpa Wore Blue: Union Records in the National Archives”
This session will be a look at commonly used records as well as some of the lesser
used records for researching an ancestor who was a Union soldier. Some of the records covered will include correspondence, carded medical files, and the investigative records of Baker and Turner.
11:00 AM “If Grandpa Wore Gray: Confederate Records in the National Archives”
This session will be a look at Confederate records, both microfilmed and original, at the National Archives. Records created by the Union Army may help locate information on your Southern soldier as well as male and female civilians.
1 – 6 PM: Individual consultations
Genealogy Center staff and other researchers will be available to assist one with specific research challenges, and recommend sources and methodologies to find more records and data.
