It always seems to happen when I'm away for a week on vacation or visiting the my daughters or the grandchildren - Ancestry.com adds a significant record collection to their list of databases and I don't see it until two weeks later!
Ancestry.com added these indexed collections on 18 June 2013:
* Massachusetts Birth Records, 1840-1915 (3,829,538)
* Massachusetts Marriage Records, 1840-1915 (3,059,458 records)
* Massachusetts Death Records, 1841-1915 (2,713,911 records)
* Massachusetts, Mason Membership Cards, 1733-1990 (336,033 records)
* Vermont, Vital Records, 1720-1908 (1,426,900 records)
* New Hampshire, Birth Records, 1659-1900 (478,413)
* New Hampshire, Marriage and Divorce Records, 1659-1947 (1,082,845 records)
* New Hampshire, Death and Disinterment Records, 1754-1957 (659,426 records)
* Connecticut, Hale Cemetery Inscriptions, 1675-1934 (1,288,415 records)
* Rhode Island, State Censuses, 1865-1935 (2,643,678 records)
* New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1847-2011 (300,569 records)
Each of those are significant additions to the Ancestry.com list of historical record collections.
For my own research, I have been searching for record images of Massachusetts vital records using the collection on the NEHGS site, AmericanAncestors. I will probably use the Ancestry collections, at least as a finding aid, in the future because the Ancestry search system is easier to use, works faster, and the image loads faster.
Have I mentioned that I love New England records? Since my father had 75% New England ancestry, and my mother about 40% New England ancestry, these records are invaluable for my research.
In future posts, I will look at several of these databases in more detail.
I do have a problem with the Ancestry.com source citations for several of these databases, and I'll describe that in a future post.
PS: What was I doing on June 18, 2013? My daughter, grandsons and I went to the Raging Waters water park in San Jose on a nice sunny, but not too hot, day. A day in the sun, getting wet, laughing with the family, watching girls and eating junk food beats sitting in front of a computer any day of the week. I wore my hat, too.
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