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Genealogy Resources in Special Collections

Books and periodicals

  • American Genealogical Biographical Index, (Beg. 1952), Volumes 1-195

  • DAR Patriot Index, Centennial Edition, 4 volumes

  • English Origins of New England Families

  • The Famine Immigrants, 1846-1851

  • Founders of Early American Families: Emigrants from Europe 1607-1657 by Meredith Bright Colket. Cleveland, Ohio: General Court of the Order of Founders and Patriots of America, 1975.

  • Genealogical Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension Files

  • Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England by James Savage. Boston: Little & Brown, 1860-62.

  • Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire by Charles Thornton Libby. Portland, ME: Southworth-Anthoensen Press, 1928-1939.

  • Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts by William Cutter, 1908

  • A Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of New England by John Farmer. Lancaster, MA: Carter, Andrews & Company, 1829.

  • Maine Families in 1790, Maine Genealogical Society, 3 vols.

  • Maine Probate Abstracts, 1687-1800, 2 vol.

  • Massachusetts, Soldiers, Sailors and Marines in the Civil War, 9 volumes

  • Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War, 17 volumes

  • Nova Scotia Vital Statistics from Newspapers, 1769-1843

  • Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, MA by David Webster Hoyt. Providence, RI: Snow & Varnum, 1897-1916

  • Our French-Canadian Ancestors, Volumes 1 to the present

  • Passenger and Immigration Lists Index (1981 through 1995 editions)

  • Pecker Genealogical Collection: This collection has approximately 9,000 volumes with a concentration on Massachusetts Families. Names include Alden, Allen, Ayer, Bailey, Barnes, Bartlett, Carleton, Chase, Clarke, Clement, Clough, Coffin, Cogswell, Currier, Dustin, Eaton, Emerson, Emery, Foster, Hale, Hardy, Hutchins, Kimball, Lane, Luce, Lunt, Moody, Morrill, Noyes, Pillsbury, Poore, Sargent, Sawyer, Shapley, Small, Sterling, Threlfall, Whittier and Woodbury.

  • The Pioneers of Maine and New Hampshire by Charles Henry Pope. Boston: Charles H. Pope, 1908

  • Planters of the Commonwealth by Charles Edward Banks. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1930

  • Plymouth County Probate Index 1686-1881, transcribed by Ralph V.Wood, Jr.

  • Probate Index for Suffolk County, 1636-1894

  • Probate Records of Essex County 1635-1681, 3 vol.

  • Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, 1636-1686

  • State Papers of New Hampshire, volumes 1-40

    Massachusetts Vital Records to 1900 in books and on microfilm, including:

  • Massachusetts State Census 1855 and 1865 on microfilm with transcriptions of Haverhill, Bradford, Ipswich, Groveland, Hamilton, Manchester, Essex, Georgetown, Boxford, West Boxford, Newbury, North Andover, Rockport, Swampscott, Wenham, West Newbury, and Topsfield.

  • Federal Census for Essex County, Massachusetts 1790-1920 in books and on microfilm

  • Federal Census for Rockingham County, New Hampshire 1850-1920 on microfilm

  • Essex County Probate Records, 1671-1857 on microfilm

  • Society of Friends (Quaker) Records for Hampton and Seabrook, New Hampshire, 1701-1888 on microfilm

  • Vital Statistics from New Brunswick Newspapers, 1784-1878

  • York Deeds, volumes 1-18

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