Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Family History of New York,
New England Historic Genealogical Gild (NEHGS)
Contact Information [edit | edit source]
E-mail: [1] info@nehgs.org
Address: [2]
- 101 Newbury Street
- Boston, Massachusetts 02116-3007
Telephone: [3] 617-536-5740; Library 617-226-1231
Fax: 617-536-7307
Hours and holidays: [1]
- Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday 9 a.m.-5 p.chiliad.
- Wednesday 9 a.m.-nine p.m.
- Closed Sunday and Mon
- For the holiday schedule , click here.
Admission fee: [ane] Library admission is complimentary to NEHGS enquiry members and above; non-members (including seniors, students, and subscription level members) will be charged $twenty (U.S.)
Directions, public transportation, and parking: [four] [5]
- For directions and public transportation, click here.
- For public parking, click here.
Key Cyberspace sites and databases:
- AmericanAncestors.org Most NEHGS, visiting, manuscripts, virtual bout and exhibits, library catalog, drove guides, hire the experts, forums, publications, programs and events, and databases including the Swell Migration Study Project, The NEHG Register, and boondocks records.News: Calendar, CEO'southward Corner, Blog, and Question of the Day; Explore: Search, Alphabetize, Databases, Experts, and Library; Connect: Experts, Facebook, Events; and Shop.
- Online NEHGS Library Catalog has keyword, title, writer, field of study, call number, and avant-garde searches. Also available on WorldCat.
- Great Migration Study Projection 1620-1635 alphabetize to 7,192 names, 2,040 places, and 249 ships.
- Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850 birth, baptism, admit, dismiss, intent, marriage, death, burial.
- Massachusetts Vital Records 1841-1910 birth, marriage, and death.
- Massachusetts Vital Records 1911-1915 nascence, marriage, and expiry.
- New York Abstracts of Wills, Administrations, and Guardianships 1787-1835 from 51 NY counties.
- The Register database including articles most vital records, church records, tax records, land and probate records, cemetery transcriptions, obituaries, and historical essays.
- The Society'due south flagship publication is The Register. For links to online copies of The Register, meet our New England Historical Genealogical Register online Wiki page.
Collection Description [edit | edit source]
Founded in 1845, the New England Celebrated Genealogical Guild (NEHGS) is the oldest such lodge in the United States. They maintain an Cyberspace database of over 100 million names, including vital records, compiled genealogies, and scholarly journals. They publish bothAmerican Ancestors and The New England Historical Genealogical Register (The Register). Their catalog lists over 200,000 books, 100,000 microfilms, and other sources. The manuscript collection has over 20 million items with an emphasis on New England since the 1600s. The Society has educational research tours, lectures, seminars, and other events throughout the year.[half-dozen] [7] [eight]
The Enquiry Library collection is national in scope. They likewise have significant material for the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, and other nations. NEHGS has a fine arts collection, and an antique furniture collection.[6]
The Great Migration Report Projection seeks to place every European settler in Massachusetts from 1620 to 1640. This attempt has already produced several published volumes in addition to the Internet database.[6]
Their staff includes experts in early on American, New England, New York, Irish, English, Italian, Scottish, Atlantic and French Canadian, African American, Native American, Chinese, and Jewish genealogy[9]
The NEHGS Research Library is arranged by flooring as follows:
- 6th Floor: laptop hookups, Massachusetts vital records, periodicals, genealogies, general reference in open stacks, and access to rare books past phone call sideslip.
- 5A Flooring: access to manuscripts by call skid.
- 5th Flooring: local history drove, maps and atlases in open stacks.
- fourth Floor: microfilm, microfiche, U.S. and Canadian censuses and census indexes, New England city directories, CD-ROMs, computers, Internet admission, FamilySearch Itemize, International Genealogical Alphabetize, 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 by call slip.[ten]
NEHGS is likewise a family history middle affiliate library.
Tips [edit | edit source]
NEHGS members have access to a lending library, and bookstore discounts.
Guides [edit | edit source]
- Library Users Guide flooring maps, services, policies, obtaining copies, itemize use and symbols.
- NEHGS Enquiry Library Resource moderately detailed flooring-by-floor collection description.
- "New England Historic Genealogical Society," Beginnings Magazine 20 no. 5 on the Internet at http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library/article.aspx?article=6815 (accessed 30 August 2010).
- African American Genealogical Resource at NEHGS.
- Gazetteers of the World, Countries, and States at NEHGS.
- Italian Genealogical Resource at NEHGS.
- Jewish Genealogical Resource at NEHGS.
- William Prescott Greenlaw, Greenlaw Index of the New England Celebrated Genealogical Society (Boston, Mass.:G.M. Hall, 1979) (FHL 974 D22g). Genealogies acquired at NEHGS 1900-1940.
Alternating Repositories [edit | edit source]
If you cannot visit or find a source at the New England Historic Genealogical Social club , a similar source may be available at 1 of the post-obit.
Overlapping Collections
- American Antique Gild, 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, Beginnings.com, military machine, pensions, bounty land, photos, passengers arrival indexes, naturalizations, Native Americans, African Americans, workshops.
- National Athenaeum at New York City, census, naturalization, passenger arrivals, Canadian edge crossings, customs, draft, military machine service, armed services pension and bounty state, Chinese Exclusion Human action cases, Freedmen'south Bureau, Indians, and vital records. Moving soon.
- Connecticut Country Library, Hartford, has the Barbour Collection, Bibles, census, church, Unhurt Collection newspaper marriages and deaths, cemeteries, probates, vital records, directories, land, local histories, armed services, naturalization, rider arrivals, and email questions.
- Maine Land Archives, Augusta, has vital records, country, office records, military, judicial, legislative records, and a listing of professional genealogists.
- New Hampshire State Archives, Concord, has records of probate, land, petitions, state papers, military, census, proper noun changes, photos, naturalizations, voters, warnings out, boondocks records and inventories, prisoners, marriage intentions, paupers, maps, and court records.
- New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, New York City, has censuses, city directories, church, cemetery, Bible, country, probates, genealogy, local history, and manuscripts.
- Rhode Isle Historical Order, Providence, includes local, military, economic, social, church, political histories, newspapers, genealogy, women's history, and business concern records.
- Vermont Historical Society Library, Barre, houses boondocks histories, an alphabetize to vital records to 1870, cemeteries, messages, 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 collection; 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, war machine, censuses, directories, passenger lists, American Indians, African Americans, and Canadians.
- Family History Library, Common salt Lake City, Utah, holds 450 computers, 3,400 databases, 3.1 million microforms, 4,500 periodicals, 310,000 books of worldwide family and local histories, civil, church, clearing, ethnic, military, and records of the Church building of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Neighboring Collections
- Boston Public Library, has government docs, newspapers, biographies, obituaries, Beginnings.
- Boston Athenaeum, a member library with newspapers, maps, photos, Ceremonious War letters, diaries.
- Suffolk County Courthouse, maintains criminal and probation records.
- Suffolk Probate and Family Court, wills, guardianship, divorce, adoptions, name changes.
- Suffolk County Registry of Deeds, preserves country records.
- Bostonian Society, does historical records inquiry, and structures preservation.
- Mayflower Society Library, family and local histories, censuses, published town records, CDs.
- Massachusetts State Library, holds regime documents, town, county and country histories.
- Massachusetts Athenaeum, vital records, passenger lists, census, armed forces, Maine, Plymouth Colony, court, natuaralizations, divorces, probate, name changes, and land institutions.
- Massachusetts Historical Society, 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's history libraries.
- Congregational Library, church and mission records, histories, sermons, 25,000 obituaries.
- Berkshire Athenaeum, Cooke Drove church and cemetery records, newspaper notices, ministers' records, BMDs from New England and New York, genealogy databases.
- Massachusetts Society of Genealogists, Ashland, is an educational arrangement.
- Peabody Essex Museum Library, Salem, collects published MA vital records to 1850, city directories, Essex County probate records 1638-1914, court records, and ship logbooks.
- Connecticut Valley Historical Museum, local athenaeum, 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.ii Library Hours and Fees in AmericanAncestors.org (accessed 29 August 2010).
- ↑ Visit NEHGS in AmericanAncestors.org (accessed 28 August 2010).
- ↑ Library in AmericanAncestors.org (accessed 28 August 2010).
- ↑ Directions to NEHGS in NewEnglandAncestors.org (accessed 29 August 2010).
- ↑ Parking in NewEnglandAncestors.org (accessed 29 Baronial 2010).
- ↑ 6.0 half-dozen.1 6.2 New England Historic Genealogical Society in Wikipedia: The Complimentary Encyclopedia (accessed 30 August 2010).
- ↑ Using the NEHGS Library in American Ancestors (accessed 21 September 2015).
- ↑ William Dollarhide and Ronald A. Bremer. America's Best Genealogy Resources Centers (Bountiful, Utah: Heritage Quest, 1998), 5, 57, and 59. WorldCat 39493985; FHL Ref Book 973 J54d.
- ↑ About NEHGS in American Ancestors (accessed 14 March 2017).
- ↑ New England Historic Genealogical Lodge, Using the NEHGS Library in American Ancestors (accessed 14 March 2017).
Source: https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/New_England_Historic_Genealogical_Society
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