Open the door to your early New
England ancestry for FREE (through 25 October)
From
our friends at American Ancestors …
October
18, 2016—Boston, Massachusetts—From October 18 to October 25, New
England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS) is offering FREE access to
essential resources for early New England family history
research. With the creation of a free account at it's award-winning website,
AmericanAncestors.org,
family historians can access the most authoritative scholarship on early
settlers in America.
During a
special free access week, family historians can search nearly 300,000
records across a unique sets of databases that are at the forefront of
early American genealogical research: The Great Migration Study Project,
the Early New England Families Study Project, and Torrey’s New England
Marriages to 1700. In addition to these essential databases, family
historians will also benefit from how-to guides and webinars from staff
experts at NEHGS that provide helpful research tips and techniques,
essential resources, and contextual information to advance genealogical
research.
Between
1620 and 1640 about 20,000 men, women, and children crossed the Atlantic to
settle New England. The Great Migration Study Project, under the
scholarly direction of Robert Charles Anderson, provides concise, trusted
genealogical and biographical sketches of these early immigrants to
America. In the nine searchable databases of the Great Migration Study
Project, researchers can pore over some 100,000 records that expertly
narrate the lives of early immigrants to New England.
Following the
work of the Great Migration, the Early New England Families Study
Project provides fully searchable accounts of New England Families from
1641 to 1700 focusing on individuals who emigrated in 1641 or later, with
sketches grouped by year of marriage. Lead Genealogist Alicia Crane
Williams uses Clarence Almon Torrey’s bibliographic index of early New
England marriages (and its recent successors) as a guide to compiling
authoritative and fully documented sketches of individuals and families in
New England in the period immediately following the Great Migration.
The
foundation of the Early New England Families Study Project is Torrey’s
New England Marriages to 1700. This famous work by Clarence Almon
Torrey, owned by NEHGS, is an indispensable resource for any family
historian with New England ancestors. The twelve-volume manuscript,
presented as an every-name searchable database, enumerates more than 99% of
all pre-1700 marriages for New Englanders, including those who married in
Europe prior to migrating. In total, vital information on more than 37,000
couples is comprehensively cited in this key index.
Learn more
at AmericanAncestors.org/early-new-england
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Which database are you most looking
forward to exploring?
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