Comments on: Got Massachusetts Ancestors?

By: Janna

Janna — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 04:30:12 +0000

Found a few records for my Fletcher ancestors. Have a few dates I didn’t have before plus some beautiful records saved as images.

By: What I Found in the New Massachusetts Town Records « One Rhode Island Family

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 02:13:07 +0000

[...] breakthrough was made possible by the work of Jay and Delene Holbrook, who compiled the Massachusetts records, over several decades, that now appear on Ancestry. Thank [...]

By: Andy Hatchett

Andy Hatchett — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 01:00:21 +0000

A VERY big ‘Thank You’ to the Holbrooks!

Would that more people doing this kind of work would make their efforts available to the various online content providers.

Andy Hatchett
http://www.fhiso.org

By: Ann Hill

Ann Hill — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 23:06:34 +0000

I found some information on Mary (Allerton) Cushman’s descendents. Mary Allerton was on the Mayflower with her father, Isaac Allerton.
It is wonderful to see more records from Massachusetts!
Now I must go back to my research . . .
Ann

By: Michael Schuler

Michael Schuler — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 22:59:27 +0000

I have been a critic of sum of the things that Ancestry has done over the years, but when they do great things I feel I need to thank them. I have done thousands of hours of Massachusetts Research online, graveyards, NEHGS, and many others and this database is the single biggest deal in Massachusetts Research I have ever seen. In twenty minutes I have found things that either took me weeks to find or even that I have never seen.

Thanks You Ancestry and Good Job,

Mike

By: Randy Seaver

Randy Seaver — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 21:36:39 +0000

Do you have a list of the Massachusetts towns that are not in this database? I did not find entries for Plymouth, Eastham, Wellfleet, and several others of interest.

Is there a list of the years covered for each town?

I appreciate this database, but need to understand what is covered and what is not. The Holbrooks have done a yeoman job in obtaining these records and providing them to Ancestry to digitize and index. I know that the indexing was a challenge for many towns!

By: Bill Quinn

Bill Quinn — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:12:08 +0000

Missed your question…

I’m researching the Carpenters of Rehoboth, Attleborough, Sutton, etc., etc., etc.

Then of course theres’ the Richs, the Eastmans, the Waters, etc., etc….

And all can be found in this new database…

By: Bill Quinn

Bill Quinn — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:08:00 +0000

I attended Family History Day in Tarrytown, NY this past weekend. Great conference!

I’ve already been replacing my “dull”, “boring”, Vital Statistics pages with copies of the real pages.

Having the actual pages is great too since it helps you quickly find other relatives born about the same time without jumping between generations.

Fabulous addition.

I do have one request; since it was explained at the conference that the “A” towns and some “B” towns arrived late and will be added later, I wonder if it’s possible to have a list of those towns that were not done…

Thanks, and again, good job!