Publishments, Marriages, Births and Deaths from the Earlier Records of Gorham, Maine

Publishments, Marriages, Births and Deaths from the Earlier Records of Gorham, Maine
Author: Marquis King
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2009-06
Genre: Gorham (Me.)
ISBN: 0806351683

This account of Newton, Massachusetts contains the names of all the inhabitants of Newton prior to 1800, with such facts concerning them as the author could glean from the town and county records and elsewhere. Information given varies greatly but can include marriage and death dates, names and birth dates of children, place of origin, occupation, religious denomination, land transactions, estate details, and more. Although in a few instances events of a later date are mentioned, most of the facts included herein pertain to the years between the town's first settlement in 1639 and 1800.

Birth, Marriage and Death Records

Birth, Marriage and Death Records
Author: David Annal
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2012-01-01
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1848845723

Birth, marriage and death records are an essential resource for family historians, and this handbook is an authoritative introduction to them. It explains the original motives for registering these milestones in individual lives, describes how these record-keeping systems evolved, and shows how they can be explored and interpreted. Authors David Annal and Audrey Collins guide researchers through the difficulties they may encounter in understanding the documentation. They recount the history of parish registers from their origin in Tudor times, they look at how civil registration was organized in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and explain how the system in England and Wales differs from those in Scotland and Ireland. The record-keeping practiced by nonconformist and foreign churches, in communities overseas and in the military is also explained, as are the systems of the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. Other useful sources of evidence for births, marriages and deaths are explored and, of course, the authors assess the online sites that researchers can turn to for help in this crucial area of family history research.