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Question: What has the OYRGS done for the Abington Free Library? And what records do you now have free access to?
Answer: OYRGS funds Abington Library’s on-line databases of the New England Historical and Genealogical Society (NEHGR).

Your membership fees to the OYRGS are helping to finance access to the NEHGS databases for everyone in the community. This is a research gem for people researching the New England states—and offers some extra bonus items in the states of N.Y., N.J. and Pa., not to mention England and Ireland.

A premier item is access to the Register, the flagship journal of American genealogy and the oldest journal in the field. The Register has featured articles on a wide variety of topics since its inception, including vital records, church records, tax records, land and probate records, cemetery inscriptions, obituaries, and historical essays. Authoritative compiled genealogies have been the centerpiece of the Register for over 150 years. Thousands of New England families have been treated in the pages of the journal, and many more are referenced in incidental ways throughout. These articles range from large treatments that reveal family origins or present multiple generations of a family to short pieces correcting errors in print or solving unusual problems.

In addition to the above, there are many individual databases that may be viewed by record type. They’re constantly being added to, and of this writing the types include Atlases and Maps, Census, Tax and Voters List, Cemeteries, Church Records, Court Records, Diaries and Journals, Genealogy and Biography, The Great Migration Begins, Heraldry, Immigration, Land Records, Local Histories, Military, Miscellaneous, Newspapers and Periodicals, Social Security Death Index, Societies and Organizations, Town Record, and Vital Records. You can view lists by an alphabetical list or by region, which include Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont, New York, England, and Ireland.

You’ll also be able to access the Library Catalog Online. Here, you’ll find more than 200,000 genealogical and historical volumes, countless manuscripts, and other special sources--an excellent source for published genealogies, state, city, town, and village data plus vital statistics. Although many of the books are available on a loan basis, we haven’t determined if this will be available to all Abington users, but OYRGS members can request this arrangement through several of your members who belong to the NEHGS, including Case Zwart.

Visit the NEHGS's Web site to get a brief glimpse of their resources. Review the list below of the databases now available to you at the library.

Abstracts of Court Files of Middlesex County, Massachusetts. 1649-1675
Abstracts of Probate Records, Greenfield, Massachusetts 1814-1873
Abstracts of Wills in Onondaga County, N.Y. 1796-1841
Allegations for Marriage Licenses issued by the Commissary Court of Surrey between 1673-1770
Alphabetical Index of the Births, Marriages and Deaths Recorded in Providence, Rhode Island
Baptisms in the Second Religious Society of Pembroke, Massachusetts (now the First Congregational Church of Hanson), 1749-1825
Baptisms, marriages, deaths, admitted to communion, Old Town Church, Attleboro First Church, 1740-1856
Baptisms Performed in the Church of Christ,Westfield, Massachusetts 1679-1836
Bill of Mortality for Dover, New Hampshire. Deaths from 1708 to 1802
Birth Records of Colrain, Massachusetts
Boston Sea Fencibles' Signal Roll
Boston Tax List, 1831
Bristol County, Rhode Island, Divorces, 1819-1893
A Catalogue of the Members of the North Church in Salem, Massachusetts
Catalogue of the First Congregational Church, Canterbury, Connecticut and of the 2nd Congregational Church of Berlin, Connecticut
Cemetery Transcriptions from the NEHGS Manuscript Collections
Census of the East Ward, Framingham, Massachusetts, 1837
Census of Vassalboro, Maine, 1908
Church Records of Greenfield, Massachusetts; Greenwich, Connecticut; Killingly, Connecticut: Madison, Connecticut
Commissioners Records of Lincoln County, Maine, 1759-1777
Death Notices from the New York Evening Post, 1801-1890
Death Records of Colrain, Massachusetts: Rensselaer County, New York, 1847-1851; Waterville, Maine to 1892; Brimfield, Massachusetts 1808-1850; Wethersfield, Connecticut 1775-1808; Dorchester, Massachusetts 1732-1781
Deaths Published in the Christian Intelligencer of the Reformed Dutch Church, 1830-1871
Deaths Reported in the Boston Recorder and Telegraph, 1827 and 1828
The Diaries of the Rev. Thomas Cary of Newburyport, Massachusetts 1762-1806; Israel Litchfield, 1774-75; William Ingersoll Champney of Boston, Massachusetts 1814
Divided Hearts, Massachusetts Loyalists, 1765-1790
Early Records of Morgan, Vermont; Kent, Connecticut 1769-1800
Early Settlers of West Simsbury [Now Canton] Connecticut
Eighteenth Century Baptisms in Salem, Massachusetts
Family Genealogies: A Genealogical History of Robert Adams of Newbury, Massachusetts, and His Descendants 1635-1900; The Bartletts: Ancestral, genealogical, biographical, historical; Jacob Benson, Pioneer, and his Descendants (1915); Bliss Family in America from About the Year 1550 to 1880 (1904); Thomas Boyden and His Descendants (1901); History and Genealogy of the Carpenter Family of America (1901); The History of the Church Family (1887); Notes on the Family of Deacon Edward Convers (1891); The Cooley Genealogy: The Descendants of Ensign Benjamin Cooley; The John Elliot Family of Boscawen, New Hampshire (1918); Descendants of Richard Everett, Dedham, Massachusetts (1902); Genealogical history of Samuell Hartt from London, England, to Lynn, Massachusetts, 1640 and descendants, to 1903 (1903); John Hill of Dorchester, Massachusetts 1633, and Five Generations of His Descendants (1904); The Jordan Memorial: Family Records of Rev. Robert Jordan, and His Descendants in America (1882); The Descendants of Thomas Lamkin of the Northern Neck of Virginia, Generations 7-12 (2001); Christopher Levett of York, The Pioneer Colonist in Casco Bay 1893); Simon Lobdell, 1646, of Milford, Connecticut and his descendants (1907); The Northrup - Northrop Genealogy, by A. Judd Northrup, LL.D.
1908); Groups of Palmer Families from Walter Palmer of Charlestown and Rehoboth, Massachusetts, Stonington, Connecticut (1901); A Genealogical Record of Daniel Pond, and his Descendants (1873); The Ancestry of Edward Rawson (1887); Thompson Genealogy: The Descendants of William and Margaret Thomson (1915); Van Deursen Family; Genealogy of the Waldo Family: A Record of the Descendants of Cornelius Waldo of Ipswich, Massachusetts from 1647 to 1900; History of the Wanton Family, Newport, Rhode Island (1878), Genealogies of Ware,Massachusetts. Families - History and Genealogy of the Gov. John Webster Family of Connecticut; The West Family Register: Important Lines Traced, 1326-1928 (1928); Memoir of Rev. Samuel Whiting, D.D., and of His Wife, Elizabeth St. John (1873)
First Book of Raynham (Massachusetts) Records, 1700-1835 Friends (Quaker) Records of Unity, Maine
General Index of the Land Records of the Town of Hartford, Connecticut 1639-1839
The Gore Roll of Arms
The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633
Guardianship Records of Onondaga County, New York, 1815-1849
Heads of Families, Woonsocket, Rhode Island - 1842
An Hibernian Atlas; or General Description of the Kingdom of Ireland
Historical Catalogue of the First Church of Hartford, Connecticut 1633-1885
Historical Catalogue of the Members of the First Baptist Church in Providence, Rhode Island
History and Church Records of East Kingston, New Hampshire
Index to Providence, Rhode Island, Probate, 1646-1899
Index to the Marriage Licence Bonds of the Diocese of Cloyne, Ireland
Index to the Probate Records of Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Index to the Probate Records of the County of Worcester, Massachusetts
Index to the Records of the First Church of Stonington, Connecticut
The Journal of Samuel Hawes, 1775-1776
Legislators of the Massachusetts General Court, 1691-1780
Letter of Marriages of Bath, Maine, 1805-1817
Lexington, Massachusetts Record of Births, Marriages, and Deaths to January 1, 1898
List of Deaths in New Milford, Connecticut – 1812
A List of Pensioners in the State of Massachusetts
List of School Children in Deer Isle, Maine - 1883
List of Voters for Town Officers in the Town of Kennebunkport, Maine - March 1833
Lists of Alien Passengers to the Port of Boston, 1847-1852
Little Compton, Rhode Island, Wills
Maine Marriages Performed by Rev. Enoch M. Fowler
Marriage Intentions of Woburn, Massachusetts 1699-1890
Marriage Notices from the New York Evening Post, 1801-1890
Marriage Records of Colrain, Massachusetts; First Church, Westfield, Massachusetts 1781-1835; Methodist Episcopal Church of Richmond, Maine
Marriages and Baptisms of the Rev. Ivory Hovey of Plymouth, Massachusetts 1775-1803
Marriage and Death Notices Published in New Hampshire Newspapers
Marriages and Deaths from the Springfield [Massachusetts] Republican, January 2, 1847 - December 25, 1847
Marriages and Deaths in New York State from the New Canaan [Connecticut] Era
Marriages and Publishments of Gray, Maine, 1778-1892
Marriages at Easton, Massachusetts 1720-1802
Marriages by Elder Jabez True of Salisbury, Massachusetts, 1812-1835
Marriages in Dutchess County, New York, 1776-1805
Marriages Perfomed by Eleazer Coburn, Justice of the Peace, Skowhegan, Maine
Marriages Performed by Rev. Stephen Peabody of Atkinson, New Hampshire
Marriages Published in the Christian Intelligencer of the Reformed Dutch Church from 1830 to 1871
Marriage Registers of the Parish Church of All Saints, Maidstone, England
Marriages Reported in the Boston Recorder and Telegraph, 1827 and 1828
Massachusetts and Maine 1798 Direct Tax
Massachusetts Militia Companies in the Lexington Alarm
Massachusetts Revolutionary War Pensioners' Receipts, 1799-1807
Massachusetts Revolutionary War Pensioners' Receipts, 1829-1837
Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati
Massachusetts Soldiers in the Colonial Wars
Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1910
Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850
Membership and Vital Records of the Second Congregational Church of Attleboro, Massachusetts
Members of the Artillery Company of Newport, Rhode Island
Members of the East India Marine Society, Salem, Massachusetts
Members of the First Baptist Church, North Adams, Massachusetts (before 1860)
Members of the First Congregational Church of Campton, New Hampshire 1800-1874
The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1847-1994
Otsego County, New York, Newspaper Records
People of Color in the Massachusetts State Census, 1855-1865
Plaistow, New Hampshire, Vital Records, 1726-1871
Probate Records of Fairfield County, Connecticut, 1704-1757
Probate Records of Norwich, Connecticut, Volumes 1-3
Protestant Housekeepers in Counties Antrim, Derry, Donegal, and Londonderry, Ireland - 1740
Record Book of New Castle, New Hampshire
Records of: Baptisms in the Mission of "New Cambridge," Connecticut, 1747-1800; Births Attended by Dr. John French in Bath, New Hampshire and Surrounding Towns, 1807-1857; Deaths and Marriages from the Albany [New York] Argus, 1826-1828; Deaths in Guilford, Connecticut, 1883-1890; Marriages Solemnized by Reverend H.F.A. Patterson in the State of Maine, 1854-1892, Jonesboro, Maine; Provincetown, Massachusetts 1698-1859; Church of Christ, Norfolk, Connecticut, 1760-1769; Congregational Church, Hinsdale, Massachusetts; Congregational Church of Lyme, New Hampshire; Congregational Church of Rutland, Vermont (East Parish), 1788-1842; Congregational Church of Weybridge, Vermont 1794-1894; First Church of Christ, Nottingham West (Hudson), New Hampshire, 1737-1795; First Church of Milford, Connecticut 1635-1760; First Church of Norwich [Bozrah], Connecticut 1739-1834; First Church of Pepperrellborough [now Saco], Maine; First Church of Rochester, Massachusetts 1737-1797; First Church of Rockingham, Vermont 1773-1839; Records of the First Congregational Church at East Haddam, Connecticut, 1704-1802; First Unitarian Church of Worcester, Massachusetts, 1785-1919; Will Baptist Church of West Camden (now Rockport), Maine; Methodist Episcopal Church of Danbury, Connecticut, 1848-1851; Proprietors of Bow, New Hampshire, 1727-1783; Proprietors of Weybridge, Vermont; Rev. George W. Bailey of Springfield, Vermont, 1840-1902; Second Church of Christ of Boscawen, New Hampshire 1804-1883; Second Church of Christ, Kingston, New Hampshire; Second Church of Milford, Connecticut 1749 –1829; Third Church of Christ, East Hartford, Connecticut; Town of Tisbury, Massachusetts, 1669-1864; Deaths of the First Church, Westfield, Massachusetts, 1728-1836; Registers of Oldham Church, 1558-1661; Rhode Island Historical Cemeteries Database Index; Roster of Maine Soldiers in World War I; Roster of Vermont Soldiers in World War I
The Settlers of the Beekman Patent [Dutchess Co., New York]
Smallpox Inoculation Census of 1824 - Boston Western District, Ward Seven
The Social Security Death Index
Some Early Records of the Town of Springfield, Maine, 1834-1891
Tax List of Boston, Massachusetts, 1821
Tax List of New Milford, Connecticut, 1756
Traditions and Records of Brooksville, Maine
Transcript Of The Parish Registers of Orford, Suffolk - Burials, 1538-1630
U.S. Revolutionary War Naval Pensioners' Receipts, 1829-1832
Vital records of/from: New Hampshire Gazette, 1756-1800; Augusta, Maine to the year 1892; Blue Hill, Maine, 1763-1809; Bolton, Conn. 1704-1859; Brattleboro, Vermont to 1814; Bristol, Vermont 1771-1859; Brooklin, Maine.; Brooksville, Maine.; Dighton, Massachusetts; Enfield, New Hampshire, 1761-1940; Fairfax, Vermont, Farmingdale, Maine to the year 1892; Farmington, Maine 1784-1890; Goffstown, New Hampshire; Greenwich, Connecticut; Hardwick, Vermont to 1860; Vital Records of Jamestown, Rhode Island 1671-1800; Jefferson, Maine; Lincoln, Maine 1829-1892; Madison, Connecticut; Milton, Massachusetts 1662-1843; Newtown, Connecticut 1704-1850; Nottingham, New Hampshire 1734-1877; Pittston, Maine to the year 1892; Pomfret, Vermont; Putney, Vermont, 1740-1842; Rehoboth, Massachusetts 1642-1896; Rhode Island 1636-1850, by James N.Arnold; Shelburne, Vermont 1743-1896; Surry, Maine 1766-1823; Vernon, Connecticut to 1853; Wells, Maine; Westfield, Vermont 1793-1860; Weybridge, Vermont 1760-1884; Worcester, Vermont, 1813-1858; West Farms Cemetery [Northampton, Massachusetts] (Corbin Collection)
Westfield [Massachusetts] Birth and Death Records
Westfield [Massachusetts] Marriage Records
Wills of the County of Essex (England), Volume 2, 1565-1571
Woburn (Massachusetts) Records of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, 1640-1873, Vols. I-III

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