A principal resource for research concerning the families of New Plymouth Colony is: Nathaniel B. Shurtleff (Volumes 1-8) and David Pulsifer (Volumes 9-12), Editors "Records of the Colony of New Plymouth In New England" 12 Volumes, issued bound as 9 or 10 Boston: The Press of William White, Printer to the Commonwealth, 1855-1861 Reprinted in 6 Volumes - New York: AMS Press, 1968 Scans of all volumes can be found online at the Internet Archive Text Archive. One of the difficulties in using this work is that each volume has its own index. I am creating a consolidated index to all twelve volumes. Although that index currently contains only the first six volumes I have found it sufficiently useful in my own research that I have decided to share it with the genealogical community. The six volumes are: Volume 1 [1855]: Court Orders, 1633-1640 Volume 2 [1855]: Court Orders, 1641-1651 Volume 3 [1855]: Court Orders, 1651-1661 Volume 4 [1855]: Court Orders, 1661-1668 Volume 5 [1856]: Court Orders, 1668-1678 Volume 6 [1856]: Court Orders, 1678-1691 The index therefore includes all of the records of the General Court. Note that the General Court at Plymouth was both a legislative body and a judicial body, so these volumes hold an immense amount of genealogical information, including admissions of freemen, grants of land, some probate proceedings, and judicial proceedings including charges abuse of family members and of fornication. Note also that although there are scattered records of marriages in these volumes, most of the Colony's vital records are found in the yet-to-be-indexed volume 8. The index is in a 1.2 megabyte PDF file: http://plymouthcolony.net/resources/files/PCR.pdf As additional volumes are added to the index that will be announced here and elsewhere. Dale H. Cook, Member, NEHGS and MA Society of Mayflower Descendants; Plymouth Co. MA Coordinator for the USGenWeb Project Administrator of http://plymouthcolony.net