Dale asked: > Do any of you own the Search & ReSearch CD-ROM "Early Vital Records of > the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to about 1850" for Plymouth County? I'm > considering buying it and would like to know if it contains the complete > text of the NEHGS VRs volumes for the towns of the county. > ______________________________ Dale, I did a review on the Northeast Roots list in 1998 and for the Gazette on the Global Genealogy website, but will repeat the highlights here. This CD is an excellent buy, however the list of towns included is deceiving. Lakeville, Marion, Mattapoisett, Norwell & Witman are said to be listed under a "parent town". Hingham is listed but is not included. Images of the "to 1850" series of vr books are included for the following: Abington, Bridgewater, Brockton, Carver, Duxbury, E.Bridgewater, Halifax, Hanover, Hull, Kingston, Pembroke, Plympton, Rochester, Scituate and W. Bridgewater. The remaining towns are those records as published in The Mayflower Descendant - which was a disappointment: Dartmouth, Marshfield, Middleborough, Plymouth & Wareham. (I have since purchased these vrs in book form.) The records of some towns are from both the "to 1850" series AND The Mayflower Descendant: Abington, Bridgewater, Duxbury, Plympton and Scituate. Despite the disappointments with MD listings instead of vr books, you can't beat the price to have all these vrs at your fingertips. Word of caution to those interested in the Barnstable County CD - when I checked with the company a couple of years ago I found it contains ONLY the vrs as published in The Mayflower Descendant. A good CD for Barnstable is "Records of Barnstable, Mass." in which Gustavus Hinckley's records were transcribed. It's a little awkward in doing searches and we all know images are better than transcriptions which could contain errors, however the data on this CD is wonderful. With so many of our Mayflower lines in both counties, sources such as those above are a tremendous help with research. Susan E. Roser www.rootsweb.com/~canms/canada.html

Hi folks, my library has the series of VR books from 1600 or 1700s up into 1800s. Would these books contain the info you are looking for? I don't remember if they have Lakeville. They have Middleboro and New Bedford and Freetown. The Freetown one was written in the 1990s I believe. I am going to the Library Thurs and would be happy to try and look something up. Beth (Resovled White)