This is what Ancestry says about the collection. There was a big article in the Boston Globe about this collection recently about the selling of this collection of records to Ancestry. It may have different information than the Tan books because the Tan books also included information from Bibles, cemeteries, and church records among other things. "About Massachusetts, Town Vital Collections, 1620-1988 This database contains various town birth, marriage, and death records from Massachusetts. Records in This Database Massachusetts boasts some of the oldest and most extensive sources of vital records in the United States, and some of the documents in this database go back to the colony's earliest days. They were made more readily accessible through the efforts of Jay and DeLene Holbrook. About 30 years ago, the Holbrooks began filming vital and town records in Massachusetts. To date, the Holbrooks have visited 315 of the state's 351 towns and cities and filmed their holdings of vital and town records. This database contains a wide variety of those records, including birth and baptismal registers, intention of marriage and marriage records, courthouse records, and death registers." At 01:18 PM 3/30/2012, Jared Handspicker wrote: >I BELIEVE this has to do with their recent partnership with NEGHS. If so, >then surely there are records through 1910 and in some cases as late as >1915. Ones later than that also exist, but maybe only at town level, not >state-wide. > >Jared > > > FYI, I found some records from 1919 in this collection. None later than > > that, though. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Bob Hegerich" <bobh36@verizon.net> > > To: "Richard Noble" <nobler@accesswave.ca> > > Cc: nova-scotia@rootsweb.com > > Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 11:02:42 AM > > Subject: Re: [NS-L] New additions to rootsweb ancestry leaf hits > > > > > > Hi Richard: > > In general No. > > That 1988 is almost certainly for the latest record in there, and there > > probably are a few [I couldn't even begin to guess the percentage] that > > are > > that new. But the ones I have seen so far in Ancestry's collection cut off > > at about 1900. > > PS. It's not just an index, there are linked images of the actual records > > as well. Again, I don't know the percentage, but every one I have looked > > at > > so far has had a record image. > > -----Bob H----- > > On 3/30/2012 12:26 PM, Richard Noble wrote: > > > > I am familiar with the indexes of the towns that went to 1850. > > But does Ancestry now have indexes from the towns that go to 1988?? > > > > Ric > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Bob Hegerich" [1]<bobh36@verizon.net> > > To: [2]<nova-scotia@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 11:51 AM > > Subject: Re: [NS-L] New additions to rootsweb ancestry leaf hits > > > > > > Hi Roger: > > > > Yes, it is new to Ancestry, but not to natives of Massachusetts. Back > > in the 1600's, Massachusetts towns and (later) cities [there are no > > unincorporated areas in MA] started collecting and recording vital > > statistics. 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