On 3/30/2012 10:10 AM, Roger Weir wrote: > Hi all, > > I was looking over some of the names on my rootsweb page and noticed > that they have added Massachusetts Vital Town Collection, 1620 to > 1988. This index must be fairly new because I have never noticed it > before. I have no idea what this collection consists of and where Ancestry got it. The Commonwealth Vital Records are now available up until 1915. I suspect that this is a compilation from the SSDI and other sources, definitely a secondary source. The 1916 - 1920 Records AIR have been released to the Archives but are being indexed ans will not be available until the indexing is complete. An announcement was distributed to various lists about 6 months ago. I thought I filed it but cannot find it. bob gillis