No wonder people like doing research in New England! Not only do I find a plethora of vital records but the newspapers carry all of the deaths and marriages all the way back. You just don't find this much stuff in the south! I am research the Kenrick Family in Charlestown and I am overwhelmed with what I am finding with no effort at all. Easy peasy compared to someone in the deep south in the early 1800s! Michele

Michelle: even though I do like researching in NE (it's a relatively new thing for me after researching a lot in vital-record-less Pennsylvania and New York), it has been discouraging to find that at least in western Massachusetts the vital records did not seem to be recorded at the time of the event ... or even close in some cases. It seems like all of a sudden the town clerk would have a fit of responsibility and recorded information for whoever was living there at the time. But a lot of records seem to have never been recorded. There are three wives whom I feel very confident died in a western Massachusetts town, but there's nary a death record for them. And there are no birth records for one family (at least that I've been able to find) for a family who was in western MA from the mid 1750s. On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Michele Lewis <ancestoring@gmail.com>wrote: > No wonder people like doing research in New England! Not only do I find a > plethora of vital records but the newspapers carry all of the deaths and > marriages all the way back. You just don't find this much stuff in the > south! I am research the Kenrick Family in Charlestown and I am > overwhelmed > with what I am finding with no effort at all. Easy peasy compared to > someone in the deep south in the early 1800s! > > Michele > > The Transitional Genealogists List was created to provide a supportive > environment for genealogists to learn best practices as they transition to > professional level work. Please respect the kind intentions of this list. > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TRANSITIONAL-GENEALOGISTS-FORUM-request@rootsweb.com with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Since the borders between NY and other states weren't static, maybe some clerks thought they were in NY and not in MA or expected to by in NY rather than in CT, etc. I know my ancestors who lived in CT had much better records than when they lived just over the border (1-2 miles away) in NY. There were border disputes between NY and CT and I'm not sure if that was true for MA and NY too. Erica Voolich On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 6:54 PM, Patricia Hobbs <plhgenealogy@gmail.com>wrote: > Michelle: even though I do like researching in NE (it's a relatively new > thing for me after researching a lot in vital-record-less Pennsylvania and > New York), it has been discouraging to find that at least in western > Massachusetts the vital records did not seem to be recorded at the time of > the event ... or even close in some cases. It seems like all of a sudden > the town clerk would have a fit of responsibility and recorded information > for whoever was living there at the time. But a lot of records seem to have > never been recorded. There are three wives whom I feel very confident died > in a western Massachusetts town, but there's nary a death record for them. > And there are no birth records for one family (at least that I've been > able to find) for a family who was in western MA from the mid 1750s. > > On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Michele Lewis <ancestoring@gmail.com > >wrote: > > > No wonder people like doing research in New England! Not only do I find > a > > plethora of vital records but the newspapers carry all of the deaths and > > marriages all the way back. You just don't find this much stuff in the > > south! I am research the Kenrick Family in Charlestown and I am > > overwhelmed > > with what I am finding with no effort at all. Easy peasy compared to > > someone in the deep south in the early 1800s! > > > > Michele > > > > The Transitional Genealogists List was created to provide a supportive > > environment for genealogists to learn best practices as they transition > to > > professional level work. Please respect the kind intentions of this list. > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > TRANSITIONAL-GENEALOGISTS-FORUM-request@rootsweb.com with the word > > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the > message > > > The Transitional Genealogists List was created to provide a supportive > environment for genealogists to learn best practices as they transition to > professional level work. Please respect the kind intentions of this list. > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TRANSITIONAL-GENEALOGISTS-FORUM-request@rootsweb.com with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- Erica Dakin Voolich •Genealogist, check out my genealogy blogs http://genea-adventures.blogspot.com http://ursulawright.blogspot.com •President The Somerville Mathematics Fund, an Affiliate of Dollars for Scholars Chapter, Winner of the 2011, New England Chapter of the Year Award Chapter, Winner of the 2003-2004 *Golden Tassel* Service Award We celebrate and encourage mathematics achievement in Somerville MA! http://www.somervillemathematicsfund.org Become a fan on our Facebook page: Facebook | Somerville Mathematics Fund Check out my blog: http://somervillemathematics.blogspot.com/