The following was received from NEHGS:
October 30, 2015 — Boston, Massachusetts — “Your ancestors have been dying for you to uncover them. NEHGS has opened the cemetery gates so you can start digging!”
Just in time for the Halloween celebrations and to add some fun to ancestral research this holiday, AmericanAncestors.org and New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS) have made their complete collection of American cemetery databases accessible for FREE to guest users on their data-rich website.
The collection of more than 100 databases comprising more than one million records is accessible FREE from Friday, October 30, through midnight on Saturday, November 7. The collection includes cemetery transcriptions from New England and other states and was compiled from many different sources to create a unique group of cemetery offerings.
Registration at AmericanAncestors.org is required as a FREE Guest Member to gain access to these valuable resources. Guest User accounts allow web visitors to use a limited suite of databases on AmericanAncestors.org and to access web content such as making purchases from the NEHGS online store. Unlimited access to more than one billion online records on the website and to other benefits is through membership at NEHGS.
Family historians may start digging for their ancestors in these historic American cemeteries at: http://www.americanancestors.org/free-cemetery-databases.The cemetery databases included in this special offering and FREE Access event are:
- American Jewish Historical Society – New England Archives: Jewish Cemeteries in Massachusetts
- Boston, MA: Old Cemeteries of Boston
- Brooklyn, NY: Cemetery Inscriptions, 1686-1882
- Cemetery Transcriptions from the NEHGS Manuscript Collections
- Charleston, SC: Inscriptions in Old Jewish Cemeteries, 1762-1903
- Dedham, MA: Church and Cemetery Records 1638-1845
- Gloucester, MA: Burials in Gloucester Cemeteries
- New York: Long Island Cemetery Inscriptions, 1652-1910
- North Andover, MA: Burials in Ridgewood Cemetery, 1848-1950
- Northampton, MA: West Farms Cemetery
- Rhode Island Historical Cemeteries Database Index
- Sharon, MA: Sharon Memorial Park Cemetery
- Sterling, MA: Leg Cemetery Records
- Westbrook, CT: Cemetery Inscriptions
- Western Massachusetts: Jewish Cemeteries of Western Massachusetts
About American Ancestors and New England Historic Genealogical Society
The founding genealogical society in America, New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS) was established in 1845. Today it has a national collecting scope and serves more than 130,000 constituents through an award-winning website, AmericanAncestors.org.NEHGS’s resources, expertise, and service are unmatched in the field, and their leading staff of on-site and online genealogists includes experts in early American, Irish, English, Scottish, Italian, Atlantic and French Canadian, African American, Native American, Chinese, and Jewish research. The NEHGS library and archive, located at 99–101 Newbury Street in downtown Boston, is home to more than 28 million items, including artifacts, documents, records, journals, letters, books, manuscripts, and other items dating back hundreds of years.
