Free New England Records

Somehow I missed Ancestry.com’s free New England records last week. By the time I read about it in other blogs, it was too late to write about it in my own. Don’t worry, though. You can still access some New England records for free. The New England Historic Genealogical Society gives free access to 12 databases on their AmericanAncestors.org website:

• Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850
• Social Security Death Index
• NEHGS Library Catalog
• Irish Immigrant Advertisements, 1831-1920
• Index to Revolutionary War Pensioners
• New York Wills, 1626-1836
• Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati
• Gloucester, MA: Burials
• Ware, MA Families
• New England Ancestors Magazine
• Jewish Cemetery Association of Massachusetts
• American Ancestors Magazine

For a limited time, you can also access these four additional databases:

• New York Genealogical and Biographical Record
• Topsham, Maine Vital Records to 1892
• Rhode Island Roots
• The Mayflower Descendant

Access requires free registration.