Recently I saw an article by the Cambridge (MA) Public Library archivist announcing that all Cambridge High School Yearbooks in the library’s collection are now online. While yearbooks have been available at Ancestry and MyHeritage, these yearbooks are accessible for free on Internet Archive and they cover Cambridge much more extensively than the large genealogy…
Yesterday I was driving through the farms and woods of Bristol County, Massachusetts looking for a bird (a shrike). What I found instead, much to my great surprise, was the Angle Tree Stone, a historical marker quietly tucked away in the woods of North Attleborough. The original boundary between Plymouth Colony and Massachusetts Bay Colony…
New England is full of all sorts of quirky records than many genealogy researchers overlook. One of the most important of these is the Town Report. The Town Report is not one record but a compilation of many different records. In a Town Report you’ll find information about town officers, a selectman’s report, a school…
You know him as one of the most recognizable faces on television. In his 50+ year theater, television and film career, Sam Waterston is perhaps best known for his his role as Jack McCoy in the tv show Law & Order. He is also Massachusetts homegrown! Sam Waterston was born in 1940 in Cambridge, Massachusetts….
The 1950 U.S. Federal census was released just a few days ago after a 72 year privacy delay. For the first time Americans can get a peek at their relatives in this post World War II census. A unique feature of this census is that it is searchable from the time of release. In previous…