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My Reading List

This list is added to daily: 1) Title Hon. R.M.T. Hunter : Post-bellum mortality among Confederates / Address delivered before the Confederate survivors’ association at its quarterly meeting in Augusta, Georgia, August 2d, 1887. By Col. Charles C. Jones, jr.

2)Author Hunter, Anna Falconet. Title A Newport romance of 1804 : a paper read before the Society, February 21st, 1927 / by Miss Anna F.…

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Get the Most from the NEHGS Online Catalog

Get the Most from the NEHGS Online Catalog

For all of us who have challenges researching in New England, the New England Historic Genealogical Society is a first class, go-to resource.  The oldest genealogical society in the US, NEHGS was founded in 1854 in Boston, Massachusetts.

New England Historic Genealogical Society headquarters at 99-101 Newbury Street, Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

On Thursday, June 26, 2014 at…

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Inside the NEHGS Dispatch 5

By Samantha Mellman

People develop hobbies to relieve the stress of a workweek or as a life long avocation. Here in Boston, you will see people running up and down city streets or walking in their favorite local park. There is one building on Newbury Street that isn’t a boutique shop or restaurant.

The Boston Duck Tours route drives down Newbury Street every day. The New England Historic Genealogical Society is one of those places that garners attention. The building’s façade has that trivial old Boston look. The foundation first two stories have stone roman architecture. Above the engraving of the NEHGS name a red brick high-rise sprouts an additional seven stories.

People visit the NEHGS for a very specific hobby, genealogy. Genealogy is the study of family history. The society was founded in 1845 by a group of five Bostonian men. The location of the society moved several different times since it’s founding but in 1964 their permanent home became 99-101 Newbury St.

The building used to be the New England Trust Company constructed in the 1920s. As you walk into the entrance, the inside still has the original rotunda of the bank. Now the teller’s windows are filled in and the floor space is surrounded by bookshelves. The wood moldings, gold-framed mirrors, antique paintings, and crystal chandeliers complete the 19th century look. Through an archway opening in the back, a bank vault has been converted to house rare books and manuscripts. 

The society is the oldest and largest of its kind in the United States. The NEHGS is a non-profit research center where people use the resources to trace back their ancestry. Five floors in the building are open to the public and the intermittent three levels are staff only.

The first floor is where people can acquaint themselves with genealogy research. Then you can ride the elevator or hike up the stairs to the fourth floor. Here you will find the storage area for microtext resources. There are four different decades of microfilm machines throughout the floor that can be used to view microfilm records.

The ScanPro 2000 is their most modern scanner. The machine virtually projects the film to a desktop computer where it can be manipulated. For example, making it brighter or magnified. With this technology, instead of coming to the research center every time you want to look at a specific microfilm, the record can be saved directly to a flash drive.

The fifth floor is where people request manuscripts, local history collections, and use resources from the American Jewish Historical Society. The final public floor is a reading room that boasts perfect views of Newbury Street. The seventh floor has early New England sources and published family histories. A person could find out their family lineage leads all the way back to the first settlers of the US.

The first glimpse of the NEHGS invites you inside, but then you’ll leave wanting more. Unraveling your story may start out simple at first, but one lead turns into another and researching a family tree can be a life long discovery.