The following page is from volume 2 of the town records of Newmarket, N.H., page 427. (You can view the context here on FamilySearch.org.) At the top of the page, we see a family register typical of the period, listing the parents’ (Arthur Branscomb and Sarah Chapman) first, with their dates of birth and marriage, [...]
There is an important genealogical source for New England researchers, one that often contains unique information that you will not find anywhere else. You won’t find this source on Ancestry.com, but is often freely available online. It is an official government record that can be quite valuable, if you know where to look for it, [...]
I was recently consulting old Town Meeting proceedings for Concord, New Hampshire, as part of research for a client, when I came across an interesting bit of detail in the school committee report for the 1851 Town Meeting. Along with the expected reporting of the number of students and teachers, wages, expenditures, etc., they also [...]
