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From: "Dale H. Cook" <>
Subject: RE: [PLY/MA] Scituate, MA--Compiled Genealogies?
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 15:26:51 -0400
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At 02:48 PM 6/12/2003 -0400, Barb Pahlow wrote:

>To me a compiled genealogy is like what you would see in an issue of the
>NEHGS register, with the generations broken out, is that right?

Barb -

That's one format of compiled genealogy, known as "Register Format."
Variations of that format are used by other publications. Another format is
"Record Format," used in the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record.

Many 19th-century town histories contain family registers which predate
those formats. I would consider them collections of compiled genealogies
for the early families of those towns. Their formats vary from one town
history to another as there were no generally accepted standards for
formatting genealogical information at the time, especially for the books
that predate NEHGR (1847) such as Deane's Scituate (1831) and Mitchell's
Bridgewater (1840).

I think Deane would prove useful to Charles, especially since the scans are
online. Of course, this is a very old work, probably contains a number of
errors, and should be used with caution.


Dale H. Cook
Member, NEHGS
USGenWeb Plymouth County MA Towns Host:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~macbrock/sites.html

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