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From: "Sue Richart" <>
Subject: [MAPLYMOU] NEHGS MVR 1841-1910 on-line database: Volume 1 completed
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 08:24:13 -0800


Greetings Listers,
I wish you a happy holiday season and a Very Merry Christmas. As my
Christmas present to you, volume one of the NEHGS (
www.newenglandancestors.org) Massachusetts Vital Records 1841-1910 on-line
database is corrected. Please note, this means that someone using the
Massachusetts State Archives vital records database will have the old and
incorrect information.

Volume 1 1841-42 is mainly death records with some births and marriages.
One of the NEHGS webmasters, Sam Sturgis, has added the few missing images.
Volume 1 1850-1899 are amended records. There were a number of them that
were not amended records and they now have their correct volume number.
Amended record images are/will not be available on the NEHGS. You need to
request the information from the appropriate town clerk or State Archives.
Volume 1 1900-1910 births are amended records. There are only a few and I
haven't been able to verify them, as I can't find them on the index.
Volume 1 1903 deaths Abington to Andover are corrected.
Volume 1 1904 deaths Abington to Amesbury are corrected. Sam Sturgis has
digitized the couple of hundred missing images and almost all are there.
Please contact me, if your image is either incorrect or not coming up.
Volume 1 1905 deaths Abington to Amesbury are corrected
Volume 1 1906 deaths Abington to Amherst are corrected.
Volume 1 1907 deaths Abington to Alford are corrected.
Volume 1 1908 deaths Abington to Amesbury are corrected.
Volume 1 1909 deaths Abington to Amesbury are corrected.
Volume 1 1910 deaths Abington to Amesbury are corrected.
There a handful of entries with missing images death records and they are on
Sam Sturgis' to-do list.

Please note about a dozen volume 91 post 1902 death records were rendered as
volume 1 and those have been corrected.

Also note, there were a lot/still are several index pages in a row with a
column shift on year. I'm still working on a number of those pages and only
volume 1 is fully corrected.

There are over 4600 entries in the post-1902 volume 1s and I can assure you,
I did not check each image. If I checked up to five percent of them, that
would be a surprise to me. If you see an error, please let me know, because
that is the only way it will be corrected.

As a bonus, I've been going through low volume numbers looking for scanning
errors that would make the record appear to be an amended record and am up
to volume 27. Volumes 17 and 18 are a bit weird and they won't all get
fixed until I request the spreadsheet from the webmaster. There were over a
number of entries with what looked like an amended record volume number that
were actually real viewable volumes. Please note, if the amended record
volume was for let's say, births, I have not corrected those errors, but
have corrected that volume's entries under marriages and deaths. This is
not comprehensive and these will get repaired as I work on all entries for
that volume down the road.

I hope this is a help in your search. My New Year's wish for you is that
2009 brings you a lot of success in your research.

Sincerely,

Sue Richart
NEHGS Volunteer repairing the MVR 1841-1910 on-line database
In snowy and cold Northeast Washington State.

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