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GENEALOGY
RESEARCH
in Manchester NH
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To learn about how to research your family tree in Manchester and
throughout the state of New Hampshire VISIT
this important section of my web site! Included is how to obtain
documents, such as birth, marriage, death, divorce, probate, land
deeds, military records, etc.
Also see "Family Trees" on this
web site, and also "Family
Trees/Biographies of Hillsborough County People"
Only MANCHESTER
NH-specific genealogy research information is listed
below..
OBTAINING
VITAL RECORDS IN MANCHESTER, N.H.
In addition to the NH
Bureau of Vital Statistics, the Manchester City Archives
(Town Clerk's Office) maintains copies of birth, marriage and death
certificates that occurred in Manchester. The Manchester City
Archives do NOT have vital records earlier than 1841.
For more
information
about vital statistics in New Hampshire, see this page.
- Abstracts
of some Marriage Records - a few notices of Manchester
NH marriages, occurring between 1757-1927 (published in a Claremont
NH newspaper)
- The
Union Leader - statewide newspaper
(please note that the Manchester City Library has records of
older copies of this newspaper if you are seeking obituaries)
Information
available if you visit the Manchester City Library
-
Manchester NH marriages: 1850 to 1947
- Manchester NH deaths: 1850 to 1947
- Manchester NH city directories 1840 to present (typically
only shows the name of the head of household, spouse, occupation
and residence)
- Manchester NH obituaries: 1863 to present
The marriages, deaths, city directories and church records
are all upstairs in the library, in the "New Hampshire
Room". The obituaries are on the first floor in the reading
room (on microfiche, from the newspaper. NOTE: If you are researching
in NH but NOT in Manchester, look at the "State" edition,
rather than the "City" edition).
-
Londonderry, New Hampshire Vital Records, 1722-1910
- Ancestry.com
CEMETERIES
IN MANCHESTER, N.H.
Manchester has several city-owned cemeteries, along with several
private ones. I've created a unique list showing all of these
cemeteries, along with maps and directions. In November of 2004
I took photographs of most of the tombstones in three of the oldest
cemeteries -- Centre, Merrill and Hall Cemeteries. These
photographs, along with the accompanying tombstone inscriptions
are accessed at the link below.
According
to the Clerk of Cemeteries for the City of Manchester:
"The Pine Grove Cemetery maintains the records for all the
city run cemeteries, and also Valley Cemetery & Pine Grove
Cemetery. For the most part we have complete records for Pine
Grove, Amoskeag, Merrill, Piscataquog and Valley Cemeteries. For
the very small cemeteries, Stowell, Hall, Huse, & Moore, the
records are few. At one time a volunteer went to the smaller cemeteries
and wrote the names & dates from the monuments that he was
able to read and composed a book for the office. That book is
located at the Pine Grove Cemetery. If you were interested in
a certain person, you could email me their first and last name
and I could check our records for a burial. If you have a date
of death sometimes it helps if I should have more than one person
with the same name, but it isn't absolutely necessary."
Judith Aron
Senior Account Clerk of Cemeteries
Parks, Recreation & Cemetery Department
765 Brown Avenue
Manchester, NH 03103
603-624-6514
Jaron@manchesternh.gov
- VISIT
my Manchester NH Cemetery page (includes cemetery names,
and locations for all of the major cemeteries; also stone inscriptions
and photographs of both the Merrill and Centre Cemeteries, along
with general photographs of Valley Cemetery)
CENSUS
RECORDS/TAX LISTS
CITY DIRECTORIES,
TOWN HISTORIES & TOWN RECORDS
- The
City of Manchester (NH) Archival Records (city records,
civil war accounts, city farm, election records, police records,
1847 tax book, and much more)
- The City
of Manchester provides an online
copy of the 1869 Manchester City Directory in PDF format.
- 1908
Manchester City Directory Online (searchable) - GoogleBooks
- Annotated
Every
Name Index (only) of the book, "Manchester, a brief record
of its past and a picture of its present; including an account
of its settlement and of its growth as town and city;a history
of its schools, churches, societies ... and sketches of its representative
citizens," collected and written by Maurice D. Clarke under
the supervision of his uncle, John B. Clarke and published in
1875
- BOOKS
Available through the University of New Hampshire relating
to MANCHESTER PEOPLE and Places
- Manchester
NH High School Yearbooks
Years: 1920
| 1923
- The Manchester
City Library maintains several old city directories (in their
"New Hampshire" Room). Their staff charge $5 for a lookup.
- Biographies,
Genealogies and Lists of Some Founders and Residents of Manchester
NH (this site)
- INDEX
OF NAMES found in book, "Manchester, a brief record of its
past and a picture of its present:including an account of
its settlement and of its growth as town and city; a history of
its schools, churches, societies ... and sketches of its representative
citizens collected and written by Maurice D. Clarke under the
supervision of his uncle, John B. Clarke and published in 1875
[If you find your ancestor's name, you can borrow this book (interlibrary
loan) through your nearest public library.
- History
of Manchester NH -- the entire 1850 book online provided by
ALHN-New Hampshire
- The University
of New Hampshire has an extensive collection of books about Manchester,
NH - SEE
LIST
DIVORCE
RECORDS
IMMIGRATION/NATURALIZATION
LAND
AND DEED RECORDS
MILITARY
SERVICE OF MANCHESTER NH RESIDENTS
PROBATE/WILLS
IN MANCHESTER NH
- Probate records
can usually be found in the court records of the county where
the deceased was last living. In some cases, early records have
been moved to other depositories such as state archives, to allow
for better security, temperature and humidity control, and more
space for newer records. As storage space and available facilities
change, so do the sites of probate records.
-
Hillsborough
County Register of Probate
30 Spring Street Nashua, NH 03060
603-882-1231
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The
NH Records and Archives Center has the file of Probate Records
from 1623–1771. These have been published in NH Provincial
and State Papers vol. 31 – 39. There is a name index. The
NH Historical Society has microfilm copies. Each county
has Probate records with name indexes from 1772 to the present.
GENERAL
RESEARCH IN MANCHESTER NH
- NH Department
of Health & Human Services
Bureau of Vital Records & Health Statistics
6 Hazen Drive
Concord, NH 03301-6527
TDD Access: Relay NH 1-800-735-2964
(603) 271-4650
- American-Canadian
Genealogical Society, Manchester NH -- AN IMPORTANT RESOURCE
for anyone of Canadian ancestry.
- Derry
Public Library has a collection of books and maps
of interest to early Manchester researchers
- Londonderry
NH - Leach
Library's Historical Collection
- Manchester
Historic Association | Search
their Library
- Diocese of
Manchester - Museum
& Information
- The
Millyard Museum - the museum offers 11,000 years of local
history
in a dynamic series of exhibits
- New
Hampshire Historical Society | Search
their Online Catalog
The Tuck Library
30 Park Street
Concord, NH 03301-6394
Telephone: 603/228-6688
Fax: 603/224-0463
email: library@nhhistory.org
- New
Hampshire State Library
20 Park Street
Concord, NH 03301
(603) 271-2392
(603) 271-6826 (fax)
email: zmoore@library.state.nh.us
- Diocese of
Manchester (NH) Museum - SEE
Holdings (which include some baptism records and marriages,
photographs/scrapboosk of Sacred Heart Hospital School of Nursing,
Notre Dame Hospital School of Nursing, and CMC Hospital School
of Nursing, and more
- Manchester
books/histories found at the University of New Hampshire Library
[scroll down to "Manchester"]
- State
of NH - Division of Records Management & Archives
- The following
information is available:
- Probate
Records (volumes & individual files)
- Deeds
(land transactions)
- Petitions
- Military
Indexes
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Provincial (card index)
-
Revolutionary War Index
- Court
Records
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Provincial (card index)
-
Censuses (1732, 1765, 1776, 1800 + 1850-1880 on microfilm)
- Town
records
- Miscellaneous
Records (Secretary of State); Legislative lists (House
and Senate Rosters); Index to Laws; Index to Executive
Council Minutes
- Name
Change Index
SURNAMES
& QUERIES:
- Rootsweb
Message Board for Hillsborough County: Board
#1 | Board
#2
- Rootsweb
Message board for New Hampshire, Unknown
County
My apologies, but surnames and queries will NO LONGER be hosted
at this web site. Please see the above rootsweb message boards
to post your genealogical questions.
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