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Getting Results at NewEnglandAncestors.org
The New England Historic Genealogical Society's (NEHGS) retooled Web site provides easier access to the society's members-only online data ($75 annual dues). Follow these steps to search the NEHGS databases successfully:
From the NEHGS home page www.newenglandancestors.org, click on the Research tab, then on Databases. To scan all databases for a particular ancestor's name, use the Master Search. Take a minute to review the tutorial, then enter your ancestor's first and last names and hit Search. A search for Mary Williams, for example, returns 12,951 hits divided into 13 categories, including cemeteries, church records and vital records. If you're interested in, say, probate records, click on that category to view the 35 matches. You can narrow a master search by location, date range or record type. For example, if you know your Mary Williams lived in Connecticut, select Region Search on the main search page. A drop-down menu will display states and countries; choose Connecticut. This time, you'll get just 64 matches. Experiment with the category and chronological searches, as well. If you don't know the exact spelling of a person's name, check the Soundex box. If you're not researching a specific person, click Databases by Record Type or Location (on the main search page) to view resources for your interest area. Then you can select a database to search by name or keyword (click on Advanced Search).
Read our complete guide to NewEnglandAncestors.org in the April 2005 Family Tree Magazine.
By Erika Dreifus
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