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An avid genealogist, Robin has been researching her family tree for almost 20 years. Her roots are deep in Boston and New England, though her ancestors have led her on a merry chase throughout the United States and Scotland as well. Robin is a longtime member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, the National Genealogy Society, the Genealogical Society of New Jersey, and the USGenWeb. She's also a freelance writer, editor, and researcher. Email

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The Mayflower Passengers: Saints and Strangers

The Mayflower left England in September 1620 with 102 passengers. Of this number, less than half of them were known as Separatists or...
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Early Boston record books (also known as the Boston Record Commissioner Books) online

Libraries with New England genealogy collections often contain a well-known series of Boston record books published from 1876 to 1909. Over the years,...
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Wright Museum depicts life in the military and at home

The sight of a World War II Army tank crashing through a brick wall abruptly reminds us of how far-away military actions affected people on the...
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Samuel Sewall: Salem witch judge

Samuel Sewall (1652-1730) was a devout Puritan, a Boston merchant, and a magistrate who was actively engaged in his community. The reason we know so...
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The Devil is in the details: a timeline of the 1692 witch hunt

1620: Plymouth Colony settled by Pilgrims. 1626: Roger Conant founded Salem, Massachusetts. 1630: The Great Migration begins as people from...
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Genealogies of the victims of the 1692 witch hunt

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Here's a quick genealogy of the victims of the 1692 Salem Witch Hunt. Bishop, Bridget (Playfer) (Wasselbee) (Oliver) (-1692). Daughter of...
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Massachusetts 1865 state census index and images online

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Federal censuses are great tools for finding families at a given time and place, especially when vital records are not available. Some states, such as...
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Recording the Salem witch trials

Although parts of the Salem witch trial papers appeared in various printed forms (such as Cotton Mathers’ Wonders of the Invisible World), it...
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Witch-hunting facts through the ages

There are only eight occurrences of the word “witch” in the King James Bible. However, its words are very explicit: “Thou shalt not...
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Portrait of a witch, 1692

Generally, we think of witches as old hags, widows who lived on the outskirts of their community, often bad mannered and physically offensive....
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