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New Hampshire Archives and Libraries
These archives, libraries, societies, and museums preserve sources, maintain indexes, and provide services to help genealogists document their ancestors who lived in New Hampshire.
Wiki Articles on Major Repositories in New Hampshire[edit | edit source]
Allen County Public Library · American Antiquarian Society · American-Canadian Genealogical Society · Division of Archives and Records Management · Dover Public Library · Haverhill Public Library · Massachusetts State Archives · National Archives at Boston · Nashua Public Library · New England Historic Genealogical Society · New Hampshire Historical Society Library · New Hampshire State Library · University of New Hampshire Dimond Library · Vermont Historical Society Leahy Library
Online Records of New Hampshire[edit | edit source]
 Links to online databases and indexes that may include vital records, biographies, cemeteries, censuses, histories, immigration records, land records, maps, military records, naturalizations, newspapers, obituaries, or probate records.
National Repositories[edit | edit source]National Archives at Boston[edit | edit source]National Archives at Boston |
- The National Archives at Boston has Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont documents, photos, and maps of 80 federal agencies, War of 1812, fortifications, coastal facilities, World War II research at Harvard and MIT, federal bankruptcy courts, First Circuit Court of Appeals, Navy, Coast Guard, westward expansion, ethnology, genealogy, Revolutionary War, Civil War, captured German records, territorial papers, censuses, passenger arrival records for Boston and New England, Canadian border crossings.[1]
New England Historic Genealogical Society[edit | edit source]New England Historic Genealogical Society
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Statewide Repositories[edit | edit source]
Division of Archives and Records Management[edit | edit source]
Division of Archives and Records Management
New Hampshire Department of State
71 South Fruit Street
Concord, New Hampshire 03301
Telephone: 603-271-2236
Fax: 603-271-2272
Website: Division of Archives and Records Management
- They hold the original town and state records.[4]
- Guide to Archives is alphabetical by subject matter found in the collections and publications.
- New Hampshire. Department of State. Division of Records Management and Archives. Guide to Early Documents (c. 1680–c. 1900) is an inventory of documents at the New Hampshire Records Management and Archives Center. (Concord, N.H.: Division of Records Management, 1981). (Family History Library book 974.2 A3n; film 1320570 item3; fiche 6332691.)
New Hampshire Historical Society Library[edit | edit source]
New Hampshire Historical Society Library
- Clearly the best genealogical collection in the state including town, county, and state histories, church records, deeds 1640-1770, maps, unpublished genealogies, newspapers, and a 30,000 card index of NH notables.[4]
New Hampshire State Library[edit | edit source]
New Hampshire State Library
20 Park Street
Concord, New Hampshire 03301
Telephone: 603-271-6823 or 2144
Fax: 603-271-2205
Website: Genealogy and New Hampshire History
- They have nearly all published histories and genealogies for New Hampshire.[4]
- New Hampshire Genealogy and History at Searchroots, covers all the major record groups and has numerous links to online resources. It even has detailed guides to every county and many towns in the state.
New Hampshire GenWeb Genealogy and History Project This site has transcriptions of censuses from drop down menu, and more.
Regional Respositories[edit | edit source]
American-Canadian Genealogical Society[edit | edit source]
American-Canadian Genealogical Society
- They have the Drouin Collection of Roman Catholic church records of Quebec, Ontario, and New Brunswick, a good collection of New Brunswick censuses, and limited material from Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. They also have a good New Hampshire and New England marriage collection, PRDH vitial events to 1800, Loiselle, Rivest, and Tanguay.[5]
Dover Public Library[edit | edit source]
- Their excellent genealogical collection includes New Hampshire unpublished genealogies, printed books, indexes, cemetery transcripts, obituaries, and biographies.[4]
Nashua Public Library[edit | edit source]
- Their nice genealogy collection is housed in one room. They have northern New England books, family folders, cemetery transcripts, obituaries, and manuscripts.[4]
University of New Hampshire Dimond Library[edit | edit source]
University of New Hampshire Dimond Library
Dimond Library Special Collections
18 Library Way
Durham, New Hampshire 03824
Telephone: 603-862-2714
E-mail: Ask a librarian contact form
Website: University of New Hampshire Library
- The Dimond Library is a federal and state depository, and houses special collections with genealogical and family papers sources.[6]
Outside New Hampshire Repositories[edit | edit source]
Allen County Public Library[edit | edit source]
Allen County Public Library
900 Library Plaza
Fort Wayne, Indiana 46802
Telephone: 260-421-1225
E-mail: genealogy@acpl.info
Website: Genealogy Center ACPL
- This is the second-largest genealogy collection in the United States[7] and the largest genealogy collection in a public library. Its holdings include more than 350,000 printed volumes and 513,000 items on microfilm and microfiche.[8] It has a premier genealogical periodical collection, local histories, genealogies, databases, military, censuses, directories, passenger lists, ethnic sources, and Canadians. They have a great eastern seaboard and New Hampshire collection.[9]
American Antiquarian Society[edit | edit source]
American Antiquarian Society
185 Salisbury Street
Worcester, Massachusetts 01609-1634
Telephone: 508-755-5221
Fax: 508-753-3311
E-mail: Library@americanantiquarian.org
Website: American Antiquarian Society
- Best known for its U.S. newspaper collection of over 18,000 bound volumes 1704-1820, history, genealogy, Bibles, maps, biography, directories, Native Americans, women, canals, railroads, photos, manuscripts.[10] They have New Hampshire vital records, newspapers, and town histories. One of the best genealogy centers in America.[3]
Haverhill Public Library[edit | edit source]
Haverhill Public Library
99 Main Street
Haverhill, Massachusetts 01830
Telephone: 978-373-1586
E-mail: hpl-ref@mvlc.org
Website: Haverhill Public Library Special Collections
- One of New England's largest collections of original manuscripts, books, genealogical periodicals, and surname folders, local history collection, genealogy databases, Massachusetts vital records to 1910, federal and state censuses, 9,000 New England town and family histories. Their collection of New England and New Hampshire sources is larger than most.[3] [11]
Massachusetts State Archives[edit | edit source]
Massachusetts State Archives
220 Morrissey Boulevard
Boston, MA 02125
Phone: (617) 727–2816
E-mail: archives@sec.state.ma.us
Website: Massachusetts State Archives
- The Massachusetts Archives Index, aka "Colonial Index" lists nearly every New England immigrant including those who settled New Hampshire.[4]
Vermont Historical Society Leahy Library[edit | edit source]
Vermont Historical Society Leahy Library
Vermont History Center
60 Washington Street
Barre, Vermont 05641
Telephone: 802-479-8500
E-mail: info@vermonthistory.org
Website: Vermont History Center
- VHS is definitely the best research center for early Vermont residents, many of whom migrated from New Hampshire.[4]
Sources[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Dollarhide and Bremer, 124.
- ↑ Dollarhide and Bremer, 5, 57, and 59.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Dollarhide and Bremer, 53.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 Dollarhide and Bremer, 75.
- ↑ Holdings in American-Canadian Genealogical Society (accessed 13 April 2016).
- ↑ Genealogy and Family Papers in University of New Hampshire Library (accessd 28 April 2016).
- ↑ Allen County Public Library in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia (accessed 28 April 2010).
- ↑ Genealogy Center in Allen County Public Library (accessed 28 April 2010).
- ↑ Genealogy Center Collections in Genealogy Center (accessed 27 February 2015).
- ↑ Dollarhide and Bremer, 59.
- ↑ Genealogy Resources in Haverhill Public Library (accessed 14 November 2013).
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