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Melinde Lutz SanbornUnited States - Massachusetts - Essex Genealogy Books |
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Melinde Lutz Sanborn has the following 3 genealogy books:
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AGES FROM COURT RECORDS: ESSEX, MIDDLESEX, AND SUFFOLK COUNTIES, MASSACHUSETTS 1636-1700
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| From thousands of court cases in Essex, Middlesex, and Suffolk Counties, Massachusetts, dating from 1636 to 1700, Melinde Sanborn has extracted the names of all deponents and witnesses whose ages are given in the court records of those counties. Depositions provided in early court records are among the richest sources of personal information surviving from New Englands first century, and Ms. Sanborn argues that "so many people in early New England were deponents for one reason or another that no biography or genealogy can be complete without a search through court records to see if a pertinent deposition exists." For this early period, the single most useful bit of evidence included in the depositions is the age of the deponent. While most depositions vary in quality from being virtually useless to providing corroboration of marriages, wills, and deeds, ages alone provide incontrovertible value to the genealogist. Sometimes the age of a deponent was very important to a particular case. Men over sixty, for example, were often brought into court to support the claims of the ancient boundaries of litigants property. Likewise, many older women who were experienced midwives were called upon to offer opinions on the timeliness of a birth in a fornication case. Also, one of the most common errors in genealogical work is confusing two or more individuals of the same name. If senior or junior or tertius is not used, it is very difficult to assign events to the correct individual. Frequently, fathers and sons with the same given name came to court together, but with stated ages they are easily differentiated. Men with the same name and of the same generation can be another problem, but again a deposition with a specific age given can make all the difference. With this index--which lists the names and ages of 11,000 deponents, and the year and source of the court records--researchers can quickly determine whether it is worthwhile to track down the original court record. - United States - Massachusetts - Essex |
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SECOND SUPPLEMENT TO TORREYS NEW ENGLAND MARRIAGES PRIOR TO 1700
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| While this second supplement draws extensively on periodical literature (from 1991 to January 1995), it has a much heavier emphasis on the unpublished work of some of the leading New England genealogists, studies of English marriages of colonial immigrants, and studies of immigrant clusters, most notably the Great Migration Study Project and the Mayflower Families Through Five Generations project. As was the case with the first supplement, this work contains corrections, new discoveries, significant new biographical detail, or deletions from the original Torrey canon. It is a substantially bigger book than the first supplement (50 percent longer) and has an index of more than 1,500 entries. Absolutely indispensable for New England research! - United States - New England - |
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SUPPLEMENT TO TORREYS New England Marriages Prior to 1700
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| Clarence Almon Torreys New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (see GP5825 above) is the best index to the early Colonial Period in existence. This worthy supplement to Torrey incorporates corrections, new discoveries, significant new biographical detail, or deletions from the original canon which have surfaced since Torreys death in 1962. Since these new discoveries and corrections tend to make their way in the periodical literature more frequently than anywhere else, this supplement is predominantly an index to the major genealogical journals published since 1960. Users of the original Torrey work will find this supplement absolutely indispensable, since their New England research cannot be considered complete without it. - Foreign/Ethnic - New England - |
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