Lookups By Volunteers

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Hillsborough County NH USGenWeb Project

Lookups By Volunteers

Sunday, April 09, 2000 08:45:08 PM

Hillsborough County includes the following cities and towns: Amherst, Antrim, Bedford, Bennington, Brookline, Deering, Francestown, Goffstown, Greenfield, Greenville, Hancock, Hillsborough, Hollis, Hudson, Litchfield, Lyndeborough, Manchester, Mason, Merrimack, Milford, Mont Vernon, Nashua, New Boston, New Ipswich, Pelham, Petersborough, Sharon, Temple, Weare, Wilton and Windsor. (Have we missed any?) Click on an underlined town above in order to go to a volunteer for look-ups about that town.

A Few Rules Before you request a Lookup from a book.

Lookups request should be limited to one name, or perhaps two if it is a married couple.
Information given will be limited. For example if it is a cemetery lookup, the information will be name of the cemetery and the information on the headstone.
Please do not ask for "everybody with X surname" or an entire family group, or for hard copies to be mailed; the volunteers have been asked not to comply with such requests.
Please make your request as specific as possible (first name, last name, known dates, etc.).
Include the name of the book or CD and county in your request.
In the subject line enter, the Town and County Name (Some of volunteers do more than one town or county.).

Volunteers have been advised to comply with U.S. copyright laws.
The USGenWeb copyright policy statement applying to all lookups may be reviewed at:
http://www.dsenter.com/faqs/uscopyrt.htm#policy

We need local volunteers who are willing to do record and library look ups. Can you help us?

After you get a rely to a Lookup request:

1. Please send a Thank You Note.
2. Send a follow up message if the information was significant - let the Volunteer who provided the Lookup share that feeling of finding important information.
3. Pass the favor on to other -- Volunteer to do Lookups in your Reference Material.

The people listed below have Volunteered to do some Hillsborough County look ups.

Robert J. Young	"History of the Town of Brookline, New Hampshire" (formerly Raby) with Genealogical Register, Edward E. Parker, 1887(?), photocopy of original book, 455 pp; "History of the Town of Hollis, New Hampshire, 1879," by Samuel T. Worcester, photoduplication 1994 by Higginson's Books, Salem, 394 pp; "History of New Ipswich, New Hampshire," by Frederick Kidder, 1852, photoduplication 1993 by Higginson's Books, 488 pp.; "An Account of Some of the Early Settlers of West Dunstable, Monson and Hollis, New Hampshire," by Charles S. Spaulding, 1915, photoduplication 1994 by Higginson's Books, 251 pp.; and "History of Wilton, New Hampshire," by Abiel Abbot Livermore and Sewell Putnam, 1888, photoduplication 1993 by Higginson's Books, 575 pp.
Richard WELCH	"History of Mason, NH from the First Grant in 1759, to the year, 1858," by John B. Hill (no index, original, 1st edition copy).
Steve McKay	"The History of Merrimack, New Hampshire" -- Merrimack before 1800 but includes some information through to today indexed and includes a genealogy section on the early families of the town.
Rhett Owings	"Proceedings at the Centennial Celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the Incorporation of the town of Mason, NH," August 1868, by John B. Hill, orignially printed in 1870. Contains lists of marriages and deaths from Nov 1857-Dec 1868, (no births) and a list of Civil War soldiers suppied from the town and, finally, a list of subscribers toward the expenses of the celebration. No index. 115 pages; "In Commemoration of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Incorporation of the Town of Mason N.H. 1768-1968," edited by Elizabeth Orton Jones, published by the Mason Historical Society. Includes photographs of 18th & 19th C. houses with descriptions of early inhabitants, rosters of military men from WWI & II and other wars, stories of early residents, a timeline of town history, stories of Uncle Sam and more. No index. 205 pages; and "History of Mason, NH,from the First Grant in 1759, to the year, 1858," 1858, by John B. Hill. I have aquired a new book picked up at a local used book store and I will be glad to do lookups when I have time and send copies of pages to folks from this book: ___Biographical Review, vol XXIII, Containing the Life Sketches of Leading Citizens of Cheshire and Hillsboro (sic) Counties, New Hampshire___, originally pub 1897. I own a 1992 facimile reprint by Heritage Books, Inc. I will check to see if ancestors are in the book, (three specific names at a time) and upon receipt of a SASE and uncancelled stamps to cover copying costs, will mail copies of the pages with references to the names researched. I do not have time to hand type info and email, sorry, the bios are long.
Jacqueline Savage Marshall	Has a personal copy of Daniel F. Seacomb's book, "History of the Town of Amherst, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, 1883." It is the 1972 edition, and it is indexed. 'The History of the Town of Goffstown 1733-1920' by George Plummer Hadley, Concord, NH: The Rumford Press, 1923. The first volume is a narrative about the history of the town and the second volume is ALL Genealogy!! I'll be happy to check the index for people. 'The History of the Town of Mont Vernon, New Hampshire'. It appears to have been compiled by Charles J. Smith, but it doesn't actually say so. His picture is on the leaf just opposite the title page. It was printed in Boston, Mass: Blanchard Printing Co., 1907.
Janice Mauldin Castleman	"History of the Town of Antrim, New Hampshire, From It's Earliest Settlement, to June 27, 1877, With a Brief Genealogical Record of All the Antrim Families" by Rev. W. R. Cochrane, published by the town in 1880. Some of the families listed in this book are my ancestors, the COCHRANs, especially, who lived in Francestown and Goffstown.
Arthur Sherburne	Has most of Hudson VR's from 1733-1867.
Dave Carlsen	"An Address, Delivered at the Centennial Celebration in Wilton, N.H., Sept. 25, 1839_ by Ephraim Peabody, published by B. H. Greene." I am willing to look up names in the book for other researchers and send the applicable paragraph or piece of information about their ancestor. Also check out Dave's research page http://www.csranet.com/~dcarlsen/genuki/BKM/bucksurname.html.

The people listed below live in Hillsborough County and have Volunteered to do some Hillsborough County record and library look ups.

A Few Rules Before you request a Lookup.

Lookups request should be limited to one name, or perhaps two if it is a married couple.
Please do not ask for "everybody with X surname" or an entire family group.
Please make your request as specific as possible (first name, last name, known dates, etc.).
Remember these Volunteers are doing leg work for you "so be nice to them."

Renee Brown-Bryant	Renee has offered to do look-ups in her local FHC for persons researching their ancestors from Hillsborough County. Please specify the book(s), article(s), film or microfiche you want her to check when making your request.
Nancy Hauser	Nancy resides in Nashua, Hillsborough County, NH. She is willing to do some leg work in Nashua.