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 This mailing list is for discussions with others who are researching Providence County ancestry, or who have other genealogical or historical interests in Providence County. It is available in list or digest formats.

After you get a reply 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 others -- Volunteer to do Lookups in your Reference Material.

Books Available for Providence County Lookups

"By The Name of Dyer, A Genealogical Record", by William Allan Dyer, Syracuse, NY, 1940. This is a very complete and reasonably reliable source for information about the progeny of William and Mary Dyer, early settlers in the Massachusetts Bay Colony (Boston, @1634/35). It includes a six page introduction regarding Dyers in America, over 260 pages of lineage for the first six generations of the William and Mary Dyer family in Rhode Island, and a 33 page index of names, both Dyer and related names. tiphys@ameritech.net
Kenneth Brown - Dyer Look-Up Volunteer


"Laphams in America", by Bertha Bortle Beal Aldridge, published in 1953, which covers descendants of John Lapham who settled in Providence RI before 1673. allanabr@worldnet.att.net
Allen F. Abrahamse - LAPHAM Lookup Volunteer



North American Vital Records Index, a partial collection of birth, marriage and death records for the U.S. and Canada during the years 1631 to 1888. E-mail your lookup request and please limit to no more than three names. pib@etv.net
Bernice - Vital Records Lookup Volunteer


  For more volunteers, please see the Rhode Island USGenWeb Lookup Page


  If you would like to volunteer to look-up data,
  Please contact me at
GFSBrenda@aol.com

Interesting Internet Sites to Visit:

  Rhode Island Cemeteries Database Home Page

  The Political Graveyard: Cemeteries in RI
    and the politicians buried there.

  Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites - Rhode Island.

  Find A Grave - Rhode Island Listing of graves of famous people.

  Rhode Island Families Association.
    Publishers of the Rhode Island Genealogical Register,
    Rhode Island Vital Records, Rhode Island Wills

  Rhode Island Reading Room. Biographies and Histories

  Rhode Island State and County Vital Records

  Old Maps of New England

  Vital Records Information State Index information
   guidelines.

  Smithfield Quaker Marriages

  The Rhode Island State Archives Site for Probate Records, Rhode Island Photo Gallery, and more

  The Vietnam Veterans Memorial - Rhode Island - listing of
   names, rank, branch, city, Town or Country.

  Rhode Island History. This is the State Site. Good
   background information.

  Rhode Island Episcopal Church Records at the University of RI Library

  Genealogy Helplist - Rhode Island

  Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness - Rhode Island

  Rhode Island Department of State Library Services
   (with online catalogs).

  Rhode Island Higher Education Library Information Network

  The Grand Lodge of Rhode Island, Free and Accepted Masons.

  Rhode Island Tourism Division

  A Colorful Rhode Island Map.

  Government Information Sharing Project - Rhode Island Site

  Roger Williams Family Association

  John Carter, Printer and Postmaster, Providence, RI

  Discover Rhode Island Genealogy Web Ring

  Surname Page Links

  National Archives - North East Region

  New England Historical and Genealogical Society (NEHGS)

  Providence Community Monograph

  GenealogyForum.com's Internet Center - Rhode Island Sites

  GenealogyForum.com's Resource Center - Rhode Island Resources

  Southern New England Irish Families

  NY System Hot Weiners & Other RI Favorites - A great nostalgia site

  Lots of Other On-line Genealogy Resources
    Links, tools, How-to's, clubs, etc. not specific to
    Rhode Island or Providence County.


  If you know of any sites on the web that would be
  helpful to list here, Please
let me know.


List of Historical Records Repositories



Rhode Island Dept. of Health
Division of Vital Records
75 Davis Street
Providence, RI 02908
(401) 277-2812
Birth & Marriage records for the
state 1895 - present, death
records 1945 - present

Providence City Archives
City Hall
25 Dorrance Street
Providence, RI 02903
(401) 421-7740
Early Providence Vital Records

American-French Genealogy Society
located in the First Universalist Church
78 Earle Street
Woonsocket, RI. 02895
Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 2113
Pawtucket, RI 02861-0113

Rhode Island Historical Preservation and Heritage Commission
150 Benefit Street
Providence, RI 02903
(401) 277-2678

Diocese of Providence
1 Cathedral Square
Providence, RI 02903
(401) 278-4546

Rhode Island Black Heritage Society
46 Aborn Street
Providence, RI 02903
(401) 751-3490

Rhode Island Jewish Historical Association
130 Sessions Street
Providence, RI. 02906
(401) 331-1360

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
1000 Narragansett Parkway
Warwick, RI 02886
(401) 463-8150

Rhode Island State Archives
337 Westminster Street
Providence, RI 02903-3302
(401) 222-2353
FAX (401) 222-3199
Email: reference@archives.state.ri.us

Rhode Island State Historical Society
52 Power St.
Providence, RI 02906

Rhode Island Historical Society Library
121 Hope Street
Providence, RI 02906
(401) 273-8107
FAX Fax: (401) 751-7930
MAILING ADDRESS:
110 Benevolent Street
Providence, RI 02906

Rhode Island Genealogical Society
507 Clark's Row
Bristol, RI. 02809-1581

Supreme Court Judicial Records Center
One Hill Street
Pawtucket, RI 02860
(401) 277-3249
Early Naturalization & Court Records

Providence Public Library
Rhode Island Collection
225 Washington Street
Providence, RI 02903
(401) 455-8005

United States Naval War College
686 Cushing Road
Nwport, RI 02841
(401) 841-1140

Rhode Island Society, Sons of the American Revolution
c/o Robert Allen Greene, President
P.O. Box 137
East Greenwich, RI 02818

Society of Mayflower Descendants
35 Hodsell Street
Cranston, RI. 02910
(401) 467-7594

Italian Genealogical Society of America
P.O. Box 8571
Cranston, RI 02920-8571

Rhode Island Genealogical Society
13 Countryside Drive
Cumberland, RI 02864-2601

Rhode Island Mayflower Descendants
128 Massasoit
Warwick, RI 02888

Immigration and Naturalization Service
Federal Building
203 John O. Pastore
Providence, RI 02903

Cranston Historical Society
Sprague Mansion
1351 Cranston Street
Cranston, RI 02920
(401)944-9226

Brown University - John Hay Library (Special Collections)
20 Prospect Street
Box A
Providence, RI 02912
(401) 863-2146
(401) 863-2148 - Archives
FAX (401) 863-2093

Brown University - John Carter Brown Library
20 Prospect Street
P.O. Box 1894
Providence, RI 02912
(401)863-2725

Lincoln Public Library
145 Old River Road
Lincoln, RI 02865
(401)333-2422

Providence College
Phillips Memorial Library
River Avenue
Providence, RI 02918
(401)865-2242

Burrillville Town Clerk
70 Main Street
Harrisville, RI 02830
(401) 568-4300

Central Falls Town Clerk
580 Broad Street
Central Falls, RI 02863
(401) 727-7400

Glocester Heritage Society
Main St.
P.O. Box 269
Chepachet, RI 02814

Glocester Town Clerk
P.O. Box B
Chepachet, RI 02814

Cranston City Clerk
City Hall, 869 Park Ave
Cranston, RI 02910
(401) 461-1000

The League of Rhode Island Historical Societies
39 Forsythia Lane
Cranston, RI 02920
(401) 942-3015

Cumberland Town Clerk
45 Broad St
Cumberland, RI 02864
(401) 728-2400

East Providence City Clerk
145 Taunton Ave
E. Providence, RI 02914
(401) 435-7596

Foster Town Clerk
South Killingly Rd
Foster, RI 02825
(401) 392-9200

Rhode Island Genealogical Society
P.O. Box 433
Greenville, RI 02828

Johnston Town Clerk
1385 Hartford Ave
Johnston, RI 02919
(401) 351-6618

Lincoln Town Clerk
100 Old River Rd
Lincoln, RI 02865
(401) 333-1100

North Providence Town Clerk
City Hall, 2008 Smith St
N. Providence, RI 02911
(401) 232-0900

Scituate Town Clerk
Main St
N. Scituate, RI 02857
(401) 647-2822

North Smithfield Town Clerk
1 Main St
Slatersville, RI 02876
(401) 767-2200

Pawtucket City Clerk
City Hall, 137 Roosevelt Ave
Pawtucket, RI 02860
(401) 728-0500

Smithfield Town Clerk
64 Farnum Pike
Esmond, RI 02917
(401) 233-1000

Woonsocket Town Clerk
City Hall, 169 Main St
Woonsocket, RI 02895
(401) 762-6400


  If you know of any additions or corrections that
  would be helpful to list here, Please
let me know.

SOME RHODE ISLAND VITAL RECORDS

PLEASE CHECK BACK, THERE ARE MORE TO COME!

Birth Records.
Last additions made on April 9, 2003.

Providence Marriage Records
Latest additions were made on Aug. 20, 1998

  Providence Marriage Records
A different collection from a different source.
Latest additions were made on Jan. 2, 2006


  Death Records including Part of the State-wide Death Index
and clips from an Obituary Index of the Providence Gazette.
Latest additions were made on Feb. 27, 2004.


Providence County, Rhode Island 1777 Military Census Listings.
Last additions made on September 17, 1998.
Complete for Providence County.

Alien Registration List - Port of Providence 1798 - 1808.
Latest additions were made on Feb. 27, 2004.
Complete for Providence County.

  1790 Census for Providence County.
Complete for towns of Cumberland, Cranson, Foster, Johnston and North Providence.
Latest additions were made on January 3, 2006.


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We would like to add to the Rhode Island files of the USGenWeb Archives. If you have transcribed copies of wills, census records, military rosters, family bibles, etc., and would like to see them on the Internet for all to use, please contact the RIGenWeb coordinator, Susan Nahas

Files in the Archives for Providence County include part of the 1920 Federal Census, the wills of Thomas and Alice (Ashton) Angell, Gideon and Freelove (Fenner) Crawford, James, David and Levi Aldrich, and of James Strannahan, as well as the estate inventory for John Crawford, who died without a will, and articles on the Brown family.

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