Holbrook Collection Online

[Claire Smith]

If you're researching ancestors in New England, a huge collection of 8.2 million records was just made available on ancestry today. You may have looked at some of these records on microfilm. I did at NEHGS in Boston just last month. These are the original town records, not the state records. Boston records are even included. Here's where you can find them on ancestry:

http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=2495

You can read more about the collection in the Boston Globe.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2012/03/20/vital_records_go_from_massachusetts_town_vaults_to_cyberspace/

You can also get details of the collection on the site where you used to be able to purchase them on microfilm.

http://www.archivepublishing.com/index.html

Claire