Scituate Genealogy

A number of the families I'm interested in (ancestors of Albert Edward Nash, 1878-1958) resided in Scituate, MA, and neighboring towns from Weymouth to the Cape. This report includes his ancestors, their siblings, and cousins. There are about 15000 indexed individuals.

I would like to have a hyperlinked descendant report for these families, but have found that difficult to do. By means of a trick, I could use Reunion to create one report with all the families hyperlinked, but I'm still not satisfied with the results. (The trick was to make immigrants ancestors all cousins and create the report.) An idiosyncracy of this method is that many families appear twice, once under the father's name, and once under the mother's name.

Feel free to link to this page. I will periodically update the pages from my Reunion database, so the individual pages will not be stable, but this one will always be here.

Please visit my main genealogy page, and from there more pages on other areas: Reading/Lynn, Watertown, Roxbury, and Eastham, MA; Maine, Connecticut, and the Hudson Valley region of New York.

Some maps drawn by L. Vernon Briggs for his History of Shipbuilding on North River are here on line.

This Scituate Genealogy is indexed on GENDEX, the WWW Genealogical Index.

List of Surnames

Table of families (a big file: 648k)

Index of names: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y

Sources

Links and addresses

• Historical and genealogical societies

  • Scituate Historical Society          (phone: 617-545-1083)
    Laidlaw Historical Center
    43 Cudworth Road, Scituate, MA 02066

  • The Massachusetts Society of Genealogists

  • New England Historic Genealogical Society

• US GenWeb Project:

  • Counties: Plymouth, Norfolk, Bristol, Barnstable.
  • Towns: Bridgewater, Cohasset, Duxbury, Hanover, Hingham, Marshfield, Plymouth, Weymouth.

• Local history and genealogy books on the web.

  • New England History and Genealogy Free Books Online Effort. See the growing list of local history and genealogy books. The formats for these on-line books varies. A few are in html format which allows you to search for words in your web browser, but most are in an image form. Some are in the image format called GIF which allows you to view them in your web browser, but many are in TIFF format, a format which is more compact than GIF format, but requires something besides your web browser to view. (Information on viewing TIFF format images is available there.) It has links to, among others,
    • George Lincoln's book History of Hingham, Mass published 1893
    • Cohasset Families 1909 by Davenport. Also Cohasset Vital Records.
    • History of Weymouth (4 volumes) 1923
    • History of Duxbury by Justin Winsor, 1849
    • Early Planters of Scituate by Harvey Hunter Pratt, pub.1929. Also, History of Scituate by Samuel Deane, pub. 1831. Also, Scituate Vital Records.
    • History of Marshfield, by Lysander S. Richards. (1901,1905)
    • Many family genealogies such as Delano, Clement King, Southworth, Tower, Thomas White.
  • D. Bradford Damon's Damon Genealogy is online at D. Scott Damon's website for Damon Genealogy. Also check out this site's numerous links of interest.

• Other web pages

  • Kaye Hooley's web page "Jacob Hatch, His Roots and Branches, (c1786-1876), Descendant of Thomas Hatch of Scituate." Kaye has lots on the Hatch family and relatives, with maps, wills, and links to other Hatch pages.
  • Marvin "Woody" Woodworth's Walter Woodworth page has lots of information on the Woodworth family including pictures, resources, reunion information, and Woodworth links.

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David Pane-Joyce
Worcester, MA

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