Genealogy, Family Trees and Family History Records online - Ancestry.com. Immigrant Servants Database. Maine Gravestone Photos. Archives: Our Collections. The Massachusetts Archives holds Massachusetts vital records covering the years 1841-1920. The vital records cover births, marriages, and deaths that occurred in Massachusetts. The Archives not only holds the records, but also indices to these records.
The information from the 1841-1910 Birth, Marriage & Death indices has been entered into a searchable database. We welcome you to utilize this database to find the citations for the Birth, Marriages & Death records you are researching. Each index entry will include the person’s first and last name, the town or city where the event occurred, the year, volume number, and page number. —It is important to note that you need to search alternate spellings of first and last names as the information was frequently recorded as the clerk interpreted the names, or phonetically. Please note that you may find records with citations that include either an * or a #. 150 Mt. We are aware that there are errors in the database. Col. Allen History. According to the decutions of antiquarians and others who have investigated the origin of surnames, the names Allan and Allen appear to have come from the same remote source; but Allen generally is given an English origin, while Allan, so far at least as it relates to the particular family here considered, is distinctly Scotch [trans note: the word is 'Scottish!
'] and is traced to Alan, high constable of Scotland and lord of Galloway and Cunninghame, and who died A.D. 1234. (I) Major William Allan, the immigrant ancestor and progenitor of the family here treated, was born in Scotland about the year 1720, and died in Nova Scotia about 1790. He was a gentleman of means, education and high social position, an officer in the British army, and tradition has it that his rank was that of major. Little indeed is known of his early life except what is learned from a family record in his own handwriting, and from which free quotation is made in these annals.
Family History Archive. Using the Surname search When using the Surname search, please note that not all surnames in the collection will be searched, since only the most prominent surnames were cataloged. If you do a Surname search and don't get any results returned, your surname may still be found in our collection. For a comprehensive search of the collection, enter your surname into the Search All text box, and select the Search full text checkbox. This is the best way to find your surname if you didn't find suitable results in a Surname search.
Keep in mind that in a full text search, any surname that is also a common word will pull up many unwanted pages. Getting better search results When you include the Full Text option in your search, our database will locate every page containing the words you included in your search and may return up to10,000 of those pages in your results.
We suggest narrowing your search by using the Keyword searches. More information about the collection. Genealogy Charts. Massachusetts Archives. Nationwide Gravesite Locator. To search for burial locations of veterans, please provide the following: The database of burial information is updated each day. Search for burial locations of veterans and their family members in VA National Cemeteries, state veterans cemeteries, various other military and Department of Interior cemeteries, and for veterans buried in private cemeteries when the grave is marked with a government grave marker. The Nationwide Gravesite Locator includes burial records from many sources. These sources provide varied data; some searches may contain less information than others.
Information on veterans buried in private cemeteries was collected for the purpose of furnishing government grave markers, and we do not have information available for burials prior to 1997. Erroneous information can be corrected, but we are unable to add to the information contained in the existing record. The Arlington National Cemetery provides information on service members buried there. U.S. The PDRH.