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Genealogy
The Hurley Library at the Old Colony History Museum houses a collection of vital records and family histories from the 19th and 20th centuries. These volumes, authored by notable historians and genealogists, provide a valuable resource for tracing lineage and understanding local heritage in the Old Colony region.

The Morse Record: A History of the Proceedings of the Morse Society in Annual Meeting, December 4, 1895
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The Nickerson Family: The Descendants of William Nickerson, 1604-1689, First Settler of Chatham, Massachusetts
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The Omohundro Genealogical Record: The Omohundros and Allied Families in America: Blood lines traced from the first Omohundro in Westmoreland County, Virginia, 1670, through his descendants in three great branches and allied families down to 1950.
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The Perrys of Rhode Island, and Tales of Silver Creek; The Bosworth-Bourn-Perry Homestead, revised and enlarged from a lecture at the Public library, Cambridge, N.Y., April 13, 1909
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The Proceedings of the Bar of the County of Bristol: Upon the Occasion of the Death of George Marston, and the Action of the Court Thereon
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The Putnam Lineage; Historical-Genealogical Notes Concerning the Puttenham Family in England, together with lines of royal descent, and showing the ancestors of John Putman of Salem and his descendants through five generations, together with some account of other families of the name and of the Putnams of the Mowhawk Valley
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The Record of Births, Marriages and Deaths and Intentions of Marriage, in the Town of Stoughton from 1727 to 1800, and the Town of Canton from 1797-1845; preceeded by the records of the South precinct of Dorchester from 1715 to 1727
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The Seaver Family: A Genealogy of Robert Seaver of Roxbury, Massachusetts, and Some of His Descendants
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The Tilson Genealogy from Edmond Tilson at Plymouth, New England 1638 to 1911; with Brief Sketches of the Family in England back to 1066
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The Tracy Genealogy: Being Some of the Descendants of Stephen Tracy of Plymouth Colony, 1623; also Ancestral Sketches and Chart
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The Tucker Genealogy: A Record of Gilbert Ruggles and Evelina Christina Tucker, their Ancestors and Descendants
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The Vinton Memorial, Comprising a Genealogy of the Descendants of John Vinton of Lynn, 1648; also, Genealogical Sketches of Several Allied Families...With an appendix containing a history of the Braintree iron works, and other historical matter
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The Wildbore Index Register: A List of Individuals Related by Marriage or Descent to the Wilbore Family
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The Wildbores in America, a Family Tree; Originally Published in 1907, rev. and augm. in this 2nd ed.
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The William Ward Genealogy: The History of the Descendants of William Ward of Sudbury, Mass., 1638-1925
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Thomas Cooke of Rhode Island: A Genealogy of Thomas Cooke, alias Butcher of Netherbury, Dorsetshire, England, who came to Taunton, Massachusetts in 1637 and settled in Portsmouth, Rhode Island in 1643
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Tinkham: A Biographical Index; Compiled from Public Records, Personal Recollections, and Assorted Family Histories
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Town of Weston. Births, Deaths and Marriages, 1707-1850. 1703-Gravestones-1900. Church Records, 1709-1825.; Appendix and Addenda, Cent society, gleanings from the town files, bits of genealogy, errors, indexes
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Vital Record of Rehoboth, 1642-1896. Marriages, Intentions, Births, Deaths.; With supplement containing the record of 1896, colonial returns, lists of early settlers, purchasers, freemen, inhabitants, the soldiers serving in Philip's war and the revolution.
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Vital Record of Rhode Island. 1636-1850. First Series. Births, Marriages and Deaths. A Family Register for the People.
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