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Wednesday, April 3, 2024
Scramlin --- What a Difference Time Makes -- Using Google Photos
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
John Houghton and Mary Farrar of Lancaster, Massachusetts -- Tombstone Tuesday
Monday, April 1, 2024
Stevens Memorial Library, Ashburnham, Massachusetts (See Resources for Genealogists)
The front doors I entered into, and faced the front counter and office area.
The cabinets and map draws are on both sides of the room. The clock is a Silas Hoadley Clock, circa 1800-1810. I never looked at the holding above because I went to the unit shown below.
- Bette Davis, a legendary actress of film, television, and theater. She lived in Ashburnham while attending Cushing Academy, graduating in 1927." I'm sharing this because, Bette was born in Lowell, MA, the city I live in.
Friday, March 22, 2024
Scituate Public Library (See the Resources for Genealogists)
(781) 545-8727
I could hardly get the entire library in one shot. Usually, I begin photographing what I see as I enter, usually the counter for checking out and returning books. Because I was really interested in the genealogy section, I am showing that first. Information about their collection of local history and genealogy collection is below.
The collection in the Local History Room consists of print, microfilm, and online sources. Materials in the Local History Room may only be used in the Library. Whenever possible duplicate titles are added to the Library's general circulating collection and are available for checkout.
Print Collection
Our print collection consists of, but is not limited to:
- Cemetery Records
- Family Histories
- Military Information
- Histories of Massachusetts Counties, Cities and Towns
- Vertical File Materials
- Scituate Town Reports 1873 – present
- School Yearbooks 1924 – present
- New England Historical Register 1965 – present
- Local Authors
For more information about Scituate's history, visit the Scituate Historical Society or the Scituate Town Archives.
Microfilm Collection
Scituate Herald: (incomplete holdings)
September 13, 1929 - December 1939 (gap September 1938 - August 1939)
January 1940 - October 1942 (gap April 18, 1941 - February 5, 1942)
January 1942 - December 1943 (incomplete)
January 1944 - February 16, 1967
South Shore Weekly Mirror: October 13, 1955 - December 1955
South Shore Mirror: January 1957 - December 1979*
*note: January 1975 - December 1975 titled South of Boston Mirror
South of Boston Mirror: May 22, 1974 - December 1, 1974
Scituate Mariner: January 1979 - December 2018
Scituate Mirror: January 1980 - December 1981
Digital Scituate - Digitized resources to view online:
- Chimes - Scituate High School Yearbooks beginning with 1924.
- Town Reports - Scituate's annual reports, searchable online. The years spanning 1848-1874 are contained in one digitized volume.
- Newspapers
- Scituate Mariner (1979-2018)
- Scituate Herald (1929-1967)
- South Shore Weekly Mirror (1975-1977)
- South Shore Mirror (1957-1979)
- South of Boston Mirror (1974-1975)
- Scituate Mirror (1974-1981)
- Mirror (1975-1977)