Facts on Local Church Records

The New Hampshire Historical Society has an excellent manuscript collection of original church records, and a typescript collection of church records that indicates when members were admitted, date and reason for leaving the church, baptisms, marriages, and burials. The New Hampshire Society of Genealogists is compiling an inventory of all New Hampshire church records.
The American Baptist Historical Society, 1106 South Goodman Street, Rochester, New York 14620, and the Historical Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, 910 Commerce Street, Suite 400, Nashville, Tennessee 37203, both have a microfilm collection of some early church records from New Hampshire towns.

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Facts on Local Cemetery Records

   Few cemetery records have been published and most exist in manuscript form in various repositories. There is an extensive typescript collection augmented annually by the local chapters of the DAR. A copy of each volume is deposited at the New Hampshire Historical Society, whose growing collection of cemetery inscriptions from all sources is being microfilmed. There are numerous typed and indexed cemetery transcriptions at the New Hampshire Historical Society, including many for southeastern towns.
Contributions to genealogical periodicals often contain cemetery inscriptions, and an increasing number of cemetery records have been published by local historical societies in recent years.

   Cemetery records and gravestone inscriptions are a rich source of information for family historians. Cemetery and other sources of information associated with death include:

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