All History Is Local

All History is Local: Uncovering the Story of Your Brookline Neighborhood Ken Liss Brookline Adult & Community Education January 24, 2008

What Can Research Sources Tell You About the History of Your Neighborhood? Ken Liss Brookline Adult & Community Education January 24, 2008

The Lay of the Land: Maps & Atlases

Streets & Houses: Building Permits, Deeds & Plot Plans

How Things Looked: Photographs & Illustrations

The People of the Neighborhood

Street Lists

Census Records

Obituaries

Genealogical Research

Filling In the Picture: Newspaper Articles and more

Maps and Atlases : Changes Over Time Ken Liss Brookline Adult & Community Education January 24, 2008 The Blake Estate 1888 Blake Park 1919

Maps and Atlases : Changes Over Time Ken Liss Blake Park, 1927 Brookline Adult & Community Education January 24, 2008

Maps and Atlases: Sources Ken Liss

Town Atlases (1872, 1874, 1884, 1888, 1893, 1897, 1900, 1907, 1913, 1919, 1927, 1931, 1976, 1995) Brookline Room, Brookline Public Library

1888 Bromley Atlas of Brookline http://www.communityheritagemaps.com/brookline1888/index.html 1888 Robinson’s Atlas of Brookline http://www.brooklinehistoricalsociety.org/archives/atlas/atlas.asp 1919 Bromley Atlas of Brookline http://www.communityheritagemaps.com/brookline1919/index.html

Brookline GIS Parcel Data Viewer http:// wgis.town.brookline.ma.us/website/brookline/Parcels

Brookline Adult & Community Education January 24, 2008

Streets & Houses: Building Permits Ken Liss Brookline Adult & Community Education January 24, 2008

Streets & Houses: Deeds & Plot Plans Ken Liss Brookline Adult & Community Education January 24, 2008

Streets & Houses: Sources Ken Liss Brookline Adult & Community Education January 24, 2008

Annual Reports, Brookline Brookline Room, Brookline Public Library (See, especially, reports of Highway Department, Planning Board, and Building Department)

Building Permits and other Records Building Department, Town Hall (Temporarily in Old Lincoln School) Dates and details on construction and renovations of homes and other buildings

Deeds and Plot Plans Norfolk County Registry of Deeds, Dedham

Streets & Houses: Photographs & Illustrations Ken Liss Brookline Adult & Community Education January 24, 2008

The People of the Neighborhood: The Annual Brookline Street List Ken Liss 1926 1940 1954 Brookline Adult & Community Education January 24, 2008

The People of the Neighborhood: United States Census Data Ken Liss Brookline Adult & Community Education January 24, 2008

The People of the Neighborhood: Biographical Info: Biography Resource Center Ken Liss Brookline Adult & Community Education January 24, 2008

The People of the Neighborhood: Biographical Info: Obits Ken Liss Brookline Adult & Community Education January 24, 2008

The People of the Neighborhood: Biographical Info: Ancestry.com Ken Liss Brookline Adult & Community Education January 24, 2008

The People of the Neighborhood: Sources Ken Liss Brookline Adult & Community Education January 24, 2008

The Brookline Street List (Back to 1891; other directories back to 1875) Brookline Room, Brookline Public Library

Decennial Census of the United States 1790-1930 (Information about individuals is made available 72 years after each Census) http:// www.mln.lib.ma.us/electronic/brookline.htm (Log in with Brookline Library card number; Select Heritage Quest Online) Also available on Ancestry.com

Ancestry.com http://www.ancestry.com (Subscription required. Census records, immigration records, military records, family trees, and more)

The People of the Neighborhood: More Sources Ken Liss Brookline Adult & Community Education January 24, 2008

Boston Public Library Obituary Database http:// bpl.org/catalogs/frame_obits.htm Index to Globe and Herald obits 1971-74, 1983-2002

Social Security Death Index http://ssdi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi and other places

American Family Immigration History Center http:// www.ellisisland.org /

Biography Resource Center http:// www.mmrls.org/homeaccess.html (Log in with Brookline Library card number and scroll down to Arts & Humanities. Many other databases available as well.)

Newspaper Archives: Brookline Chronicle Ken Liss Brookline Adult & Community Education January 24, 2008

Newspaper Archives: Boston Globe Ken Liss 1897 1914 1921 Brookline Adult & Community Education January 24, 2008

Newspaper Archives: Boston Globe Ken Liss 1916 1917 Brookline Adult & Community Education January 24, 2008

Newspaper Archives: New York Times Ken Liss 1948 1999 Brookline Adult & Community Education January 24, 2008

Newspaper Archives: Sources Ken Liss Brookline Adult & Community Education January 24, 2008

Brookline Chronicle and other Brookline papers On Microfilm, Brookline Public Library, Lower Level

Boston Globe, 1872-1924 http:// proquest.umi.com.ezproxy.bpl.org/pqdweb?RQT =306&DBId=15331&cfc=1 (Log in using card number from older, gray Brookline Library cards or register your card with the Boston Public Library)

Boston Globe, 1980 – Present; Boston Herald, 1991 - Present http:// www.mmrls.org/homeaccess.html (Log in with Brookline Library card number and scroll down to Newspapers.)

ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Times, 1851-2004 http:// proquest.umi.com.ezproxy.bpl.org/pqdweb?RQT =306&DBId=6861&cfc=1 (Log in using card number from older, gray Brookline Library cards or register your card with the Boston Public Library)

Bringing It All Together: The Story of a Neighborhood Ken Liss http:// blakepark.muddyriver.us Brookline Adult & Community Education January 24, 2008

What Can You Find About Your Neighborhood? Corey Hill article, Boston Globe , 1875 Griggs Park map, 1919 Monmouth Street Residents 1900 U.S. Census Aspinwall Hill Ad, 1892 Hood’s Creamery, 277 Harvard St. (Now Starbuck’s) Chronicle , 1917

All History is Local: Uncovering the Story of Your Brookline Neighborhood Ken Liss [email_address] Brookline Adult & Community Education January 24, 2008 Questions?