In
January 2014, I wrote about The Irish Ancestral Research Association and highlighted the
databases on their site. One database contains information about the records
for the Massachusetts Catholic Order of Foresters. This was a fraternal life
insurance organization founded in Boston in 1879 by a group of Irish
immigrants. Over the ensuing decades, the organization spread throughout the
state and by the end of the 19th century there were ninety-five branches
throughout Massachusetts.[1]
An archivist
from the Joseph P. Healey Library, University of Massachusetts-Boston got in touch
to let me know about the efforts that have led to the creation of an online
index for this set of records on the library website. This index facility includes more search parameters and also contains the most recent versions of the indexing efforts, a project
that is still ongoing. Records for the Foresters, which are housed at the library, are available through 1942,
with the index currently covering the years up to 1935.
Read more about the Catholic Order of Foresters, access the indexing project database, and learn where to write to for copies of the records by clicking here.
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