Athol Public Library
568 Main Street    Athol, MA 01331
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Kate L. Fay Archives Room

The Archives Room at the Athol Public Library is a great place to do genealogical research.

There is a great deal of material to research in our Archives.
Athol Transcript / Athol Daily News on microfilm from 1871 to current. 
Readers are available in the Archives room and the adult area of the library.
 

The contents of the library include the following:

Vital Records through the year 1849.  Hardbound volumes containing the births, marriages and deaths.  More than 174 towns in Massachusetts are included in this collection.    Another 18 towns are contained on Microfiche that may be looked at downstairs in the archives room on the reader/printer.

Town Histories or other information for the following towns:  

Amherst, Ashburnham, Athol, Barre, Beltchertown, Berkshire, Bernardston, Boston, Brookfield, Buckland, Buzzard's Bay, Canton, Charlemont, Clinton, Colrain, Concord, Conway, Dana, Dedham, Deerfield, Erving, Fitchburg, Framingham, Gardner, Gloucester, Greenfield, Hadley, Hatfield, Holyoke, Hubbardston, Lancaster, Leominster, Leyden, Longmeadow, Lowell, Lunenburg, Lynn, Malden, Marshfield, Martha's Vineyard, Medford, Millers Falls, Milton, Montague, Nantucket, Needham, New Salem, Newburyport, North Brookfield, North Orange, Northhampton, Northfield, Orange, Oxford, Palmer, Paxton, Pelham, Petersham, Phillipston, Pittsfield, Plymouth, Prescott, Princeton, Roxbury, Royalston, Rutland, Shutesbury, Springfield, Sunderland, Sutton, Templeton, Tully, Walpole, Warwick, Wendell, Westborough, Westhampton, Westminster, Wilbraham, Winchendon, Woburn, Worcester, also, Quabbin, Worcester County

Family History information for various names.  There are very few complete genealogies but various amounts of information on each name.  Surnames include the following:

Adams, Amsden,  Barker, Bishop, Briggs,  Capen, Carrier, Chase, Cragin,  Dexter,  Ellinwood, Ellis, Field, Foster, Goddard,  Hadley, Hapgood, Hutchins,  Manly, Morse, Munsey-Hopkins, Murray,  Nurse, Oliver,  Pratt, Proctor,  Rich, Roraback, Rushford,  Sherman, Smith, Stockwell and  Young.

Some other items available:

Maps  including - Athol 1795,  F.W. Beers Map of Athol and Environs, 1870, 

FW Beers Map of Athol Depot and Athol Center, 1870,

A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents: with additions 

Maine Biographies

National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Lineage Books.  (Some volumes missing)

Genealogist's Handbook for Atlantic Canada research

Guide to genealogical and historical holdings of Massachusetts

Massachusetts in the Army and Navy: during the war of 1861-65.

Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors and Marines in the Civil  War

Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolutionary War

Record of Massachusetts Volunteers: 1861-65

History of the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts

Records of the Colony of New Plymouth

History of the County of Worcester in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Cemetery Inscriptions for the towns of Ashburnham, Baldwinville, Templeton, Hubbardston, Phillipston,  Royalston and South Royalston, Westminster.