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Books and newsletters downloadable from this site.


The Woodworth Family of America, Descendants of Walter Woodworth of 1630 Through Six Generations - by Jeanette Woodworth Behan, published 1988    (PDF file)
     Information about availability of the online book was provided by Andrew Gillum to this web site.   The book has been digitized by the Boston Library.  In PDF format and word searchable.   Jim Behan, intellectual property rights owner, has released the book to public domain.  He requests that where the book is used that credit be given to the book in accordance with standard genealogy protocol.
     Bob Jones has made digital modifications to the Boston Library PDF file to make the copy more convenient and efficient for users, as stated here. 
I have done the following to the download - without making any word changes to the Boston version:
   1) reduced the file size a bit from 73M to 69M
   2) changed it to open to single page reading; starting at the book cover not at the first numeric page
   3) rotated the four pages of longhand at the beginning and end - so they can be seen without twisting. They were
         printed on the inside of the back and front hard covers
   4) adjusted the page numbering to match Jeanette's
   5) where Jeanette had no page numbers at the beginning and end, I added a series of numbers in the A, B, C, ..... style
    .    There is also a section of i, ii, iii, iv .... etc. which she did have and they are now matched.
   6) the main body has numeric pages from 1 to 563 which now match exactly.
The last three changes refer to the way pdf documents show their page numbers.  Before they did not match with those on the scanned pages.

The Woodworth Family of America, Descendants of Walter Woodworth of 1630, Seventh Generation, Volume II, by Jeanette Woodworth Behan, released 9 April 2022   (PDF file)  This is the manuscript that Jeanette Behan was working on before she passed away.  Jim Behan had aided others with the information from the manuscript on request.   Jim provided a xerox copy to Marvin "Woody" Woodworth to aid others when Jim was away from home.   Woody gradually digitized the manuscript over the years, and added text that had been written in the margins.  As time passed, it was clear that the immense work and valuable data that Jeanette had performed must be made available to the Woodworth family to ensure future availability to the descendants of Walter Woodworth born 1608.  An effort was made to clean up the thousands of OCR (Optical Character Recognition) errors, add data that was included in the margins, make the manuscript adhere as closely as possible to Jeanette's intent, and then release the manuscript.  Jim Behan has approved release.
 Index ("as-is") for the above:  Index for 7th generation


Walter Woodworth of Scituate, Mass   by William Atwater Woodworth, published 1898. Downloadable book.  The complete book is in word searchable, text based PDF format. (You'll need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader from Adobe to open this file.   Be sure to read the introduction regarding a Walter, Jr.  There was no Walter, Jr.


Famous Woodworth, Descendants of Thomas Woodworth, Born About 1640 and Joseph Woodworth, Born about 1644,  by Harry Rice   Downloadable book in PDF format. Size 47 MB.  Scanned images.  OCRd but many OCR errors.   Public domain.   Per a close relative of the author, the intent is to allow all to benefit from the works of Harry Rice.   "Harry's only daughter Pedie passed away in 2016, but I spoke to her about her father's book before she died.  As a librarian, she was keen on having her father's work made available, her only stipulation being that his name always be associated with it whenever posted". 
NOTE:  Some of the index pages are out of order.  May work on getting them in order later, but wanted to get the book out now


 Descendants of Walter Woodworth, Scituate, Mass. by Elijah B. Woodworth, published in 1901    This book, despite the title, is not the genealogy of Walter Woodworth, but rather of James Woodworth, great grandchild of Walter Woodworth (Walter 1> Benjamin 2> Benjamin 3> James 4 ). Downloadable book in PDF format.   Good information for 4th generation James down.   The book is fairly short ... 40 pages or so but graphics turn it into a fairly large 1.3 meg file.   Clarifying further, the book lists the children of Walter, but does not show the children of Walter's son Thomas nor who he married,  does not show the children of Walter's son Joseph nor who he married, does not show the children of Walter's son Isaac nor who he married, etc.

Life and Descendants of Selah Woodworth, 1750 - 1823, by Leon R. Brown, 1940.  Complete book shrunk down to "only" 13.2 megs in a PDF file.   Not OCRd, but has good resolution for "zoomability", or enlarging using PDF's zoom-in feature. 
 

History of Scituate Massachusetts From Its First Settlement to 1851  by Rev Samuel Deane
Good history of Scituate, but contains an erroneous account of Benjamin and Walter, Jr.   Benjamin is claimed to have died in the King Philip (nn Indian Chief) but survived to be the executor of Walter's will.   Walter, Jr, never existed, and was caused by a missing Joseph in a Joseph-Joseph-Joseph line by the residents of Little Compton.  An alleged son "Robert" was never named in Walter's will.
 

The Woodworth Family Newsletter   Jeanette (Woodworth) Behan (deceased) published a series of twelve Woodworth newsletters, beginning in 1984 and ending in 1986.


Extracted data from Anderson's "The Great Migration" for Walter Woodworth    Applicable pages 414, 1681, 1683, and 2064 - 2067 in PDF format.

 

Samuel (the poet) Woodworth's "Woodworth Book"   Contains many of Rev Samuel Dean's errors, but still good info on other matters.  (PDF file) The foreword by Sam's grandson states that it is obvious that Samuel just had a fresh read of the error filled Samuel Dean's book.


Crossing the Plains   (PDF file. )    James Woodworth's diary of his 4 month wagon train journey to California.  Downloadable complete book. Using a US atlas map and James' descriptions, one can follow the actual route used by James' wagon train. 

The Ledger of Lott Woodworth.  (PDF file) The business ledger of Lott Woodworth (Maj), woolen manufacturer, of Cambridge, NY. Line is Walter 1, Benjamin 2, Caleb 3, William 4, Lott 5.  Book is deteriorated and varies in legibility.  Book handed down to the webmeister and brothers Bill and Kirk.

The Diary of Deacon Elihu Woodworth 1835-1836  (PDF file) Paul Bumpas had this on his genealogy web site until it went "down".   Paul has given permission for this web site to host the Elihu diary. 

Robert Bell and Lucy Zell Woodworth, Antecedents and Progeny, Facts and Anecdotes  by John Bell Woodworth.   (PDF file)  A genealogy book with photos and detailed comments   PDF file courtesy of the LDS.   (8.6 meg file.)   JBW's line is Walter>Benjamin>Caleb>William>Lott>William>MalcomWilliam>RobertBell>JohnBell
NOTE:  The last page is a circular genealogy chart.  Use PDF's zoom feature for this page to enlarge for legibility.

The Early Planters of Scituate by Harvey Hunter Pratt.  Published by the Scituate Historical Society 1929. (PDF file)  A history of the town of Scituate, Massachusetts, from its establishment to the end of the Revolutionary War.  
Word searchable PDF file.  Includes references to Walter and his sons.    Information provided by Keith Berry.

King Philips War.   The early colonialists' misunderstandings with natives led to war with King Philip (Puritans' name for Chief Metacomet) and the Massanoit.

Ledger of William Woodworth b 1734/35 and Descendants in one PDF file.
Ledger of William Woodworth b 1734/35 and descendants in single page files    William is of the line  (4) William   b. Jan 4, 1734/35, (3) Caleb     b. May 22, 1704, (2) Benjamin  b. abt 1649, (1) Walter Woodworth
I am now certain that the author of the ledger is Julia Woodworth Crouch, daughter of Calvin Van Kirk Woodowrth, Sr.   The initials "JWC" are used throughout the ledger which would be her initials.    She visited her brother Calvin Van Kirk Woodworth, Jr, (my grandfather) in Minco, Ok, in the early 1900s and a left a ledger with him that is very similar in content and penmanship.   She was also a DAR.   I grew up with about four paintings of hers on several walls in the house in Minco.
The person on the front of the ledger, Ruth Pederson, appears to be unrelated to Woodworths.  Julia Woodworth Crouch died in Baraboo, WI, with no living family, and the ledger from the estate may have found its way to Ruth Pederson Paulson, also of Wisconsin, who made the effort to find a proper "home" for the ledger.and did so in 1979.
A CD of the scanned ledger was provided by Sara Curtis, descendant of William Woodworth b 1734/1735.
 

 

 

Woodworth Dscendancy Lines   Quickly determine who in the Woodworth Mail List Group are nearest your Woodworth line.   This type of "quick find" listing is unique on genealogy pages, and speeds finding researchers who share your area of interest and resources.   Not on it?  Send your line to wildwudy@aol.com for inclusion.
Early Lebanon, Connecticut Woodworths  A Database by Susan Moore.
Early Salisbury, CT, records for Woodworths.  By  Nancy Bowne Gil
         Grand (taxes owed) Lists, Salisbury, CT
         Vital Records, Salibury, CT
Lona Cappis's Database of Unconnected Woodworths,  Bits & Pieces From 18 Years Of Research.   A source of Woodworths, particularly Ohio, Michigan, and surrounding area.

Nova Scotia and New Brunswick Woodworths
Many of our early Woodworths migrated  to Canada in the Nova Scotia and New Brunswick areas with the offer of free land, and some migrated back to the US.    Special research on Nova Scotia Woodworths by Keith Berry of Edmonton, Alberta
Barbour Collection, Woodworth Page Excerpts.  
Keith Berry's Barbour collection of Vital Records for Woodworth is no longer available as they have been listed on Family Search, and Family Search has an excellent system of searching those files.  And the records were 2.7 gigabytes.  Way too much for storing here.
Revolutionary War Pensions for Woodworths  Pension papers for four Woodworths from the War of 1776.     Provided by Keith Berry.
Woodworths in DAR and SAR Records   (Provided by Bill Woodworth, our DAR/SAR man in Painted Post, NY)
Miscellaneous Woodworth Documentation provided by Dan Jenkins.   Dan Jenkins (deceased) of Scituate, MA, collected some documentation and genealogy notes from many sources.  This was a project under construction until his passing.  
Message Boards & Forums:   Good places to post "looking fors" with fairly good results.
     Rootsweb Message Board for Woodworth
      Ancestry Message Board for Woodworth   (Identical to above Rootsweb message board except for name)
      Genealogy.com Forum for Woodworth     
      CousinsConnect.com    
Join the Woodworth Genealogy Discussion Group

  SUBSCRIBE TO WOODWORTH GENEALOGY DISCUSSION GROUP (GROUPS.IO)

 Then join in the discussions or just quietly monitor the discussions for information.  Either way is fine.
1841 England census showing distribution of Woodworths   Shows number of Woodworths in each county in the 1841 census.   Compiled by Marvin "Woody" Woodworth
Location of Kent County (Shire) and other counties of  England:   Great map for finding Kent County (Kent Shire) as well as all counties of England.  Click on the counties and it brings up its cities and travel information.  Great for researching information and travel details.   And by the way, the famed Canterbury Cathedral is in Kent County, city of Canterbury.
Harry Woodworth's miscellaneous collection of Woodworth obits, marriages, and news.  Harry Woodworth of Brockton, MA, provides this info and adds to it on a periodic basis. 
Wayne County, NY Woodworths -- material collected by Jim Woodworth of North St Pete, FL:
            Farm directory Ontario and Wayne counties, NY.pdf
            History of Wayne County, NY.pdf
            Newspaper cliippings from Wayne County, NY.pdf
            Military History Wayne County, NY.pdf
Linkpendium for Woodworth   Directory of genealogy related sites.
Wikipedia for genealogy research in Sfaffordshire, UK and for Stowe-on-Chartley, Walter Woodworth (b1608) home town
Bibles:   

       -  Excerpts from Bible.  These siblings (or ?) from Lemuel (#217)
           b15 July 1772, son of Lemuel, b. Lebanon 25 June 1735, #74 in Jeanette
           Behan's book;
             Abner Woodworth  Jan 4th 1797
             Betsy J Woodworth  July 4th 1797
             Laura O. Woodworth  April 7th 1822
             Lemuel J Woodworth  April 29 1826
             Leander B. Woodworth  (known as Buel)  March 13th 1830
             Lucius A. Woodworth  Jan 13th 1832
             Loren E. Woodworth  Oct 30th 1834
             Lucinda E Woodworth  July 23, 1839
            http://sites.rootsweb.com/~nygreen2/abner_woodworth_family_bible.htm

 

WOODWORTH RESOURCE LINKS (to other sites)
Stafforshire Parish Register    (Requires sign in to FamilySearch) 
This link is to the legible version of Walter's Staffordshire Parish Register.  The Illegible version is original hand written script, faded, worn, and mostly illegible.   This version is the "copied into legible text" version, and much more desirable to read and use, but one must log on to Family Search to read it.  This is the version the Woodworths wish they had found first.

     Marriage of Henrye Wodworth and Jonne Webe Mzy 18, 1600
     Thomas, baptised 1605 son of Henry and Jonne Woddworth
     Walter, baptised 1608 son of Henry and Jonne Woodworthe
Cyndi's List on Getting Your Start in Genealogy     Tutorials in genealogy, how-to's, guidelines, ethics, etc.
and
Cyndi's List    A wealth of information on everything pertaining to genealogy.
New Brunswick Archives    Good for New Brunswick cemeteries and vital stats  (Link provided by Keith Berry of Edmonton, AB)                (Lots of our Woodworths have migrated both ways across the Canadian/US border).
The History of King's County by Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton. (King's County, Nova Scotia)   (And the Eaton author is kin to our Keith Berry)  (Google book link)  (Provided by Alfred Woodworth, NB, CA)
The index in the back of the book is incomplete for Woodworths.  To find all Woodworths in the book, click here
New Brunswick Newspaper Vital Statistics  Extracts of obits, etc, from New Brunswick newspapers.  452 Woodworth records.   (Provided by Iris Woodworth-Watson)
Nova Scotia Vital Statistics
          Includes Woodworth  Births:    75                             Covers:  Births: 1864-1877
                                           Marriages: 350                                       Marriages 1864-1930
                                           Deaths:    271                                         Deaths: 1864-1877 and 1908-1955
(Link provided by Keith Berry of Edmonton, AB)
Shortcuts to Many Woodworth Sources   GenealogyBuff.com provides pre-completed searches for "Woodworth" on many genealogy sites.  
Rootsweb WorldConnect   55,000+ Woodworth entries with downloadable GEDCOM files.  (NOTE:  All of the information on Ancestry's fee based "One World Tree" is in Rootsweb's free "World Connect".) 
Search Rootsweb's Woodworth Mail List Archives by threads
and
Tutorial on how to effectively use Rootsweb's new archives search engine.
Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War     Search database for Woodworth Civil War veteran gravesites and information, and also perform a service of adding civil war veterans for those known but missing from the database.    
Chute Genealogy - (Woodworth section)  This is a link to the book on Google.  The whole book can be downloaded as a PDF file (15mb).  Or one can word search within the book online.  Or one can cause specific pages to be scanned and converted to digital text and then copied to one's computer, but the formatting doesn't match the book.   (Link provided by Gail Simpson)
Albert County, New Brunswick Genweb Scott Kletke hosts this site, and says there is a ton of Woodworths on it.
Jim Woodworth's (of Spokane) Page    892 Woodworths listed on his World Connect page.
Woodworth Family Facts on Ancestry    Some statistics compiled by Ancestry
An extensive list of Woodworth books on World Cat   Lists Woodworth books and how close one is to a library that contains that particular book.
CEMETERIES:

FindAGrave  Millions of cemetery records.  Lots of Woodworths.  And can leave comments, add information, and interact with others.   Consider contributing obits and headstone pics for others.
Access Genealogy  
Internment.Net
Nation Wide Gravesite Locator
US GenWeb Tombstone Transcription Project
 
Woodworths on Linkpendium  Lots of stuff.  Some free Woodworth biographies, photos, and obits.  But has pay materials, too.
All Woodworths on Family Search  ( 228,060 Woodworths listed)   Alter the search as needed.  One may be unable to download images until after establishing an account, which is free.   I found an 1870 census image for my great grandfather and downloaded it after after registering (free).
LDS has scanned 10,000 history books and placed on line, but not necessarily viewable on line.  (from Scott Kletke)
Woodworths in the Civil War   438 Woodworths are listed in the National Park Service's records.  Also provides location on microfilm so that one can make a separate search for detailed records.
Map of Early Little Compton (called Seconet in Walter's will)   This is a map of early Little Compton about dated approx 1672 showing nine properties of Walter Woodworth and three of Benjamin Woodworth.    These properties were mentioned in Walter's will.   A later description in Bayles HISTORY OF NEW PLYMOUTH states that William Bradford confirmed to the proprietors in a deed/grant that the following were in fact the proprietors of the land in Little Compton:  Joseph Church, Benjamin Church, Willaim Southworth, William Fobes, John Rouse, Thomas Ward, Nathaniel Warren, John Shearman, Benjamin Woodworth, Isaac Woodworth, Thomas Woodworth, Joseph Woodworth, Edward, Richmond, William Padodie, Thomas Gray, John Rogers, John Irish, Simon Rouse, Peter Collamore, Josiah Cook, and John Washburn.  (Large PDF file. 44megs.  When opened in Adobe Reader, you must zoom in 400% or more to see adequate detail.)  
Golden Rules of Genealogy  The golden rules on one page.  (PDF file)  Acquired from Corina Millegan Kusch
Book:  The Damon Family Family.  Listing some of the Ohio descendants of Amos Damon of Rochester Chesterfield Mass and tracing his genealogy hack back to John Jonathon Damon the Immigrant ancestor who came to Scituatee Mass about 1628.   CompIled by Richard Van Deusen   This is a link to the book located on Keith Berry's web site.   Applies to the controversy over the name of Benjamin (2) second wife, HANNAH (PERHAPS) DAMON.
 
History at Home: A Guide to Genealogy  Extensive guide to genealogy with lots of help and resource links.  Provided by a young man named Ryan ..... . from California.
Beginners Guide to Genealogy  Another very good guide to beginning genealogy.  However, it doesn't provide good information on the excellent free LDS site, http://www.familysearch.com   Also, it doesn't provide good information on Y-DNA testing that is provided by Family Tree DNA, so very necessary for surname testing for male lines   (Link for guide provided by Mae Richards)

 
A General Guide to More Resources   https://tradesmenprices.co.uk/genealogy/   Sent by Louise Smith

 

WOODWORTH BOOKS LISTED IN LDS (List only)

(LDS) FAMILY HISTORY LIBRARY CATALOG SEARCH RESULTS FOR "WOODWORTH"

 

WOODWORTH MANUSCRIPT available through LDS

 Unpublished Walter Woodworth manuscripts  Maurice Woodworth, James Pearce, and Jeanette Behan released unpublished manuscripts sometime in the late 1970s or or early 1980s at locations around the US that form the basis of Jeanette's book, but to which she later added much more information and updated material in her Volume 1.  What is different from her book is that her Volume 1 listed generations 1-6, and the manuscripts covered generations 1 through 12 in separate volumes based on the sons of Walter.   Susan Moore lists here the information regarding those manuscripts.  These can be ordered as "loaners" from Salt Lake City to local LDS history centers:
See  http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/woodworth/1997-08/0872395310         UPDATE:    The link died.  The number in the link is the number of the LDS file and may be found using that number.

 

 

WOODWORTH CEMETERIES

History of the Woodworth Family Cemetery, Mequon, Ozaukee Count, WI.   From the WSGS Newsletter Vol. 26 No. 1 June 1979. Gives names and history of Woodworths buried there.   Information provided by Ann Hawkins.


 

 

 

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