The Morse Society newsletter : the American & Canadian descendants of Samuel, William, Robert, Anthony, and Joseph Morse & John Moss [and others]
(Online Content)

Quarterly

Quarterly (1978-thereafter).

Ocassional (1973-1977).

No. 1 (fall 1973) -

Editor: Nancy (Mrs. A.L. ) Hurlburt (1973-1975); Alison (Mrs. T.A.) Franks (1975-1977); Ruth (Mrs. Robert E.) Morss (1977-1983); Mary Helen Brengel (1983-1991); Lola L. Morse (1991-1994); Salle Morse Byers (1994- ). Individual and cumulative indexes were created by Melvin Laurence Morse and John Morse.

Published: Cloverdale, Oregon; Madras, Oregon; Waynesboro, Virginia; Roanoke, Virginia; Flagler Beach, Florida.

2 CD-ROMs. Size: 4 3/4.

Some issues are available on microfiche, on CD-ROM, and in hard copy.

Not yet available in PERiodical Source Index (PERSI) at this time. (9 Dec. 2005).

Includes bibliographic references.

No. 89 (Oct 1997) was misnumbered as no. 88. Terms "volumes" and "numbers (no.)" are used interchangeably.

Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Morse (and other variant spellings) families who came mainly from England, France, Germany, Holland, Ireland, Normandy, Scotland, and Wales. Some focus is on (but not limited to) the descendants of five ancestors in New England, i.e. Anthony Morse (1606-1686) of Massachusetts and his brother, William Morse (1614-1683) of Newbury; Joseph Morse (1587-1646) of Ipswich, Massachusetts; Samuel Morse (1585-1654) of Dedham, Massachusetts; and John Moss (ca. 1610-1707) of Connecticut. Other Morse families settled in Nova Scotia (Canada), and in Connecticut, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont, and Virginia in the 1600-1700s. During the 1800s, some moved to New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, and Quebec (Canada), and to California, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, and Utah. Later descendants also lived in Alberta, British Columbia, and Saskatchewan (Canada), Argentina, Australia, the Bahamas, China, Denmark, England, India, Japan, New Zealand, Prussia, Thailand, all the United States of America, and elsewhere. Some notable Morse's include Jedidiah Morse, the father of American geography, and Samuel Finley Breese Morse, the inventor of the telegraph. Information is taken from birth, cemetery, census, church, court, death, deed, marriage, military, and pension records, histories, obituaries, wills, and other sources dated from 1600-present.

Also available on microfiche and CD-ROM.

System requirements: Acrobat Reader.

Title varies: Newsletter (Morse Society); The Morse Society Reorganized 1973 newsletter; The Morse Society newsletter.

The Morse Society was founded in 1892, primarily for descendants of five English progenitors who came to New England. In 1906, the original Morse Society was dissolved, and lay dormant until it was reorganized in 1973 by Rev. William Francis Morse of Cloverdale, Oregon. It was incorporated as a non-profit organization in the State of Oregon. The new Societys focus is on expanding the organization to include Morses (and variant spellings) of all backgrounds. This is a brother organization to the John Morse Family Organization. Indexes to the newsletters and other information is on their Web site.

First cumulative index is for no. 1-70, was available in hard copy only. The second cumulative index for no. 1-90 (Jan 1973-Jan 1998) indexes names, localities, and subjects with locality and date qualifiers. The cumulative index to no. 1-90 is available on each CD-ROM and on their Web site.

Spine title on one cumulative index is: Vol. 1-70 Index. (red binding, white lettering)