View source for Torrey's New England Marriages Prior to 1700

=== History and Editions ===

Torrey compiled his marriage index from 1927 until his death.
"The basic scope and character of the project had taken form by 1936."
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He began by copy information onto slips of paper. Using pen and pencil, he eventually copied the slips onto alphabetically arranged punched pages.
These he assembled into twelve bound volumes, each containing over 500 pages.
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In 1953 NEHGS microfilmed the twelve volume manuscript on negative film.
Torrey continued to make additions and corrections until 1961.
The original manuscript was available for reference room use. Over the years, some writing became smudged.
In 1972 NEHGS retired the original manuscript and replaced it with copies produced from the microfilm negatives. 
While this made smudged writing legible, it would not contain any additions, corrections, or annotations made after 1953. 
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However, it does contain annotations made since that time.
<ref>Sanborn, ''Third Supplement'', vii.</ref>
In 1979 NEHGS published a seven reel positive microfilm edition.
In 1985 Genealogical Publishing Company published an abstract containing all the genealogical information. To save space, it omitted the source references.
In 2001 NEHGS published a complete abstract on CD-ROM, including source references.
In 2011 NEHGS published their own abstract of Torrey. The three volume set includes source references and corrects many errors in previous editions.
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