1820 to now and has been frequently updated. Islanders are invited to look at their own family record and offer corrections to our files. Published genealogies and mss genealogies on Island and related families. Both authors have written materials on other families, cemetery records, and church history, also in our library. Transcripts of gravestones and other records for Island cemeteries, including burials on private property, indexed.
Some town records are more extensive than others.
Collection also includes some off-Island cemeteries where early Islanders are buried. Census for Martha's Vineyard is indexed. The Hagens indexed large families such as Cottle, Coffin, Luce, Mayhew, Norton, Pease, etc., found in Banks' Vol. III and Roy Norton Card File. Wills and abstracts of wills.