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Massachusetts Marriages 1841-1850. From the microfilmed registration books of marriages for all Massachusetts cities and towns. These registration pages where submitted by municipal clerks to the State on an annual basis. Work in progress.

Massachusetts Vital Records 1600-1849 Online

Massachusetts Birth Marriage and Death Index 1841-1910. Each index entry includes the person's first and last name, the town or city where the event occurred, the year, volume number, and page number. The database is searchable by first and last names, year, and location.

Massachusetts Archives Collection Database (1629-1799). The Massachusetts Archives database serves as a searchable, descriptive index and catalog for documents of eighteen volumes of the Massachusetts Archives Collection.

Officers of the Commonwealth from 1630 to 1686.

Massachusetts State Census: 1855 - 1865

A Collection of Unusual Epitaphs from Massachusetts. Funny, original, curious, quaint, touching, poetic, telling monumental inscriptions.

Indian Children Put to Service in Boston, 1676 (archived website).

Banishment Act of the State of Massachusetts Passed September, 1778. An Act to prevent the return to this state of certain persons therein named and others who have left this state or either of the United States, and joined the enemies thereof.

Salem, Mass. Crew Lists Index: 1799-1879. Between 1799 and 1879 over 7900 voyages to foreign ports sailed from Salem, Massachusetts. Prior to sailing the shipmaster of each vessel was required to file a crew list. This website provides an index to those crewlists. Containing over 75,770 names, it also provides access to crew members based upon age, complexion, birthplace and residence place.

German New England Naturalization Petitions 1791 - 1906 : Maine, Massachusetts and New Hampshire.

The Massachusetts Directory. Published in 1835 by John Hayward.

Canadians Who Served with Massachusetts Regiments During the Civil War (archived website).

Massachusetts Family Group Sheets

Massachusetts Marriage Project : This project endeavors to provide actual transcriptions of Marriage Applications and other Marriage Records.

Ancestry Search - Jewish Cemetery Association of Massachusetts. More than 50,000 Jewish names online for genealogy searches or visitation information.

Massachusetts Executions 1630-1947 (archived website).

Acadians Deported to Massachusetts : Part 1 - Part 2


  • Barnstable County

    Orleans, Barnstable County, Massachusetts Federal Census Records 1790 to 1820

    17th, 18th & 19th Century Cape Cod Gravestones. Gravestones Dated 1683 - 1860 in Barnstable County, Massachusetts. Gravestone Records from the 15 Towns of Cape Cod.


  • Bristol County

    Acushnet Cemetery (Bristol County, Massachusetts) : Free digitized edition of the book Acushnet cemetery: Memorial record of the dead of families of the early settlers interred in the old colonial burying ground, established in the reign of Queen Ann, in the old township of Dartmouth, now Acushnet, Massachusetts published in 1881.


  • Dukes County

    Tisbury Tax Valuation List of 1771, Dukes County, Massachusetts

    Index to Marriage Notices in the Vineyard Gazette 1850 - 1863, Dukes County, Massachusetts

    Index of Death Notices in the Vineyard Gazette 1850 - 1875, Dukes County, Massachusetts

    Index to Death and Marriage Notices in the Vineyard Gazette 1884 - 1939, Dukes County, Massachusetts : Surnames A - K, Surnames L - Z

    Misc. Vineyard (Duke County) Massachusetts Military Lists


  • Essex County

    Misc. Essex County, Mass. Wills (archived website).

    Vital Records of Essex Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849

    Vital records of Andover, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (Making of America Books) : Part 1 - Part 2. Free online edition of this book published by the Topsfield Historical Society in 1912.

    Vital records of Andover, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849. Published by Topsfield Historical Society in 1912 (archive.org) : Volume 1 : Births - Volume 2 : Marriages and Deaths

    Vital records of Beverly, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849. Published by Topsfield Historical Society in 1906-1907 : Volume 1 : Births - Volume 2 : Marriages and Deaths

    Vital records of Lynn, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849. Published by Topsfield Historical Society in 1905 : Volume 1 : Births - Volume 2 : Marriages and Deaths

    Vital records of Middleton, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (Essex County). Published by the Topsfield historical society in 1904.

    Newfoundlanders in the Essex County, Massachusetts 1870 Census

    Inscriptions from the old cemetery in Groveland, Mass. (Essex County). Digitized edition of this book by Louis Augustus Woodbury published in 1895.


  • Franklin County

    The 1704 Raid on Deerfield, Massachusetts : Biographies, Brief Biographies

    Franklin County, Massachusetts Publication Archive Index : Now indexing over 8000 articles from 1870 through 1873.

    A history of the town of Northfield, Massachusetts, for 150 years with Family Genealogies. Digitized edition of this book by Josiah Howard Temple and George Sheldon published in 1875.


  • Hampden County

    Westfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts 1790 Federal Census


  • Middlesex County

    Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Marriages 1842-1850 (partial).

    Natick, Massachusetts Indian Marriages to 1850 (archived website).

    Natick, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Marriages for 1874-1913

    Natick, Mass. Births for 1874-1913

    Town of Natick, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts Deaths 1874 - 1913

    Natick, 1937 Residents Directory

    Watertown, Mass. Index of Births, Deaths and Marriages 1630-2009.

    Index to Bond's Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts published in 1860 (36861 full names). The full text of the book is available online.

    Old Burying Place (Arlington Street Cemetery), Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts

    Middlesex County, Massachusetts 1880 Census

    Middlesex County, Massachusetts Newspaper Abstracts. Middlesex County Newspaper Abstracts is a collection of social, political, and criminal news stories transcribed from Massachusetts newspapers of the 19th to early 20th century.

    A genealogical register of the inhabitants and history of the towns of Sherborn and Holliston (Middlesex County, Massachusetts). Free online edition of this book by the Rev. Abner Morse published in 1856.

    Cambridge and Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts : Catalogue of the lots in Mount Auburn Cemetery With names of the proprietors and representatives of deceased proprietors. Digitized edition of this book published in 1857.


  • Nantucket County

    Pioneers Who Sailed From The Island Of Nantucket For California 1849. Source: "The Argonauts Of California" by C. W. Haskins, 1890.

    The Eliza Starbuck Barney Genealogical Record : Nantucket, Massachusetts. The most reliable genealogy for Nantucket’s families for the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, the Barney Record contains vital information on more than 40,000 Nantucketers.

    Nantucket (Massachusetts) Cemeteries Inscription Project. As tombstones are inventoried, they are being entered into an online searchable database.


  • Norfolk County

    Births in Dedham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts 1887-1893


  • Plymouth County

    The Plymouth Colony Archive Project. This Plymouth Colony Archive presents a collection of fully searchable texts, including: court records, colony laws, seventeenth century journals and memoirs, probate inventories, wills, town plans, maps, and fort plans; research and seminar analyses of numerous topics; biographical profiles of selected colonists and more.

    Town of Abington, Plymouth County, Massachusetts 1790 Federal Census

    Vital records of Abington, Massachusetts, to the year 1850. Published by the New England historic genealogical society in 1912 : Volume 1 : Births - Volume 2 : Marriages and Deaths

    Vital records of Scituate, Massachusetts, to the year 1850. Alphabetical indexes to the manuscript records of the town, supplemented by information from church registers, cemetery inscriptions and other sources. Online edition of this book published by the New England Historic Genealogical Society in 1909 : Volume 1 - Volume 2

    History and records of the First Congregational church, Hanover, Mass., 1727-1865, and inscriptions from the headstones and tombs in the cemetery at Centre Hanover, Mass., 1727-1894. Being volume I of the church and cemetery records of Hanover, Mass. Free online edition of this book published in 1895.

    A Genealogy of the Families Who Have Settled in the North Parish of Bridgewater. Today Brockton, Plymouth County, Massachusetts. Free online edition of this book published in 1824.


  • Suffolk County

    Boston Directories 1851-1901.

    Historical sketch and matters appertaining to the King's Chapel Burying Ground. Free online edition of this book published by the Boston Cemetery Dept in 1903.

    Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Marriages 1849-1850 (partial).

    Boston, Massachusetts City Directories. Nine Boston city directories (1845, 1855, 1865, 1870, 1872, 1875, 1885, 1905, and 1925) including over 2 million unique entries in their personal sections alone. Search or browse.

    Town of Chelsea, Suffolk County, Massachusetts 1790 Federal Census

    Town of Brookline, Suffolk County, Massachusetts 1790 Federal Census

    Town of Bellingham, Suffolk County, Massachusetts 1790 Federal Census

    Town of Braintree, Suffolk County, Massachusetts 1790 Federal Census

    Boston Almanac Business Directory 1851 : (Images online)

    City of Boston Historic Burying Grounds Initiative. The information in this database is based on surveys conducted in the mid-1980s by staff and volunteers of the Historic Burying Grounds Initiative.

    Passengers That Sailed From Massachusetts For California 1849 From Boston. Source: "The Argonauts Of California" by C. W. Haskins, 1890.

    Germans in the 1880 Census for Boston, Massachusetts

    1895 Parish Directory for Holy Trinity Church, Boston, Massachusetts

    Suffolk surnames: Free online reproduction of the 1861 edition of this book by Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch.

    Forest Hills Cemetery: its establishment, progress, scenery, monuments, etc (Roxbury, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts). Digitized edition of this book by William August Crafts published in 1860. Includes catalogue of proprietors of lots (p. 215-246).

    Historical sketch of Copp's Hill burying ground, with inscriptions and quaint epitaphs. Digital copy of the 17th (1921) edition of this book by John Norton.


  • Worcester County

    Vital records of Milford, Massachusetts, to the year 1850 (Worcester County). Published by Wright & Potter printing company in 1917.

    A copy of the valuation and taxes of the town of Westminster, Massachusetts (Worcester County) : 1912 - 1922 - 1927 - 1938.

    Massachusetts Will Testators Indexes -- Worcester county (1731-1854)

    A catalogue of the officers and students of Harvard University, for the academical year 1860-61 : first term (Worcester County, Massachusetts).


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