Genealogy Resources
Massachusetts Genealogy Resources
- Banks. Charles Edward. The English Ancestry and Homes of
the Pilgrim Fathers Who Came to Plymouth on the Mayflower in
1620, the Fortune in 1621, and the Anne and the Little James in
1623. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co.,
2006, 1929. Biographical sketches of 112 passengers who sailed
on the first four ships to New England. Along with data on the
passengers' origins, family connections and later histories.
- Banks, Charles Edward. The Planters of The Commonwealth
in Massachusetts, 1620-1640. Baltimore, Maryland:
Genealogical Publishing Co., 2006, 1930.Contains the names of
3,600 passengers on the ninety-six ships which brought them to
New England between 1620 and 1640.
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Boston Streets. This site has four sections: Moments (100
years of street scenes); People (city directories from 1845,
1855, 1865, 1870, 1872, 1875, 1885, 1905 and 1925); Places
(atlases from 1874, 1898 and 1928); and "Cowpaths" (a map-based
tool that plots information from the other databases).
- Caleb Johnson's
MayflowerHistory.com.
- Colonial
Massachusetts and Maine Genealogies. Each of these
genealogical lines trace their roots from the British Isles to
Colonial Massachusetts, arriving during the 1600s. They settled
in towns like Barnstable, Dedham, Duxbury, Lexington, Lynn,
Marshfield, Salem, Salisbury, and Watertown. Many of these
families continued north to Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont
during the early 1700s. This site lists genealogical information
about over 10,000 individuals.
- Flagg, Charles Allcott. A guide to Massachusetts local
history; being a bibliographic index to the literature of the
towns, cities and counties of the state, including books,
pamphlets, articles in periodicals and collected works, books in
preparation, historical manuscripts, newspaper clippings, etc.
Salem, MA: Salem Press Co., 1907.
- Genealogical Column of the Boston Transcript, 1906-1941:
Index. Microfiche at Allen County, Indiana Public Library.
- Genealogies of Mayflower Families: From the New England
Historical and Genealogical Register. Baltimore, Maryland:
Genealogical Publishing Co., 1985.
- Hoyt, David Webster. The Old Families of Salisbury and
Amesbury, Massachusetts: A Reprinting of the Author's Full Set
of Genealogical Journals, 1897-1919. Somersworth, NH: New
England History Press, 1981.
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Index to Passenger Manifests (1848-1891)
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Index to Vital Records (1841-1910)
- Jewish Cemetery Association
of Massachusetts. There are 209 Jewish cemeteries in
Massachusetts; JCAM currently owns and operates 101 of these
Jewish cemeteries. As a service, we are providing maps and
directions to all 209 Jewish cemeteries. Database of over 50,000
Jewish names in the Jewish cemeteries. Results will shows the
name, burial location, cemetery name, street name and date of
death.
- Lambert, David Allen, compiler. Vital Records of
Stoughton, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1850.
Braintree, Massachusetts: Massachusetts Society of Mayflower
Descendants, 2008.
- Massachusetts Archives.
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Massachusetts Archives Collection Database (1629-1799)
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Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915 – Name
index to birth, baptism and christening records from the state
of Massachusetts. FamilySearch.
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Massachusetts Births, 1841-1915 – Imaged Records – Name
index and images of state birth records from 1841-1915. The
registers of births are first arranged in volumes by year.
Within the volumes the birth entries are arranged by town, then
numerically by the number it was entered into the registers. May
include a few births for 1840. FamilySearch.
- Massachusetts Cemetery Directory.
- Massachusetts Civil War
Research Center. This site contains a comprehensive
collection of information pertaining to soldiers, sailors and
marines who served in Massachusetts units and regiments during
the Civil War. Information found on this site was taken in part
from documents prepared, compiled and published by the Adjutant
General's Office of Massachusetts in 1888.
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Massachusetts Deaths and Burials, 1795-1910 – Name index to
death and burial records from the state of Massachusetts –
1,563,610 Records as of 16 Dec 2010. FamilySearch.
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Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915 – Imaged Records – Name
index and images of Massachusetts statewide death registers and
certificates. When deaths were recorded on register forms, the
second page of the form is on the next image. The death
registers and certificates are in numbered volumes arranged by
year then by individual town. FamilySearch.
- Massachusetts
GenWeb Project.
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Massachusetts Marriages 1695-1910 - Name index to
marriage records from the state of Massachusetts - 1,955,241
records as of 16 December, 2010. FamilySearch.org.
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Massachusetts Marriages 1841-1915 - Name index and
images of Massachusetts statewide marriage
registers. The marriage registers are in numbered volumes
arranged by year then by individual town. - 1,538,139 records as
of 28 December, 2010. FamilySearch.org.
- Massachusetts State Censuses: Population Schedules 1855 and 1865.
Originals at the Massachusetts State Archives, Boston. Film and
cataloged as one series by the Genealogical Society of Utah,
1974, 68 rolls. Film #: 953973, 953965, 953966, 954384.
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Massachusetts State Census 1855 – (FamilySearch) Imaged
Records – This project was indexed in partnership with the New
England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS). Name index and
images of population schedules listing inhabitants of the State
of Massachusetts in 1855.
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Massachusetts State Census 1865 – (FamilySearch) Imaged
Records – Name index and images of population schedules listing
inhabitants of the State of Massachusetts in 1865. This project
was indexed in partnership with the New England Historic
Genealogical Society (NEHGS).
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Passenger Manifest (1848-1891) Contents. Massachusetts
Archives. Massachusetts officials started recording the names of
immigrants who arrived by ship in January of 1848, a procedure
which continued until July of 1891, when federal records-keeping
programs superseded those of the state. Although immigrants
arrived at numerous Massachusetts ports, the Archives holds
manifests for BOSTON ONLY. These are arranged chronologically
according to the date when the ship arrived in port. The
Archives holds the original manifests as well as the only
microfilm copy available of these Passenger manifests. This
collection has been cataloged as HS3.02/1990X (Registers of
passengers arriving in Massachusetts ports) in the finding aids
of the Massachusetts Archives.
- Starbuck, Alexander. Nantucket Genealogies: Excerpted
from the History of Nantucket County, Island, and Town,
Including Genealogies of First Settlers. Baltimore,
Maryland: Clearfield Co., Inc., 2006, 1924.
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State Library of Massachusetts Digital Collections.
- Suffolk County Wills: Abstracts of the Earliest Wills
upon Record in the County of Suffolk, Massachusetts. New
England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1984; Baltimore,
Maryland: Clearfield Company, 2005 reprint.