Massachusetts Vital Records -- Including Massachusetts births, Massachusetts deaths,
Massachusetts marriages, cemetery, census, and more records.
Birth, Marriage, and Death Records
|
Title of web site |
Web site address |
# of records |
Date Range |
Cost or Free |
Notes |
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Global Tree Massachusetts Births |
www.gencircles.com
/globaltree/ and put MA in the birth place field |
0ver 630,000 |
varies |
Free |
A nice searchable site where people put up there own files in hopes to help others
and/or get more information. So you would need to go to the submitter of the info
to find out how accurate it is. |
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Massachusetts Vital Records 1600-1849 Online |
ma-vitalrecords.org |
Over a million (1,000,500) |
1600-1849 |
Free |
Hard to search. You need to go first to one of the highlighted counties and then
look at the index of names and then look through the names. A good start to a great
site though. |
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RootsWeb Massachusetts Birth WorldConnect Records |
worldconnect.rootsweb
.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi and put Massachusetts in the birth place field |
0ver 18,000 |
varies |
Free |
WorldConnect, sponsored by RootsWeb, is an online genealogy board where people can
post their genealogical information as well as their contact information to help
in verification. |
|
RootsWeb Massachusetts Marriage WorldConnect Records |
worldconnect.rootsweb
.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi and put Massachusetts in the marriage place field |
0ver 10,000 |
varies |
Free |
WorldConnect, sponsored by RootsWeb, is an online genealogy board where people can
post their genealogical information as well as their contact information to help
in verification. |
|
RootsWeb Massachusetts Death WorldConnect Records |
worldconnect.rootsweb
.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi and put Massachusetts in the death place field |
0ver 8,000 |
varies |
Free |
WorldConnect, sponsored by RootsWeb, is an online genealogy board where people can
post their genealogical information as well as their contact information to help
in verification. |
|
Obiruary Daily Times: Massachusetts |
obits.rootsweb.com
/cgi-bin/obit.cgi and put MA in the Keyword Search |
0ver 390,000 |
more recent dates |
Free |
Another nice Rootsweb site. The problem is that most of the death records are more
recent. But it’s a great start. |
|
Global Tree Massachusetts Deaths |
www.gencircles.com/
globaltree/ and put MA in the death place field |
0ver 350,000 |
varies |
Free |
A nice searchable site where people put up there own files in hopes to help others
and/or get more information. So you would need to go to the submitter of the info
to find out how accurate it is. |
Census Records
|
Title of web site |
Web site address |
# of records |
Date Range |
Cost or Free |
Notes |
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The USGenWeb Census Project |
www.us-census.org and go down
to Census Surname Search and then find MA and put in the word "census" |
94 links with varying numbers of records per each |
1790-1920 |
Free |
Wow, what a site! Transcribed by volunteers and still in the works, I really found
this site great! You can search by year, state, or name! |
|
Census Online, Massachusetts, 61 links |
www.census-online
.com/links/MA/ |
1,000s |
1840-1900 |
Free |
Another nice site without the information of how much is posted. A lot is posted
however it is difficult to search through to find your ancestor as there is not
a surname search |
Cemetery Records
|
Title of web site |
Web site address |
# of records |
Date Range |
Cost or Free |
Notes |
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Massachusetts Inscription Cemetery Search |
www.obitcentral.com
/cemsearch/ma-cem.htm |
291 documents with various numbers of results per each |
varies |
Free |
Another nice searchable site that takes a lot of its information from RootsWeb,
but it also catalogues from other cemetery sites. |
|
Cemetery Transcription Library |
www.interment.net
/data/search.htm |
100s |
varies |
Free |
What a cool site! It's hard to pin point exactly how many records there are per
site as it only gives the "best" 300, although it gave a general number for the
entire site.
|
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Search the Virtual Cemetery |
www.genealogy.com
/VG/vcem_search.html |
100s |
varies |
Free |
A nice searchable site. And how fun it was to bring up a name and see a picture
of the actual headstone. |