| Vital Records
Births
- Massachusetts, Births, 1636-1920 at Familysearch, index and images
- Massachusetts, Town Birth Records, 1620-1850 ($)
- Massachusetts Town Births Index, ca. 1630-1905, index.
- Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 ($)
- Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915 Index only.
- Massachusetts, Delayed and Corrected Vital Records, 1753-1900 — index & images
- Massachusetts, Birth Records, 1840-1915 ($)
- Massachusetts, Births, 1841-1915 Index and images.
- Massachusetts, Birth Index, 1901-1960 and 1967-1970 ($)
Marriages
- United States Marriages – Massachusetts, 1600-1961 ($) index and images
- Massachusetts Town Marriage Records 1620-1850 ($)
- Massachusetts, Marriages, 1633-1850 ($)
- Massachusetts, Marriages, 1695-1910 Index only.
- American Marriages Before 1699 ($)
- U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700 ($)
- Massachusetts, Marriage Index, 1784-1840 ($)
- Early Massachusetts Marriages Prior to 1800, Vol. I($)
- Early Massachusetts Marriages Prior to 1800, Vol. II($)
- Early Massachusetts Marriages Prior to 1800, Vol. III($)
- Early Massachusetts Marriages Prior to 1800, Vol. IV($)
- Massachusetts, Marriage Records, 1840-1915 ($)
- Massachusetts, Marriages, 1841-1915 Index and images.
- Massachusetts, Marriages, 1841-1915, ($), index
- U.S., Marriages performed by three Rabbis in Boston, Chicago and Massachusetts,1861-1956 ($)
- Massachusetts, Marriage Index, 1901-1955 and 1966-1970 ($)
- Old Colony Ancestors database, Genealogy Today, index
Deaths
- Massachusetts, Town Death Records, 1620-1850($)
- Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 ($)
- Massachusetts Town Deaths Index, ca. 1640-1961, index.
- Massachusetts, Deaths and Burials, 1795-1910 Index.
- United States, Massachusetts, Death Index, 1840-1910, index ($)
- Massachusetts, Death Records, 1841-1915 ($)
- Massachusetts, Deaths, 1841-1915 Index and images.
- Massachusetts Deaths, 1844: Vol. 8, Barnstable to Hampshire; Volume 9, Middlesex to Worcester($)
- Massachusetts, Death Index, 1901-1980 ($)
- U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014 ($)
- U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007, Incomplete, ($).
- United States Social Security Death Index for Massachusetts- starts 1962 Index.
- Massachusetts Deaths, 1969-2010, index, ($)
- Massachusetts, Death Index, 1970-2003 Index.
- Massachusetts Death Index, 1970-2003($)
- American Ancestors Massachusetts Death Index, 1970-2003($)
- Online Massachusetts Death Records & Indexes
Births, Marriages, and Deaths
- Online Congregational Church Records, images
- Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988($)
- Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Towns Records, 1627-2001 Images Only.
- Massachusetts, State Vital Records, 1841-1920 Images and index.
- Massachusetts Archives Vital Records (1841-1910)
- American Ancestors Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1910 ($)
- Massachusetts Online Vital Records Research Guide, by town, many from Tan Books
- American Ancestors Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850
- Massachusetts Vital Records To 1850, ($), index
- American Ancestors Massachusetts Vital Records, 1911-1915 ($)
- Massachusetts Vital Records (free/$)
Archives
Biographies
- County and Town Histories, Massachusetts, with biography
- American Biographical Library for Massachusetts ($)
- A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England Before 1692
- Massachusetts Biographies, Access Genealogy's Biography Center
- Massachusetts U. S. Biographies Project by GenWeb, index
- Register of members and records of their revolutionary ancestors / Massachusetts Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. (1907), e-book
- Biographical history of Massachussetts Volume 1, 1911, Vol. 2, Vol. 3, e-book, Vol. 4, Vol.5, Vol. 6, Vol. 7, Vol. 9
- Memorial Encyclopedia of the State of Massachusetts, Volume 2
- The Rich Men of Massachusetts, index
- Old Colony Ancestors database, Genealogy Today, index
- Encyclopedia of Massachusetts, biographical--genealogical Vol. 4, Vol. 6
- Men of Massachusetts : a collection of portraits of representative men in business and professional life in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts , e-book
- Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, e-book, Vol. 2, Vol. 3,Vol. 4
- Biographical encyclopedia of Massachusetts of the nineteenth century. v.2
- Representative men and old families of southeastern Massachusetts Vol. 1, e-book, Vol. 2 , Vol.3
- One of a thousand, a series of biographical sketches of one thousand representative men resident in the commonwealth of Massachusetts, e-book
- Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago, e-book.
- Biographical sketches of representative citizens of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, e-book
- Men of progress; one thousand biographical sketches and portraits of leaders in business and professional life in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, e-book
Cemeteries
Census
- Massachusetts: Miscellaneous Census Substitutes, 1630–1788, 1840, 1890, index
- United States Online Census, 1790-1940
- Massachusetts, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1790-1890, ($), index
- Massachusetts, State Census, 1855, ($), index/images
- Massachusetts, State Census, 1855, index/images
- Massachusetts, State Census, 1865, ($), index/images
- Massachusetts, State Census, 1865, index/images
- Massachusetts, Federal Census Mortality Schedule, 1870, images
- Massachusetts, Federal Census Mortality Schedule, 1880, images
- United States Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War, 1890 — index and images
Church Records
Compiled Genealogies
- GEDCOM Index Massachusetts
- Massachusetts History and Genealogy, Ancestry Articles, Databases and Products, see "Surnames"
- Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of the State of Massachusetts, Volume 1, e-book, Vol. 2, Vol. 3, no volume #,
- Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts, Volume 1, Vol.4, e-books
- Genealogical notes, or Contributions to the family history of some of the first settlers of Connecticut and Massachusetts, e-book
- Genealogy and history of representative citizens of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, e-book
- The pioneers of Massachusetts, a descriptive list, drawn from records of the colonies, towns and churches and other contemporaneous documents, e=book.
- North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000, index and images, ($).
Court Records
- List of Persons Whose Names Have Been Changed in Massachusetts. 1780-1892
- Records of the Court of Assistants of the Colony of the Massachusetts Bay ...
- Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, ed., Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England Digital versions at Internet Archive (v. 1, v. 2, v. 3, v. 4, pt. 1, v. 4, pt. 2, v. 5) and Google Books (v. 2, v. 3 only).
- Nathaniel B. Shurtleff and David Pulsifer, eds., Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England (Boston, 1855-1861; rep. New York, 1968), 12v. in 10. Digital versions at Internet Archive (v. 1-2, v. 3-4, v. 5-6, v. 7-8, v. 9-10, v. 11-12) and Google Books (v. 1, v. 6, v. 7, v. 8, v. 9, v. 11, v. 12 only)
- Robert N. Toppan, “Council Records of Massachusetts under the Administration of President Joseph Dudley” in Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 2nd Series, 13 [1899]: 237-268.
Digital versions at Internet Archive and Google Books.
- Massachusetts Black Sheep Ancestors, prison and criminal databases
Directories
History
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Immigration Records
- United States Immigration Online Genealogy Records, list of nationwide databases
- Mayflower Passengers
- The Planters of the Commonwealth in Massachusetts, 1620-1640 ($)
- The Winthrop Fleet of 1630 ($)
- Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild Boston Arrivals Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3, Vol.4, Vol. 5, Vol. 6.
- Massachusetts, Salem and Beverly Crew Lists and Shipping Articles, 1797-1934, images only/no index. Also at Ancestry.com, index and images ($).
- Massachusetts, Boston, Crew Lists, 1811-1921, images/index. Also atAncestry.com[, ($)
- Massachusetts, Boston Passenger Lists, 1820-1891 Index and images.
- Boston, Massachusetts, Passenger Lists, 1820-1891, index ($)
- Massachusetts, Boston Passenger Lists, 1820-1943, ($), index
- Maine & Massachusetts Case Files of Deceased and Deserted Seamen 1837-1965 - images
- A List of Alien Passengers Bonded from January 1, 1847, to January 1, 1851, Port of Boston ($)
- Boston Passenger Manifest Lists (1848-1891)
- Massachusetts, Boston Passenger Lists, 1848-1891, index/images
- Massachusetts State ArchivesPassenger Manifest (1848-1891), index, incomplete
- Massachusetts, Boston Passenger Lists, 1891-1943 Index and images. Also at MyHeritage, index ($)
- Massachusetts, Boston Passenger Lists Index, 1899-1940, index/images
- Book Indexes to Boston Passenger Lists, 1899-1940, ($), index/images
- Massachusetts, New Bedford Passenger and Crew Lists, 1902-1943, index.
- Massachusetts, Gloucester Passenger and Crew Lists, 1906-1943, index.
- Massachusetts, Boston Crew Lists, 1917-1943, index/images
- Massachusetts, Boston Crew Lists, 1917-1943, index, ($)
- Massachusetts Crew Lists, 1917-1943 ($)
- Massachusetts, Index to Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Boston, 1921-1949, index.
- Massachusetts, Passenger and Crew Lists, 1949-1957, ($), index/images
Land Records
Legislative Records
Maps
Military Records
General Records
Indian Wars, dates vary
Revolutionary War, 1774-1783
War of 1812, 1812-1815
Mexican War, 1846-1848
Civil War, 1861-1865
- U.S. Federal Military Indexes and Records, list of nationwide databases
- Massachusetts Civil War Soldiers Service Records
- Massachusetts Army and Navy, 1861-1865 ($)
- Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the War of 1861-1865 ($)
- Massachusetts soldiers, sailors, and marines in the Civil War, index
- Record of the Massachusetts volunteers, 1861-1865 ($)
- Annual report of the Adjutant General of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1863-1865, ($), index/images
- U.S., Civil War Draft Registrations Records for Massachusetts, 1863-1865 ($)
Spanish-American War, 1898
World War I, 1917-1918
World War II, 1941-1945
Korean War, 1950-1953
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Vietnam War, 1964-1972
Naturalizations
- United States, New England, Petitions for Naturalization, 1787-1906, Northeast Region (including Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont) Images only.
- United States, New England Petitions for Naturalization Index, 1791-1906 index
- Massachusetts, State and Federal Naturalization Records, 1798-1950 ($) index and images
- U.S. Naturalization Records Indexes for Massachusetts, 1906-1911 - U.S. Circuit Court ($)
- Massachusetts, Naturalization Records, 1906-1917, index and images.
- Petitions and Records of Naturalizations of the U.S. District and Circuit Courts of the District of Massachusetts, 1906-1929 ($) index and images
- Index to Petitions and Records of Naturalizations of the U.S. and District Courts for the District of Massachusetts, 1906-1966 ($)
- Massachusetts, Naturalization Index, 1906-1966 Index.
- U.S. Naturalization Records Indexes for Massachusetts, 1906-1966 Index and images ($)
Newspapers
Obituaries
Periodicals
Periodicals
Probate Records
- Mayflower Deeds and Probates, 1600-1850, ($), index/images
- Massachusetts, Plymouth County, Probate Records, 1633-1967, images/no index.
- Massachusetts, Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991, ($), index and images, incomplete.
- Massachusetts, Plymouth County, Probate Estate Files, 1686-1915 Images only.
Societies
- Massachusetts, Mason Membership Cards, 1733-1990, ($), index
- Register of the Massachusetts Society of the Colonial Dames of America, 1893-1917, e-book
- Roll of membership with ancestral records, Massachusetts Sons of the American Revolution : [1893-1894, 1897, 1899, 1901, 1904, 1907, 1910, 1913, 1916, 1920, 1923, e-book
- Massachusetts, Order Sons of Italy in America, Lodge Records, 1922-1985, ($), index
- Massachusetts, Order Sons of Italy in America, Membership Applications, 1925-1955 (in Italian). ($), index
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