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Massachusetts Vital Records Information

Vital records can be invaluable while researching your family. Those interested in Massachusetts genealogy can find information such as mother's maiden names, previous address and next of kin. Below you will find information about finding these types of genealogy records in Massachusetts.

Order Birth and Death Records Online

Address:
Registry of Vital Records and Statistics
150 Mt Vernon St, 1st Floor
Dorchester, MA 02125-3105

Birth and death records
$6.00 per copy in person
$11.00 per mail request
$3.00 state archives

State office has records since 1906. For earlier records, write to The Massachusetts Archives at Columbia Point, 220 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston, MA 02125.  Check or money order should be made payable to Registry of Vital Records. Call (617) 740-2600 to verify current fees.

State marriage records
$6.00 per copy in person
$11.00 per mail request
$3.00 state archives

State office has records since 1906.

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State divorce records
Costs vary

Index only since 1952. You will be directed where to send request. Certified copies are not available from State office.

County divorce records
$3.00

Contact the Registry of Probate Court in the county where divorce was granted.


Massachusetts Genealogy Society

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Boston 02215

Massachusetts Genealogy Sites

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City Genealogy Resources

Click on a city below for genealogy resources and databases for that Massachusetts town.

Adams | Amesbury | Arlington | Ashland | Athol | Bedford | Belmont | Boston | Barnstable | Brockton | Cambridge | Chelsea | Concord | Danvers | Dunstable | Easton | Everett | Fall River | Fitchburg | Georgetown | Gloucester | Great Barrington | Groton | Groveland | Hamilton | Haverhill | Hopkinton | Ipswich | Lawrence | Lee | Leominster | Lexington | Lowell | Lynn | Malden | Mansfield | Melrose | New Ashford | New Bedford | Newburyport | North Adams | Peabody | Pittsfield | Plymouth | Rowley | Rehoboth | Salem | Shelburne | Somerville | Stoneham | Swampscott | Taunton | Tewksbury | Watertown | Worcester | Yarmouth

Useful Massachusetts Sites

The Massachusetts Genealogy Store

Massachusetts Counties - includes town names located in each county as well as searchable genealogy databases for each county.  Links also provided to specific cities with city databases.

Massachusetts Census - includes searchable genealogy databases for census records in Massachusetts as well as Federal census records.  Also shows additional census resources.

Massachusetts Databases

MA Pioneers to the West Index
Massachusetts Freemen
MA Army and Navy, 1861-65
Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Revolution, 17 Vols.
MA Military Company History, Vol. 4
Massachusetts Pioneers
Quaker Invasion of Massachusetts
MA  Name Changes, 1780-1892
D.B. Bates, Trip from Massachusetts to California, 1850
Massachusetts Town Death Records
Massachusetts Town Birth Records
MA Applications of Freemen, 1630-91
MA Spanish American War Records
 

Springfield Directories, 1890-91
Holyoke Directories, 1888-90, 1892
Wendall, Directory, 1885
Middleboro, Directory, 1890
Milton Directory, 1890
Needham Directories, 1888-89, 1893
Dover, Directory, 1890
Bradford Vital Records to 1850
Lakeville Directory, 1890
Holbrook, Directory, 1890
Randolph Directory, 1890
Medway Directory, 1890
Dedham Directory, 1893
Palmer, Directory, 1892
Cohasset Directory, 1894
Baldwinville Directory, 1885
Royalston, Directory, 1885
Templeton Directory, 1885
Scituate Directory, 1894
Braintree, Directories, 1888, 1892
Marlborough Directory, 1887-88
Duxbury Directory, 1894
Marshfield Directory, 1894
Abington Directories, 1889, 1892
Amherst Directories, 1886-87, 1895
Norwell Directory, 1894
Erving, Massachusetts Directory 1885
Orange Directories, 1885, 1896
Hudson Directory 1887-88
Dennis Directory 1895
Canton Directory 1887
Greenfield Directory 1892
Foxborough Directories, 1887, 1890
Whitman Directories, 1889, 1892
Franklin Directory 1890
Medford Directory 1890
South Hadley Falls, Directory 1892
Millbury Directory 1890
Norwood Directory 1890
Newton Directory 1929
Essex Directory 1888-89
Wrentham and Norfolk, Massachusetts Directory 1890
Bradford Directory 1889
Pepperell and Groton, Massachusetts Directory 1895-96
Phillipston Directory 1885
Otter River, MA Directory 1885
Petersham Directory 1885
Warwick: Town History to 1854

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