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Searching for Massachusetts birth records, Massachusetts census records, Massachusetts marriage records, or Massachusetts death records? How about a free genealogy search? Find help for your family history search and building your family tree. |
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Massachusetts Genealogy Databases
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Massachusetts Genealogy Help Vital records, as their name suggests, are connected with central life events: birth, marriage, and death. Maintained by civil authorities, these public records are prime sources of genealogical information. These records are critically important in genealogy research, often supplying details on family members well back into the nineteenth century. There are many sources for birth, death and marriage events that are not in the Massachusetts vital records office. Cemeteries, church records, newspapers, military records, immigration and naturalization records, as well as family records in letters and Bibles, are all places where evidence of vital events might be found. Once Massachusetts vital records have been researched, and especially if none are available for the location and time period required, a good procedure would be to try to locate your Massachusetts ancestors using Massachusetts census records. Every state has a division charged with the responsibility of maintaining and dispersing public information from its vital record holdings. Each state page on this website indicates the availability of birth records, marriage records, death records, and divorce records and the agencies responsible for maintaining them. |
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Massachusetts Vital Records Information (How to contact the Vital Records Department of Massachusetts) Event: Birth or death Cost of copy: In person:
$6.00, Mail request: $11.00 Address: Remarks: State office has records since 1906. For earlier records, write to The Massachusetts Archives at Columbia Point, 220 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston, MA 02125 (617) 727-2816. Check or money order should be made payable to Registry of Vital Records. Personal checks are accepted. To verify current fees, the telephone number is (617) 753-8600. This will be a recorded message. Event: Marriage (State) Cost of copy: In person:
$6.00, Mail request: $11.00 Address: Remarks: Records since 1906. Event: Divorce (State) Cost of copy: See remarks Address: Remarks: Index only since 1952. Inquirer will be directed where to send request. Certified copies are not available from State office. Event: Divorce (county) Cost of copy: $3.00 Address: See remarks Remarks: Registrar of Probate Court in county where divorce was granted. |
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