Massachusetts Statewide Genealogy

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Birth Records

1921-present Massachusetts Birth Certificates (order here) Archives
Births register, 1901-1905 Family History Library
Births, marriages (1841-1895), and deaths (1841-1899); indexes to: births and marriages (1841-1905), deaths (1841-1971) Family History Library
Delayed and corrected vital records, 1753-1900 Family History Library
Index of vital records, Massachusetts towns to 1850 Family History Library
Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915 Family Search
Massachusetts Births, 1841-1915 Family Search
Massachusetts Vital Indexes Prior To 1850 World Vital Records
Massachusetts Vital Record Transcripts Fold3
Massachusetts Vital Records Fold3
Massachusetts Vital Records Index 1841-1895 Fold3
Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850 (most towns and cities) NEHGS
Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1910 NEHGS
Massachusetts birth records, 1906-1910, from town clerks Family History Library
Massachusetts indexes to births and marriages, 1906-1915 Family History Library
Massachusetts vital records [deaths, births, marriages] 1911-1915 Family History Library
Massachusetts vital records, 1841–1910 Family History Library
Massachusetts vital records, 1896-1897, 1899-1900 Family History Library
Massachusetts, State Vital Records, 1916-1920 and amendments to vital records 1841-1915 Family History Library
Vital Records Index (births and deaths) 1841-1910 Massachusetts Archives

Cemetery Records

Abstract of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots Ancestry
BillionGraves Cemetery Records Index Family Search
Massachusetts Deaths and Burials, 1795-1910 Family Search
Massachusetts Gravestone Photo Project World Vital Records
National Cemetery Administration, Veterans Affairs ca. 1775 to 2008 Archives
U.S. Cemetery Records 1847 - 2010 Archives
U.S. Veterans Gravesites, ca.1775-2006(various cemeteries) Ancestry
Union Soldiers Interred in the Military Asylum Cemetery, Washington, D. C. US Gen Web
Union Soldiers from Massachusetts Interred in the National Cemetery, Arlington, VA US Gen Web
Various Cemeteries (Lithuanians in Massachusetts) Lithuanian Genealogy
Veterans Burial Records Archives

Census Records

Massachusetts Census, 1790-1890(indexes) Ancestry
1790-1940 U.S. Federal Census World Vital Records
1790-1940 United States Federal Census Ancestry
1790-1940 United States Federal Census Archives
Revolutionary War Pensioner Census, 1841 Ancestry
1855-1865 People of Color in the Massachusetts State Census NEHGS
1890 United States, Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War Family Search
1930 Census of Merchant Seamen Ancestry
Census - US Federal 1860 Fold3
Census - US Federal 1930 Fold3
Indian Census Rolls, 1885-1940 Fold3
Massachusetts State Census, 1855 Family Search
Massachusetts State Census, 1865 Family Search
Massachusetts state census, 1855-1865 Family History Library
U.S. Federal Census 1790-1940 Family Search
United States, Census of Merchant Seamen, 1930 Family Search

Church Records

Early U.S. French Catholic Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1695-1954 Ancestry
Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915 Family Search
Presbyterian Ministerial Directory 1898 Ancestry
Protestant Episcopal Church Clerical Directory, 1898 Ancestry
Quaker Invasion of Massachusetts(history of Quakers) Ancestry

Death Records

1921-present Massachusetts Death Certificates (order here) Archives
Assessments for deaths (1878-1885) of area Masonic lodge members Family History Library
Births, marriages (1841-1895), and deaths (1841-1899); indexes to: births and marriages (1841-1905), deaths (1841-1971) Family History Library
Death registers, 1901-1905 Family History Library
Delayed and corrected vital records, 1753-1900 Family History Library
Index of vital records, Massachusetts towns to 1850 Family History Library
Massachusetts Deaths and Burials, 1795-1910 Family Search
Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915 Family Search
Massachusetts Deaths, 1844: Vol. 8, Barnstable to Hampshire; Volume 9, Middlesex to Worcester(statewide except for Boston) Ancestry
Massachusetts Vital Indexes Prior To 1850 World Vital Records
Massachusetts Vital Record Transcripts Fold3
Massachusetts Vital Records Fold3
Massachusetts Vital Records Index 1841-1895 Fold3
Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850 (most towns and cities) NEHGS
Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1910 NEHGS
Massachusetts death records, 1906-1910, from town clerks Family History Library
Massachusetts vital records [deaths, births, marriages] 1911-1915 Family History Library
Massachusetts vital records, 1841–1910 Family History Library
Massachusetts vital records, 1896-1897, 1899-1900 Family History Library
Massachusetts, State Vital Records, 1916-1920 and amendments to vital records 1841-1915 Family History Library
Social Security Death Index World Vital Records
Social Security Death Index(deaths after 1932) Ancestry
Social Security Death Index 1937 to 2011 Archives
U.S. Social Security Death Index Family Search
United States, Deceased Physician File (AMA), 1864-1968 Family Search
Vital Records Index (births and deaths) 1841-1910 Massachusetts Archives

Directories

City Directories, 1890 Census Substitute(many Massachusetts city directories) Ancestry
Living People Records Archives
Massachusetts City Directories(many cities and years) Ancestry
U.S. City Directories (includes Mass Citites 1881) Ancestry
U.S. City Directories (includes Massachusetts 1860-80, 1882-02) Ancestry
U.S. Phone and Address Directories, 1993-2002 Ancestry

Genealogies

Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700(royal ancestral lines) Ancestry
Colonial Families in the U.S. Ancestry
Complete American Armoury & Blue Book, 1903-23 (armorial bearings of families with lines of descent) World Vital Records
Contributions to the Family History of Some of the First Settlers of Connecticut and Massachusetts World Vital Records
Daughters Of The American Revolution Databases World Vital Records
Daughters of the American Revolution Lineage Books (152 Vols.)(genealogies of Revolutionary War soldiers) Ancestry
Famous families of Massachusetts Ancestry
First Settlers of Connecticut and Massachusetts: Genealogical Notes and Contributions Ancestry
Genealogical Notes of Some of the First Settlers of Connecticut and Massachusetts World Vital Records
Genealogical notes of New York and New England families Ancestry
Genealogies and family histories of many Massachusetts and New England families Family History Library
Genealogy And Family History Digitized Book Collection Databases World Vital Records
Genealogy and history of representative citizens of the commonwealth of Massachusetts Ancestry
Massachusetts Pioneers to the West Index(families who moved West; printed 1915) Ancestry
Massachusetts family history files, ca. 1550-1990 Family History Library
New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial Ancestry
New England family histories and genealogies : state of Massachusetts Family History Library
Rare Genealogical And Historical Digitized Book Collection Databases World Vital Records
Representative Men and Old Families of Southeastern Mass.: Containing Historical Sketches, Vol. 1 World Vital Records
Sons of the American Revolution(includes members and their genealogies to 1901) Ancestry

Historical Records

A Gazetteer of the State of Massachusetts, 1874 World Vital Records
A Gazetteer of the State of Massachusetts. World Vital Records
A Guide to genealogical and historical holdings of Massachusetts libraries Family History Library
A List of Emigrants from England to America, 1682-1692 Ancestry
A List of Emigrants from England to America, 1718-1759 Ancestry
A List of Pensioners in the State of Massachusetts (compiled in 1854) NEHGS
A biographical dictionary : containing a brief account of the first settlers, and other eminent characters among the magistrateof New England Ancestry
A gazetteer of Massachusetts : containing a general view of the state, with an historical sketch of the principal events Ancestry
A gazetteer of Massachusetts : containing descriptions of all the counties, towns and districts in the commonwealth Ancestry
American Biographical Library(short biographies of Americans from various sources) Ancestry
American Migrations 1765-1799(brief biographies of loyalists) Ancestry
American Wills Proved in London, 1611 - 1775 World Vital Records
An Index of Pioneers from Massachusetts to the West: Especially to the State of Michigan World Vital Records
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-2005(brief biographies of members) Ancestry
Biographical history of Massachusetts : biographies and autobiographies of the leading men in the state Family History Library
Biographies of Notable Americans, 1904 Ancestry
Bonded Passengers to America (9 vols. In 3)1663-1775 Ancestry
Card index to the Massachusetts Archives Family History Library
Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society Family History Library
Daughters Of The American Revolution Databases World Vital Records
Denizations and Naturalizations in the British Colonies in America, 1607-1775 Ancestry
Directory of Scots Banished to the American Plantations, 1650 - 1775 World Vital Records
Early Massachusetts Settlement from “A Pictorial History of America” US Gen Web
Emigrants from England to the American Colonies, 1773-1776 Ancestry
English Origins of American Colonists(emigrants to American colonies before Revolutionary War) Ancestry
First Settlers of Connecticut & Massachusetts World Vital Records
Genealogy And Family History Digitized Book Collection Databases World Vital Records
Genealogy and history of representative citizens of the commonwealth of Massachusetts Ancestry
Germans to America Passenger Data File 1850 to 1897 Archives
Gettysburg Post No. 191 Roster for 1888 Genealogy Today
Gettysburg Post No. 191 Roster for 1891 Genealogy Today
Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-33 Ancestry
Historical collections: being a general collection of interesting facts, traditions, biographical sketches, anecdotes(of towns in Massachusetts; published 1848) Ancestry
Historical data relating to counties, cities and towns in Massachusetts Ancestry
Historical study of the Jews in Massachusetts (1650-1750) Ancestry
Histories of Towns, Cities, and Counties Massachusetts State Library
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild (various passenger lists) World Vital Records
Important Men of 1913 Ancestry
Index of surnames in early Massachusetts (from printed sources) Family History Library
Index to Names changed in Massachusetts, 1893-1911 : excerpted from The Civil government of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and officers immediately connected therewith for the political years of 1893-1911 Family History Library
Index to New England naturalization petitions, 1791-1906 Family History Library
Indian Tribes of Massachusetts Access Genealogy
Irish to America Passenger Data File 1846 - 1851 Archives
Italians to America Passenger Data File 1855 to 1900 Archives
Leading Americans of Italian descent in Massachusetts(printed in 1946) Ancestry
Legislators of Massachusetts General Court, 1691-1780 NEHGS
List of Freemen of Massachusetts, 1630-1691 Ancestry
List of Registered Mass. Embalmers 1908 Genealogy Today
List of persons whose names have been changed in Massachusetts, 1780-1892 Ancestry
Loyalists in the American Revolution: Miscellaneous Records Ancestry
Mass. Commandery 1894 List of Members Genealogy Today
Massachusetts Applications of Freemen, 1630-91 Ancestry
Massachusetts Archives Collection Database 1629-1799 (archives of early records of Massachusetts) Massachusetts Archives
Massachusetts Automotive Club 1909 Genealogy Today
Massachusetts Executive and Legislative Government 1860 Register Genealogy Today
Massachusetts Legislators 1925-26 Genealogy Today
Massachusetts Lunacy and Charity 1896 Report Genealogy Today
Massachusetts Naturalization Index, 1906-1966 Family Search
Massachusetts Post Offices 1816 (names of postmasters) US Gen Web
Massachusetts Press Assoc. 1899 Members Genealogy Today
Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati (former military officers) (includes some brief biographies) NEHGS
Massachusetts of to-day : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian Exposition(printed 1892) Ancestry
Memorial encyclopedia of the state of Massachusetts(biographies; printed 1918) Ancestry
Men of Massachusetts : a collection of portraits of representative men in business and professional life in the commonwealth(printed 1903) Ancestry
Monuments, Tablets And Other Memorials Erected In Massachusetts to Commemorate the Service of Her Sons In the War of the Rebellion, 1861 - 1865 World Vital Records
Naturalization Index - MA (1907-66) Fold3
Naturalization Index - WWI Soldiers (1918) Fold3
Naturalization index cards, 1790-1926 [Massachusetts] Family History Library
Naturalizations - MA (1906-29) Fold3
Naturalizations in America and the West Indies, 1740-1782 Ancestry
New England Captives' Stories(stories of people living in New England taken captive during the French and Indian Wars) Ancestry
New England History Ancestry
New England Irish Pioneers(history of Irish immigrants to America in the seventeenth century) Ancestry
Omitted Chapters from Hotten's Lists of Persons Who Went From Great Britain to America, 1600-1700 World Vital Records
Passenger Arrivals in the U.S., 1819-20 Ancestry
Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s Ancestry
Passengers from Ireland, List of Passengers Arriving at American Ports Between 1811 and 1817 World Vital Records
Passport Applications, 1795-1905 Fold3
Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Volume 22 World Vital Records
Rare Genealogical And Historical Digitized Book Collection Databases World Vital Records
Register of the Massachusetts Society of Colonial Dames of America, 1893 - 1905 World Vital Records
Register of the Massachusetts Society of Colonial Dames of America, 1893-1905(includes member lists) Ancestry
Representative Men of Massachusetts, 1890-1900: Leaders in Official, Business and Professional Life World Vital Records
Russians to America Passenger Data File 1834 to 1897 Archives
Scotch Prisoners Sent to Massachusetts, 1752 (lists of names) Jane Devlin
Scots-Irish: The Scot in North Britain, North Ireland and North America, Vol. 2 Ancestry
Ships from Ireland to Early America, 1623-1850. Vol. II Ancestry
Ships from Scotland to America, 1628-1828 Ancestry
Ships from Scotland to America, 1628-1828. Vol. III Ancestry
Statistics of Towns in Massachusetts World Vital Records
Statistics of towns in Massachusetts(printed in 1800s) Ancestry
Supplement to the Register of the Massachusetts Society of Colonial Dames of America, 1905-1909 World Vital Records
The American Jewish year book, 5663 : October 2, 1902 to September 21, 1903 Ancestry
The History of Massachusetts: Early Native Americans Through WWII Kindred Trails
The Massachusetts Magazine 1910, Volume 3 (genealogy magazine) World Vital Records
The Massachusetts civil list for the colonial and provincial periods, 1630-1774 : being a list of the names and dates of appointment of all the civil officers constituted by authority of the charters, or the local government Family History Library
The Massachusetts tax valuation list of 1771 Family History Library
The Original Scots Colonists of Early America, 1612 - 1783 World Vital Records
The Rich Men of Massachusetts: Containing a Statement of the Reputed Wealth of About Fifteen Hundred Persons, With Brief Sketches of More Than One Thousand Characters World Vital Records
The Rich Men of Massachusetts: the Reputed Wealth of About 1500 Persons, With Brief Sketches World Vital Records
The Scotch-Irish in America World Vital Records
The history of Massachusetts.(1600-1775) Ancestry
The history of Massachusetts.(1775-1865) Ancestry
The rich men of Massachusetts(biographical sketches) Ancestry
U.S. House of Representative Private Claims, Vol. 1(people who made claims 1799-1850) Ancestry
U.S. House of Representative Private Claims, Vol. 2(people who made claims 1799-1850) Ancestry
U.S. House of Representative Private Claims, Vol. 3(people who made claims 1799-1850) Ancestry
U.S. Naturalization Records and Petitions 1700 to 1940 Archives
U.S. Public Records Index(1984 to present) Ancestry
United States Book Collection Databases World Vital Records
United States, Index to Passenger Arrivals, Atlantic and Gulf Ports, 1820-1874 Family Search
United States, New England Naturalization Index, 1791-1906 Family Search
Western Massachusetts, A History, 1636 - 1925, Volume 1 World Vital Records
Who's Who in State Politics: 1908 World Vital Records
Who's Who in State Politics: 1909 World Vital Records
Who's Who in State Politics: 1912 World Vital Records
Who's Who in State Politics: 1914 World Vital Records
Young Men's Democratic Club of Massachusetts 1892 Membership Genealogy Today

Land Records

Massachusetts State Archives collection, colonial and post colonial period 1626-1806 Family History Library
Native Soil Manuscripts Index(index to various private property deeds) Ancestry
Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Applications Files Family Search

Marriage Records

1921-present Massachusetts Marriage Records (order here) Archives
1952-present Massachusetts Divorce Records (order here) Archives
American Marriages Before 1699(many Massachusetts marriages included) Ancestry
Births, marriages (1841-1895), and deaths (1841-1899); indexes to: births and marriages (1841-1905), deaths (1841-1971) Family History Library
Delayed and corrected vital records, 1753-1900 Family History Library
Divorce index, 1952-1970 Family History Library
Divorce records, 1760-1786 Family History Library
Early Massachusetts marriages prior to 1800 : with the addition of Plymouth County marriages, 1692-1746 Family History Library
Index of marriages in Massachusetts Centinel and Columbian Centinel, 1784 to 1840 Family History Library
Index of vital records, Massachusetts towns to 1850 Family History Library
Ladies Visitor Boston Marriages 1806-1807 Marriage Records at Roots Web
Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910 Family Search
Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915 Family Search
Massachusetts Vital Indexes Prior To 1850 World Vital Records
Massachusetts Vital Record Transcripts Fold3
Massachusetts Vital Records Fold3
Massachusetts Vital Records Index 1841-1895 Fold3
Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850 (most towns and cities) NEHGS
Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1910 NEHGS
Massachusetts indexes to births and marriages, 1906-1915 Family History Library
Massachusetts marriage records from town clerks 1906-1910 Family History Library
Massachusetts vital records [deaths, births, marriages] 1911-1915 Family History Library
Massachusetts vital records, 1841–1910 Family History Library
Massachusetts vital records, 1896-1897, 1899-1900 Family History Library
Massachusetts, State Vital Records, 1916-1920 and amendments to vital records 1841-1915 Family History Library

Military Records

1890 United States, Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War Family Search
Abstracts and indexes to diaries from Rhode Island and Massachusetts, ca . 1739-1865 Family History Library
American Revolutionary War Rejected Pensions Ancestry
American Soldiers of World War I(database of deaths) Ancestry
Army Casualties 1956 - 2003 World Vital Records
Awards and Decorations System File 1965 to 1972 Archives
Biographical Sketches of the Union Army Commanding Officers Ancestry
Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934 Ancestry
Civil War Sailors Records 1862 - 1865 Archives
Civil War Service Records Ancestry
Civil War Service Records - Union - Colored Troops 54th MA Infantry Fold3
Civil War Service Records - Union - Colored Troops 55th MA Infantry Fold3
Civil War Widows' Pensions Fold3
Civil War and Later Veterans Pension Index Fold3
Daughters Of The American Revolution Databases World Vital Records
Daughters of the American Revolution Lineage Books (152 Vols.)(genealogies of Revolutionary War soldiers) Ancestry
Descriptive rolls of Massachusetts volunteers, 1861-1865 Family History Library
Divided Hearts, Massachusetts Loyalists, 1765-1790 NEHGS
Elective rolls of Massachusetts volunteers, 1863-1865 Family History Library
Enlistment rolls, 1796-1841 Family History Library
Final Payment Vouchers Index for Military Pensions, 1818-1864 Fold3
Final Statements, 1862-1899 Fold3
French and Indian War muster roll index cards, 1603-1779 Family History Library
Grand Army of the Republic : Civil War veterans, Department of Massachusetts 1866 to 1947 Family History Library
History of the Tenth Massachusetts Battery of Light Artillery in the War of the Rebellion World Vital Records
Japanese-American Internee Data File 1942 to 1946 Archives
Korean Casualty, National Military Personnel Records 1950 - 1953 Archives
Korean Conflict Casualty File 1950 - 1957 Archives
Korean War Casualties World Vital Records
Korean War Casualties, 1950-1957 Ancestry
Korean War Data File of American Prisoners of War 1950 to 1953 Archives
Korean War Prisoners of War, 1950-1954 Ancestry
Loyalists in the American Revolution: Miscellaneous Records Ancestry
Mariners of the American Revolution(captured American privateers) Ancestry
Mass. Infantry, Company L, Spanish-American War Genealogy Today
Massachusetts Army & Navy, 1861-1865(database of deaths) Ancestry
Massachusetts Civil War soldiers and sailors, 1861-1865 Family History Library
Massachusetts Militia Companies in the Lexington Alarm NEHGS
Massachusetts Officers Who Died While In the Service of the United States During the War of the Rebellion World Vital Records
Massachusetts Revolutionary War Pensioners' Receipts, 1799-1807 NEHGS
Massachusetts Revolutionary War Pensioners' Receipts, 1829-1837 NEHGS
Massachusetts Selective Service System registration cards [World War II] : fourth registration ; NARA, M2090 Family History Library
Massachusetts Society of Sons of the American Revolution (1899) World Vital Records
Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati (former military officers) (includes some brief biographies) NEHGS
Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Revolution, 17 Vols. Ancestry
Massachusetts Soldiers in the Colonial Wars (before the Revolutionary War) NEHGS
Massachusetts State Archives collection, colonial and post colonial period 1626-1806 Family History Library
Massachusetts lineages of Revolutionary War regiments Family History Library
Massachusetts military records 1817-1915 Family History Library
Massachusetts officers and soldiers, 1702-1722 : Queen Anne's War to Dummer's War Family History Library
Massachusetts officers and soldiers, 1723-1743 : Dummer's War to the War of Jenkins' Ear Family History Library
Massachusetts officers in the French and Indian wars, 1748-1763 Family History Library
Massachusetts residents who gave their lives in the Korean Conflict Distant Cousin
Massachusetts residents who gave their lives in the Vietnam War Distant Cousin
Massachusetts soldiers and sailors of the Revolutionary War : a compilation from the archives Family History Library
Massachusetts soldiers in the French and Indian wars, 1744-1755 Family History Library
Massachusetts soldiers, sailors, and marines in the Civil War Ancestry
Massachusetts, World War I Selective Service System draft registration cards, 1917-1918) Family History Library
Mexican War Soldiers 1846 to 1848 Archives
Military Personnel Who Died During the Vietnam War 1956 - 2003 Archives
Minority military service, Massachusetts, 1775-1783 Family History Library
National Cemetery Administration, Veterans Affairs ca. 1775 to 2008 Archives
National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers(lists of disabled soldiers in 1895) Ancestry
Naval Group China Muster Roll and Punch Cards 1942 to 1945 Archives
Naval Pensioners of the United States1800-1851 Ancestry
Navy Survivors' Certificates Fold3
Navy Widows' Certificates Fold3
New Civil War Research Database at Ancestry(soldiers, officers, and regiments) Ancestry
Record of Service of the Forty-Fourth Massachusetts Volunteer Militia in North Carolina, August 1862 to May 1863 World Vital Records
Record of the Massachusetts Volunteers, 1861 - 1865, Volume 1 World Vital Records
Record of the Massachusetts volunteers, 1861-1865 Ancestry
Repatriated Korean Conflict Prisoners of War 1950 to 1954 Archives
Revolutionary War Bounty Land Grants(citizens and soldiers given land by Massachusetts after the Revolutionary War) Ancestry
Revolutionary War Courts-Martial Ancestry
Revolutionary War Land Grants Archives
Revolutionary War Officers Ancestry
Revolutionary War Pension Applications Archives
Revolutionary War Pension Index(before 1813) Ancestry
Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Applications Files Family Search
Revolutionary War Pensions Fold3
Revolutionary War Rolls Fold3
Revolutionary War Service Records Fold3
Revolutionary War Service and Imprisonment Cards Fold3
Sons of the American Revolution(includes members and their genealogies to 1901) Ancestry
Southeast Asia Combat Area Casualties 1956 to 1998 Archives
The history of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company(1637-1842; includes biographical sketches) Ancestry
U.S. Army Casualty Records 1961 - 1981 Archives
U.S. Army Historical Register, 1789-1903, Vol. 1(lists of soldiers) Ancestry
U.S. Army Historical Register, 1789-1903, Vol. 2(lists of soldiers) Ancestry
U.S. Army Personnel and Dependent Casualties, 1961-1981 Ancestry
U.S. Colored Troops Military Service Records, 1861-1865 Ancestry
U.S. Military Burial Registers, 1768-1921 Ancestry
U.S. Military Records, 1925: Official National Guard Register Ancestry
U.S. Military: Great White Fleet (Atlantic Fleet bound for the Pacific, 16 December 1907)(names of men in fleet) Ancestry
U.S. Naval Deaths, World War I Ancestry
U.S. Navy And Marine Registers Databases World Vital Records
U.S. Revolutionary War Pension Applications 1800 to 1900 Archives
U.S. Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783 Ancestry
U.S. Veterans Gravesites, ca.1775-2006(various cemeteries) Ancestry
U.S. World War I Mothers' Pilgrimage, 1930(lists of mothers and widows of deceased soldiers) Ancestry
U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946 Ancestry
U.S. World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942(for men born 1877-1897) Ancestry
Union Regimental Index (index of Massachusetts Civil War regiments) Civil War Archive
Union Soldiers Interred in the Military Asylum Cemetery, Washington, D. C. US Gen Web
Union Soldiers from Massachusetts Interred in the National Cemetery, Arlington, VA US Gen Web
United States, Applications for Headstones for Military Veterans, 1925-1941 Family Search
United States, Civil War Service Records of Union Colored Troops, 1863-1865 Family Search
United States, Civil War Service Records of Union Soldiers, 1864-1866 Family Search
United States, Civil War Soldiers Index Family Search
United States, Civil War Widows and Other Dependents Pension Files Family Search
United States, Civil War and Later Pension Files, 1861-1917 Family Search
United States, General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934 Family Search
United States, Index to General Correspondence of the Pension Office, 1889-1904 Family Search
United States, Index to Indian Wars Pension Files, 1892-1926 Family Search
United States, Index to Naturalizations of World War I Soldiers, 1918 Family Search
United States, Index to Service Records, War with Spain, 1898 Family Search
United States, Mexican War Pension Index, 1887-1926 Family Search
United States, Muster Rolls of the Marine Corps, 1798-1892 Family Search
United States, National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, 1866-1938 Family Search
United States, Naval Enlistment Rendezvous, 1855-1891 Family Search
United States, Navy Widows' Certificates, 1861-19105 Family Search
United States, Old War Pension Index, 1815-1926 (army, navy, and marine corp veterans 1783-1861) Family Search
United States, Records of Confederate Prisoners of War, 1861-1865 Family Search
United States, Records of Headstones of Deceased Union Veterans, 1879-1903 Family Search
United States, Registers of Enlistments in the U. S. Army, 1798 - 1914 Family Search
United States, Remarried Widows Index to Pension Applications, 1887-1942 Family Search
United States, Revolutionary War Compiled Service Records, 1775-1783 Family Search
United States, Union Provost Marshal Files of Individual Civilians, 1861-1866 Family Search
United States, Union Provost Marshal Files of Two or More Civilians,1861-1866 Family Search
United States, Veterans Administration Pension Payment Cards, 1907-1933 Family Search
United States, War of 1812 Index to Pension Application Files, 1812-1910 Family Search
United States, War of 1812 Index to Service Records, 1812-1815 Family Search
United States, World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946 Family Search
United States, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942 Family Search
United States, World War One Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 Family Search
Veterans Burial Records Archives
Vietnam Casualties 1956 - 1998 World Vital Records
Vietnam Service Awards Fold3
Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fold3
Vietnam War, Awards and Decorations of Honor, 1965-1972 Ancestry
Vietnam War, Casualties Returned Alive, 1962-1979 Ancestry
Vietnam War: U.S. Military Casualties, 1956-1998 Ancestry
WWI Civilian Draft Registrations Ancestry
WWI, WWII, and Korean War Casualty Listings Ancestry
War of 1812 Pension Files Fold3
War of 1812 Service Records Ancestry
War of 1812 Veterans 1812 to 1815 Archives
War of the Rebellion(various Civil War Records) Ancestry
World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918(men born 1873-1900) Ancestry
World War II Army Enlistment World Vital Records
World War II Army Enlistment Records 1938 to 1946 Archives
World War II Prisoners of Japanese World Vital Records
World War II Prisoners of War 1941 - 1946 World Vital Records
World War II Prisoners of War Data File 1941 to 1946 Archives
World War II Prisoners of War, 1941-1946 Ancestry
World War II Prisoners of the Japanese Records 1941 to 1945 Archives
World War II and Korean Conflict Veterans Interred Overseas Ancestry

Newspapers

Boston Globe and the Boston Herald 1953-2010 Boston Public Library
Historic Newspaper Pages 1860 to 1922 Archives
Massachusetts Printed Vital Records Fold3
Missing Air Crew Reports, WWII Fold3
Newspapers of Massachusetts World Vital Records
U.S. Newspaper Obituaries Archives
U.S. Newspaper Sources 2004 to 2009 Archives

Obituaries

American Biographical Notes(obituaries before 1875) Ancestry
Boston Globe and the Boston Herald 1953-2010 Boston Public Library
Massachusetts Printed Vital Records Fold3
Missing Air Crew Reports, WWII Fold3
Newspapers of Massachusetts World Vital Records
U.S. Funeral Home Obituaries 2004 to 2009 Archives
U.S. Newspaper Obituaries Archives

Probate Records

Massachusetts State Archives collection, colonial and post colonial period 1626-1806 Family History Library

Vital Records

1921-present Massachusetts Birth Certificates (order here) Archives
1921-present Massachusetts Death Certificates (order here) Archives
1921-present Massachusetts Marriage Records (order here) Archives
1952-present Massachusetts Divorce Records (order here) Archives
American Marriages Before 1699(many Massachusetts marriages included) Ancestry
Assessments for deaths (1878-1885) of area Masonic lodge members Family History Library
Births register, 1901-1905 Family History Library
Births, marriages (1841-1895), and deaths (1841-1899); indexes to: births and marriages (1841-1905), deaths (1841-1971) Family History Library
Death registers, 1901-1905 Family History Library
Delayed and corrected vital records, 1753-1900 Family History Library
Divorce index, 1952-1970 Family History Library
Divorce records, 1760-1786 Family History Library
Early Massachusetts marriages prior to 1800 : with the addition of Plymouth County marriages, 1692-1746 Family History Library
Index of marriages in Massachusetts Centinel and Columbian Centinel, 1784 to 1840 Family History Library
Index of vital records, Massachusetts towns to 1850 Family History Library
Ladies Visitor Boston Marriages 1806-1807 Marriage Records at Roots Web
Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915 Family Search
Massachusetts Births, 1841-1915 Family Search
Massachusetts Deaths and Burials, 1795-1910 Family Search
Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915 Family Search
Massachusetts Deaths, 1844: Vol. 8, Barnstable to Hampshire; Volume 9, Middlesex to Worcester(statewide except for Boston) Ancestry
Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910 Family Search
Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915 Family Search
Massachusetts Vital Indexes Prior To 1850 World Vital Records
Massachusetts Vital Record Transcripts Fold3
Massachusetts Vital Records Fold3
Massachusetts Vital Records Index 1841-1895 Fold3
Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850 (most towns and cities) NEHGS
Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1910 NEHGS
Massachusetts birth records, 1906-1910, from town clerks Family History Library
Massachusetts death records, 1906-1910, from town clerks Family History Library
Massachusetts indexes to births and marriages, 1906-1915 Family History Library
Massachusetts marriage records from town clerks 1906-1910 Family History Library
Massachusetts vital records [deaths, births, marriages] 1911-1915 Family History Library
Massachusetts vital records, 1841–1910 Family History Library
Massachusetts vital records, 1896-1897, 1899-1900 Family History Library
Massachusetts, State Vital Records, 1916-1920 and amendments to vital records 1841-1915 Family History Library
Social Security Death Index World Vital Records
Social Security Death Index(deaths after 1932) Ancestry
Social Security Death Index 1937 to 2011 Archives
U.S. Social Security Death Index Family Search
United States, Deceased Physician File (AMA), 1864-1968 Family Search
Vital Records Index (births and deaths) 1841-1910 Massachusetts Archives