Counties MA. Regions MA. FS: MA Record Collections. FamilySearch Wiki: MA. From FamilySearch Wiki United States Massachusetts For a detailed research guide for Massachusetts,see the Massachusetts Genealogy Guide page.
Welcome to the Massachusetts page,the Bay State "Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor" Pilgrims began the colony 1620. Ancestry: MA State Research Guide. Early MA Vital Records to 1849. GoogleBooks: MA Vital Records to 1850. Archive Publishing: MA Town & Vital Records $ Ancestry: MA Town & Vital Records 1620-1988. Ancestry: MA Birth Index 1901-1960 & 1967-1970. MA Death Indexes, Records & Obituaries. MassCat. Digital Commonwealth. American Antiquarian Society. MA Board of Libraries: Digital Collections. Find Books & Magazines Online > Digital Collections The documentary heritage of Massachusetts is essentially intact from its founding, and much rich information and documentation exists.
Throughout the Commonwealth, repositories house irreplaceable collections of books and private and public documents that serve as a rich resource for researchers involved in local, state, regional, national, and international studies. Library staffs in public and academic libraries and in other repositories have long collected materials that document their immediate and adjoining locales as well as focusing on specific collecting areas. Although much of this material is monographs and pamphlets, a significant portion is manuscript material (personal and organizational papers), photographs, posters, ticket stubs, broadsides, etc. USGenWeb: MA Links. MA Historical Society: Maps. The Massachusetts Historical Society is pleased to make 104 unique and rare manuscript and printed maps of Massachusetts available through 36 web presentations.
The maps presented include twenty-four manuscript maps of local towns and counties dating from 1637-1809 and eight iconic printed maps of Massachusetts and Boston. Seventy-two meticulously drawn manuscript maps by Samuel Chester Clough (1873-1949) present a wealth of information about property owners in Boston during the 17th and late 18th centuries. During the course of his life, Clough compiled an enormous amount of data about Boston landowners from town, court, and tax records and he indexed it in a way that allowed him to create maps of Boston at different time periods. Please select a town or geographic area using the interactive map, or explore the detailed atlas of Boston property owners in 1798, or browse the entire list of digitized maps. MA Courts. MA Court Probate Records.
MHC: Town Reconnaissance Survey Reports. Reconnaissance Survey Town Reports, produced for MHC’s Statewide Reconnaissance Survey between 1979 and 1987, introduce the historical development of each of the Commonwealth’s municipalities.
Each report contains an historic overview, a description of topography, and political boundaries. Each report evaluates the town’s existing historic properties inventory, highlights significant historic buildings and settlement patterns, and presents threats to these resources. A bibliography lists key secondary resources. Town reports are designed for use with a series of town maps that demarcate settlement patterns, transportation corridors, and industrial sites for each historic period. The maps are on file and available for consultation at MHC. These reports are two decades or more old. Reports are available for 319 of the 351 cities and towns in the Commonwealth.
Return to top. MA Land Records. AH: MA Historical Newspapers. HT: The Massachusetts Magazine v.1+ The Plymouth Colony Pages. The Plymouth Colony Pages: Errors & Omissions in Published Vital Records. Errors and Omissions in Published Massachusetts Vital Records: Corrections and Additions Many volumes of Massachusetts town and city vital records have been published since the late 1800s.
For an overview see Massachusetts Vital Records Volumes. Although the published vital records are generally extremely accurate, a number of transcription errors, typographical errors and omissions have been discovered in them. Here is a listing of corrections found by researchers. This listing is constantly growing, and your contribution is welcome (and will be acknowledged here) if you can document the error by reference to a contemporary record or a published version thereof.
Each section below lists first a town or city followed by publication information for the original vital records volume. Note that this page does not cover errors in genealogical CD-ROM editions of these volumes. RootsWeb: Ghost Towns MA. Historians estimate that there may be as many as 50,000 ghost towns scattered across the .
Gary B. Speck Publications is in process of publishing unique state, regional, and county guides called The Ghost Town Guru's Guide to the Ghost Towns of “STATE”™ These original guides are designed for anybody interested in ghost towns. Whether you are a casual tourist looking for a new and different place to visit, or a hard-core ghost town researcher, these guides will be just right for you. Name Changes in MA 1780-1892. MA Society of Genealogists. MA Genealogical Council. MA Society of Mayflower Descendants. Genealogical Roundtable. Clark University. The Clark libraries listed below provide extensive resources for student and faculty research and learning across all disciplines.
Academic Commons at Goddard Library » Library Hours | Archives and Special Collections Hours Named for Dr. Robert Goddard, the Clark physicist who invented the rocket technology that made space travel possible, the University's main library consists of a cutting-edge facility for research, teaching and learning by centralizing academic and research support services for students and faculty. It provides traditional and electronic resources, including: Goddard's collection of more than 375,000 volumes 275,000 monographs subscriptions to 1,500 periodicals full Internet access nearly 50 subject-specific databases and a public online catalog available 24-hours a day archives and special collections Carlson Science Library » Library Hours | Location: The Sackler Sciences Center full Internet access selected science journals monographs subject-specific databases.
Harvard University. MIT Libraries. Stonehill College. Research Appointments can be made on or after this date.
During this time questions and inquiries can be sent to ncasper@stonehill.edu, but response may delayed. Collections In addition to housing the College Archives, the department is also home to several unique and nationally significant historical collections including: Stanley A. Bauman Collection A collection of over 500,000 negatives of Brockton and Southeastern Massachusetts from the 1930s-2003. Joseph W. This collection includes the manuscripts, correspondence, photographs and artifacts of this former Speaker of the U.S. Michael Novak Papers Stonehill alumnus, Michael Novak ‘56, retired George T. Stonehill Industrial History Collections Arnold B. UMass Amherst. UMass: Genealogy. UMass Lowell. Wheaton College. Williams College.