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Getting started searching for a Massachusetts Ancestor:
- Begin with yourself and write down as much as you know. You can find free genealogy software and printable family trees at Genealogy Freebies to help record your information.
- Vital records — birth, marriage and divorce, and death — are the foundations of genealogical research. Church records and
census records
may also provide additional clues. See the Ancestry.com census images
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Use the search engines below to find if your ancestor's vital records are online; otherwise write to:
Registry of Vital Records and Statistics
470 Atlantic Avenue, 2nd Floor
Boston, MA 02210-2224
(617) 753-8600
Birth, Marriage or Death certificates (since 1906) In person: $6.00, Mail request: $11.00
State Archives: $3.00
For earlier records, write to The Massachusetts Archives at Columbia Point, 220 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston, MA 02125 (617) 727-2816.
Divorce: Index only since 1952
- Use the Ancestor Search directory of hundreds of searchable genealogy databases that can help fill in the blanks on your family tree. Keep track of your search results with this free research log. Be aware that not all genealogy information is available online. If your names are not found in an online database, you may have to do some research offline. Try the
Massachusetts Archives
Reference Supervisor
220 Morrissey Boulevard
Boston, MA 02125
Tel: 617-727-2816
www.magnet.state.ma.us/sec/arc
- If you do not know much about an ancestor, you may need to do additional research on his or her children first. For example:
- If you do not know when your ancestor was married, the birth date of the first child may give you the approximate time frame needed to search for the marriage records.
- If you do not know where your ancestor lived, finding the birthplace of the children may provide a clue.
- Collaborate with other genealogists researching the same families. You can search for them at the Maryland Surname List database.
- Military records are an often overlooked source to obtain vital records. Learn how to send away to the National Archives for military service and pension records at Send to NARA for military records.
- For additional help and detailed instructions for tracing ancestors, go to
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