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Massachusetts Vital Records, 1600s-1800s
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The date and location of an important family event, can help you to immediately fill in holes in your family tree. The dates and locations provided in these records can also help you pinpoint a family's location at a particular time. When you know where a family lived, you know where to look for church, census, and other important family records, which may provide you with more details about the family.
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What
does this product give you?
Uncover more of your family's story with this set of Massachusetts vital records,
one of the most comprehensive state collections available anywhere. Referencing
approximately 1,350,000 individuals, this data set offers one of the best opportunities
to make ancestral connections prior to 1850.
Massachusetts towns collected vital records very early on. These documents are the most comprehensive records of that state's early history and considered among the top 10 genealogical data sets. Created from 193 town publications, this searchable resource contains all recorded births, deaths, baptisms, and burials for those towns up to 1850. Such vital records are of exceptional genealogical value in helping to confirm names, dates, and places. However, because towns kept vital records locally, accessing them today for your research would otherwise be inconvenient, if not impossible.
The depth and quality of
information contained in Massachusetts vital records is more significant than
any other state. Although Massachusetts did not develop a centralized system
of collecting vital information until 1844, they did require that towns collect
vital records (births and deaths) very early on. Though sometimes incomplete
and varying in accuracy, the importance of this data set cannot be over-emphasized.
Towns included in this data set
The following towns are represented
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Abington |
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Colrain |
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Hubbardston |
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Northborough |
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Templeton |
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Acton |
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Conway |
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Hull |
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Northbridge |
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Tewksbury |
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Alford |
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Dalton |
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Ipswich |
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Norton |
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Tisbury |
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Amesbury |
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Dana |
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Kingston |
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Oakham |
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Topsfield |
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Andover |
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Danvers |
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Lawrence |
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Otis |
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Tyngsboro |
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Arlington |
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Dartmouth |
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Lee |
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Oxford |
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Tyringham |
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Ashburnham |
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Dedham |
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Leicester |
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Palmer |
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Upton |
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Ashfield |
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Deerfield |
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Leominster |
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Pembroke |
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Uxbridge |
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Athol |
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Dorchester |
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Lexington |
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Peru |
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Wakefield |
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Attleboro |
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Douglas |
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Lincoln |
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Petersham |
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Walpole |
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Auburn |
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Dover |
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Lowell |
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Phillipston |
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Waltham |
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Barre |
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Dracut |
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Lynn |
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Plympton |
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Warren |
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Becket |
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Dudley |
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Lynnfield |
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Princeton |
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Washington |
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Bedford |
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Dunstable |
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Malden |
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Reading |
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Wayland |
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Bellingham |
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Duxbury |
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Manchester |
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Rehoboth |
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Wenham |
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Berlin |
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East Bridgewater |
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Mansfield |
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Richmond |
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West Boylston |
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Beverly |
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Edgarton |
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Marblehead |
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Rochester |
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West Bridgewater |
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Billerica |
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Essex |
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Marlborough |
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Rockport |
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West Newbury |
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Bolton |
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Falmouth |
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Marshfield |
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Rowley |
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West Springfield |
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Boxborough |
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Foxborough |
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Medfield |
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Roxbury |
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West Stockbridge |
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Boxford |
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Framingham |
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Medford |
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Royalston |
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Westborough |
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Boylston |
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Gardner |
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Medway |
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Rutland |
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Westford |
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Bradford |
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Georgetown |
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Mendon |
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Salem |
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Westminster |
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Bridgewater |
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Gill |
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Methuen |
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Salisbury |
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Westport |
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Brimfield |
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Gloucester |
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Middlefield |
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Sandisfield |
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Weymouth |
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Brockton |
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Grafton |
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Middleton |
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Saugus |
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Williamstown |
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Brookfield |
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Granville |
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Milford |
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Scituate |
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Wilmington |
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Brookline |
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Great Barrington |
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Millbury |
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Sharon |
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Winchendon |
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Buckland |
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Greenfield |
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Milton |
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Shelburne |
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Windsor |
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Cambridge |
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Groton |
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Montague |
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Shelborn |
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Woburn |
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Cambridge |
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Hamilton |
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Montgomery |
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Shirley |
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Worcester |
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Carlisle |
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Hanson |
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Nantucket |
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Shrewsbury |
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Worthington |
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Carver |
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Hardwick |
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Natick |
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Southborough |
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Wrentham |
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Charlemont |
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Harvard |
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New Ashford |
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Charlton |
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Haverhill |
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New Bedford |
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Chelmsford |
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Heath |
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New Braintree |
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Chelsea |
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Hinsdale |
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New Salem |
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Chester |
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Holden |
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Newbury |
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Chilmark |
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Holliston |
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Newburyport |
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Cohasset |
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Hopkinton |
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Newton |
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Taunton |
What are the data sources for this product?
Books published in the early 1900s that collected information from town and county records, church registers, cemetery and gravestone records, family Bibles, and other private records. More than 200 of Massachusett's 340 towns are covered by this data set.
What are the system requirements?
A CD-ROM drive, and one of the following programs: Family Tree Maker for Windows® version 3.02 or higher, the FREE Family Archive Viewer version 3.02 or higher, or Family Tree Maker for Power Macintosh.
How does the money back policy work?
If you are not completely satisfied with any online subscription or other intangible product, you may request a refund within seven days of the date of purchase.
If you are not completely satisfied with any Membership, data CD, or other tangible product, you may request a refund within thirty days of the date of purchase.
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