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150 Mount Vernon Street, 1st floor
Dorchester, MA 02125-3105
Phone: (617) 740-2600

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Births, deaths and marriages have been recorded at the city clerk's office, then sent to the State Registrar of Vital Statistics since 1841.  

Prior to 1841, vital records will be found locally in city clerk's offices.

Boston vital records are available since 1630 in the office of the city registrar.

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Genealogy Societies in Massachusetts:

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American Jewish Historical Society of Massachusetts

Berkshire Family History Association

Central Massachusetts Genealogical Society Inc.

Massachusetts Historical Society

Massachusetts Society of Genealogists

New England Historic Genealogical Society

Polish Genealogical Society of Massachusetts

Swedish Ancestry Research Association

Western Massachusetts Genealogy Society

Western Massachusetts Jewish Genealogy Society


Massachusetts Genealogy Societies

Acushnet Historical Commission

Andover Historical Society

Arlington Historical Society

Bedford Historical Society

Berkshire Historical Society

Beverly Historical Society

Boston To Providence Genealogy Society, Massachusetts, USA

Bostonian Society

Boston Historical Society and Museum

Bourne Historical Society

Boylston Historical Society

Brockton Historical Society

Canton Historical Society

Cape Cod Genealogical Society

Charlton Historical Society

Chelmsford Historical Society

Chester Historical Society, Hampden County

Clinton Historical Society

Danvers Historical Society

Dedham Historical Society

Dorchester Historical Society

Duxbury Rural and Historical Society

Essex Historical Society

Essex Society of Genealogists

Falmouth Genealogy Society

Falmouth Historical Society

Fitchburg Historical Society

Foxborough Historical Society

Framingham Historical Society

Grafton Historical District Commission

Hanson Historical Society

Harvard Historical Society

Hetty Green Historical Society

52 Union Street

New Bedford, MA 02740

Hingham Historical Society

Holliston Historical Society

Ipswich Historical Society

Jamaica Plain Historical Society

Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Boston

Lawrence History Center Immigrant City Archives & Museum

Leicester Historical Society

Leominster Historical Society

Lynn Historical Society

Marblehead Museum and Historical Society

The Mayflower Society

Medway Historical Society

Middleborough Historical Society

Nashaway Genealogical Society (dead link Apr 08)

Natick Historical Society

National Society of Old Plymouth Colony Descendants

Needham Historical Society

Newburyport Maritime Society

Newton Historical Society

North Attleboro Historical Society

Norton Historical Society

Old Bridgewater Historical Society

Old Colony Historical Society

Osterville Historical Society and Museum

Paxton Historical Commission

Peabody Historical Society

Plymouth County Genealogists Inc.

Quincy Historical Society

Randolph Historical Society

Scituate County Historical Society

Sheffield Historical Society

Shirley Historical Society

Shrewsbury Historical Society

Society of the War of 1812 in The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Southborough Historical Society

South Shore Genealogy Society

Sutton Historical Society

Swampscott Historical Commission (dead link Apr 08)

Upton Historical Society

Wakefield Historical Commission

Walpole Historical Society

Waltham Historical Society

Western Massachusetts Genealogical Society

Winchester Historical Society

Worcester Historical Society and Museum

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