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United States Massachusetts  Archives and Libraries For detailed information about Massachusetts research, see the Massachusetts Genealogy Guide page. These archives, libraries, societies, and museums preserve sources, maintain indexes, and provide services to help genealogists document their ancestors who lived in Massachusetts.

Wiki Articles on Major Repositories in Massachusetts
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State
Government records, censuses, military records, land records, naturalizations, divorces, probate, name changes, and adoptions. Only 18 of the 328 volumes of the excellent Massachusetts Archives Collection, aka Felt Collection, of 1629-1799 history are indexed online. The Archives' online searchable collections include:
 * The Massachusetts Archives Collection Database (1629-1799) serves as a searchable, descriptive index and catalog for documents of eighteen volumes of the Massachusetts Archives Collection.
 * Index to Passenger Manifests (1848-1891)
 * Index to Vital Records (1841-1910)

Regional

 * For additional information, see also Massachusetts Repositories.

Guides
Two important inventories of Massachusetts records are:


 * Historical Records Survey (Massachusetts). Preliminary Edition of Guide to Depositories of Manuscript Collections in Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts: Historical Records Survey, 1939). . . This work lists major manuscript collections and their locations.


 * Carroll D. Wright, Report on the Custody and Condition of the Public Records of Parishes, Towns, and Counties (Boston, Massachusetts: Wright and Potter, 1889). . . Gives a brief description of the town records that existed in 1889 and which may still be available.