Massachusetts Death Certificate
Massachusetts Department of Public Health
Registry of Vital Records & Statistics
470 Atlantic Avenue, 2nd Floor
Boston, MA 02210
Tel: 617-753-8600
- Massachusetts Death Records Index 1970-2003 (requires payment - part of an Ancestry subscription)
- Massachusetts Death Index 1841-1910 gives year of death only (copies of death records may be ordered by mail; also indexes marriages and births)
- Massachusetts Town Death Records Prior to 1850 90,000 entries (requires payment - part of an Ancestry subscription)
- Massachusetts Vital Records 1600-1849 Online (volunteer transcription project - not yet complete - presently has some records for Dukes, Essex, Middlesex, Nantucket and Worcester Counties)
- Jewish Cemetery Association of Massachusetts - Jewish Burials Search has 55,000 entries
- Barnstable County: Gravestone Records from the 15 Towns of Cape Cod 1683-1860 (ongoing project)
- Berkshire County: Assorted Vital Records (most are pre-1850)
- Bristol County: Walter-Blake Graveyard Burials in Taunton, Massachusetts
- Middlesex County...
- Middlesex County: Vital Records for the Town of Natick 1874-1913
- Middlesex County: Gravemarker Data from the South (Main Street) Burying Ground and the Old Hill Burying Ground, Concord, Mass
- Middlesex County: Billerica Cemeteries some with online transcriptions
- Plymouth County: Town of Middleborough Vital Records Index 1649-1945 (downloadable PDF files) also has cemetery listings and other records
- Suffolk County & Boston...
- Massachusetts Obituaries Archive Search includes the Boston Globe 1980-present & the Boston Herald 1997-present (you can obtain copies of the obituaries online for a fee)
- Boston Globe Birth & Marriage Announcements and Death Notices 1872-1922 at Ancestry.com (requires payment)
- Boston Globe & Herald Obituary Database 1971-1974 & 1983-2002 indexes full length obituaries only, no death notices
- Boston Jewish Advocate Obituary Database 1905-2005
- City of Boston Historic Burying Grounds Initiative includes transcriptions of historic gravestones 1630-1841
- Suffolk County: Boston Vital Records 1630-1699 at Ancestry.com (requires payment)
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