Massachusetts Printed Vital Records
Records: 77,917
Complete: 100%Transcribed vital events recorded from town and church records, cemeteries, and private sources; arranged by birth, marriage, and death, and alphabetically by family surname within each section. Each town is published in a separate volume. These are not indexes, but actual records relied upon by historians, genealogists, and lineage societies for decades as an appropriate resource for documenting family and community histories in Massachusetts.
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Fold3, Massachusetts Printed Vital Records ( : accessed January 28, 2023), database and images,
- Publication Title
- Massachusetts Printed Vital Records
- Total Records
- 77,917 Complete: 100%
- Content Source
Archive Publishing
- Published on Fold3
- 28 Aug 2008
- Last Updated
- 12 Dec 2008
- Description
- Births, marriages, and deaths retrieved from various pre-1850 sources are published in these classic volumes known as the "Tan Books" for many Massachusetts' cities and towns.