How to Obtain Massachusetts Vital Records
This page provides information on obtaining copies of Massachusetts
birth certificates, Massachusetts marriage licenses, Massachusetts divorce
decrees and Massachusetts death records. There are also useful
links to past Massachusetts Vital Records for those of you conducting
family history research. General information about US vital
records can be viewed on this site's homepage
Massachusetts Vital Records may be
obtained from the following government office:
Registry of Vital Records and Statistics
150 Mount Vernon Street
1st Floor
Dorchester, MA 02125-3105
Massachusetts vital records order forms
as well as more information are available on the following
pages:
The Massachusetts Registry of Vital Records and Statistics
may be contacted
by phone on (617) 740-2600 or online at
http://www.mass.gov/?pageID=eohhs2terminal&L=5&L0=Home&L1=Government&L2=Departments+and+Divisions&L3=Department+of+Public+Health&L4=Programs+and+Services+K+-+S&sid=Eeohhs2&b=terminalcontent&f=dph_vital_records_g_about&csid=Eeohhs2
Remarks: State office has no records previous to 1916.
For earlier records, write to The Massachusetts Archives
at Columbia Point, 220 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston, MA 02125
(617) 727-2816
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Birth, Death, Marriage and Divorce Records Online via Vital
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Other Massachusetts Vital Records Resources
I have included these additional sites because they may
contain Massachusetts vital records (birth records, marriage records,
divorce records or death records) that you might find useful
if you are conducting genealogy research:
Social
Security Death Index 
search over 80 million names - The Social Security Death
Index (SSDI) is a database that contains the names of deceased
persons who were assigned Social Security numbers and whose
deaths were reported to the SSA. These records usually include
a full name, birth and death dates, and last known residence
Search
Massachusetts Marriage Records Online - a comprehensive collection
of many online marriage databases for Massachusetts indexed in
county order
Search
Massachusetts Birth, Marriage & Death Records 
online databases of vital records
USGenweb Archives
Project - Massachusetts USGenWeb is an archive of free databases
including vital and other records such as marriages, church
records, wills,censusesand cemetery records.
World
Vital Records search over 800
million US names including marriage records, divorces and
death records
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