How to Obtain Massachusetts Birth, Marriage and Death Certificates
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 birth, marriage and death certificates 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 birth, marriage and death certificate 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
Massachusetts Registry of Vital Records and Statistics
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:
NewspaperObituaries.net - Massachusetts a
directory of thousands of obituaries with a page of
obituary indexes for each Massachusetts county
Search
Vital Records Online search over 400 million records online
Search
Obituaries and Death Records - Over 3 Billion Names
search obituaries and death records in hundreds of newspapers
going back over 200 years
Search
Massachusetts Marriage Records Online - a comprehensive collection
of many online marriage databases for Massachusetts indexed in
county order
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.
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