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      Massachusetts State Vital Records Office

        Registry of Vital Records and Statistics
        150 Mount Vernon Street, 1st floor
        Dorchester, MA 02125-3105
        (617) 740-2600
        Fax: (617) 825-7755
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        Make check or money order payable to Commonwealth of Massachusetts. For credit card orders of vital records, call 617/740-2606.

        You may request overnight delivery for an additional fee of $37.00.

        Regardless of how you request copies, you should be prepared to provide the name of the subject(s) of the record, the date of the event and, if known, the city or town where the event occurred.

        Massachusetts Vital Records - This page explains how to locate, research and order a Massachusetts vital record, include birth, death and marriage certificates.


        The Massachusetts Archives at Columbia Point
        220 Morrissey Boulevard
        Boston, MA 02125
        (617) 727-2816
        FAX: (617) 288-8429

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        Record Cost Dates Ordering
        Birth$28.00 (by mail)
        $18 (in person)        		Order OnlineMail Order
        from the Registry of Vital Records and Statistics
        Death$28.00 (by mail)
        $18 (in person)        		Order OnlineMail Order
        from the Registry of Vital Records and Statistics
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        • Marriage$28.00 (by mail)
        $18 (in person)        		Order OnlineMail Order
        from the Registry of Vital Records and Statistics
        Birth & Marriage (heirloom)$60.00 (by mail)
        $50 (in person)        		since 1911Order OnlineMail Order
        attractively printed in blue and gold on 11" x 17" parchment, hand-signed, and suitable for framing
        Birth, Death & Marriage$3.00 Certified
        Microfilm prints are $0.50 each.        		1841 to 1910Order Online
        from the Massachusetts Archives (see info above)
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        • Birth, Death & MarriageBefore 1841Order Online
        Contact the Town Clerk in town or city where event occurred. Printed Vital Records Prior to 1850, organized by town, are available in many research libraries, including the Massachusetts State Library.
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        • Divorce$10.00since 1952
        The State office has a divorce index only since 1952, however, it is not complete. For a certified copy contact the Registrar of Probate Court in the county where the couple last lived as husband and wife.
        Genealogical ReserachClick here for information
        Amendments & CorrectionsClick here for information
        Census1790 through 1930Search U.S. Federal Census Records Online

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      Index to Massachusetts County & Town Vital Records Offices

        Divorce records are available from the Registrar of Probate Court in the county where the the couple last lived as husband and wife. Countywide divorce indexes exist at each county probate court from 1922 to the present.

        Birth Certificates are on file in the town you were born in, and the town your parents were living in at your birth. Marriage Certificates are on file in the town where you filed your intentions, not the town where you were married. Death Certificates are on file in the town the person was living in at the time of death, and also the town of death, if different.

        Unless the records were destroyed, they date back to the incorporation date of the town. Vital Records for many towns published in a series of books available in very many town libraries, at Mass Archives, and at NEHGS.

        Follow this link to Rootsweb to determine what county a city or town is in.

        Counties

          Dukes . Middlesex . Barnstable . Berkshire . Bristol . Essex . Franklin . Hampden . Hampshire . Nantucket . Norfolk . Plymouth . Suffolk . Worcester .
        Cities or Towns
          Abington . Acton . Acushnet . Adams . Agawam . Alford . Amesbury . Amherst . Andover . Arlington . Ashburnham . Ashby . Ashfield . Ashland . Athol . Attleborough . Auburn . Avon . Ayer . Barnstable . Barre . Becket . Bedford . Belchertown . Bellingham . Belmont . Berkley . Berlin . Bernardston . Beverly . Billerica . Blackstone . Blandford . Bolton . Boston . Bourne . Boxborough . Boxford . Boylston . Braintree . Brewster . Bridgewater . Brighton . Brimfield . Brockton . Brookfield . Brookline . Buckland . Burlington . Cambridge . Canton . Carlisle . Carver . Charlemont . Charlestown . Charlton . Chatham . Chelmsford . Chelsea . Cheshire . Chester . Chesterfield . Chicopee . Chilmark . Clarksburg . Clinton . Cohasset . Colrain . Concord . Conway . Cummington . Dalton . Danvers . Dartmouth . Dedham . Deerfield . Dennis . Dighton . Dorchester . Douglas . Dover . Dracut . Dudley . Dunstable . Duxbury . East Bridgewater . East Brookfield . East Longmeadow . Eastham . Easthampton . Easton . Edgartown . Egremont . Enfield . Erving . Essex . Everett . Fairhaven . Fall River . Falmouth . Fitchburg . Florida . Foxboro . Framingham . Franklin . Freetown . Gardner . Gay Head . Georgetown . Gill . Gloucester . Goshen . Gosnold . Grafton . Granby . Granville . Great Barrington . Greenfield . Groton . Groveland . Hadley . Halifax . Hamilton . Hampden . Hancock . Hanover . Hanson . Hardwick . Harvard . Harwich . Hatfield . Haverhill . Hawley . Heath . Hingham . Hinsdale . Holbrook . Holden . Holland . Holliston . Holyoke . Hopedale . Hopkinton . Hubbardston . Hudson . Hull . Huntington . Hyde Park . Ipswich . Kingston . Lakeville . Lancaster . Lanesborough . Lawrence . Lee . Leicester . Lenox . Leominster . Leverett . Lexington . Leyden . Lincoln . Littleton . Longmeadow . Lowell . Ludlow . Lunenburg . Lynn . Lynnfield . Malden . Manchester . Mansfield . Marblehead . Marion . Marlborough . Marshfield . Mashpee . Mattapoisett . Maynard . Medfield . Medford . Medway . Melrose . Mendon . Merrimac . Methuen . Middleborough . Middlefield . Middleton . Milford . Millbury . Millis . Millville . Milton . Monroe . Monson . Montague . Monterey . Montgomery . Mount Washington . Nahant . Nantucket . Natick . Needham . New Ashford . New Bedford . New Braintree . New Marlborough . New Salem . Newbury . Newburyport . Newton . Norfolk . North Adams . North Andover . North Attleborough . North Brookfield . North Reading . Northampton . Northborough . Northbridge . Northfield . Norton . Norwell . Norwood . Oak Bluffs . Oakham . Orange . Orleans . Otis . Oxford . Palmer . Paxton . Peabody . Pelham . Pembroke . Pepperell . Peru . Petersham . Phillipston . Pittsfield . Plainfield . Plainville . Plymouth . Plympton . Princeton . Provincetown . Quincy . Randolph . Raynham . Reading . Rehoboth . Revere . Richmond . Rochester . Rockland . Rockport . Rowe . Rowley . Royalston . Russell . Rutland . Salem . Salisbury . Sandisfield . Sandwich . Saugus . Savoy . Scituate . Seekonk . Sharon . Sheffield . Shelburne . Sherborn . Shirley . Shrewsbury . Shutesbury . Somerset . Somerville . South Deerfield . South Hadley . Southampton . Southborough . Southbridge . Southwick . Spencer . Springfield . Sterling . Stockbridge . Stoneham . Stoughton . Stow . Sturbridge . Sudbury . Sunderland . Sutton . Swampscott . Swansea . Taunton . Templeton . Tewksbury . Tisbury . Tolland . Topsfield . Townsend . Truro . Turners Falls . Tyngsborough . Tyringham . Upton . Uxbridge . Wakefield . Wales . Walpole . Waltham . Ware . Wareham . Warren . Warwick . Washington . Watertown . Wayland . Webster . Wellesley . Wellfleet . Wendell . Wenham . West Boylston . West Bridgewater . West Brookfield . West Newbury . West Springfield . West Stockbridge . West Tisbury . Westborough . Westfield . Westford . Westhampton . Westminster . Weston . Westport . Westwood . Whately . Whitinsville . Whitman . Wilbraham . Williamsburg . Williamstown . Wilmington . Winchendon . Winchester . Windsor . Winthrop . Woburn . Worcester . Worthington . Wrentham . Yarmouth .

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        an index to crew lists of vessels that arrived at Gloucester, Massachusetts between 1918 and 1943 and New Bedford, Massachusetts between 1917 and 1943 at Ancestry
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