Massachusetts boasts some of the oldest and most comprehensive local records in the U.S. town vital record compilations, early court files, and church registers often include names, dates, and familial ties absent from later civil documents. Publications like town histories like Records of Littleton, Massachusetts as well as academic society records frequently feature detailed biographical sketches. For genealogists researching their New England roots, these alternative sources are especially valuable in tracing colonial ancestry, Puritan settlements, and Revolutionary War-era residents, often revealing vital facts several generations before formal statewide registration began.
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- New England Families, Genealogical And Memorial, Volume 3 (1915) 1,290 records
- Records of the Town of Plymouth, 1636 - 1705, Volume 1 1,218 records
- Vital Records of Reading, Massachusetts, To the Year 1850 (1912) 1,082 records
- Vital Records of Chelsea, Massachusetts, To the Year 1850 (1916) 1,071 records
- Richardson Memorial, Three Brothers, Ezekiel, Samuel, And Thomas Richardson, Who Came From England, And United With Others in the Foundation of Woburn, Massachusetts, in the Year 1641 (1876) 1,008 records
- Richardson Memorial (1876) 1,004 records
- History of Rehoboth, Massachusetts 1643 - 1918 987 records
- Vital Record of Rehoboth, 1642-1896. Marriages, Intentions, Births, Deaths 978 records
- Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Volume 22 972 records
- Records of the Town of Braintree 1886 948 records
- The History of Nantucket County, Island and Town Including Genealogies of First Settlers 886 records
- Vital Records of Newburyport, Massachusetts, To the End of the Year 1849, Volume 2, Marriages and Deaths (1911) 849 records
- The History of Concord : from its first grant in 1725, to the organization of the city government in 1853 828 records
- Woburn Records of Births, Deaths, And Marriages, 1640-1873, Part 2 762 records
- Vital Records of Weymouth, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 746 records
- Vital Records of Newbury, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849, Volume 2 738 records
- topographical and historical description of boston 736 records
- Memorials of the Dead in Boston 732 records
- History of the Lincoln Family. An Account of the Descendants of Samuel Lincoln of Hingham, Massachusetts 730 records
- Records of Littleton, Massachusetts 730 records
- Vital Records of Marblehead, Massachusetts, To the End of the Year 1849, Volume 2, Marriages and Deaths (1903) 716 records
- Vital Records of Marblehead, Massachusetts, To the End of the Year 1849 714 records
- Records of ye Towne Meetings of Lyn, 1691 - 1701/2 710 records
- History of Newburyport, Massachusetts, 1764 - 1909, Volume 2 682 records
- Spalding Memorial, a Genealogical History of Edward Spalding, of Massachusetts Bay 676 records
- The History of Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, From the Grant of Its Territory To Charlestown, in 1640, To the Year 1860 670 records
- Town of Weston. Births, Deaths And Marriages, 1707-1850, Gravestones, 1703-1900, Church Records, 1709-1825 664 records
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