Rhode Island Historical Records

The state of Rhode Island is the smallest U.S. state by area and the seventh-least populous, with slightly fewer than 1.1 million residents as of 2020; but it has grown at every decennial count since 1790 and is the second-most densely populated state, after New Jersey.

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Rhode Island vital records Rhode Island Historical Cemeteries 970,984 records available Rhode Island, Providence Catholic Burials 237,636 records available Rhode Island, Deaths, 2013-2017 38,889 records available Vital Record of Rhode Island: 1636-1850, Volume 4 1,388 records available Rhode Island Records 1,215 records available Vital Records of Rhode Island, 1636 - 1850, Volume IX: Seekonk, Pawtucket, and Newman Congregational Church 977 records available A Genealogy of the Descendants of Robert Austin of Kingstown, Rhode Island 745 records available Vital Records of Rhode Island, 1636-1850, Volume 12, Revolutionary Rolls and Newspapers (1891) 726 records available Vital Records of Rhode Island, 1636-1850, Volume 14, Deaths K-Z, Marriages A -C, 1762 - 1825 (1891) 714 records available Vital Records of Rhode Island, 1636-1850, Volume 21 (1891) 710 records available Vital Records of Rhode Island, 1636-1850, Volume 18 (1891) 708 records available Vital Records of Rhode Island, 1762 - 1825, Volume XIV: Newspaper Vitals 704 records available Vital Records of Rhode Island, 1636 - 1850, Volume XVIII: Newspaper Vitals 704 records available Vital Records of Rhode Island, 1636-1850, Volume 7, Friends and Ministers (1891) 699 records available Vital Records of Rhode Island, 1636-1850, Volume 19 (1891) 694 records available Vital Records of Rhode Island,1636 - 1850, Volume VIII: Episcopal and Congregational 683 records available Vital Records of Rhode Island, 1636-1850, Volume 17 (1891) 674 records available Vital Records of Rhode Island, 1636-1850, Volume 16 (1891) 666 records available Vital Records of Rhode Island, 1636 - 1850, Volume XII: Revolutionary Rolls and Newspapers 661 records available Vital Records of Rhode Island, 1636-1850, Volume 10, Church Records (1891) 650 records available Vital Records of Rhode Island, 1779 - 1829, Volume XVI: Newspaper Vitals 650 records available Vital Records of Rhode Island, 1636-1850, Volume 15, Marriages D-Z, Deaths A-Z (1891) 648 records available Alphabetical Index of the Births, Marriages And Deaths Recorded in Providence, Rhode Island 646 records available Vital Records of Rhode Island, 1636 - 1850, Volume XV: Newspaper Vital 644 records available Vital Records of Rhode Island, 1636 - 1850, Volume XI: Church Records 638 records available Vital Records of Rhode Island, 1636-1850, Volume 13, Deaths (1891) 630 records available Vital Records of Rhode Island, 1636-1850, Volume 10, Town and Church (1891) 629 records available Vital Records of Rhode Island, 1636 - 1850, Volume XIII: Deaths 614 records available See the entire collection catalog of vital records in Rhode Island	Rhode Island histories, memories and biographies Field Genealogy, Being the Record of all the Field Family in America Whose Ancestors Were in this Country Prior to 1700 1,590 records available Proceedings of the Rhode Island Historical Society, 1875 - 1876 1,094 records available History of Washington And Kent Counties, Rhode Island, Part 3 988 records available History of the State of Rhode Island And Providence Plantations, Volume 4 (1920) 969 records available Charles Dewolf of Guadaloupe (1902) 783 records available The Descendants of Thomas Durfee of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, Volume 2 736 records available Field Genealogy, Volume 2 (1901) 726 records available The Haviland Genealogy: Ancestors and Descendants of William Haviland of Newport, Rhode Island, and Flushing, Long Island, 1658 - 1688 712 records available Descendants of Nathaniel Mowry of Rhode Island (1878) 707 records available Field Genealogy, Volume 1 (1901) 704 records available Field Genealogy (1901) 693 records available History of the Episcopal Church in Narragansett, Rhode Island, Volume 3 682 records available The Descendants of Thomas Durfee of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, Volume 1 637 records available Genealogy of the Descendants of Thomas Olney, an Original Propretor of Providence, Rhode Island, Who Came From England in 1635 (1889) 619 records available Memoirs of the Wilkinson Family in America, 1645-1868 610 records available See the entire collection catalog of histories, memories and biographies in Rhode Island
Rhode Island newspaper records Nailer Tom's Diary: The Journal of Thomas B. Hazard of Kingstown, Rhode Island, 1778 - 1840 836 records available See the entire collection catalog of newspaper records in Rhode Island	Rhode Island military records Civil and Military List of Rhode Island, 1647 - 1800 666 records records available See the entire collection catalog of military records in Rhode Island
Rhode Island immigration and travel records US Naturalization Records, New England, 1791-1906 615,903 records available See the entire collection catalog of immigration and travel records in Rhode Island	Rhode Island directories, guides and references Pawtucket and Central Falls, Providence County, Rhode Island, City Directory, 1940 903 records available History of Newport County, Rhode Island, 1638 - 1887 1,302 records available History of Barrington, Rhode Island 753 records available See the entire collection catalog of directories, guides and references in Rhode Island

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