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Massachusetts Town Vital Records Collection

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About This Collection:
 Home to some of the earliest European settlements in North America, Massachusetts has been home to countless millions since the Mayflower arrived in 1620. As a result of this early settlement and exceptional record keeping, the state is also a favorite location for ancestral research. The databases which comprise this Massachusetts Town Vital Records Collection include many previously posted on Ancestry and seven additional towns. Also provided for the first time is this advanced search page to aid researchers seeking just one type of record (i.e. birth, marriage, or death).

Originally published by the New England Historic Genealogical Society in the early twentieth century, the databases in this compilation cover births, marriages, and deaths from each town from its respective founding until 1850. This series is of particular interest to those with ancestors in Massachusetts during the 1700s and 1800s. Ancestry's Massachusetts Town Vital Records collection is a growing series of databases. Return often as the size of this valuable database is periodically increased.

This collection contains records from the following towns:
Abington, Acton, Ashburnham, Ashfield, Bellingham, Brimfield, Brockton, Carver, Chester, Dartmouth, Dover, Dracut, Ebridge, Essex, Framingham, Gill, Granville, Holden, Holliston, Hopkinten, Hummards, Lawrence, Lexington, Lincoln, Lynn, Medford, Medway, Middlefield, Montgomery, New Ashford, New Bedford, New Braintree, Pembroke, Richmond, Shrewsbury, Shirley, Sturbridge, Taunton, Templeton, Tisbury, Tyringham, Wayland, Washington, Westminster, Westport, West Springfield, Winchendon, Windsor, and Worthingham.

Databases
New England Historic Genealogical Society. Massachusetts Town Vital Records Partial Compilation, (60). Orem, UT: Ancestry, Inc., 1997-1999. For a complete bibliography see the individual database search pages.