Massachusetts, United States Genealogy

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Guide to Massachusetts ancestry, family history, and genealogy birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, and military records.

Massachusetts Information

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts entered the Union on February 6, 1788, as the sixth state. Massachusetts was created from Province of Massachusetts Bay and is located in the New England region of the United States.[1] It is governed under its original constitution, which was adopted in 1780. Boston is the capital of Massachusetts. See Massachusetts History for more information.

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Many genealogy records are kept on the county level in the United States. Click on a county below to go to the county Wiki article listing more information.

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References

  1. Wikipedia contributors, "Massachusetts" in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts (accessed 15 March 2016).