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Revision as of 09:41, 22 March 2017
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Online Resources[edit | edit source]
The following have significant cemetery listings for Massachusetts State:
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Sites may be incomplete. • They may not list all cemeteries in a county • and may not include all burials in a cemetery. |
- Online Massachusetts Death Records & Indexes
- Massachusetts, Find A Grave Index, 1620-2011
- Find A Grave for Massachusetts
- Interment.net for Massachusetts
- Billion Graves for Massachusetts
- BillionGraves Index
- Massachusetts Tombstone Transcriptions
- Massachusetts Genealogy Cemetery Records Organizes cemetery inscriptions on many sites by county and town
- Cemetery Junction
- Ancestor Hunt
- A Very Grave Matter
- Massachusetts Cemetery Records A large collection of Massachusetts cemetery records, organized by location.
- Farber Gravestone Collection
- I Dream of Genealogy Massachusetts Cemeteries
- Findagrave.com Search for names Enter at least a last name then click Search. Can narrow by first names or dates.
- This site frequently has tombstone images
- List of cemeteries statewide for cemeteries in their database
- Go to Find A Grave Home page, click Search for a cemetery, select the state (Massachusetts), then select from the county list, and press Search.
- Click on the number below Interments for a cemetery to access names. Click Records arrow to scroll through to the end.
- Go to Find A Grave Home page, click Search for a cemetery, select the state (Massachusetts), then select from the county list, and press Search.
- Web: Massachusetts, Find A Grave Index, 1620-2013 at Ancestry.com ($)
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- Massachusetts Cemetery Directory Locations of cemeteries
- BillionGraves Replace the Smith surname in the pale orange form and click Search.
- Interment Many cemetery inscriptions
- Massachusetts Genealogy Cemetery Records Organizes cemetery inscriptions on many sites by county and town
- Massachusetts Cemetery Records A large collection of Massachusetts cemetery records, organized by location.
Collections - Transcriptions[edit | edit source]
The Corbin collection and the Daughters of the American Revolution collection contain tombstone inscriptions from many Massachusetts cemeteries. These collections are described in Massachusetts Genealogy. Many inscriptions are also in published town vital records. See Massachusetts Vital Records for more information about these sources.
A collection of index cards listing the burial place of Revolutionary veterans is in:
Daughters of the American Revolution.Grave Locations of Revolutionary Soldiers and Sailors of Maine and Massachusetts. FHL films 1307668–69 Lists birth, death, and burial information as well as the unit in which they served. Sometimes it will list the spouse and marriage date and place.
A county-by-county list of cemetery record transcripts is:
{{FHL|613269|title-id|disp=The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Family History Library. Index to United States Cemeteries. Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1988. FHL film 1206468–94 and FHL film 1206475 includes Massachusetts among other states.
The Place Search of the FamilySearch Catalog lists more of these records under:
MASSACHUSETTS - CEMETERIES
MASSACHUSETTS, [COUNTY] - CEMETERIES
MASSACHUSETTS, [COUNTY], [TOWN] - CEMETERIES