Massachusetts Societies

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State genealogical and historical societies may have records and services to help you with your research. The following are important genealogical societies in Massachusetts:

• New England Historic Genealogical Society
  101 Newbury Street
  Boston, MA 02116–3087
  Phone: (617) 536–5740
  Fax: (617) 536–7307

• General Society of Colonial Wars
  University of Baltimore Special Collections
  Langsdale Library 1420 Maryland Avenue
  Baltimore, MD 21201
  The Society's Lineage Records (with indexes) FHL film 528677 (first of 209 films).

• General Society of Mayflower Descendants
  4 Winslow St
  Plymouth, MA 02360
  Phone: (508) 746-2590

• Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants
  150 Wood Road, Suite 103
  Braintree MA 02184-2511
  Phone: (781) 535-6159
  Fax: [call the office for this number]
  E-mail: msmd@massmayflower.org
  

• Massachusetts Society of Genealogists, Inc.
  P.O. Box 215
  Ashland, MA 01721-0215
  Phone: (598) 892-1225
  

• National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution
  1776 D Street, N.W.
  Washington, D.C. 20006–5392
  Phone: (202) 628–1776
  

This society has published: DAR Patriot Index: Centennial Edition. Three Volumes. Washington, DC: National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, 1994. FHL book 973 C42da.

• The Pilgrim Society
  75 Court Street
  Plymouth, MA 02360
  Phone: (508) 746–1620
  Fax: (508) 747–4228
  E-mail: pegbaker@pilgrimhall.org
  

• Massachusetts Historical Society Library
  1154 Boylston Street
  Boston, MA 02215
  Phone: (617) 536–1608
  Fax: (617) 859–0074
  E-mail: library@masshist.org