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Census
Records
- US Federal
Census
Records & Massachusetts State Census (1855 & 1865)
City
Directories
- Boston
Public Library
Holdings include New England and non-New England City
Directories.
- Massachusetts
State Library - Special Collections
Holdings include City Directories (names, addresses,
occupations of residents, business listings, charitable
organizations and societies, etc.), PSP directories
(listings by street and telephone numbers only), voting
lists (lists of persons eligible to vote arranged
by wards and precincts), and miscellaneous information
(a few foreign language directories).
- New
England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS)
Holdings include large microfiche collection of Massachusetts
city directories and miscellaneous New England directories.
Employment
Records
Military
Records
- Massachusetts
Military Division History Research and Museum
Holdings
include early militia records (1776-1820), Massachusetts
militia period (1820-1840), pre-Civil War period (1840-1860),
Civil War (1861-1865), Reconstruction period after
Civil War (1866-1897), Spanish American War/Philippines
Insurrection (1898-1917), World War I period (1917-1919)
including World War I State Guard records, and National
Guard records (1920-1940).
- National
Archives, New England Region
Holdings
include World War I draft cards, Civil War Pension
Index, Revolutionary War Pension and Service Records,
Veteranís and Widows Special U.S. Census of 1890.
- National
Archives, Northeast Region
Holdings
are same as above.
Newspapers
(Ethnic)
Note:
Newspapers are in foreign languages unless English
appears in the "Notes" column. This is a select
list of newspapers published in Boston. See the Boston
Public Library and the Massachusetts
State Library for additional titles and holdings.
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Newspapers
Published in Boston (arranged by ethnicity)
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Ethnicity
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Name
of newspaper
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Dates
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Notes
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African
American
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Bay
State Banner
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1965+
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English
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African
American
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Advocate
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1885-1887
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English
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African
American
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Boston
Chronicle
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1932-1960
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English
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African
American
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Guardian
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1902-1913;
1939-1957
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English
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Albanian
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Dielli
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1939-1941;
1943-1960; 1968 +
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Albanian
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Liria
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1941-1945
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Armenian
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Baikar
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1939-1944;
1946-1962
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Armenian
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Hairenik
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1939-1959;
1968; 1969+
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Daily
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Armenian
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Hairenik
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1939-1959;
1968; 1969+
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Weekly
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Canadian
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American
Canadian
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1874-1876
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English
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Chinese
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Sampan
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1974+
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English
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British-American
Citizen
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1887-1890
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English
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French
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LíAurora
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1928-1930
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French
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Courier
de Boston
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1789-
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French
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Gazette
Francaise
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1851-1852
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French
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Le
Republican
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1881-1884
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German
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Boston
Merkur
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1846-1847
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German
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Bostoner
Intelligenz-Blatt
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1866-1872
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German
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Der
Boston Telegraphe
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1893-1901
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German
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Bostoner
Zeitung
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1865
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German
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Der
Pionier
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1856-1857;
1860-1872; 1875-1879
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German
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Germania
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1901-1952
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German
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New
England Staaten Zeitung
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1877-1890
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Greek
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Athenai
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1939-1942
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Greek
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Greek
Sunday News
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1967+
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English
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Greek
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Hellenic
Chronicle
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1968+
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English
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Greek
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Hellenic
World
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1938-1942
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Greek
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Olympic
Tribune
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1968
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Irish
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Irish
Echo
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1982+
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English
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Irish
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Pilot
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1829+
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English
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Irish
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Republic
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1882-1925
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English
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Italian
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La
Controcorrente
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1944-1945
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Italian
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La
Gazzetta del Massachusetts
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1903-1905;
1907-1911; 1915-1960
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Italian
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Il
Messagero
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1917-1920
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Italian
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La
Notizia
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1964-1971
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Italian
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Post
Gazzette
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1968-1972
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English
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Italian
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Italian
News
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1939-1960
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English
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Italian
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Incontro
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1971+
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Italian
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IL
Moscone
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1907
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Italian
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La
Notizia
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1939-1945;
1955-1958
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Jewish
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Boston
Hebrew Observer
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1883-1886
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English
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Jewish
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Forward
(Boston edition)
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1919-1941
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Jewish
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Jewish
Advocate
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1905+
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English
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Jewish
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Jewish
Herald
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1893-1894
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English
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Jewish
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Jewish
World
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1939-1942
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English
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Latvian
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Amerikas
Latvietis
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1942-1968;
1970+
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Latvian
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Proletareets
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1902-1910
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Latvian
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Rihts
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1920
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Latvian
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Strahdneeks
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1912-1914;
1916-1917
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Latvian
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Strahdneeku
Zihna
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1939
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Lithuanian
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Ateitis
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1918
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Lithuanian
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Darininkas
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1939-1951
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Published
NYC 1951-1952
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Lithuanian
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Keleivis
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1905;
1908-1910; 1912-1933; 1935-1937; 1940-1978; 1967+
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Polish
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Kuryer
Codzienny
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1939-1960
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Polish
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Polish
Courier
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1960
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Polish
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Polish
American Gazette
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1967-1972
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English
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Spanish
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La
Semana
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1978+
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Passenger
List Records
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National Archives, New England Region
Holdings
include passenger arrival records for the port of
Boston, New Bedford, Providence, RI, and other misc.
ports (with indexes).
- National
Archives, Northeast Region
Holdings
include Port of New York Passenger Arrival Records
(1820-1897, with index; 1897-1957, indexes 1902-1943)
and Boston.
- Boston
Public Library
Holdings
include New York, Boston, and misc. other New England
and U.S. ports.
- Massachusetts
State Archives
Holdings
include Port of Boston passenger lists and indexes.
Quaker
- Rhode
Island Historical Society Library
Holdings
include records for the New England Yearly Meeting
such as monthly meeting minutes, marriage intentions,
marriage certificates, certificates of removal, disownment
papers, and burials or deaths.
- New
England Historic Genealogical Society
Holdings
include miscellaneous meeting records.
- Unitarian
Universalist - Andover-Harvard Theological Library
Holdings
include minute books, financial records, membership,
birth, death records, womenís and youth groups, Sunday
schools records, some ministers vital records, etc..
Religious
Records
- Archdiocese
of Boston (Roman Catholic) Archives
Holdings
include baptisms, marriage banns, marriages, burials,
First Communion, and Confirmation records.
- Congregational
Library
Holdings
include baptisms, membership lists, marriages, burials,
and ministerís records.
- Episcopal
- The Diocesan Library and Archives
Holdings
include baptisms, marriages, burials, and communicant
listings.
- American Jewish Historical Society Library
Holdings
include birth records, circumcision, bar mitzvah,
bat mitzvah, marriage, death, and minute books (with
information on meetings of the elders as well as documents
relating to synagogue officials such as Rabbis, Cantors,
etc.).
- Methodist
Episcopal -Boston University School of Theology Library
Holdings
include baptisms, marriages, burials, and communicant
listings.
Vital
Records - Massachusetts
Vital
Records - Other New England States
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