Online Massachusetts Death Indexes, Cemeteries and Obituaries- Death Indexes and Vital Records Indexes at Ancestry (these require payment)...
- Massachusetts Death Records Index, 1901-1980 (gives year of death, but not the date)
- Massachusetts Town Vital Records Collections, 1620-1988 includes various town birth, marriage, and death records; coverage varies by town
- Massachusetts Death Records, 1841-1915 (includes digitized images of the death records)
- Massachusetts Death Records and Vital Records at FamilySearch (free with registration) includes...
- Massachusetts Death Records, 1841-1915 (includes scanned images of the death registers and certificates)
- Massachusetts State Vital Records, 1841-1920 (includes births, marriages and deaths, 1916-1920, and state amendments to vital records, 1841-1920; not yet complete)
- Massachusetts Town Deaths Index, ca. 1640-1961; for 11 counties; coverage varies
- Massachusetts Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001; coverage varies by town; indexing is not yet complete
- Massachusetts Delayed and Corrected Vital Records, 1753-1900
- Massachusetts Death Index 1841-1910 from the Massachusetts Archives; gives year of death only (plus volume and page number); copies of death records may be ordered by mail for a fee; also has indexes for marriages and births
- Massachusetts Death Certificates, 1916 and 1917 This may be offline. Try this database at FamilySearch instead:
- Massachusetts Obituaries Archive - Recent (you can obtain copies of individual obituaries online for a fee) includes...
- Boston Herald (1997-Current)
- Brockton Enterprise (10/9/2008-Current)
- Cambridge Chronicle (1/19/2006-Current)
- Cape Cod Times (Hyannis, MA) (12/8/1998-Current)
- Fall River Herald News (10/2/2009-Current)
- Lowell Sun (9/14/2001-Current)
- Lynn Daily Item (9/23/2005-Current)
- Quincy Patriot Ledger (1/7/2008-Current)
- Springfield Republican (6/16/1988-Current)
- Worcester Telegram & Gazette (1/16/1989-Current)
- And more Massachusetts newspapers
- Jewish Cemetery Association of Massachusetts - Jewish Burials Search has over 50,000 entries
Massachusetts Death Records Indexes, Obituaries and Cemeteries by County- Barnstable County...
- Barnstable County: Gravestone Records from the 15 Towns of Cape Cod 1683-1860 (ongoing project)
- Barnstable County: Barnstable Patriot Newspaper Archive 1830-1930 covering Cape Cod and the Islands
- Boston: see the Suffolk County section below
- Bristol County...
- Bristol County: Walter-Blake Graveyard Burials in Taunton, Massachusetts
- Bristol County: Fall River Herald News Obituary Index 1949-2010 some years missing; Excel files
- Dukes County History and Genealogy for the Town of Tisbury and the Island of Martha's Vineyard includes some cemetery burials, marriage indexes and death indexes
- Essex County...
- Essex, Massachusetts Probate Records Index, 1638-1840 (at Ancestry/requires payment)
- Essex County: City of Amesbury Cemeteries includes a database for burials at Union Cemetery and Mt. Prospect Cemetery
- Essex County: City of Gloucester Vital Records Indexes (death index covers 1838-1883)
- Essex County: Gloucester Cemetery Inventory Excel file
- Essex County: Old Burial Hill Gravestone Index in Marblehead, Massachusetts
- Franklin County News Archive 1870-Sept 1875 includes some obituaries
- Hampden County: Springfield Vital Records, 1638-1887 from FamilySearch
- Middlesex County...
- Middlesex County: Billerica Cemeteries some with online transcriptions
- Middlesex County: Chelmsford Newspapers Obituary Search and Cemetery Archive The Cemetery Archive is for Fairview, Forefathers, Heart Pond, Pine Ridge, and Riverside Cemeteries.
- Middlesex County: Burials of St. Peter's Cemetery 1900-1913 (Lowell) also has Civil War Veterans Buried in Lowell Cemetery, and other items
- Middlesex County: City of Newton Genealogy Indexes includes Death Indexes, 1635-1925; PDF files
- Middlesex County: Wakefield Death Record Search 1850-2014 from the Lucius Beebe Memorial Library (also has a link for pre-1850 deaths)
- Waltham...
- Middlesex County: City of Waltham Cemetery Records Search for Mount Feake and Grove Hill Cemeteries
- Middlesex County: Mount Auburn Catholic Cemetery (Sand Banks Cemetery) Burials and Veterans Graves Watertown, Massachusetts; Excel files; also has Arlington Street Burying Ground Burials (in the genealogy section)
- Middlesex County Cemetery Projects
- Lowell Cemetery: Veterans Burial List (Lowell, Massachusetts) (PDF file)
- Nantucket County: Nantucket Cemeteries Inscription Project (also has PDF scans of Lewis Funeral Home Records); from the Nantucket Historical Association
- Norfolk County...
- Norfolk County: Village Cemetery and Brookdale Cemetery Burials in Dedham, Massachusetts
- Norfolk County: Pondville Cemetery Burials in Norfolk, Massachusetts
- Norfolk County: Sharon Memorial Park Burial Search Jewish Cemetery in Sharon, Massachusetts
- Norfolk County: Weymouth Town Vital Records to the Year 1850 includes births, marriages and deaths
- Plymouth County...
- Plymouth County: Town of Middleborough Vital Records Index 1649-1945 (downloadable PDF files) also has a Middleborough Gazette newspaper index
- Plymouth County: Plymouth Colony Archive Project includes wills and probate inventories, 1600s
- Suffolk County and Boston...
- Boston Public Library Obituary Database indexes obituaries in the Boston Evening Transcript, Boston Globe, and the Boston Herald/Herald American from 1932-1941 and 1953-2010.
- Boston Herald Obituaries Archive Search 1997-present (you can obtain copies of the obituaries online for a fee)
- Boston Jewish Advocate Obituary Database 1905-2007 (from JewishGen/Ancestry; requires free registration)
- St. Michael Cemetery Burials (Boston) requires the Silverlight browser plugin
- City of Boston Historic Burying Grounds Initiative includes transcriptions of historic gravestones 1630-1841
- Worcester County...
- Worcester City Death Certificates Search, 1976-present copies of the death certificates can be ordered for a fee; also has indexes for birth and marriage records
- Worcester County: Worcester Evening Post, Deaths Index, 1897-1898 ongoing project; includes some from 1899
- Worcester County: Inscriptions from the West Street Cemetery in Fitchburg, Massachusetts (1798-1879) PDF file
- Worcester County: Evergreen Cemetery Burials (Leominster, Massachusetts) Excel file
- Worcester County: Town of Rutland Death Records to the end of the year 1849 also includes birth and marriage records
Also Helpful...- Massachusetts Genealogy Records at Ancestry (requires payment)
- Massachusetts Catholic Order of Foresters Mortuary Records Index Irish fraternal life insurance society; FamilySearch has digitized copies of the records online at: Massachusetts, Forester Mortuary Records, 1880-1935
- Massachusetts Vital Records, 1600-1849 Online (ongoing volunteer transcription project - has some records for Berkshire, Dukes, Essex, Franklin, Middlesex, Nantucket, Norfolk and Worcester Counties)
Ordering Massachusetts Vital Records- Where to Write for Vital Records - Massachusetts (fees and restrictions may apply)
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