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Massachusetts is one of America’s earliest settlements and offers an abundance of genealogical information that can be found in the state's history books and references. Town histories, church registers, and colonial-era records help trace families back to the 1600s. Documents covering events like the Revolutionary War and the Salem Witch Trials provide unique insights, making Massachusetts a cornerstone for early American ancestry research.
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- Westfield and its Historic Influences, 1669 - 1919 1,220 records
- Records of the Town of Plymouth 1,218 records
- Records of the Town of Braintree, 1640 - 1793 952 records
- History of North Brookfield, Massachusetts 858 records
- A Sketch of the History of Attleborough: From Its Settlement to the Division 840 records
- History of the Town of Holland, Massachusetts 799 records
- Suffolk Surnames 788 records
- The Record of the Town Meetings, and Abstract of Births, Marriages, and Deaths in the Town of Dedham, Massachusetts, 1887 - 1896 772 records
- History of Haverhill, Massachusetts, From Its First Settlement in 1640, To the Year 1860 711 records
- Memorial of the Thayer Name, From the Massachusetts Colony of Weymouth and Braintree, Embracing Geneological and Biographical Sketches of Richard & Thomas Thayer, and Their Descendants From 1636 To 1874 711 records
- History of the Old South Church (Third Church) Boston, Volume 2 710 records
- Springfield, 1636 - 1886, History of Town and City, Including An Account of the Quarter-Millenial Celebration 701 records
- The History of Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts: From the Grant of its Territory to Charlestown in 1640, to the Year 1860 694 records
- The History of Peter Parker and Sarah Ruggles of Roxbury, Massachusetts 678 records
- Origins in Williamstown: A History 666 records
- History of the Town of Palmer, Massachusetts 658 records
- History of the Old South Church (Third Church) Boston, Volume 1 642 records
- Springfield Present and Prospective: the City of Homes: The Sources of its Charm, its Advantages, Achievements and Pssibilities, Portrayed in Word and Picture 636 records
- Representative Men of Massachusetts, 1890 - 1900: the Leaders in Official, Business and Professional Life of the Commonwealth 632 records
- Loyalists of Massachusetts 615 records
- History of the Town of Norton, Bristol County, Massachusetts from 1669 to 1859 613 records
- History of Salem, Massachusetts, Volume 1 594 records
- A Gazetteer of the State of Massachusetts, 1874 586 records
- History of Salem, Massachusetts, Volume 2 583 records
- History of Hardwick, Massachusetts: With a Genealogical Register 578 records
- Old Boston Days & Ways: From the Dawn of the Revolution Until the Town Became a City 570 records
- Memoir of the Rev. Oliver Alden Taylor 567 records
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