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African American Trail Project

The African American Trail Project is a collaborative public history initiative housed at Tufts University. Originally inspired by the scholarship of Tufts Professor Gerald R. Gill (1948-2007) and driven by faculty and student research, this project maps African American and African-descended public history sites across greater Boston, and throughout Massachusetts. The African American Trail Project aims to develop African American historical memory and intergenerational community, placing present-day struggles for racial justice in the context of greater Boston’s historic African American, Black Native, and diasporic communities.

American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940 - Massachusetts

From the Library of Congress.

Ancestry.com - Massachusetts Applications of Freemen, 1630-91

Searchable database available by subscription.

Ancestry.com - Massachusetts Freemen

Searchable database available by subscription.

Ancestry.com - Massachusetts Name Changes, 1780-1892

Original source: Massachusetts State Government. List of Persons Whose Names Have Been Changed in Massachusetts, 1780-1892. Boston, MA, USA: 1893. Searchable database available by subscription.

Ancestry.com - Massachusetts Pioneers

Searchable database available by subscription.

Colonial Massachusetts and Maine Genealogies

Information about approximately 5,000 individuals who are descendants of the following surnames: ANDERSON, BLAKE, BRACKETT, BRADBURY, CARVER, CONANT, CHUTE, DARLING, FARRINGTON, HAMBLEN/HAMBLIN/HAMLIN, HASKELL, KNIGHT, MANSFIELD MATHER, NOYES, PLUMER/PLUMMER, PROCTOR, SANFORD, SAWYER, SEWALL, SHACKFORD, SNOW, THURSTON, WAITE, WATTS, WOODWARD.

Dyer Families of New England

Genealogies of five different DYER families in New England from the 17th century. Also a reference to Genealogies of the Families of Braintree, MA by Sprague.

GEDCOM Index - Massachusetts

Index of GEDCOM files found online, arranged by surname and given name.

George Washington in Massachusetts, 1775-1776

Men born or baptized in Massachusetts with the forename George Washington and Washington during the years 1775 to 1799.

Germans in Boston Resource Center

Governor John WEBSTER of Hartford, Connecticut and Hadley, Massachusetts

Internet Archive Search: creator:"Brownson, Lydia B.; Norton, Doris V.; Held, Grace V."

Authors of "Genealogical notes of Cape Cod families." Handwritten birth, marriage, death records of Cape Cod Families.

List of Persons Whose Names Have Been Changed in Massachusetts. 1780-1892

Published by the Massachusetts Office of the Secretary of State, this is now available online for free.

Mayflower & Early Families

Old Colony Ancestors

Genealogical database of over 106,000 names from families originiating in the Old Colony area of Massachusetts: Bristol, Plymouth and Barnstable Counties.

Old Pictures of the 107th Company CCC Camp, Mount Greylock, Massachusetts

Pictures of the camp and some of the men taken between 1933 and 1935.

Online County and Town Histories - Massachusetts

This site provides over 3,000 links to free county and town histories published from 1850 to the early 1920s. These histories often contain detailed biographies of their citizens.

Our Family Tree - Massachusetts Genealogy

Collection of family trees and resources for the state of Massachusetts: Waldo, Freeman, Ballou, Adams, Mayo, Snow, Smith, Cooke, Lincoln, Ford

Salem Massachusetts Witch Trials