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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

  • General Society of Mayflower Descendants

    The official national site of the General Society of Mayflower Descendants.

  • MAYFLOWER Mailing List (Archived on RootsWeb)

    A mailing list for the discussion and sharing of information regarding the descendants of the Mayflower passengers in any place and at any time.

  • Mayflower Web Pages

• 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