Resources
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.
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.
Historical and Other Socities
- Bostonian Society
206 Washington Street, Boston, MA 02109; Doug Southard, Librarian; Steven Hill, Director of Collections; phone (617) 720-1713 , fax (617) 720-3289; Hours Tues. - Fri. 9:30 AM - 4:30 PM (appointments are strongly recommended.) E-mail library@bostonhistory.org or museum@bostonhistory.org. Holdings include: artifacts on Boston history (in Museum Collection), historical information and images on Boston history and its neighborhoods. - American Antiquarian Society
185 Salisbury Street, Worcester, MA 0609-1634; phone (508) 755-5221 ; Hours Mon.- Fri. 9 AM - 5 PM; Email library@MWA.org. Holdings include: Three million books, pamphlets, broadsides, manuscripts, prints, maps, directories, and newspapers; the largest single collection of printed source material relating to the history, literature, and culture of the first 250 years of what is now the United States; specializes in the printed record of the American experience prior to 1877; files of 18th and 19th century newspapers; and extensive collection of family and local histories. - NEHGS, New England Historic Genealogical Society
101 Newbury Street, Boston, MA 02116; phone (617) 536-5740 ; fax (617) 536-7307; Hours Tues., Fri. & Sat., 9-5, Wed. & Thur. 9-9, closed Mondays. Holds large collection for Canada and the US including: Canadian census records through 1901; vital records from Maritime Provinces of Canada; New England U.S. Federal census records through 1910 (1920 for New Hampshire); most U.S. states through 1850, misc. states 1850-1900; index to New England naturalization records through 1906; Boston passenger lists index (1848-1891, 1899-1920); large microfiche collection of Massachusetts city directories; Massachusetts vital records (1841-1905, including indexes), misc. Massachusetts birth, marriage, and death indexes (1906-1976); town and county records for many New England states; vital records for New Hampshire (through 1900); Vermont (through 1954; 1980-89; divorce index 1861-1979; 1981-89; name changes 1801-1870); Connecticut (through 1850); Rhode Island (births & marriages to 1894; deaths to 1900), Maine (births to 1940s; marriages and deaths to 1960s). - Brighton - Allston Historical Society
- The Irish Ancestral Research Association (TIARA)
2120 Commonwealth Ave. Aburndale, MA 02466-1909.