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| Genre/Form: | Directories Sources Bibliography Genealogy Bibliography |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Ann S Lainhart; New England Historic Genealogical Society. |
| ISBN: | 088082154X 9780880821544 9990915148 9789990915143 |
| OCLC Number: | 54031164 |
| Description: | xii, 160 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Getting started -- Vital records -- Church records -- Cemetery records -- Town records -- Probate records -- Land records -- Court records -- City directories -- Military records and seaman's records -- Tax lists -- Business papers, account books, and diaries -- Censuses -- Voters' lists -- Teachers' records -- Passenger lists -- Naturalizations -- Immigrants in print -- Some miscellaneous sources -- Boston in print -- Towns that are now part of Boston -- Articles on Boston families -- Boston area repositories -- Massachusetts divorce records, where to find them -- Ministers in Boston up to 1846 -- Home for destitute Catholic children -- Boston Record Commissioners report -- Inventory of the estate of Amasa Davis -- 1860 census Ward One, Boston -- Examples from institutional records. |
| Responsibility: | Ann S. Lainhart. |
Abstract:
The records pertaining to people who lived or passed through Boston, Massachusetts, are located in many different repositories and publications. For there first time, here is a complete guide for finding and using this information.
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