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A guide to selected genealogical resources at the W.E.B. Du Bois Library.
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Selective List of Materials in the W.E.B. Du Bois Library

  • Early files of courts [microform]/Suffolk County - Suffolk County (Mass.).
    Call Number: Microfilm A 1192 5 reels
    Reel 3 Index to births, marriages, deaths, 1637-1774
    An alphabetical surname list which gives the individual's first name and whether the record is for a birth (b), marriage (m), or death (d). The number on the right indicates the document's location on Reels 4 and 5. References to towns, such as "Scituate marriages" and "Rehoboth (Town of)" also appear.
    Reels 4 and 5 Births, marriages, deaths, 1634-August, 1774
    Most items numbered sequentially. Documents filmed several times for clarity.

  • Early Massachusetts marriages prior to 1800 - Bailey, Frederic W.
    Call Number: F 63 B16
    "The most complete collection of early Massachusetts marriages ever published." Divided into three parts - the official records of Worcester County; Plymouth County; and Middlesex, Hampshire, Berkshire, and Bristol counties. Each section contains a surname index.
  • Medway, Massachusetts births, marriages, and deaths, 1850-1900 - Donovan, Francis D.
    Call Number: F 74 M55 D65 1995
  • Records of the Church of Christ at Cambridge in New England, 1632-1830, comprising the ministerial records of baptisms, marriages, deaths, admission to covenant and communion, dismissals and church proceedings - First Church (Cambridge, Mass.)
    Call Number: F 74 C1 C466
  • The records of Trinity Church, Boston, 1728-1830 - Trinity Church (Boston, Mass.)
    Call Number: F 61 C71
    Volume 56 List and index of marriages, 1737-1829
  • Report of the record commissioners of the City of Boston - Boston (Mass.). Registry Dept.
    Call Number: F 73.1 B74
    Provides the names of the bride and groom, the marriage date, and often the name of the person who performed the marriage.
    Volume 9 Boston births, baptisms, marriages, and deaths, 1630-1699
    "Believed to contain every entry of birth, death, and marriage recorded as happening in the town of Boston in the first seventy years of its existence."
    Volume 28 Boston marriages, 1700-1751
    Also includes "intentions filed, marriages not recorded in Boston," "marriages from court records, 1716-1731," "out-of-town marriages from court records," "marriages not recorded in town records" (listed by church), and a name index.

  • Social register, Boston
    Call Number: F 73.22 S65 1898, 1906, 1939-1940
    Records "the full names and addresses of members of prominent families grouped together, the clubs to which they belong, and the marriage and death of each person as it may occur." A list of marriages for that particular year and an alphabetical list of the maiden names of married women ("Married Maidens") appears at the end of each volume.
  • St. Jean-Baptiste, Lowell, MA, 1869-1910 - Labonte, Youville
    Call Number: F 74 L9 L33 1995
  • A volume of records relating to the early history of Boston: containing miscellaneous papers - Boston (Mass.). Registry Dept.
    Call Number: F 73.1 B74
    Volume 30 Boston marriages from 1752 to 1809
    Provides the names of the bride and groom, the marriage date, and, frequently, the name of the person who performed the marriage. Also includes some "marriages out of town prior to 1800," "marriage intentions," and a name index.

 
 

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