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Best heritage and ethnic genealogical societies in Massachusetts

As Boston genealogists, you may find that heritage groups and ethnic societies will open windows to your past. Besides avenues of research,...
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Best Massachusetts genealogical and historical societies

As Boston genealogists, it really pays to become members of local genealogical and historical societies. It often doesn’t matter if you live...
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Genealogy conferences and other educational opportunities

Genealogical research has changed so much in the last decade. One of the best examples of the changes we’ve experienced is the latest census...
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Massachusetts' connection to the Titanic

Traveling from Southhampton, England, to New York City, the maiden voyage of the luxury liner RMS Titanic ended in disaster. On April 15, 1912, the...
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Volunteer with Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness

Started in 1999, Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness (RAOGK) is a web-based volunteer organization that provides a wealth of services, from...
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Beyond the Hub: meet other Genealogy Examiners

When I first started writing for Examiner.com, I envisioned covering not only Boston and Massachusetts but New England and beyond. After all, my...
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Volunteer to create access to more genealogy records

When Clarence Almon Torrey (1869-1962) first set out to compile what became known as New England Marriages Prior to 1700, he didn’t expect...
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Best newspaper resources for genealogy

The first newspaper in Colonial America was Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick, published in Boston on 25 September 1690. After one...
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1940 census: Massachusetts enumeration district (ED) numbers

Like previous censuses, the 1940 U.S. census is divided by state, by county, and then by enumeration district (ED). Whenever we source a census...
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1940 U.S. census is now available

Seventy-two years after a United States census is taken, it is released to the public. Today, April 2, 2012, at 9 a.m. ET, the 1940 census became...
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