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The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state
in the New
England region of the northeastern United
States. It is bordered by Rhode
Island and Connecticut to the south, New
York to the west, and Vermont
and New
Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic
Ocean. Most of its population of 6.4 million lives in the Boston metropolitan area.
The eastern half of the state is made up of urban,
suburban,
and rural
areas, while Western Massachusetts is
mostly rural. Massachusetts is the most populous of the six New England
states. It ranks third among U.S. states in GDP
per capita. Massachusetts has been significant
throughout American history. Plymouth was the second
permanent English settlement in North America. Many of Massachusetts's towns
were founded by colonists from England in the 1620s and 1630s. During the eighteenth
century, Boston became known as the "Cradle of Liberty" for the
agitation there that led to the American Revolution and the independence
of the United States from Great Britain. In the late
eighteenth century, Massachusetts was the first U.S. state to abolish slavery.
It was also a center of the temperance movement and abolitionist
activity before the American Civil War. |
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State Library of Massachusetts, 341 State House,
Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02133; Ph: 617.727.2590 ·
Boston Public Library, Copley Square,
Boston, MA 02117 |
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Barnstable
Berkshire
Bristol
Dukes
Essex
Franklin
Hampden
Hampshire
Middlesex
Nantucket
Norfolk
Plymouth
Suffolk
Worcester |
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following are surnames of persons, found within our databases, as having been either born, married or
died in this U.S. State. |
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Blew;
Dillowe;
Goffe;
Greenland; Paine; Raynsford; Shute;
Sprague; Vergoose |
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To find out more about
each surname listed above click on the corresponding LINK. Additional information
regarding these surnames may also be found at: |
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Use this free genealogy site to help you
get the best genealogy searches from Google™
by using your family tree, for your research. It
will create a series of different searches using tips or "tricks" |
that will
likely improve your results.
The different searches will give you many different ways of using Google and
the Internet to find ancestry information about this or any other Surname. |
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Our Ancestral Counties
The following named counties are associated with the history of our DIRECT ancestors. To select a
specific ancestral county, go to our Ancestral
Locations home page. Here you will find
additional links to our county pages where you can obtain information about
our family gen-sites, images of localities, and surnames of persons, in our
database, who have lived in the selected county. |
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Middlesex;
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Gazetteer of Places
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The following Links will take you to
gazetteers that identify places within this U.S. State. These resources feature profiles of cities,
towns, neighborhoods and subdivisions.
In addition this site contains maps, data and directions for a wide
variety of physical, cultural and historic features. |
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List of municipalities in Massachusetts |
List
of mountains in Massachusetts |
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Massachusetts Cities - profiles of 2,258
Massachusetts cities,
towns & neighborhoods Massachusetts Physical Features such as lakes,
islands & steams Massachusetts Cultural Features such as schools, parks, hospitals
& airports Massachusetts Civil Features such as Native
Areas and Political
Subdivisions |
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* includes but not limited to Cemeteries, Churches,
Locales, Military Installations;
Populated Places, Post Offices, Schools, Streams, and Trails |
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County Research
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Clicking on
a Link
(below) will take you to the County’s website. Here you will find additional links to more
information specific to that location.
The USGenWeb Project also sponsors important Special Projects, at the national level, that
were created to collect and disseminate data that goes beyond county and
state lines. |
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Wikipedia is a multilingual,
Web-based,
free-content
encyclopedia
project based mostly on anonymous contributions. Clicking on a Link (below) will take you to the Wikipedia
article about the county. Here you will find additional links to guide the
user to related pages with additional information. |
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Resources
which enhance our knowledge of the places inhabited by our ancestors are
almost as important as their names.
The LINK |
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the right will take you to Maps, Gazetteers, and other helpful resources
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The Google search engine button
and following web sites
may provide you |
with additional information to assist with your research about this
U. S. State. |
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·
Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia ·
Free
Genealogy Search Help For Google ·
Linkpendium
> Genealogy > USA ·
Ancestry.com
(Reference Materials & Finding Aids) |
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Cyndi's List - United States Index ·
IGI
Batch Numbers - British Isles & North America ·
Libweb
- Libraries on the Web ·
50states.com - States and Capitals |
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·State of Massachusetts
Facts and
Information ·Massachusetts State Information (50
States.com) |
·Massachusetts
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The following Link will take you to our library of genealogy reference books that pertain to this U.S. State. Here you will find books about the history and records of this State, as well as its counties and other localities such as towns and churches. The collection also contains research works about State military units and personnel during America’s wars. In addition, there are resource texts about the ethnic and religious groups who settled in this State. |
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Snail
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