In 1884, Carroll D. Wright was appointed to prepare a report showing the condition of the public records of the parishes, towns, and counties of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. This remarkable book, originally published with the title Report on the Custody and Condition of the Public Records of Parishes, Towns, and Counties in 1889, brings together under one cover a town-by-town, church-by-church, and county-by-county listing of all the records existing for each jurisdiction.

This valuable town-by-town guide provides updated entries for all known burial grounds in Massachusetts with the year of consecration or oldest known burial, year of town incorporation, location and contact information for the cemetery, and a comprehensive index. This new edition also includes all updated American Ancestors MSS call numbers, as well as published sources that have been created per cemetery.

By David Allen Lambert

Published November 2018

6 x 9 paperback, 352 pages

By Joseph Caravalho III

Published: September 2011

Hardcover, 400 pages

This easy-to-use compilation includes nine guides for using genealogical records: Using the Federal Census: 1790–1840, Using the Federal Census: 1850–1940, New York State Census, Massachusetts State Census, Rhode Island State Census, Immigration to the U.S., U.S. Naturalization, and Using Catholic Records, plus Applying to Lineage Societies.

Various authors

8 ½ x 11 paperback; 40 pages