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| Massachusetts Vital Records |
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| Please click on the appropriate section to find out more specific information about how to acquire copies of Massachusetts birth certificates, Massachusetts death records, Massachusetts marriage licenses, and Masachusetts divorce decrees. Please note that rules and regulations for obtaining vital records may differ by state and by type of record requested |
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For example, getting California birth certificates may have different rules than acquiring New York birth certificates and Texas death records may be different than Texas divorce decrees. Please click on the appropriate state and records area for the guidelines, contact information, and procedures, and links, for obtaining the vital record you are searching for.
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| Divorce records are available from the Registrar of Probate Court in the county where the the couple last lived as husband and wife. Countywide divorce indexes exist at each county probate court from 1922 to the present. |
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| Birth, death and marriage records are available from the town in which the event occurred. Unless the records were destroyed, they date back to the incorporation date of the town. Vital Records for many towns published in a series of books available in very many town libraries, at Mass Archives, and at NEHGS. |
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