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This site provides access to photographs, manuscripts, books, audio recordings, and other materials of historical interest that have been digitized and made available by members of Digital Commonwealth, a statewide consortium of libraries, museums, archives, and historical societies from across Massachusetts.
The DPLA is a platform that brings together many collections of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world.
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The State Library was established in 1826 to collect, deposit, and house the Commonwealth's collections of maps, statute books, and government documents in a single central location.
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The archives currently hold births, marriages, and deaths for all Massachusetts cities and towns for the years 1841 through 1925. Digital copies of Massachusetts vital records from 1841 to 1920 are available through the Massachusetts Archives website. You must create a free familysearch.org account to search.
The 1950 census records were released by the U.S. National Archives on April 1, 2022. This website provides full access to the 1950 census images, including population schedules, enumeration district maps, and enumeration district descriptions
