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Inquiry Unlimited's Genealogy Mentor Mission: to introduce resources for doing genealogical research in Massachusetts.

NEW PUBLICATION AVAILABLE - From Caravels to the Constitution by Marjorie Duby
at Creative Teaching Press.
Content: Blackline masters - Using word searches, hidden messages, analogies, anagrams, and creative puzzles, students will learn about history while they apply critical-thinking skills. This resource provides students with opportunities to organize and analyze information and to draw conclusions. Extension activities promote practical, informative, narrative, and expository writing skills to help meet the standards. 112 pages [LW405 - From Caravels to the Constitution - $13.99]

Helpful resources

from my dabbling

in genealogy research.

Massachusetts Births, Deaths, Marriages, Jewish Cemeteries

Database: Name, year, town, volume for Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1910 at the Massachusetts Archives. (free)
Digital images Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1910 with membership to the New England Historic Genealogy Society.
Boston Passenger Manifests Index, 1848-1891 at the Massachusetts Archives. (free)
Social Security Death Index at the New England Historic Genealogy Society. (free)
Gravestone locations in cemeteries managed by the Jewish Cemetery Association of Massachusetts . (free)
Boston Jewish Advocate Obituaries hosted by JewishGen. (free once you sign up)
Boston Jewish Advocate Marriages hosted by JewishGen. (free once you sign up)

Boston and Massachusetts City Directories

Selected Boston City Directories from Tufts Digital Collections and Archives (free)
Visit the State Library of Massachusetts, city directories in the Special Collections (free)

Boston and New York ship manifests with passenger information

New York manifests (1820-1913) - Castle Garden Immigration Center (free)
New York manifests Ellis Island (free)
Boston manifests (free)

New York Deaths and Jewish Cemeteries

New York Deaths, 1891-1948 from the Italian Genealogy Group (site hosted by Stephen Morse) (free)
New York Naturalization and Vital Records from the Italian Genealogy Group (site hosted by Stephen Morse) (free)
Mount Hebron Cemetery search, New York (free)

Military records, U.S. Census records

National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) - Northeast Region, Waltham, MA has free access to ancestry.com for U.S. census records, immigration records (ship passenger manifests), naturalization records, World War I draft records, World War II draft records
World War II Army Enlistment Records at NARA and online Access to Archival Databases

Newspapers

With a Boston Public Library library card - search newspapers

Jewish Genealogy Resources

Jewish Genealogy Society of Greater Boston (JGSGB)
World-wide Jewish genealogy resources - Jewish Gen

Irish Genealogy Resources

Records for passengers who arrived in New York during the Irish Famine (Famine Irish Passenger Record Data File (FIPAS), 1/12/1846 - 12/31/1851)
The Irish Ancestral Research Association (TIARA)

Overall genealogy tools

Stephen Morse One-Step Webpages

Genealogy with Children

Teaching Children Social Studies using 1635 Virginia and New England passenger lists
Teaching Children Social Studies using Mortuary Art

Sharing My Family History

Rebe family from Rokiskis

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