Massachusetts Funeral Home Records online may include funeral home or mortuary records, funeral programs, burial insurance records and more. These records contain information related to death and burial such as:

• name of the deceased

• death certificate

• death date and place

• burial date and place

• birth date and place

• copy of the obituary

• name of informant (often a relative)

• residence of deceased

• list of surviving relatives

• residences of relatives

• funeral program including speakers and pall bearers

• biographical information for the deceased

• burial insurance

Also see:

Massachusetts Birth, Marriage, and Death Records online

Massachusetts Substitute Birth, Marriage, and Death Records online

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Massachusetts Funeral Home Records online at the federal level

US – Mortuary Records – United States, Panama Canal Zone, Index to the Gorgas Hospital Mortuary Registers, 1906-1991, index, at FS

Massachusetts Funeral Home Records online at the state level

Massachusetts – Funeral – A sermon delivered May 3, 1812, at the funeral of Samuel Abbot, Esquire : one of the founders of the Theological Seminary in Andover, at FS

Massachusetts Funeral Home Records online at the county level

Barnstable County – Mortuary Records – Wellfleet, Truro, & Cape Cod cemetery inscriptions, at FS

Middlesex County – Funeral Homes – Massachusetts, Forester Mortuary Records, 1880-1935

Nantucket County – Funeral Homes – Nantucket County: Nantucket Cemeteries Inscription Project (also has PDF scans of Lewis Funeral Home Records); from the Nantucket Historical Association

Massachusetts Funeral Home Records online at the city level

Boston – Biography – A Funeral Oration on Rev. Thos. Starr King : Delivered at Platt’s Hall, March 10, 1864, at FS

Boston – Church Records – Baptismal, Christening, Marriage and Funeral Records, at FS

Boston – Church Records – The Manifesto Church, Records of the Church in Brattle Square, Boston, with Lists of Communicants, Baptisms, Marriages, and Funerals, 1699-1872, Church in Brattle Square (Boston, Massachusetts), at FS

Brewster – Cemeteries – Mortuary Record from the Gravestones in the Old Burial Ground in Brewster, Mass : with Biographical and Genealogical Notes, at FS

Brewster – Cemeteries – Mortuary Records from Gravestones in the Old Burial Ground in Brewster, Mass. : with Biographical and Genealogical Notes, at FS

Brewster – Mortuary Records – Wellfleet, Truro, & Cape Cod cemetery inscriptions, at FS

Medford – Funeral Homes – Funerals in Medford, 1775-1823, at FS

North Truro – Mortuary Records – Wellfleet, Truro, & Cape Cod cemetery inscriptions, at FS

South Wellfleet – Mortuary Records – Wellfleet, Truro, & Cape Cod cemetery inscriptions, at FS

Truro – Mortuary Records – Wellfleet, Truro, & Cape Cod cemetery inscriptions, at FS

Wellfleet – Mortuary Records – Wellfleet, Truro, & Cape Cod cemetery inscriptions, at FS