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:
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name of the deceased
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death certificate
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death date and place
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burial date and place
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birth date and place
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copy of the obituary
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name of informant (often a relative)
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residence of deceased
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list of surviving relatives
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residences of relatives
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funeral program including speakers and pall bearers
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biographical information for the deceased
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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
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