Cranston Genealogy (in Providence County, RI)

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Cranston Birth Records

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1636-1899 Rhode Island Vital Extracts Ancestry online

1636-1930 Rhode Island Birth Index Ancestry online

Birth, death, and marriage indexes: early to 1995 (Cranston, Rhode Island) FamilySearch Library

Birth, marriage, and death records: 1850-1915 (Cranston, Rhode Island) FamilySearch Library

Rhode Island, Birth Records, 1853-1920 Rhode Island State Archives

Rhode Island, Birth Records, 1853-present Rhode Island Department of Health

Town and vital records, 1722-1868 FamilySearch Library

Vital record of Cranston, Johnston and North Providence, Rhode Island FamilySearch Library

Vital records, 1722-1890 FamilySearch Library

Cranston Cemetery Records

Amos Whitaker Lot Billion Graves online

Amos Whitaker Lot Find a Grave online

Angell-Luther Lot Find a Grave online

Arkwright Cemetery Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Commission online

Arkwright Cemetery Find a Grave online

Barnet Hawkins Lot Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Commission online

Barney-Waterman Lot Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Commission online

Barzillai Knight Lot Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Commission online

Benjamin Randall Jr. Cemetery Find a Grave online

Bethany Lutheran Cemetery Find a Grave online

Bethany Lutheran Swedish Cemetery Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Commission online

Brayton-Wilbur Lot Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Commission online

Brayton-Wilbur Lot Find a Grave online

Burton Lot Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Commission online

Captain John Pitcher Lot Find a Grave online

Captain Philip Sheldon Cemetery Find a Grave online

Charles Bennett Lot Billion Graves online

Charles Bennett Lot Find a Grave online

Commond Burial Ground Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Commission online

Cranston gravestone records FamilySearch Library

Deacon Anthony Potter Lot Find a Grave online

Deacon Stephen Knight Lot Find a Grave online

Doctor Amos Collins Lot Find a Grave online

Doctor George Waterman Lot Find a Grave online

Dutee Colvin Lot Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Commission online

Ebenezer Fuller Cemetery Find a Grave online

Eddy Lot Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Commission online

Elisha Anthony Lawton Cemetery Find a Grave online

Fenner - Lawton Lot Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Commission online

Fenner - Lawton Lot Billion Graves online

Fenner-Lawton Cemetery Find a Grave online

Field-Lawton Cemetery Find a Grave online

Field-Lawton Lot Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Commission online

Freeborn Brayton Cemetery Find a Grave online

Freeborn Brayton Lot Billion Graves online

Friends Burial Ground Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Commission online

Friends Burial Ground Find a Grave online

General Christopher Lippitt Lot Billion Graves online

General Christopher Lippitt Lot Find a Grave online

George Colvin Lot Find a Grave online

Holliman Potter Cemetery Find a Grave online

Hugh Stone Family Lot Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Commission online

Inscriptions at Cranston, R.I. in the general cemetery in the year of the old Congregational meeting house on Phoenix Avenue Knightsville R.I. FamilySearch Library

Jacob Clarke Lot Find a Grave online

James Fenner Lot Find a Grave online

James Hills Burial Ground Find a Grave online

John Stafford Lot Find a Grave online

John Stone Lot Find a Grave online

Joseph Burton Lot Find a Grave online

Josiah Westcott Lot Billion Graves online

Josiah Westcott Lot Find a Grave online

King Lot Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Commission online

King-Randall Lot Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Commission online

King-Randall Lot Find a Grave online

Knight-Fiske Lot Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Commission online

Knight-Fiske Lot Find a Grave online

Knightsville Meeting House Cemetery Find a Grave online

Knightville Meeting House Lot Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Commission online

Lodowick Brayton Lot Billion Graves online

Lodowick Brayton Lot Find a Grave online

Major Thomas Fenner Burying Ground Find a Grave online

Nathan Thornton Lot Find a Grave online

Nehemiah Knight Lot Find a Grave online

Nicholas Sheldon Lot Find a Grave online

Nicholas Sheldon Lot Find a Grave online

Oakland Cemetery Billion Graves online

Oakland Cemetery Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Commission online

Oakland Cemetery Find a Grave online

Pocasset Cemetery Tombstone Transcription Project online

Pocasset Cemetery Billion Graves online

Pocasset Cemetery Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Commission online

Pocasset Cemetery Find a Grave online

Potter Family Slave Lot Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Commission online

Rhode Island, Historical Cemetery Commission Index, 1647-2008 Ancestry online

Rhodes-Greene Lot Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Commission online

Rhodes-Greene Lot Find a Grave online

Roberts - Mathewson Lot Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Commission online

Roberts-Mathewson Lot Find a Grave online

Roger Williams Park Mausoleum Find a Grave online

Saint Ann Cemetery Billion Graves online

Saint Ann Cemetery Find a Grave online

Samuel Bennett Lot Find a Grave online

Sanford Knight Lot Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Commission online

Sarle Lot Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Commission online

Sarle Lot Find a Grave online

Searle Family Cemetery Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Commission online

Slave Cemetery - Baker Family Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Commission online

Sprague Lot Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Commission online

St Ann's Cemetery Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Commission online

St Anns Cemetery US Gen Web Archives online

St. Ann Cemetery Interment online

State Farm Cemetery Find a Grave online

State Farm Cemetery #1 Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Commission online

State Farm Cemetery Annex Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Commission online

State Farm Cemetery Annex Find a Grave online

State Institution Cemetery #2 Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Commission online

State Institution Cemetery #2 Find a Grave online

State Institution Cemetery #3 Find a Grave online

Stuckley Westcott Lot Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Commission online

Stukely Turner Lot Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Commission online

Stukely Turner Lot Find a Grave online

Thomas Baker Lot Find a Grave online

Town Farm Lot Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Commission online

Uriah Eddy Lot Find a Grave online

Urian Westcott Lot Billion Graves online

Urian Westcott Lot Find a Grave online

Waterman Randall Lot Find a Grave online

Westcott-Warner Lot Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Commission online

Westcott-Warner Lot Find a Grave online

Whipple Andrews Lot Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Commission online

Wight - Arnold Lot Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Commission online

William Bailey Lot Find a Grave online

William Burton Lot Find a Grave online

William Knight Lot Find a Grave online

William Nicholas Lot Find a Grave online

Zuriel Potter Lot Find a Grave online

Cranston Census Records

1740-1743 Rhode Island Colonial Census Index (included in Rhode Island, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index) Ancestry online

1747 Rhode Island Colonial Census Index (included in Rhode Island, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index) Ancestry online

1774 Rhode Island Census Ancestry online

1777 Rhode Island Military Census Ancestry online

1777 Rhode Island Military Census Index (included in Rhode Island, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index) Ancestry online

1782 Rhode Island State Census Index (included in Rhode Island, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index) Ancestry online

1865 Rhode Island State Census (included in Rhode Island State Censuses) Ancestry online

1875 Rhode Island State Census (included in Rhode Island State Censuses) Ancestry online

1885 Rhode Island State Census (included in Rhode Island State Censuses) Ancestry online

1915 Rhode Island State Census (included in Rhode Island State Censuses) Ancestry online

1925 Rhode Island State Census (included in Rhode Island State Censuses) Ancestry online

1935 Rhode Island State Census (included in Rhode Island State Censuses) Ancestry online

Federal Census of 1940, Cranston, Rhode Island LDS Genealogy online

Providence County, Rhode Island 1790 Federal Census Cranston Town US Gen Web Archives online

U.S. Federal Census 1790-1950 Ancestry online

U.S. Federal Census 1790-1950 MyHeritage online

United States Federal Census, 1790-1950 Family Search online

Cranston Church Records

Bethany Lutheran Church (Swedish Lutheran) church records (in U.S. Evangelical Lutheran Church, Swedish American Church Records collection) Ancestry online

Church records, 1874-1919 (Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Cranston Branch (Cranston, Rhode Island)) FamilySearch Library

Monthly meeting records, 1699-1900 (Society of Friends. Greenwich Monthly Meeting (East Greenwich, Rhode Island)) FamilySearch Library

Print Works Mission Church Records (in New England Select United Methodist Church Records collection) Ancestry online

Cranston City Directories

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City Directories, 1890 Census Substitute Ancestry online

Cranston (Rhode Island) city directories FamilySearch Library

Cranston City Directory 1919 MyHeritage online

Cranston City Directory 1922 MyHeritage online

Cranston City Directory 1924 MyHeritage online

Cranston City Directory 1926 MyHeritage online

Cranston City Directory 1936 MyHeritage online

Cranston City Directory 1938 MyHeritage online

Cranston City Directory 1939 MyHeritage online

Cranston City Directory 1941 MyHeritage online

Cranston City Directory 1943 MyHeritage online

Cranston City Directory 1945 MyHeritage online

Cranston City Directory 1948 MyHeritage online

Cranston City Directory 1950 MyHeritage online

Cranston City Directory 1952 MyHeritage online

Cranston City Directory 1954 MyHeritage online

Cranston City Directory 1956 MyHeritage online

Cranston City Directory 1957 MyHeritage online

Cranston City Directory 1959 MyHeritage online

Cranston, RI 1913-1935 City Directories Allen County Public Library

Cranston, RI 1936-1943, 1945-1946, 1948, 1959, 1952, 1954, 1956-1957, 1959 City Directories Allen County Public Library

Cranston, Rhode Island, City Directory, 1903 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Cranston, Rhode Island, City Directory, 1909 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Cranston, Rhode Island, City Directory, 1911 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Cranston, Rhode Island, City Directory, 1913 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Cranston, Rhode Island, City Directory, 1916 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Cranston, Rhode Island, City Directory, 1918 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Cranston, Rhode Island, City Directory, 1919 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Cranston, Rhode Island, City Directory, 1922 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Cranston, Rhode Island, City Directory, 1924 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Cranston, Rhode Island, City Directory, 1926 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Cranston, Rhode Island, City Directory, 1928 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Cranston, Rhode Island, City Directory, 1930 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Cranston, Rhode Island, City Directory, 1932 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Cranston, Rhode Island, City Directory, 1934 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Cranston, Rhode Island, City Directory, 1935 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Cranston, Rhode Island, City Directory, 1936 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Cranston, Rhode Island, City Directory, 1937 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Cranston, Rhode Island, City Directory, 1938 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Cranston, Rhode Island, City Directory, 1939 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Cranston, Rhode Island, City Directory, 1941 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Cranston, Rhode Island, City Directory, 1943 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Cranston, Rhode Island, City Directory, 1945 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Cranston, Rhode Island, City Directory, 1947 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Cranston, Rhode Island, City Directory, 1948 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Cranston, Rhode Island, City Directory, 1950 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Cranston, Rhode Island, City Directory, 1952 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Cranston, Rhode Island, City Directory, 1954 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Cranston, Rhode Island, City Directory, 1956 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Cranston, Rhode Island, City Directory, 1957 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Cranston, Rhode Island, City Directory, 1959 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Cranston, Rhode Island, City Directory, 1961 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Johnston (Rhode Island) city directories FamilySearch Library

Rhode Island City Directories (includes Cranston 1895 to 1961 selected years) Ancestry online

The Cranston Rhode Island Directory : 1928- 1929 containing alphabetical section, busines directory, reference department, house directory, map, street directory, miscellanous information FamilySearch Library

Cranston Death Records

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1630-1930 Rhode Island Death Index Ancestry online

1636-1899 Rhode Island Vital Extracts Ancestry online

Birth, death, and marriage indexes: early to 1995 (Cranston, Rhode Island) FamilySearch Library

Birth, marriage, and death records: 1850-1915 (Cranston, Rhode Island) FamilySearch Library

Rhode Island, Death Records, 1853-1970 Rhode Island State Archives

Rhode Island, Death Records, 1853-present Rhode Island Department of Health

Town and vital records, 1722-1868 FamilySearch Library

Vital record of Cranston, Johnston and North Providence, Rhode Island FamilySearch Library

Vital records, 1722-1890 FamilySearch Library

Cranston Histories and Genealogies

Cranston : a historical sketch FamilySearch Library

Cranston bicentennial, 1754-1954 : celebrating 200 years of progress Genealogy Gophers online

Cranston city government for the years 1987-1988 : Michael A. Traficante, mayor FamilySearch Library

Cranston, Rhode Island statewide historical preservation report P-C-1 FamilySearch Library

Cranston Immigration Records

Declarations of intention, 1928-1949 [Providence, Rhode Island] FamilySearch Library

Naturalization and citizenship index, 1793-1905 [Providence, Rhode Island] FamilySearch Library

Naturalization and citizenship index. 1793-1892 [Providence County, Rhode Island] FamilySearch Library

Naturalization petitions (Providence County, Rhode Island), 1917-1929 FamilySearch Library

Naturalization petitions, 1793-1892 [Providence County, Rhode Island] FamilySearch Library

Naturalization petitions, 1820-1893 FamilySearch Library

Naturalization records, 1930-1946 FamilySearch Library

Rhode Island, State and Federal Naturalization Records, 1802-1945 Ancestry online

Cranston Land Records

Deed records 1754-1913, mortgages 1856-1876, and indexes 1748-1900 (Cranston, Rhode Island) FamilySearch Library

Deeds and mortgages, 1677-1901 FamilySearch Library

Land evidence records 1786-1787, Cranston, Rhode Island FamilySearch Library

Cranston Map Records

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Cranston, Providence County, Rhode Island, 1921 Library of Congress online

Cranston Marriage Records

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1636-1899 Rhode Island Vital Extracts Ancestry online

1851-1920 Rhode Island Marriage Index Ancestry online

Arnold Collection - Marriage Records New Horizons Genealogical Services online

Birth, death, and marriage indexes: early to 1995 (Cranston, Rhode Island) FamilySearch Library

Birth, marriage, and death records: 1850-1915 (Cranston, Rhode Island) FamilySearch Library

Rhode Island, Marriage Records, 1853-1920 Rhode Island State Archives

Rhode Island, Marriage Records, 1853-present Rhode Island Department of Health

Town and vital records, 1722-1868 FamilySearch Library

Vital record of Cranston, Johnston and North Providence, Rhode Island FamilySearch Library

Vital records, 1722-1890 FamilySearch Library

Cranston Miscellaneous Records

Town meeting records 1789-1910 [Cranston, Rhode Island] FamilySearch Library

Cranston Newspapers and Obituaries

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Cranston City Times 1921-1925 Cranston Public Library online

Cranston Herald 1936-1975 Cranston Public Library online

Cranston Herald News 1939-1939 Cranston Public Library online

Cranston Herald Today 1975-1975 Cranston Public Library online

Cranston Leader 1889-1890 Cranston Public Library online

Cranston News 1922-1939 Cranston Public Library online

Cranston Today 1972-1975 Cranston Public Library online

Herald News 1939-1940 Cranston Public Library online

Neighborhood News 1930-1954 Cranston Public Library online

Pawtucket, Rhode Island & vicinity - marriages & deaths from the Pawtucket Gazette & Chronicle 1825-1864 FamilySearch Library

Offline Newspapers for Cranston

According to the US Newspaper Directory, the following newspapers were printed, so there may be paper or microfilm copies available. For more information on how to locate offline newspapers, see our article on Locating Offline Newspapers.

Cranston Herald-Today. (Cranston, R.I.) 1975-1977

Cranston Herald. (Cranston, R.I.) 1936-1939

Cranston Herald. (Cranston, R.I.) 1940-1975

Cranston Herald. (Cranston, R.I.) 1977-Current

Cranston Mirror. (Cranston [R.I.) 1961-1991

Cranston News. (Cranston, R.I.) 1922-1939

Cranston Today and the Shopping List. (Cranston, R.I.) 1972-1973

Cranston Today. (Cranston, R.I.) 1973-1975

Herald-News. (Cranston, R.I.) 1939-1940

Olneyville Herald. (Cranston, R.I.) 1928-1931

R.I. Woman. (Cranston, R.I.) 1985-1980s

Cranston Probate Records

1582-1932 Rhode Island Wills and Probate Records Ancestry online

Estate files, early to 1885 (Cranston, Rhode Island) FamilySearch Library

Probate index: early to 2003 (Cranston, Rhode Island) FamilySearch Library

Probate records: 1798-1894 (Cranston, Rhode Island) FamilySearch Library

Probate records: 1888-1916 (Cranston, Rhode Island) FamilySearch Library

Town and probate records: 1754-1877 (Cranston and Smithfield, Rhode Island) FamilySearch Library

Cranston School Records

Cranston High School - Cranstonian Yearbook (Cranston, RI), 1920, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1949, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1960 E Yearbook online

Cranston High School East yearbooks, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988 (included in US School Yearbooks) Ancestry online

Cranston High School West yearbooks, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1988 (included in US School Yearbooks) Ancestry online

Cranston High School yearbook, 1914, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1960 (included in US School Yearbooks) Ancestry online



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