Bristol County MA Genealogy
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If you're not sure which records would be helpful, you can try our Ancestor Source Finder tool. Bristol Records by TypeBirth Records (179)Cemetery Records (637) Census Records (66) Church Records (66) City Directories (653) Court Records (7) Death Records (183) Histories and Genealogies (184) Immigration Records (20) Land Records (39) Map Records (60) Marriage Records (210) Military Records (29) Miscellaneous Records (756) Newspapers and Obituaries (278) Probate Records (12) School Records (199) Tax Records (44) 
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Overview of Bristol County Records
- Bristol County was created in 1685 from New Plymouth colony.
- Birth, marriage, and death records are kept by the individual towns. Birth, marriage, and death records for 1926 and later can be obtained from the Massachusetts Registry of Vital Records and Statistics .
- The Bristol County Clerk Courts has court records starting in 1796 and naturalization records.
- The Bristol County town clerks have birth, marriage, and death records.
- The Bristol County Probate Court has divorce records starting in 1921 and probate records starting in 1685.
- Online indexes and images of some of the above records can be found by using the links on this site.