Bristol County MA Genealogy

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Bristol Records by Type

Birth Records (171)
Cemetery Records (637)
Census Records (68)
Church Records (63)
City Directories (653)
Court Records (7)
Death Records (175)
Histories and Genealogies (177)
Immigration Records (20)
Land Records (39)
Map Records (60)
Marriage Records (200)
Military Records (27)
Miscellaneous Records (757)
Newspapers and Obituaries (290)
Probate Records (12)
School Records (167)
Tax Records (44)

Bristol County Records by City/Town

Acushnet Genealogy (79)
Attleboro Genealogy (439)
Berkley Genealogy (185)
Dartmouth Genealogy (155)
Dighton Genealogy (248)
Easton Genealogy (109)
Fairhaven Genealogy (333)
Fall River Genealogy (451)
Freetown Genealogy (135)
Mansfield Genealogy (116)
New Bedford Genealogy (422)
North Attleborough Genealogy (76)

North Dartmouth Genealogy (48)
North Easton Genealogy (40)
Norton Genealogy (128)
Raynham Genealogy (93)
Rehoboth Genealogy (233)
Seekonk Genealogy (72)
Somerset Genealogy (99)
South Easton Genealogy (40)
Swansea Genealogy (160)
Taunton Genealogy (363)
Westport Genealogy (137)

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.