Dukes 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. Dukes Records by TypeBirth Records (41)Cemetery Records (56) Census Records (65) Church Records (2) City Directories (22) Court Records (2) Death Records (53) Histories and Genealogies (50) Immigration Records (3) Land Records (6) Map Records (24) Marriage Records (53) Military Records (10) Minority Records (2) Miscellaneous Records (21) Newspapers and Obituaries (15) Probate Records (2) School Records (16) Tax Records (7) 
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Overview of Dukes County Records
- Dukes County was created in 1695 from Martha’s Vineyard.
- 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 Dukes County Clerk Courts has divorce and court records starting in 1859.
- The Dukes County Probate Court has probate records starting in 1696.
- The Dukes County town clerks have birth, marriage, death, and burial records.
- Online indexes and images of some of the above records can be found by using the links on this site.