Franklin County MA Genealogy

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Franklin Records by Type

Birth Records (188)
Cemetery Records (255)
Census Records (61)
Church Records (38)
City Directories (217)
Court Records (6)
Death Records (189)
Histories and Genealogies (180)
Immigration Records (7)
Land Records (23)
Map Records (31)
Marriage Records (198)
Military Records (17)
Minority Records (2)
Miscellaneous Records (124)
Newspapers and Obituaries (129)
Probate Records (3)
School Records (87)
Tax Records (113)

Franklin County Records by City/Town

Ashfield Genealogy (124)
Bernardston Genealogy (86)
Buckland Genealogy (86)
Charlemont Genealogy (96)
Colrain Genealogy (107)
Conway Genealogy (105)
Deerfield Genealogy (146)
East Northfield Genealogy (38)
Erving Genealogy (57)
Gill Genealogy (80)
Greenfield Genealogy (295)
Hawley Genealogy (71)
Heath Genealogy (88)
Leverett Genealogy (103)
Leyden Genealogy (76)

Monroe Genealogy (60)
Montague Genealogy (106)
New Salem Genealogy (88)
Northfield Genealogy (113)
Orange Genealogy (138)
Rowe Genealogy (59)
Shelburne Genealogy (78)
Shelburne Falls Genealogy (50)
Shutesbury Genealogy (67)
South Deerfield Genealogy (45)
Sunderland Genealogy (78)
Turners Falls Genealogy (58)
Warwick Genealogy (69)
Wendell Genealogy (74)
Whately Genealogy (79)

Overview of Franklin County Records

Franklin County was created in 1811 from Hampshire County.
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 Franklin County Clerk Courts has divorce and court records starting in 1811.
The Franklin County Register of Probate has probate records starting in 1812.
The Franklin County Register of Deeds has land records starting in 1787.
Online indexes and images of some of the above records can be found by using the links on this site.