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1620-1988 Massachusetts Town and Vital Records Ancestry
Births, 1899-1968; Indexes, 1900-1968 FamilySearch Library
Massachusetts Birth Index, 1901-1960 and 1967-1970 Ancestry
Massachusetts Vital Records Index 1841-1895 Fold3
Massachusetts, Birth Records, 1840-1915 Ancestry
Massachusetts, Birth Records, 1926-present Massachusetts Registry of Vital Records and Statistics
Massachusetts, Compiled Birth, Marriage, and Death Records, 1700-1850 Ancestry
New Bedford Vital Record Transcripts (from Massachusetts Town Records collection) Ancestry
Records of Dartmouth, New Bedford, marriages, deaths, town meetings, births, and intentions of marriages, 1667-1847 FamilySearch Library
Vital records and indexes, 1686-1908 FamilySearch Library
Vital records of New Bedford, Massachusetts to the year 1850, births LDS Genealogy
Vital records of New Bedford, Massachusetts to the year 1850, births Internet Archive
Vital records of New Bedford, Massachusetts, to the year 1850, Vol. 3 Genealogy Gophers
Vital records of three Massachusetts' towns: Dartmouth, New Bedford, and Westport : to about 1821 FamilySearch Library
Vital records, 1650-1900 [New Bedford, Massachusetts] FamilySearch Library
Clarks Point Cemetery Find a Grave
First Congregational Church Cemetery Find a Grave
First Congressional Cemetery Billion Graves
Friends Burying Ground Find a Grave
Griffin Street Cemetery Find a Grave
Hammond Family Cemetery Find a Grave
Hathaway Family Cemetery Find a Grave
New Bedford monthly meetings, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints WorldCat
New Bedford, Massachusetts cemetery records WorldCat
Oak Grove Cemetery Billion Graves
Oak Grove Cemetery Find a Grave
Peckham West Cemetery Find a Grave
Pine Grove Cemetery Find a Grave
Plainville Cemetery Find a Grave
Polish National Catholic Cemetery Find a Grave
Rural Cemetery Find a Grave
Rural Cemetery Billion Graves
Sacred Heart Cemetery Billion Graves
Sacred Heart New Cemetery Find a Grave
Sacred Heart Old Cemetery Find a Grave
Saint Anthony of Padua Churchyard Find a Grave
Saint Johns Cemetery Find a Grave
Saint Marys Cemetery Find a Grave
Seamans Bethel Church Find a Grave
St. Mary's Cemetery Billion Graves
Tobey Family Cemetery Find a Grave
1855 Massachusetts State Census Ancestry
1865 Massachusetts State Census Ancestry
City of New Bedford [1910] : ward[s 1-6] FamilySearch Library
City of New Bedford [1920] : ward[s 1-6] FamilySearch Library
U.S. Federal Census 1790-1950 Ancestry
U.S. Federal Census 1790-1950 MyHeritage
United States Federal Census, 1790-1950 Family Search
Catalogue of the members of the North Congregational Church, New-Bedford, 1829 LDS Genealogy
Catalogue of the members of the North Congregational Church, New-Bedford, 1829 Internet Archive
Confession of faith, covenant, standing rules, and members of the Trinitarian Church, New Bedford, Mass LDS Genealogy
Confession of faith, covenant, standing rules, and members of the Trinitarian Church, New Bedford, Mass Internet Archive
First Baptist Church of New Bedford, Massachusetts Records, 1838-1862 Archive Grid
New Bedford monthly meetings, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints WorldCat
One hundred years of Unitarianism in New Bedford, Massachusetts Ancestry
One hundred years of the church : historical address (First Congregational Society of New Bedford) Ancestry
Pacific Congregational Church, New Bedford, Mass.; list of members April 1st, 1872 LDS Genealogy
Pacific Congregational Church, New Bedford, Mass.; list of members April 1st, 1872 Internet Archive
Saint-Antoine de New Bedford, Mass LDS Genealogy
Saint-Antoine de New Bedford, Mass Internet Archive
The First Congregational Society in New Bedford, Massachusetts Ancestry
The genealogy of the First Baptist Church of New Bedford, Massachusetts Internet Archive
1620-1988 Massachusetts Town and Vital Records Ancestry
1841-1915 Massachusetts Death Records Ancestry
1901-1980 Massachusetts Death Index Ancestry
Burials of the Lamoureux Funeral Home : New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1930-1980 FamilySearch Library
First Baptist Church of New Bedford, Massachusetts Records, 1838-1862 Archive Grid
Indexes to deaths and marriages, 1807-1969 FamilySearch Library
Massachusetts Death Index, 1970-2003 Ancestry
Massachusetts Vital Records Index 1841-1895 Fold3
Massachusetts, Compiled Birth, Marriage, and Death Records, 1700-1850 Ancestry
Massachusetts, Death Records, 1926-present Massachusetts Registry of Vital Records and Statistics
New Bedford Obituary Index, 1900-1968 Boston Public Library
New Bedford Vital Record Transcripts (from Massachusetts Town Records collection) Ancestry
New Bedford, Massachusetts, death records, 1848-1903 FamilySearch Library
New Bedford, Massachusetts, records of deaths, 1903-1968 FamilySearch Library
Records of Dartmouth, New Bedford, marriages, deaths, town meetings, births, and intentions of marriages, 1667-1847 FamilySearch Library
Vital records and indexes, 1686-1908 FamilySearch Library
Vital records of New Bedford, Massachusetts to the year 1850, deaths LDS Genealogy
Vital records of New Bedford, Massachusetts to the year 1850, deaths Internet Archive
Vital records of New Bedford, Massachusetts, to the year 1850, Vol. 3 Genealogy Gophers
Vital records of three Massachusetts' towns: Dartmouth, New Bedford, and Westport : to about 1821 FamilySearch Library
Vital records, 1650-1900 [New Bedford, Massachusetts] FamilySearch Library
Authors of New Bedford Ancestry
Centennial celebration : proceedings in connection with the celebration at New Bedford, September 14, 1864, of the two hundredth anniversary of the incorporation of the town of Dartmouth FamilySearch Library
History of New Bedford : and its vicinity, 1602-1892 Ancestry
History of New Bedford and its vicinity, 1602-1892 FamilySearch Library
History of New Bedford and its vicinity, 1602-1892 Genealogy Gophers
History of New Bedford and its vicinity, 1620-1892 LDS Genealogy
History of New Bedford and its vicinity, 1620-1892 Internet Archive
History of New Bedford, Volume III LDS Genealogy
History of New Bedford, Volume III Internet Archive
History of the Fire Department of the city of New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1772-1890 LDS Genealogy
History of the Fire Department of the city of New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1772-1890 Internet Archive
History of the fire department of the city of New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1772-1890 Ancestry
Life in New Bedford a hundred years ago : a chronicle of the social, religious and commercial history of the period as recorded in a diary kept by Joseph R. Anthony FamilySearch Library
New Bedford (historical work printed in 1896) Ancestry
New Bedford of the past Ancestry
New Bedford one hundred and twenty years ago, as glimpsed through the Medley Ancestry
New Bedford's story Ancestry
New Bedford, Massachusetts : its history, industries, institutions, and attractions Ancestry
New Bedford, Massachusetts : its history, industries, institutions, and attractions FamilySearch Library
Some of the streets of the town of New Bedford Ancestry
The New Bedford of to-day (1893) Ancestry
The decline of a cotton textile city : a study of New Bedford Ancestry
The development of the New Bedford water supplies Ancestry
The history of New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts Ancestry
The mills of New Bedford and vicinity before the introduction of steam Ancestry
Whaling exhibits of the Old Dartmouth Historical Society, New Bedford, Mass. Ancestry
Crew lists of vessels arriving in New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1917-1943 FamilySearch Library
Massachusetts Crew Lists (includes Gloucester 1918-1943 and New Bedford 1917-1943) Ancestry
Massachusetts, New Bedford Passenger and Crew Lists, 1902-1943 Family Search
Naturalization index -- declarations and petitions, previous to 1856 FamilySearch Library
Naturalization index, 1805-1906 [Bristol County, Massachusetts] FamilySearch Library
Naturalization index, 1907-1992; declaration of intentions, 1906-1930 [Bristol County, Massachusetts] FamilySearch Library
New Bedford, Massachusetts, Whaling Crew Lists Index, 1809-1927 Ancestry
New Bedford, Massachusetts, record of applications for naturalization, 1886-1900 FamilySearch Library
Passenger lists of vessels arriving at New Bedford, 1902-1942 ; Index to passengers, 1902-1942 FamilySearch Library
The ship Ann Alexander of New Bedford, 1805-1851 FamilySearch Library
U.S., Atlantic Ports Passenger Lists (includes New Bedford 1902-1942 ) Ancestry
Bristol County (Mass.) deed records, v. 1-556, (1686-1900) and (1686-1956) index --, 1686-1956 FamilySearch Library
Massachusetts Land Records Secretary of the Commonwealth
Records of deeds, 1686-1904 [Bristol County, Massachusetts] FamilySearch Library
Records of deeds, 1686-1910 [Bristol County, Massachusetts] FamilySearch Library
Atlas of the city of New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1911 State Library of Massachusetts
New Bedford, 1881 Map (in U.S. Historic Land Ownership and Reference Atlases) Ancestry
New Bedford, 1911 Map (in U.S. Historic Land Ownership and Reference Atlases) Ancestry
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts, 1893 Library of Congress
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts, Nov 1888 Library of Congress
View map of the city of New Bedford, Mass., 1876 Library of Congress
View of the city of New Bedford, Mass , 1876 Library of Congress
1620-1988 Massachusetts Town and Vital Records Ancestry
1841-1915 Massachusetts Marriages MyHeritage
1901-1955 and 1966-1970 Massachusetts Marriage Index Ancestry
Franco-American marriages of New Bedford, MA, 1865-1920 FamilySearch Library
Indexes to deaths and marriages, 1807-1969 FamilySearch Library
Marriages, 1877-1909 (New Bedford, Massachusetts) FamilySearch Library
Marriages, v. 1-4, 1848-1876 [New Bedford, Massachusetts] FamilySearch Library
Massachusetts Marriage Records, 1840-1915 Ancestry
Massachusetts Marriages 1633-1850 Ancestry
Massachusetts Marriages, 1633-1850 (many towns) Ancestry
Massachusetts Vital Records Index 1841-1895 Fold3
Massachusetts, Compiled Birth, Marriage, and Death Records, 1700-1850 Ancestry
Massachusetts, Compiled Marriages, 1633-1850 Ancestry
Massachusetts, Marriage Records, 1926-present Massachusetts Registry of Vital Records and Statistics
New Bedford Vital Record Transcripts (from Massachusetts Town Records collection) Ancestry
New Bedford, Bristol, Massachusetts computer printout; marriages, 1730-1850 FamilySearch Library
Records of Dartmouth, New Bedford, marriages, deaths, town meetings, births, and intentions of marriages, 1667-1847 FamilySearch Library
Vital records and indexes, 1686-1908 FamilySearch Library
Vital records of New Bedford, Massachusetts to the year 1850, marriages LDS Genealogy
Vital records of New Bedford, Massachusetts to the year 1850, marriages Internet Archive
Vital records of New Bedford, Massachusetts, to the year 1850, Vol. 3 Genealogy Gophers
Vital records of three Massachusetts' towns: Dartmouth, New Bedford, and Westport : to about 1821 FamilySearch Library
Vital records, 1650-1900 [New Bedford, Massachusetts] FamilySearch Library
Lost Fishermen from the Port of New Bedford Millicent Library
Massachusetts, New Bedford Passenger and Crew Lists, 1902-1943 Family Search
New Bedford Town Reports (1831-1996) Massachusetts State Library
Offshore Whaling Voyages Crew Lists Whaling History
Selectmen's records, 1778-1782 FamilySearch Library
Town records, 1812-1831, 1831-1841 FamilySearch Library
Whaling Crew List Database (men who left New Bedford on whaling voyages 1809-1927) New Bedford Whaling Museum
Alvorada (1923-1926) Boston Public Library
Alvorada Diaria (1919-1923) Boston Public Library
Alvorada Jornal Diario (1919) Boston Public Library
Christian Philanthropist (1822-1823) Boston Public Library
Christian Philanthropist 05/14/1822 to 05/13/1823 Genealogy Bank
Columbian Courier (1798-1802) Boston Public Library
Columbian Courier 12/08/1798 to 03/01/1805 Genealogy Bank
Columbian Courier, Or Weekly Miscellany (1803-1805) Boston Public Library
Columbian Courier, and Weekly Miscellany (1802-1803) Boston Public Library
Daily Evening Standard (1861-1866) Boston Public Library
Diario De Noticias (1954-1973;1927-1952) Boston Public Library
Diario de Noticias, 1919-1973 Portuguese-American Digital Newspaper Collections
Evening Journal (1892-1896) Boston Public Library
Evening Standard (1877-1920) Boston Public Library
Independent Press 10/26/1848 to 11/01/1848 Genealogy Bank
Le Messager (1927-1953) Boston Public Library
Medley or Newbedford Marine Journal 11/27/1792 to 10/18/1799 Genealogy Bank
Morning Mercury 12/04/1895 to 01/02/1919 Genealogy Bank
New Bedford Abstracts of Local News, 1792-1871 New Bedford Free Public Library
New Bedford Evening Journal (1891-1892) Boston Public Library
New Bedford Evening Standard 05/22/1850 to 05/18/1870 Genealogy Bank
New Bedford Gazette 10/18/1811 to 07/17/1812 and 09/05/1831 to 01/25/1838 Genealogy Bank
New Bedford Mercury (1807-1840;1824,1841,1845,1851) Boston Public Library
New Bedford Obituary Index, 1900-1968 Boston Public Library
New Bedford Register 01/22/1840 to 01/06/1846 Genealogy Bank
New Bedford Times (1916-1922) Boston Public Library
New Bedford evening journal, 1890-1893 Google News Archive
New-Bedford Courier 06/12/1827 to 12/04/1833 Genealogy Bank
New-Bedford Daily (Gazette 1833-1837) Boston Public Library
New-Bedford Evening Gazette (1837) Boston Public Library
New-Bedford Gazette (1811-1812) Boston Public Library
New-Bedford Mercury 08/07/1807 to 03/16/1877 Genealogy Bank
New-Bedford Mercury, 1807-1852 Google News Archive
New-England Gazette 05/13/1823 to 01/27/1824 Genealogy Bank
O Independente (1942) Boston Public Library
Old Colony Gazette (1808-1811) Boston Public Library
Old Colony Gazette 10/21/1808 to 10/11/1811 Genealogy Bank
Portuguese Times (1993-2007 June) Boston Public Library
Republican Standard (1850-1908;1911-1912) Boston Public Library
Standard Times 02/17/2015 to Current Genealogy Bank
Standard-Times (1936) Boston Public Library
The Medley, Or New Bedford Marine Journal (1792-1799) Boston Public Library
Trybuna (1942) Boston Public Library
Whaleman's Shipping List and Merchants' Transcript 03/17/1843 to 02/13/1877 Genealogy Bank
Offline Newspapers for New BedfordAccording 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. Advocate. (New-Bedford [Mass.]) 1844-1845 Christian Philanthropist [Electronic Resource]. (New Bedford [Mass.]) 1822-1823 Christian Philanthropist [Microform]. (New Bedford [Mass.]) 1822-1823 Christian Philanthropist. (New Bedford [Mass.]) 1822-1823 Columbian Courier, and Weekly Miscellany [Microform]. (New Bedford, Mass.) 1802-1803 Columbian Courier, and Weekly Miscellany. (New-Bedford, Mass.) 1802-1803 Columbian Courier, or Weekly Miscellany [Microform]. (New Bedford, Mass.) 1803-1805 Columbian Courier, or Weekly Miscellany. (New-Bedford, Mass.) 1803-1805 Columbian Courier. (New-Bedford, Mass.) 1798-1802 Cvn. (New Bedford, Mass.) 1980-2010 Daily Evening Bulletin. (New Bedford [Mass.) 1842-1844 Daily Evening Register. (New-Bedford [Mass.) 1845-1846 Daily Evening Standard. (New Bedford [Mass.]) 1850-1866 Daily Register. (New-Bedford [Mass.]) 1839-1841 Evening Bulletin. (New Bedford [Mass.]) 1841-1842 Evening Standard. (New Bedford, Mass.) 1866-1932 Medley, Or, Newbedford Marine Journal. (New Bedford, Mass.) 1792-1799 Medley, Or, Newbedford Marine Journal. (Newbedford [I.E. New Bedford] Mass.) 1792-1799 Morning Mercury. (New Bedford, Mass.) 1894-1942 Morning Register. (New-Bedford [Mass.]) 1841-1845 New Bedford Times. Volume (New Bedford, Mass.) 1857-1861 New-Bedford Courier, and Weekly Lyceum. (New Bedford [Mass.]) 1833-1834 New-Bedford Courier. ([New Bedford, Mass.]) 1827-1833 New-Bedford Daily Gazette. (New-Bedford [Mass.]) 1833-1837 New-Bedford Daily Mercury. (New-Bedford [Mass.]) 1831-1843 New-Bedford Gazette and Courier. (New-Bedford [Mass.]) 1834-1838 New-Bedford Gazette. (New-Bedford, Mass.) 1811-1812 New-Bedford Gazette. (New-Bedford, Mass.) 1830-1834 New-Bedford Mercury. (New-Bedford, Mass.) 1807-1895 New-Bedford Weekly Register. (New-Bedford, Mass.) 1831-1832 New-England Gazette. (New-Bedford, Mass.) 1823-1826 Old Colony Gazette. (New-Bedford [Mass.]) 1808-1811 Record of the Times. (New Bedford, Mass.) 1829-1830 Republican Standard. (New Bedford [Mass.]) 1850-1912 Standard-Times. (New Bedford, Mass.) 1932-Current Trybuna. (New Bedford, Mass.) 1925-1952 Whalemen's Shipping List, and Merchant's Transcript. (New Bedford, Mass.) 1858-1914 Whalemen's Shipping List, and Merchant's Transcript. (New-Bedford [Mass.]) 1843-1857 Whalemen's Shipping List. (New Bedford, Mass.) 1857-1858 Workingmen's Press and Weekly Register. (New-Bedford, Mass.) 1832-1834 |
1635-1991 Massachusetts Wills and Probate Records Ancestry
Abstracts of Bristol County, Massachusetts Probate Records, 1687-1745 Ancestry
Abstracts of Bristol County, Massachusetts Probate Records, 1745-1762 Ancestry
Abstracts of Bristol County, Massachusetts, probate records FamilySearch Library
Abstracts of some probate records, Bristol County, Massachusetts, [ca. 1686-1784] FamilySearch Library
Greater New Bedford Regional Vocational Technical High School yearbook, 1950, 1963, 1977, 1982, 1987 Classmates
New Bedford Vocational High School - Mariner Yearbook (New Bedford, MA), 1950 E Yearbook
New Bedford Vocational High School yearbook, 1950 (included in US School Yearbooks) Ancestry
St Anthony High School - Antonia Yearbook (New Bedford, MA), 1948 E Yearbook
St. Anthony High School yearbook, 1948, 1950, 1959 Classmates
St. Anthony High School yearbook, 1948, 1950, 1959 (included in US School Yearbooks) Ancestry
St. Anthony High School yearbook, 1948, 1950, 1959 (included in US Yearbooks collection) MyHeritage
New Bedford (Mass.) tax records, 1771 Archive Grid
New Bedford (Mass.) tax records, 1771 Digital Public Library of America
New Bedford, Massachusetts, tax record, 1889 FamilySearch Library
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