At 06:26 PM 4/9/2007, Pam Fujii wrote: >Where do I get the certificates? If you know the name of the person and the date of death you can purchase certified copies from: City Clerk Taunton City Hall 15 Summer St. Taunton, MA 02780 508-821-1024 Fax: 508-821-1098 Email: cityclerk@tmlp.net >Can you view the certificates or do you have to purchase them? You almost certainly cannot browse the certificates at City Hall. State copies of certificates from 1916 to date are at: Massachusetts Registry of Vital Records and Statistics http://www.state.ma.us/dph/bhsre/rvr/rvr.htm 150 Mount Vernon St., 1st Floor Dorchester, MA 02125-3105 617-740-2600 There is an hourly fee for researchers, but you can search the indices and then have the bound volumes of certificates brought out so you can examine them. State copies of records from 1841 to 1915 are at: Massachusetts Archives http://www.sec.state.ma.us/arc/arcidx.htm 220 Morrissey Blvd. Boston, MA 02125 617-727-2816 Fax: 617-288-8429 Images from microfilm of those records (currently from 1841-1910) are available online to members of the New England Historic Genealogical Society. >If so, how much do they cost? You would have to ask the City Clerk's office about their fees, but towns and cities usually charge $5.00 - $10.00 per certified copy. Certified copies made for you while you are at the Registry of Vital Records and Statistics cost $18.00, but you can have them made in that one location for any town or city in the Commonwealth. Dale H. Cook, Member, NEHGS and MA Society of Mayflower Descendants; Plymouth Co. MA Coordinator for the USGenWeb Project http://members.cox.net/plymouthcolony/index.shtml

Dale, Thanks so much for the info. You have given me a number of places to look. Pam "Dale H. Cook" <radiotest@cox.net> wrote: At 06:26 PM 4/9/2007, Pam Fujii wrote: >Where do I get the certificates? If you know the name of the person and the date of death you can purchase certified copies from: City Clerk Taunton City Hall 15 Summer St. Taunton, MA 02780 508-821-1024 Fax: 508-821-1098 Email: cityclerk@tmlp.net >Can you view the certificates or do you have to purchase them? You almost certainly cannot browse the certificates at City Hall. State copies of certificates from 1916 to date are at: Massachusetts Registry of Vital Records and Statistics http://www.state.ma.us/dph/bhsre/rvr/rvr.htm 150 Mount Vernon St., 1st Floor Dorchester, MA 02125-3105 617-740-2600 There is an hourly fee for researchers, but you can search the indices and then have the bound volumes of certificates brought out so you can examine them. State copies of records from 1841 to 1915 are at: Massachusetts Archives http://www.sec.state.ma.us/arc/arcidx.htm 220 Morrissey Blvd. Boston, MA 02125 617-727-2816 Fax: 617-288-8429 Images from microfilm of those records (currently from 1841-1910) are available online to members of the New England Historic Genealogical Society. >If so, how much do they cost? You would have to ask the City Clerk's office about their fees, but towns and cities usually charge $5.00 - $10.00 per certified copy. Certified copies made for you while you are at the Registry of Vital Records and Statistics cost $18.00, but you can have them made in that one location for any town or city in the Commonwealth. Dale H. Cook, Member, NEHGS and MA Society of Mayflower Descendants; Plymouth Co. MA Coordinator for the USGenWeb Project http://members.cox.net/plymouthcolony/index.shtml ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MABRISTO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message