This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/AFB.2ACE/1857.1 Message Board Post: I believe pre 1871 is housed at the Mass Archives: http://www.sec.state.ma.us/arc/arccon.htm I am not sure how you would find out, but here is the link to Middlesex County Probate Court, Cambridge http://www.mass.gov/courts/courtsandjudges/courts/middprobmain.html More recent records may be housed more locally to the town of occurence... I guess the only way to find out is to ask. The people at the Mass Archives may know...and would probably be more willing to help than the court people. Lisa