My cousin is attempting to document her family tree back to Mayflower Pilgrim Stepen HOPKINS. Can anyone provide a mailing address for the Massachuts Vital Records? Thank you Dave ===================================== <<<< Darlene McCabe writes:>>>>>>> From: darlene mccabe <mccabe149@optonline.net> To: David Lindstedt <semperfidave@juno.com> Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 01:31:53 -0500 Subject: William Short/Lillian Wilson Wedding Picture I am still working on getting this tin-type picture restored. Meanwhile, I always wondered who the gentlemen in the background were. So now we know...Frederick W. Montgomery, age 33, and Samuel Short, age 23. In the mean time, I am working on a BIG project...I stumbled on family trees and census sheets that show that I am a descendant of the Mayflower Pilgrim Stephen Hopkins...Lillian Wilson's mom was Ida Betsy Hopkins. So I am busy sending away for the BMD's in the New York Archives. However, I can't find an address for the Massachusetts Vital Records...it seems like they expect one to visit the Mass library and look it up ourself...can you check this out for me...I have all the vital dates and places in Mass but I need the copies of the records like the one I sent you of Harry and Lillian's marriage. I am the 15th generation descendant of Stephen Hopkins....the first six generations of his descendants are all over the net and in a book at Barnes & Noble for $90. If you'd like the web sites, let me know. It is really interesting to read if you have some spare time...