Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Genealogy

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Quick History
Wikipedia

Geographic location: Google

17 September 1630: First settled by the Puritans from England as part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (not to be confused with the Plymouth Colony founded by the Pilgrims (Separatists.)

City Hall
Boston City Hall One City Hall Square Boston, MA 02201

Biography
Also see: Genealogy, History

Cemeteries

 * Central Burying Ground, Boston BillionGraves
 * Granary Burying Ground, Boston BillionGraves
 * Kings Chapel Burying Ground, Boston BillionGraves

Directories

 * Fold3.com ($) has 116 years of Boston City Directories spanning 1789-1926 available online.
 * At DistantCousin.com users can access the following Boston city directories: 1800, 1860, and 1904.
 * Internet Archive has made the following Boston city directories available online in their Ebooks and Text Archive collection:


 * 1805,1825, 1834, 1835, 1836, 1848-1849, 1849, 1856, 1858, 1862, 1879, 1916 pt.1, 1916 pt. 2, 1922, 1955 pt. 1, 1955 pt. 2, 1959, 1961 pt. 1, 1962, 1963 pt. 1, 1964, 1965, 1967,  1966, 1968, 1969 pt. 1, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1974-1975

Emigration and immigration
A wiki article describing an online collection is found at:

Massachusetts, Boston Passenger Lists (FamilySearch Historical Records)

History
Also see: Biography, Genealogy

Maps
The Norman B Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library has 200,000 historic maps and 5,000 atlases documenting the evolution. The geographical focus of these maps, atlases, and globes is the World, Europe, and America, with particular attention to New England, Massachusetts, and Boston from the 15th century to the present day.

Newspapers

 * Newspaperarchive.com ($) has historical newspapers available on-line including Boston City newspapers. Some libraries including the Boston Public Library provide free access to this database.
 * Boston Globe and theBoston Herald obituaries 1953-2010 available from the Boston Public Library.

Websites

 * Family History Library Catalog for the City of Boston