A researcher's guide to Boston
By: Ann S. Lainhart.
Contributors: New England Historic Genealogical Society.
Publisher: New England Historic Genealogical Society
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
Subjects: Archives -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Directories.; Libraries -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Directories.; Boston (Mass.) -- History -- Sources -- Bibliography.; Boston (Mass.) -- Genealogy -- Bibliography.
Genres: Directories.; Sources; Bibliography.; Genealogy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Getting started; title: Vital records; title: Church records; title: Cemetery records; title: Town records; title: Probate records; title: Land records; title: Court records; title: City directories; title: Military records and seaman's records; title: Tax lists; title: Business papers, account books, and diaries; title: Censuses; title: Voters' lists; title: Teachers' records; title: Passenger lists; title: Naturalizations; title: Immigrants in print; title: Some miscellaneous sources; title: Boston in print; title: Towns that are now part of Boston; title: Articles on Boston families; title: Boston area repositories; title: Massachusetts divorce records, where to find them; title: Ministers in Boston up to 1846; title: Home for destitute Catholic children; title: Boston Record Commissioners report; title: Inventory of the estate of Amasa Davis; title: 1860 census Ward One, Boston; title: Examples from institutional records.