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DUKES
COUNTY, Massachusetts
Elizebeth Islands and
Martha's Vineyard Island
*First created, in 1683, as a county of New York, and became a
Massachusetts county in 1695.
*County seat: Edgartown.
Dukes County is located off the southeastern coast of
Massachusetts, with the Massachusetts counties of Nantucket to the
east, Barnstable, Plymouth and Bristol to the north.
*Cities,
Towns & Communities include: Aquinnah
(formerly Gay Head), Chilmark, Edgartown,
Gosnold, Oak Bluffs,
Tisbury, West Tisbury.
Select this LINK to see GENERAL Dukes
County information and links.
Select from the TOWN
list above to view information and links specific to that community.
Please note: Though the information on this web page is believed to be correct, the possibility of error remains. Please notify the webmaster should an error be found.
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Dukes
County, Massachusetts
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Historical Records of Dukes County, MA - site by Chris Baer.
Historical Archives and Indexes of Tisbury, MA - including the present town of West Tisbury, MA, and the villages of Vineyard Haven and Holmes Hole.
A Gazetteer of the State of Massachusetts with Numerous Illustrations, by Rev. Elias Nason, M.A.; revised and enlarged by George J. Varney. Boston : B.B. Russell. 1890.
Virtual Cape Cod- Online directory, map and information.
Whaling Days in Provincetown, MA - A brief history from the Revolutionary years to date.
Cape Cod Tourism - information and links.
Kendall
Whaling Museum - Though the museum is actually located in
Norfolk County, this is helpful for Barnstable county researchers.
27 Everett Street - Sharon, MA 02067.
Visit
50 States to learn how: "... America’s highly
diversified whaling industry even influenced landlocked states far
from the sea..."
The
Marine Museum at Fall River, in nearby Bristol County, has
helpful maritime links and information.
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute - Woods Hole, MA 02543 Phone: (508) 457-2000.
Dukes County Probate Court
Clerk
Edgartown, MA 02539.
Dukes
County Registry of Deeds
Edgartown, MA 02539.
Massachusetts
Archives - Policies
for Research by Mail - Fees
and Procedures
220 Morrissey Boulevard,
Boston, Massachusetts 02125 Phone: (617) 727-2816.
Court Records Archivist (for MA Archives requests involving court records)
Supreme Judicial Court Archives - 1300 New Court House - Boston, MA 02108.
Commonwealth Profile of Aquinnah, Gay Head incorporated 15 April 1870
Commonwealth Profile of Chilmark, Incorporated 14 September 1694
"Annals of Chilmark", from Dr. Charles E. Banks' History of Martha's Vineyard (Originally Published 1911)
Commonwealth Profile of Edgartown, Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard Mass. Incorporated in 1671
Commonwealth Profile of Gosnold, Established as an autonomous town in 1863. "...the town consists of a chain of a dozen islands running westward from Woods Hole between Buzzard's Bay and Vineyard Sound. In 1602 Bartholomew Gosnold made landfall at Cuttyhunk, one of the larger islands, and gave the Elizabeth Islands group its name...The islands were under the control of the Dutch in New York until 1691 when they passed by charter into the hands of the English of the Massachusetts Bay Colony..."
Oak
Bluffs
Commonwealth
Profile of Oak Bluffs, Cottage City 1880; Oak Bluffs in
1907. "...In 1835, Jeremiah Pease chose an oak grove on the
edge of Squash Meadow for a camp meeting of island Methodists.
The summer meeting became popular and attendance grew like
wildfire..."
Commonwealth Profile of Tisbury, Incorporated 8 July 1671
Historical
Records of Tisbury, MA
Crossways
Cemetery photos, transcripts, and tour - Tisbury, MA.
Commonwealth Profile of West Tisbury, Takemmy 1669; West Tisbury incorporated 28 April 1892
Additional Research Resources:
Massachusetts Citizen Information Service - maps and more.
Local Catholic Church History & Genealogy Research Guide & Worldwide Directory + Massachusetts* Page.
Massachusetts Fun Facts - Review of the History, Government, and Symbols of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Published by William Francis Galvin, Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Massachusetts Dept. of Housing and Community Development: Community Profiles.
Use the query form, at USGS, to map features including cemeteries, churches, populated places, and more. Please note that the map town listed with a feature may be used as a map reference for the site, and may not be the town where the feature is actually located...Select a map to see the location of the actual feature. This database may not be complete, and, as with any database, there may be errors.
The Political Graveyard, for Massachusetts, created and maintained by Lawrence Kestenbaum, a web site about U.S. political history, politicians and cemeteries.
Massachusetts Research Tools by Jeff Simonson.
From Revolution to Reconstruction - a Hypertext on American History.
o 1790-1890 Federal Population Censuses Catalog of NARA Microfilm
o 1930 Census Microfilm Locator
o Clues in Census Records, 1790-1840
o Clues in Census Records, 1850-1930
o Nonpopulation Census Records
o Prologue, Spring 1996, Vol. 28, No. 1, "First in the Path of the Firemen" The Fate of the 1890 Population Census, by Kellee Blake.
o Immigration Records and Naturalization Records
o "Any woman who is now or hereafter may be married... Women and Naturalization, ca. 1802-1940", by Marian L. Smith (Prologue, Summer 1998)
o By Way of Canada: U.S. Records of Immigration Across the U.S.-Canadian Border, 1895-1954, By Marian L. Smith (St. Albans Lists) (Fall 2000) — A guide to using immigration records of the U.S.-Canada border.
o Military Records available from the National Archives
o Military Service and Pension Records: Requesting Pre-WWI
Library of Congress: American Memory All Collections Search - enter topic or Massachusetts town and/or county location to find available online photos, maps, and more!
U.S. Census Bureau Interactive County Maps for Massachusetts.
Professional
Research
Ann
McRoden Mensch, Professional Historical Genealogist
Researching on-site, and with the vast resources of The Allen
County Public Library, holding one of the largest
genealogical collections in North America. Search the
Library's on-line catalogue to see some of the printed resources
available for a location or topic.
Printed resources for this page include:
School and Library Atlas of the World. Fred W. Foster, Ph.D. (Editor). Sycamore, Illinois: School and Library Publishing Company. 1982.
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