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Welcome to the Massachusetts
USGenWeb Obituary Project!
Ways
You Can Help:
- You can help us
by submitting a letter to the publisher of any
local Massachusetts Newspaper and get permission
for current obits to be published. A sample
letter can be found here.
- Go through old
newspapers (published prior to 1929) and copy the
obituaries found. We will also accept single
obituaries that you have in your files. You can
submit either complete obituaries or abstracts
(just the facts) of the obituaries. Check with
your local library to see what old newspapers
they have on microfilm.
Copyright Law:
The Massachusetts
Obituary Project will abide by today's copyright laws.
Obituaries published after December 31, 1929, unless:
- you were the
original author of the obituary, or
- the newspaper
in question grants permission to reprint the
obituary, or
- the obituary is
that of a family member (you must give the
relation), or
- you submit an
abstract of your obituaries. A good abstract
might give the paper's name, name of deceased,
age, date of death, and date that the obituary
appears in the paper (in parenthesis).
Do you have an
Obituary for Massachusetts? Please send it
to me. We'll be happy to add it to
this project!
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Listed by Counties
**Only the Counties with
Obituraries are Linked**
Links go directly to the Archives ftp while Table of Contents are
being made.
[Statewide] [Barnstable] [Berkshire] [Bristol]
[Essex] [Franklin] [Hampden]
[Middlesex]
[Plymouth] [Suffolk] [Worcester]
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NEW!
The Death Notice listed
above are not stored in the MA Obits Project
Archive. They are submissions which are stored
the NH Obits Project archive.
Participating
Newspapers: No newspapers
are currently participating.
- Newspapers
contacted & waiting for permission to
post copyrighted obituaries:
- The
Boston Herald
- The
Editor of the Boston Globe
Website (boston.com), replied
to my letter and said that "...we're
going to have to decline this request
right now..." So no obituaries will
be posted from "The Boston
Globe" unless they do not violate
Copyright Law.
- The
Director of Marketing & New Media,
who works for the Worcester
Telegram & Gazette,
wrote, "...You do not have our
permission to copy or store our
copyrighted material as part of your
project."
Obituary
Indexes
ALL NAMES (This index page
is on the NH Obits Project - It contains some
obituaries of those who were born or lived at one
time in Massachusetts)
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This page was last revised Sunday, 05-Oct-2008 05:19:36 PDT
Thinking about Adopting a State? Please see the
Guidelines Page
for more information.
Obituary Archives Project Coordinator -
Maggie Stewart
© 2000-2008 The USGenWeb Obituary Project
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