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Genealogy
Directories, Censuses and Vital Records :
Charlestown City Directories , 1831-1874 (microfilm)
Somerville City Directories , 1851-present. (microfilm and hard copy)
Somerville Poll Tax Listings , 1847-1938 (microfilm and hard copy)
Somerville Births, Marriages and Deaths , 1842-1911 (microfilm)
The Federal Census of Middlesex County , 1800-1930 (microfilm)
MassachusettsMilitia Roster, 1842-1863. Soldier Relief Register vols. 1, 9, 10 (microfilm)
U.S. Direct Tax Census for Maine and Massachusetts , 1798. (microfilm)
1890 Massachusetts Census Index of Civil War Veterans or their Widows (microfilm)
Boston Telephone Directories , 1910-1983.
Newspapers on Microfilm:
Somerville Journal, 1876 to present
Somerville Citizen, 1888-1901
Somerville Reporter, 1904-1913
Somerville News, 1893, 1913-1916
Somerville Citizen-Democrat, 1932
West Somerville Reporter & Cambridge World, 1900-1901
Boston Globe, 1987 to the present.
The Boston Globe is also available via library databases.
The staff maintains indexes to the Somerville Journal including a subject index for noteworthy topics and events and an obituary index. Researchers should check both the paper card files and the online index for all subjects prior to 1990.
CD-ROM Resources:
New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1847-1994
Marriage Index: Massachusetts, 1633-1850
City Directories: Massachusetts, 1885-1897 (Selected cities & years)
Early Vital Records of Massachusetts to the Year 1850
Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s
Passenger and Immigration Lists: Boston, 1821-1850
The Search for Missing Friends: Irish Immigrant Advertisements in the Boston Pilot, 1831-1920
Passenger and Immigration Lists: Irish to America, 1846-1865.
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