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Suffolk County Massachusetts Death Records


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Deaths in Suffolk County are recorded at the town level at the Town Clerks Office and a copy is sent to the State of Massachusetts Registry of Vital Records and Statistics. The Massachusetts Registry of Vital Records and Statistics has Suffolk County death records from 1926 to present. Order official Suffolk County death records here.

The Suffolk County Massachusetts Death Records to the year of 1850, is a compilation of death records copied "as is" from the "Tan Book Collection" series of vital records. The "Tan Book" series is a compilation of vital records of over 200 Massachusetts towns and cities. Using the town records, church records, private records, gravestone inscriptions and newspaper articles.


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