Nantucket County, Massachusetts:
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Projects

• Nantucket County History and Genealogy      (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)
• Nantucket GenWeb Project      (Source: USGenWeb)
• Nantucket, Mass. Pages  Vital records & history of Nantucket

Adjacent counties

• Dukes County, MA  to the west

Biographies, Oral Histories, Diaries, Memoirs, Genealogies, Correspondence (13)

Cemeteries (10)

Census Records and Indexes (38)

Church Records

• Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935  includes Nantucket County, Massachusetts     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

Court and Legal Records

• Court of Common Pleas records, 1721-1859      (Source: FamilySearch)
• Court of General Sessions of the Peace records, 1721-1816      (Source: FamilySearch)
• Livingston's Law Register, 1851  Nantucket County Lawyers     (Source: Google Books)
• Nantucket County Court Records Directory      (Source: Court Records Free Reference and Directory)

Directories

• Nantucket City Directories      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Nantucket Directories      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Nantucket, Siasconset Directories      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Siasconset Directories      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

Estate Records

• Massachusetts Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991  includes Nantucket County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

Ethnic

• Wampanoag History 

History (33)

Immigration and Naturalization Records

• Massachusetts, State and Federal Naturalization Records  1798-1950     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Miscellaneous Atlantic Ports Passenger Lists, 1893-1945  Nantucket, Massachusetts     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

Introduction and Guides

• Cyndi's List of Massachusetts locality links      (Source: Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet)
• FamilySearch Wiki Research Guide      (Source: FamilySearch)
• Nantucket County      (Source: Histopolis Collaborative Genealogy & History)
• Nantucket County Genealogy 
• Nantucket County Public Records      (Source: Nationwide Environmental Title Research)

Land Records

• Massachusetts Land Records  1620-1986     (Source: FamilySearch)
• Nantucket County Deeds and Indexes      (Source: FamilySearch)
• Nantucket Historical Association  Volume 2, Number 1: Nantucket Lands and Land Owners     (Source: MyHeritage)     ($)
• Nantucket, Historical Association  Volume 2, Nantucket Lands and Land Owners (1896)     (Source: MyHeritage)     ($)

Libraries, Museums, Archives

• Family History Library Holdings      (Source: FamilySearch)
• Library Directory for Nantucket County, Massachusetts      (Source: libraries.org - A directory of libraries throughout the world)
• Museum of African American History  Boston & Nantucket
• Nantucket Collection  Nantucket Atheneum
• Nantucket County Data Collections      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Nantucket Historical Association  Research Library & Archives
• PERiodical Source Index Search  Nantucket County, Massachusetts     (Source: Find My Past)

Lookups

• Nantucket County Books      (Source: Books-We-Own)

Mailing Lists and Message Boards

• GenForum Message Boards      (Source: Genealogy.com)
• NantucketFamilies  This list is for research and sharing of information on the people of Nantucket, their lives, their ancestors and descendants wherever they may be, as well as those who married into these families     (Source: Yahoo! Groups)
• RootsWeb Message Board      (Source: RootsWeb)

• MANANTUC Nantucket County genealogy

  • MANANTUC Mailing List Homepage      (Source: RootsWeb)

• NEW-ENGLAND-ISLANDS Ancestors who settled on the islands of New England and their descendants

  • NEW-ENGLAND-ISLANDS Mailing List Homepage      (Source: RootsWeb)

Maps and Gazetteers (18)

Mayflower

• Mayflower Source Records  Primary Data Concerning Southeastern Massachusetts, Cape Cod, and the Islands of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard     (Source: Genealogical Publishing Company and Clearfield Company)     ($)

Military Records and Histories

• Census of Pensioners for Revolutionary or Military Services, 1841  Nantucket County (first listing)     (Source: Internet Archive)
• Census of Pensioners for Revolutionary or Military Services, 1841  Nantucket County (second listing)     (Source: Internet Archive)
• List of Pensioners on the Roll January 1, 188  Nantucket County, Massachusetts     (Source: Internet Archive)
• Nantucket County  Massachusetts 1840 Census of Pensioners     (Source: New Horizons Genealogical Services)

Miscellaneous Data

• Macy's collection, 1658-1855 (approx.)  Viewing restrictions apply     (Source: FamilySearch)
• Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records  1626-2001     (Source: FamilySearch)
• Mayflower Source Records  includes Extracts from Nantucket Records and Nantucket Supplementary Records     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Nantucket County Public Records Links      (Source: Free Public Records Directory)
• A Nantucket Ghost Walks Again  Over the Teacups     (Source: MyHeritage)     ($)

Newspaper Records

• Chronicling America  Nantucket County     (Source: The Library of Congress)
• Nantucket Atheneum's Digital Historic Newspaper Archive 
• Nantucket County      (Source: Newspaper Abstracts)
• Search Nantucket Historical Newspapers      (Source: GenealogyBank)     ($)

Obituaries and Funeral Home Records

• The Inquirer and Mirror  Recent obituaries
• Nantucket, Massachusetts Newspaper Obituaries      (Source: GenealogyBank)     ($)
• Obituary search includes Inquirer and Mirror  Nantucket     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Obituary search includes The Nantucket Inquirer and Mirror  Nantucket, MA     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

Photographs, Postcards, Historical Images

• Nantucket  Taking the Long View: Panoramic Photographs     (Source: American Memory from the Library of Congress)
• Nantucket County  Built in America     (Source: American Memory from the Library of Congress)
• Nantucket County Courthouse 
• Nantucket Historical Assocation Videos      (Source: YouTube)
• Nantucket Historical Association      (Source: Flickr Photo Sharing)
• Nantucket Historical Association Research Library Collection      (Source: Digital Commonwealth)
• Nantucket Postcards 
• Penny Postcards from Massachusetts      (Source: USGenWeb Massachusetts Archives)

Societies

• Abiah Folger Franklin Chapter  Nantucket     (Source: National Society Daughters of the American Revolution)
• Nantucket Historical Association 
• Nantucket Historical Association      (Source: Twitter)
• Nantucket Historical Association      (Source: Facebook)
• Nantucket Historical Commission 
• Nantucket Preservation Trust      (Source: Facebook)
• Nantucket Preservation Trust 

Surnames Web sites, obituaries, biographies, and other material specific to a surname (76)

Transportation and Industry

• Building histories of Nantucket County      (Source: Philadelphia Architects and Buildings Project)
• Nantucket County  N. W. Ayer & Son's American Newspaper Annual, 1880     (Source: HathiTrust Digital Library)
• Patents  Nantucket County, Massachusetts     (Source: Google Patents)
• Railroad Stations in Massachusetts 
• Station Coskata  Coast Guard Station #45
• Station Maddaket  Coast Guard Station #47
• Station Muskeget  Coast Guard Station #48
• Station Surfside  Coast Guard Station #46
• Wrecks around Nantucket  Since the settlement of the island, and the incidents connected therewith, embracing over seven hundred vessels     (Source: Internet Archive)

Vital Records (15)

Wiki

• Nantucket County, Massachusetts Wiki      (Source: RootsWeb)

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