National
Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
Frederick C. Murphy Federal Center
380 Trapelo Road
Waltham, MA 02154
(781) 663-0130
http://www.archives.gov/northeast/boston/
For a listing of all National
Archives locations:
Federal records available at
Waltham Regional Archives:
·
United States Census
records with indices (1790-1930)
·
Federal
naturalization records - (Rhode Island 1842-1991)
·
Passenger lists
·
Customs records
·
Military records -
Revolutionary War to Civil War, pension records (1861-1934), naval records
(1798-1893), bounty land applications
·
Chinese Exclusion Act
case files
·
Freedman Bureau
records
·
Dawes Commission
Cards for the Five Civilized Tribes
·
Federal Court -
civil, criminal, bankruptcy (business and personal) and appeals cases
·
Miscellaneous Federal records – New Deal agencies, tax
assessment lists, etc.
Rhode Island
Historical Society Library federal records:
·
Rhode Island federal population census (1790-1930)
·
Federal census indices for the 13 original colonies
(1790-1850)
·
Naturalization index (1790-1906 - Soundex format)
·
Military records and
registers from the colonial wars to the Civil War
·
Passenger lists for
Ports of Providence and Bristol/Warren
·
Ancestry.com for
passenger lists, border crossings, immigration lists, petitions
for naturalization, some early naturalization records,
emigrant lists
5 Hill Street
Pawtucket, RI 02860
(401) 721-2640
http://www.courts.state.ri.us/records/forms.htm
State records available at the Judicial Records Center
Archives:
·
Civil cases
(1671-1900)
·
Criminal cases
(1671-1900
·
Divorce cases
(1749-1900)
·
Naturalization
records (1793-1974)
State records available at the Judicial Records Center:
(Contact
the JRC for availability of records or log on to: http://www.courts.state.ri.us/records/locations.htm)
·
District Court cases
– criminal, civil and small claims
·
Superior Court cases
– criminal and civil
·
Supreme Court cases
·
Worker’s Compensation
cases
·
Family Court cases
Rhode Island Historical Society Library state records:
·
Rhode Island state census, 1865-1935
·
Vital records - Birth
(1636-1898), Marriage (1636-1900), Death (1636-1920)
·
Wills and Probate
records
·
Rhode Island Freeman (1747)
and Military (1774, 1777, 1782) censuses
·
Rhode Island Cemetery
Database
·
Additional Rhode
Island records: town and city records, city directories, church records, tax
records, newspapers and more
The Rhode
Island Historical Society Library
121 Hope
Street
Providence,
Rhode Island 02906
401-273-8107
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