Family research frequently brings people to historic cemeteries such as Dell Park. The records for Dell Park are not available online but assistance in locating specific graves may be available.
You will find many online resources for research into your family history. The Dell Park records are not available online but we hope that some of these resources will be of use to you in your genealogical research.
Death records may be found at the Office of the Town Clerk in Natick as well as in the Massachusetts State Archives. The 1910 publication, Vital Records of Natick Massachusetts, to the Year 1850, is available online through the State Library of Massachusetts. Digital copies of Massachusetts vital records from 1841 to 1920 are available through the Massachusetts Archives website: Digital Records at the Massachusetts Archives
The Morse Institute Library, Natick’s public library, offers an important array of local and other resources. Among the important online and in-print resources are links to the Natick Veterans’ Oral History Project, and the Natick Historical Newspapers Digital Archive, 1855-1976
Headstone Transcriptions from Old Dell Park are included in “Natick Cemeteries: Glenwood, New Dell Park, Old Dell Park & St. Patricks” by Mrs. Lyman A. Brown, 1937. Copies are available at Natick’s Morse Institute Library, the Natick Historical Society, the New England Historical Genealogical Society in Boston and the DAR Library in Washington, DC. Note: the Morse Institute and Natick Historical Society each have a finding aid to locate the transcribed headstones within Dell Park.
- Also be sure to visit the Natick Historical Society’s page
- The National Archives and Records Administration, or NARA, is a good place to start to broaden your research. This link at the National Archives will lead you to many other useful sites.
- New England Historic Genealogical Society’s website is now American Ancestors
- The National Genealogy Society’s learning center offers many resources, including a list of 18 important websites.
- Find a Grave, provides free access to their database which claims to list over 170 million memorials. Please note that many but not all Dell Park graves have been listed.