(If you have a link or other info of interest to those researching Lancaster history, please e-mail us with the info so we may add it to this site.)
Links and information to help those researching Lancaster's history and the people who have lived and died in the town and those communities that were created from Lancaster's territory.
"Lancaster Births and Marriages, 1643-1725" from the
Worcester County GenWeb pages:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~maworces/lancster.htm
An excellent site on Civil War history and the 15th Mass Voluntary
Infantry (which includes Civil War and biographical info on many
Lancastrians) is at:
http://www.nextech.de/ma15mvi/
Others of interest:
politicalgraveyard.com (includes where dead politicians are buried; in Lancaster there are a couple congressmen (not currently serving, of course))
ancestry.com
other sources of info:
Historical Commission
Historical Society
Historical societies for Clinton and Sterling, Bolton, Leominster, Harvard and to a lesser degree Boylston, West Boylston and Hudson may especially have records of interest to those researching Lancaster history since those communities were completely or partially comprised of Lancaster territory.
Mary Rowlandson history: http://www.kutztown.edu/~reagan/rowlandson.html
Luther Burbank info: http://parks.sonoma.net/burbstory.html
Misc research aids:
http://www.mass-doc.com/mass_research_tools.htm
http://www.masshist.org/
http://www.infonavigate.com/boston/l55.htm
http://www.nehgs.org/ (New England Historic Genealogical Society)