The following is a list of links that can help you find out more about historic preservation, local history, architectural history, and genealogy.  This is not a comprehensive list of available web resources, but it's a useful place to start.

Choose one of the following categories or browse the entire page of links:

Preservation and History Links:

Cambridge Historical Society

Community Preservation Initiative, Massachusetts Exec. Office of Environmental Affairs

Historic New England (formerly the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities)

Massachusetts Archives
     online Massachusetts vital records database

Massachusetts Historical Commission Homepage
     New: Massachusetts Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credit
     Massachusetts Preservation Projects Fund
     MACRIS database

Massachusetts Historical Society

Mass Moments, a daily almanac of Massachusetts history. A new project by the Mass Foundation for the Humanities.

National Park Service
     National Register of Historic Places
     Secretary of the Interior's Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties
     Federal Historic Preservation Tax Incentives
     Historic Preservation Easements
     Technical Preservation Services
     Longfellow National Historic Site -- Friends of the Longfellow House
     Links to the Past - Tools for Teaching
     Teaching with Historic Places
     Heritage News newsletter

National Trust for Historic Preservation Homepage
     Sustainability & Historic Preservation

Paige's History of Cambridge

Partners for Sacred Places

Preservation Action

Preservation Directory

PRESERVATION Mass (formerly Historic Massachusetts, Inc.)
      PreservationMass Consultants Directory

PreserveNet

Save Outdoor Sculpture!

Somerville Old House Organization

Trustees of Reservations

Research and Library Links:

Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society

American Canadian Genealogical Society

Boston Athenaeum

Boston Globe online archival search

Boston Public Library
     Leventhal Map Center:
         1877 birdseye view
         1879 birdseye view (East Cambridge) 

Bostonian Society/Boston Historical Society & Museum

Brief Biographies of American Architects, Who Died between 1897-1947

CambridgeArchives.org

Cambridge Cemetery 617-349-4890

Cambridge Public Library
     Cambridge Room Blog

Catholic Geneaology and Cemetery Locations, Archdiocese of Boston website, for info about Catholic Cemetery in North Cambridge; Catholic Cemetery in Watertown (at back of Mt. Auburn Cemetery), 781-322-6300

Christopher Hail's Cambridge Buildings and Architects database

"Commonwealth Communities," City of Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts

Harvard Crimson online (searchable archives)

Harvard Map Collection
     1833 Wadworth plan
     1854 Walling map
     1873 Hopkins atlas
     1885/88 Sanborn atlas
     1886 Hopkins atlas
     1894 Bromley atlas
     1900 Sanborn atlas
     1903 Bromley atlas
     1916 Bromley atlas

Harvard/Radcliffe Online Historical Reference Shelf

Harvard Square Library   With the full text of Rev. Abiel Holmes' History of Cambridge of 1801 and a history of the First Parish church in Harvard Square.

Library of Congress
     American Memory Collections
     America's Story (kids' page) 

Massachusetts Archives

Massachusetts General Laws

Middlesex South Registry of Deeds

M.I.T. Archives & Special Collections: MIT History

Mount Auburn Cemetery, 617-547-7105

New England Historical and Genealogical Society

National Archives and Records Administration -- Boston Regional Office

Old Burying Ground (Harvard Square)

Sibley's Private Journal is now online and searchable (journal of John Langdon Sibley, 1846-1882)

USGenWeb Project:  Middlesex County Massachusetts Genealogy

Wardmaps.com
     1930 Bromley atlas

Architecture and Building Links:

Architectural Education Resource Center

Boston Society of Architects

California Office of Historic Preservation/ Window Repair and Retrofit: Studies and Research

Center for Understanding the Built Environment

Christopher Hail's Cambridge Buildings and Architects database

Fine Homebuilding

Journal of Light Construction

Old House Journal

Preservation Sourcebook/PreservationWeb

Society of Architectural Historians Homepage
     Brief Biographies of American Architects Who Died Between 1897 and 1947

This Old House

Traditional Building Magazine

Sustainability and Weatherization Tips

Heritage and Tourism:

Cambridge African American Heritage Trail

Cambridge Discovery Days

Cambridge During the American Revolution

Cambridge Historical Society

Cambridge Office for Tourism

Cambridge Parks, Playgrounds & Reservations map

Cambridge Tour Providers

Historias de Cambridge, Latino immigrant oral history project

Historic New England

Jewish Cambridge if site is not working, try Jewish Immigrant Cambridge

Longfellow National Historic Site

Margaret Fuller Bicentennial, 2010

Massachusetts Cultural Council

Mount Auburn Cemetery

Museum of African American History

Origins of Cambridge Street Names

Save Outdoor Sculpture!