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Finding the Right Gloucester Record
These are the most direct routes for common Gloucester research questions:
- An address or a named street: consult Gloucester records by street
- Historic directories or past households: use the Gloucester city-directory collections
- A carefully bounded name question: follow the resident lookup method
- Office responsibilities: see Gloucester record custodians
- A municipal record missing online: make a focused request under the Massachusetts Public Records Law, G.L. c. 66, ยง 10, to the relevant custodian
Gloucester public-records contact: City Clerk's Office, Public Records Request, 9 Dale Avenue, Gloucester, MA 01930. Gloucester recommends its NextRequest portal and also accepts written, email, and oral requests under the published process. The City Clerk general telephone is 978-325-5120. For vital certificates, use the City Clerk's separate vital-record request route because ordinary public-records procedures do not control access.