This one-of-a-kind guidebook provides genealogists and historians with a valuable reference for Massachusetts research. For the first time ever, a researcher can quickly gain information on: * cemetery names *year of consecration or the oldest known gravestone or burial * location of cemetery * printed and manuscript sources for the cemetery * contact information for the office affiliated with the cemetery. This book contains many previously undocumented burial grounds as well as citations to published transcriptions of gravestone listings in places such as the New England Historic Genealogical Society, the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, and the official Massachusetts Vital Records to the end of 1850 series.
David Allen Lambert is the Library Manager of the NEHGS Microtext and Technology Library, and Reference Librarian for NEHGS. David has published several articles in the Register, the New Hampshire Genealogical Record, Rhode Island Roots, Genealogical Computing, NEXUS, and is a regular columnist in New England Ancestors magazine. His genealogical expertise includes New England and Atlantic Canadian records, military records, and Native American and African Amerindian genealogical research in New England.
David is the also the author of a book Images of America: Stoughton, Massachusetts.