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 has published articles in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register; the New Hampshire Genealogical Record; Rhode Island Roots; The Mayflower Descendant; and New England Ancestors magazine. He has published a best-selling book on cemeteries in Massachusetts, entitled A Guide to Cemeteries in Massachusetts and a photographic history of his hometown, Images of Stoughton, Massachusetts.
David's genealogical expertise includes specialties in New England and Atlantic Canadian research, military records, and Native American and African American genealogical research. David has appeared on numerous radio and television shows, including the PBS-TV show History Detectives. He is the host of a local public access television talk show, devoted to capturing the stories of the U.S. Military veterans of the town of Stoughton, Massachusetts. He is currently authoring a book on the vital, church, and cemetery records of Stoughton from 1726 to 1900.
