A Guide to Massachusetts Cemeteries

by David Allen Lambert

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 * 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.

Genres: Reference

272 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2002

Reviews

[Jan · Rating 4 out of 5]

As the title indicates this is a guide not a "reader." There were some omissions, but I assume those were added in the second editon.