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| County | Volunteer | Act of Kindness |
|---|---|---|
| All | Ann Keegan | Lookups for Soldiers that served in the Civil War and American Revolution. |
| All | Michael Brophy | Census lookups for 1790-1930. Irish surname frequency, place information 19th century Ireland, |
| All | Dennis Beausoleil | I can do census look ups for the state of massachusetts for the years 1860,1870,1900,1910,1920,1930. |
| All | Shelli | I can check for marriages 1633-1850 and deaths 1970-2003 Not all counties are listed. I can also help with censuses. |
| All | Janice Graves | Obituaries after 1900 for ALL COUNTIES in Massachusetts (except for the following Suffolk Co. towns - South Boston, East Boston, Boston, Chelsea, Charlestown,Brighton, Roxbury, West Roxbury, Hyde Park Dorchestor, Revere and Boston). The exception to the above is if they lived in another town outside of Suffolk Co. towns listed above and died in a Boston hospital. NO COMMON IRISH NAMES as defined by me. MUST HAVE EXACT DATE OF DEATH INCLUDING MONTH DAY AND YEAR. |
| Barnstable | James W. Gould | Town of Barnstable only. Will look up births, marriages and deaths 1886-1989. Burial records for Mosswood Cemetery, Cotuit, 1819 to present; will transcribe inscriptions. Location of homes in Cotuit, Santuit and Oyster Harbors. |
| Barnstable | Cynthia Moore | Public Records library lookups and copying. Gravestone pictures. Cemeteries: Peoples, Union, Seaside,Bethel(South Chatham).I go to Seaside just about every Sunday. and visit the Eldredge Public Library once a month weather permitting.Would consider Harwich or Orleans cemeteries if specific instructions are included. |
| Barnstable | Nancy Mumford | Cemetery inscription lookups for Town of Barnstable only (have access to alphabetical listing). Will take digital or print photos of tombstones if you know what cemetery your ancestor is buried in, towns of Barnstable, Sandwich, Yarmouth and Dennis. Obit help, Barnstable county - you must have EXACT date of death (1936 to present only). Can check TOWN of Barnstable vital records 1935-1989 in town reports. |
| Barnstable | Charlet E. Roskovics | Obituaries listed in the FALMOUTH ENTERPRISE (1896 to present), CAPE COD TIMES (1936 to present). Name plus month, day and year of death must be indicated. Digital gravestone pictures in the Falmouth villages: Falmouth, East Falmouth, West Falmouth, North Falmouth and Woods Hole. The obituaries and pictures would be e-mailed directly to recipient thereby saving printing fees. |
| Barnstable | Martha Day | I will look into local sources..wills, probate, etc. I found I could seldom find obits. I will take tombstone pictures, though find many are unreadable. |
| Bristol | Valerie King | North Attleboro Only Still photos of tombstones and Public Records lookups and copying. |
| Bristol | Jim Tilbe | Raynham only please! I Will check vital records and First Congregational Church records. I will send digital photos of tombstones. |
| Bristol | Maryann C. Martel | Public records lookups, obits, pictures of graves in Fall River, Somerset, Swansea, Westport, Dartmouth, and Freetown/Assonet, plus I have the B.M.C. DURFEE HIGH School Alumni Directory which has all the graduates since the school was open. |
| Dorchester | Debra Branigan | Will do lookups in the book The Ancestry of Russell Makepeace of Marion, MA 1904-1986. This has his ancestry to Thomas Makepeace of Dorchester, MA and many allied lines. |
| Dukes | June D. Manning | Research for the Towns of Aquinnah (formerly Gay Head), Chilmark, Edgartown, Oak Bluffs (formerly Cottage City, Tisbury, and West Tisbury. |
| Eastern MA | Chandra Lambiase | Still photos of tombstones and Public Records lookups and copying. I am available to do look ups at State and National Archives as well as state vital records office. I can visit cemetaries in Eastern Mass only. |
| Essex | David W. Oram | Videotaping Cemeteries. Still photos of tombstones and Public Records lookups and copying. Any bmd records for Massachusetts. Preferably before 1905 |
| Essex | Virginia Swinson | Still photos of tombstones and Public Records lookups and copying. Gloucester ONLY |
| Essex | Jodi | Obit look-ups for the ANDOVER Newspapers from 1853 onward ONLY. You should have a death date to make it possible to locate the obit. The paper is a weekly paper and RARELY includes obits for surrounding towns, or other towns in Essex County. If the person did not die in Andover, contact the library in the town where the death occured for the obit please. |
| Essex | Barry Gates | NO Obituaries, Gravestone pictures. Beverly, Danvers, and Middleton cemeteries ONLY. |
| Essex | Patricia Shearer | Gravestone pictures. preferably in and near the Lynn area. |
| Essex | Mary Traynor | Obit look-ups for Lawrence. should have a death date to make it possible to locate the obit. If time permits, cemetery photos may be available. |
| Essex | Efi Polisson | Still photos of tombstones and Public Records lookups and copying cemetery and vital record lookups and copies for Gloucester, will take photos of cemeteries with digital camera |
| Hampden | Lucy Willingham | MA vital records (birth, marriage, death) 1840-1905, please have an estimated year. I also have a knowledge of the area and can give you ideas of where to look next - not able to do the actual research other than vitals. |
| Hampden | Sandra Prairie | ON-LINE research ONLY for the following. Springfield Republican, Springfield MA (via Newsbank) 1988 - current and the Boston Globe Full-text coverage from 1980 and the Boston Herald Full-text coverage from from 1991. ***Please note that unpaid death notice are NOT archived online and I would have to acsess at the the library. I would charge for milage, copying and mailing. |
| Hampden (eastern) |
Gary Reardon | Still photos of tombstones. Will Email Digital Photos of Tombstones. |
| Hampshire (eastern) |
Gary Reardon | Still photos of tombstones. Will Email Digital Photos of Tombstones. |
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