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| County | Volunteer | Act of Kindness |
|---|---|---|
| All | Nancyanne Carkeek | Birth, Marriage, Death Records, 1850-1910; Please only two requests at a time. |
| All | Ann Keegan | Civil War research on Soldiers service records, pensions and interments for all the States, Union and Confederate Armies |
| 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 give you a free link to check 1855 and 1865 state censuses. I can look up Federal censuses in any state. |
| All | Cate | Lookups for birth, marriage and death registers 1841-1915 (note: 1911-1915 death registers are not posted yet. I cannot do lookups in them as I do not live in MA). |
| All | Janice Graves | OBITUARIES after 1900 for ALL COUNTIES in Mass. DEATH NOTICES only for the Suffolk County towns of South Boston, East Boston, Boston, Chelsea, Charlestown, Brighton, Roxbury, West Roxbury, Hyde Park.(Note: that Death Notices in the Boston Herald, Globe, Post and Transcript are not full length obituaries's). No Boston Irish. MUST HAVE EXACT DATE OF DEATH INCLUDING MONTH, DAY AND YEAR. |
| All | Patricia Sheekey | Birth, Marriage & Death records, 1841-1910. Online Records only. I am only able to transcribe the records- I am not able to offer the original records. |
| All | Heidi Schmelzer | Look ups of Births, Marriages and Deaths to 1915, which will be transcribed only - no copies. Look ups of index information post 1915. Obituary look ups available with specific date and location of death (or residence at time of death). Reimbursement may be required. |
| All | Elizabeth Brown | BMD's, Census, free Cemetery records and Gravestone Photos if local, Will consider all special requests. |
| 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. I will take digital gravestone pictures in the Falmouth villages but many are available online through website www.falgen.org/cem. The obits and pictures would be e-mailed directly to recipient thereby saving printing and postage fees; however, I may charge for mileage. |
| Barnstable | Louise King | Gravestone pictures. |
| 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. |
| Berkshire | Nicholas H.Wright | Public Records look ups and copying, courthouse & library. Obituaries. I prefer to limit my activities to the Town of Williamstown, Berkshire County. |
| 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. |
| Bristol | Darlene Adams | Tombstones photos in Easton and Stoughton, only. Please verify that the marker exists. |
| Bristol | Becki Errington | Will take pics from St. John Cemetery, Sacred Heart Cemetery, Griffin Street Cemetery, Point Road Cemetery, Oak Grove Cemetery, Pine Grove Cemetery, and the Rural Cemetery in New Bedford, MA. Possibly some cemeteries in Dartmouth and Fairhaven, if I can find it. Will also copy obituaries if you can tell me the name, date, and which newspaper it was in. Nothing else at this time, sorry. |
| 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. |
| 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 | Virginia Hughes | Public Records library lookups and copying. Obituaries. Gravestone pictures, Reimbursement may be required. |
| Essex | Barry Gates | NO Obituaries, Gravestone pictures. Beverly, Danvers, and Middleton cemeteries ONLY. |
| Essex | MaryAnn Ankiewicz | Gravestone pictures. Reimbursement will be required. Prefer Southern Essex County. Please provide path and plot number (exact location). Will email photo or mail if preferred. |
| 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 |
| Essex | Kim Falchek | Public Records library look ups and copying. Gravestone pictures. Reimbursement may be required. Any cemeteries in the north shore, MA. |
| Essex | Jim Collins | Beverly, Wenham, Hamilton, Ipswich ONLY. BMD's from city/town clerk, after 1850: Deaths only after 1910, nothing after 1960. Obit and grave pix if time permits. |
| Essex | Diane Gusciora | Public Records library lookups and copying. Obituaries. Gravestone pictures, Reimbursement may be required. Brockton,Ma. 1855 & 1865 census plus other sporadic towns. If I must travel out to State/Federal Archives gas & copying will be needed. |
| Franklin | Mark Fairbrother | Public Records library look ups and copying. Obituaries in The Recorder(Greenfield). Gravestone pictures. Reimbursement may be required. Town records, burial records, digital film photos of gravestones(weather permitting) in the Town of Montague. Will do similar look ups in other Franklin County towns as time, weather, and information supplied allows. |
| Franklin | Tina Peters | Public Records library look ups and copying. Will look up Obits in The Recorder, Greenfield MA if you provide specific name & date published. Will photo gravestones in Franklin County AND bordering towns in Berkshire and Hampshire Counties. Can do specific lookups at Berkshire Antheneum, Pittsfield Public Library. |
| Franklin | Rob Tatro | Public Records library lookups and copying. Obituaries. Gravestone pictures. Pictures of any Greenfield and Deerfield MA cemetery., I am very familiar with Calvary, Mater Delorosa, and Green River Cemeteries in Greenfield MA. Deerfield MA is less familiar however distance is convenient. |
| Hampden | GF "Butch" Vaughn | Public Records lookups and copying, courthouse & library. Obituaries. Gravestone pictures. |
| Hampden | Dave Robison | Public Record lookups and copying, courthouse & library. Obituaries. Gravestone pictures. Snow and ice can be a problem here in the northeast, so fulfilling cemetery photo request in the winter can be virtually impossible. The list of cemeteries in the general area is long and perhaps too long to list here. The only cemeteries that present some difficulty are the ancient cemeteries that are fenced in, gated and locked. They can still be accessed most of the time through contact with the various town/city halls. |
| Hampden | Sandra Prairie | I will do ON-LINE look ups only for the Springfield Republican from 1988 to present. |
| 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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