All posts by David Allen Lambert

About David Allen Lambert

David Lambert has been on the staff of NEHGS since 1993 and is the organization’s Chief Genealogist. David is an internationally recognized speaker on the topics of genealogy and history. His genealogical expertise includes New England and Atlantic Canadian records of the 17th through 21st century; military records; DNA research; and Native American and African American genealogical research in New England. Lambert has published many articles in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, the New Hampshire Genealogical Record, Rhode Island Roots, The Mayflower Descendant, and American Ancestors magazine. He has also published A Guide to Massachusetts Cemeteries (NEHGS, 2009). David is an elected Fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society in Boston, Mass., and a life member of the New Hampshire Society of the Cincinnati. He is also the tribal genealogist for the Massachuset-Punkapoag Indians of Massachusetts.

The Indian and African-American populations of Stoughton

Family Stories, Research Methods

99-101 Newbury StreeetDavid Allen Lambert and Jennifer Pustz will speak at NEHGS on Wednesday, March 26, on “Uncovering African American Stories.”

As a community historian for Stoughton, Massachusetts, I have studied all local families from the early eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries.  Within Stoughton there was a population of Native Americans placed into the Praying Indian village of Punkapoag  through the efforts of the Rev. John Eliot in 1657.  As the Tribal Historian of the Massachuset-Punkapoag Indians, I have also spent many years researching the members of that community.  Continue reading The Indian and African-American populations of Stoughton →

U.S. Veteran memorials

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For many years one of my personal projects has been to mark the graves of ancestors without gravestones.  In the case of ancestors who were honorably discharged from the United States military, I honor their memory by adding an inscription relating to their service.  If this idea seems appealing to you, you may wish to know that the United States government will assist in creating and will often pay the costs to erect a standard upright or flat marker for military veterans’ graves. Continue reading U.S. Veteran memorials →