All posts by David Allen Lambert

Returning to my ancestral home in Nova Scotia

My actual hometown is seventeen miles south of Boston; I have called Stoughton my home since birth, and as a genealogist I can claim a variety of ancestral home towns or villages. Genealogically speaking, however, I feel most at home in Nova Scotia, Canada.

My paternal..

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The Indian and African-American populations of Stoughton

David 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..

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U.S. Veteran memorials

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..

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