Longtime NEHGS staff member David Allen Lambert has been available to offer you research guidance, orientation to online resources and library-based collections via email since 2004. This position is called “Online Genealogist”, and allows reference questions to be handled on a personal level. David also facilitates referrals to specific NEHGS staff experts and departments when required. This position has become a popular resource for members and non-members alike to help solve their genealogical mysteries via David’s advice. A daily blog called “Question of the Day” on AmericanAncestors.org highlights a sampling of the questions that David receives every day.
You are invited to submit research questions via our online form or to David Allen Lambert at onlinegenealogist@nehgs.org. Please note that he will make every effort to reply to each message, but will respond on a first come, first-served basis. In some cases he may need to refer individuals to the NEHGS Research Service for more in-depth research services for a fee. You can also call David directly at (617) 226-1222.
David has been on the staff at NEHGS since 1993 and has published 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 published a best-selling NEHGS book on cemeteries in Massachusetts, entitled A Guide to Massachusetts Cemeteries(2009), and various volumes of his hometown of Stoughton, Massachusetts. He recently collaborated with historian Maureen Taylor on a volume of photographic images of the Revolutionary war period – The Last Muster (Kent State University, 2010).
David’s genealogical expertise includes specialties in New England, Atlantic Canadian, and British research, military records, and Native American and African American genealogical research in New England. David has appeared on numerous radio and television shows, including the PBS-TV show History Detectives. He is a national speaker and has lectured on various topics of genealogy and history in Europe, Canada and throughout the continental United States. David has been a Civil War re-enactor for the 12th Massachusetts Infantry. He is a Life Member of the New Hampshire Society of the Cincinnati, and Massachusetts Sons of the Revolution. He is currently the tribal genealogist for the Massachuset-Punkapoag Indians of Massachusetts. He has served on the Board of Directors for the Stoughton Historical Society, of which he has been a member since the age of 10. David is currently authoring the vital, church and cemetery records for the town of Stoughton, Massachusetts.
Interested in submitting a question? Please visit our online request for genealogical and historical research guidance and suggestions page.