About the Speaker: David A. Lambert is the NEHGS Online Genealogist having formerly served as the Microtext Department Manager and as a Staff Genealogist at NEHGS since 1993. His interest in genealogy started at the young age of seven, and has increased over the past four decades. He has published several articles in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register; the New Hampshire Genealogical Record, Rhode Island Roots, The Mayflower Descendant, and New England Ancestors magazine. His genealogical expertise includes New England and Atlantic Canadian records of the 17th through 21st century; military records; and Native American and African American genealogical research in New England. He has published A Guide to Cemeteries in Massachusetts (NEHGS, 2000), and Images of Stoughton, Mass. (Arcadia Publishing, 2001). He is a Life Member of the New Hampshire Society of the Cincinnati, the tribal genealogist for the Massachuset-Punkapoag Indians of Massachusetts and serves on the Board of Directors for the Stoughton Historical Society.