I’m back home now .\u00a0 I’m really bushed so I think I’ll try to get to bed early tonight .\u00a0 My body clock is now 3 hours ahead of Pacific Time, so I suspect I’ll be up extra early for work tomorrow!<\/p>\n
At the end of my vacation, I drove to Dorchester and checked into the DoubleTree Club Hotel .\u00a0 I spent\u00c2\u00a0most of Friday and Saturday researching my family’s history at the Massachusetts Vital Records Office and the Massachusetts State Archives, both of which were within walking distance of the hotel.<\/p>\n
I spent all day Friday at the Massachusetts Vital Records Office in Dorchester .\u00a0 Fortunately, Massachusetts allows researchers to work onsite at the Vital Records Office, so I was easily able to find many records I couldn’t find otherwise .\u00a0 The Vital Records Office charges $9 per hour do conduct research and $18\u00c2\u00a0for a certified copy of a vital record, making research at the Vital Records Office rather expensive.<\/p>\n
I purchased 47 birth, death, and marriage records .\u00a0 The cost for copies of vital records onsite is $10 less than the cost to order the records by mail, so I saved quite a bit\u00c2\u00a0of money by ordering onsite .\u00a0 The staff\u00c2\u00a0at the Vital Records Office\u00c2\u00a0tried to give me computer printouts of some of the recent births, but I asked if they could give me photocopies of the actual certificates and they graciously did so .\u00a0 The actual certificates contain a lot more information than the computer printouts, so I’m happy that I insisted on the photocopies .\u00a0 With recent efforts by some members of the Massachusetts Legislature to restrict access<\/a> to Vital Records, I decided it was time to get as many records as I can as soon as possible.<\/p>\n On Saturday, I went to the Massachusetts State Archives<\/a> and made copies of\u00c2\u00a07 birth records, 3 death records, and 12 naturalization records .\u00a0 The Archives doesn’t charge for research onsite and charges only 50 cents a page for copies, so my research at the Archives was a lot less expensive than my previous day’s research at the Vital Records Office.<\/p>\n The information I found\u00c2\u00a0at the Massachusetts State Archives included the birth and death records for all three infants buried in the grave in Notre Dame Cemetery that I discussed in Aunt Bronis\u0142awa Has Been Misplaced<\/a>!\u00c2\u00a0 It turns out that the surnames of two of the three infants were misspelled in the cemetery records .\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0The data I complied\u00c2\u00a0from three birth records, three death records, and one cemetery record\u00c2\u00a0are:<\/p>\n I also ordered a monument for the grave, and the stone will be put into place sometime later this year .\u00a0 Notre Dame Cemetery pours foundations only twice a year – in May and September – so the stone can’t be put into place until September at the earliest .\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Tomorrow, I’ll\u00c2\u00a0call the monument company to provide them with the correct names and dates, and then I’ll wait to receive the proofs of the inscription .\u00a0 I’m looking forward to getting monument set in place on this grave that has been unmarked for 94 years!<\/p>\n There’s a lot more to report on my vacation and research trip to the east coast .\u00a0 I’ll post some of the more interesting records as soon as I get the photocopies scanned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m back home now .\u00a0 I’m really bushed so I think I’ll try to get to bed early tonight .\u00a0 My body clock is now 3 hours ahead of Pacific Time, so I suspect I’ll be up extra early for … Continue reading \n