Hi, Judith: Welcome to the list. When you say "Boston area" I assume you mean any City or Town surrounding Boston and not just Boston itself? Most "burial records" would be with the individual cemeteries or possibly a funeral home. One exception would be if the person was Catholic and buried in a Catholic cemetery, the Archdiocese of Boston Catholic Cemeteries office can be reached at 1-888-919-7926 (toll free, at least in US). A Death Notice or an Obituary for the person "might" contain an "interment" statement. That would give you the name of the cemetery. If you have a name, please post it. If you have any possible City or Town post it. You mentioned nursing as a profession. Do you know which hospital(s) the person was employed at? That might give us a "search area" to look at. For example, the Town Cemetery (Lindenwood) here in Stoneham does not have a separate office, but is serviced by the Public Works Department and all burial records are at the :Public Works office. The Catholic Cemetery (St. Pats) records are at the before mentioned Catholic Cemeteries office, which is physically located in Malden, MA. Regards, Dick Watts Stoneham, MA Stoneham (MA) Historical Society, Webmaster and Vice President http://www.geocities.com/stonehamhistoricalsociety/index.html The Stoneham Historical Society is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. The Society is not part of the Town of Stoneham government. St. George, Knox, ME, USGenWeb Town Coordinator http://www.geocities.com/rlwattss/USGenWeb/stgeohomepage.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Judith Graham" <judi.graham@ns.sympatico.ca> To: <BOSTON-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, May 31, 2004 9:29 PM Subject: [BOSTON] Can someone suggest the best place to search for burial records for Boston area? > Hello - > > This is my first posting to the list. I live in Nova Scotia and am > hoping for a little help. > > I am hoping to find out either where to write to find burial records > (not death records) for the Boston area, or even more hopefully, to find > someone who might currently be searching these records and who might be > able to do a RAOGK with respect to same. I would assume that there might > be some sort of index that would make searching easy? > > We have an ancestor whom, we believe, died in Nova Scotia sometime > roughly in the range of 1928 to 1934, but whose remains may have been > returned to the Boston area for burial, since she lived and nursed most > all her life after moving there from NS as a young woman. > > I live in the Truro, Colchester area of NS and would be happy to do > lookups in the land/probate/census records in the Colchester area as a > return favour. > > Thank you, > Judith Graham > > > ==== BOSTON Mailing List ==== > Search 20+ years of the Boston Globe 1979-2002: > http://www.boston.com/globe/search/ > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 >