The cemetery records are chronological so you will have to know the burial dates. Call
ahead for an appointment as they may have a busy day of burials (an obvious priority) and
not be able to spend much time with you. After you find a person in the interment records
you will know where on the cemetery grid (3 acre blocks) a person is buried. You then need
to look on the mylar maps to see where in the grid they are buried. This cemetery is 110
acres so you need to do your homework before searching for a stone. Read the section in
the North Burial Ground book on its records before going there.
I have noticed several comments recently on the list about how helpful or not helpful
people in cemetery offices and town halls are. I spent about four years studying the
records at North Burial Ground for one day each week while working on the book on this BG.
I saw many genealogists come into the office. Some were very demanding and crtical of the
attention they got. The real busimess of a cemetery is burying people; NBG has 7-10
burials a week. When the office manager is working to schedule a burial a genealogist will
have to be patient.
Other genealogists will consume large blocks of time telling them their whole genealogy
and who is related to whom. This is not relevant to the questions you need to ask and only
makes their eyes glaze over. Be very specific with questions.
The office manager at NBG is Pat Feeney and I always found her extremely helpful to
genealogists who followed a few simple rules of courtesy. She has been there about 30
years.
Does anyone on the list know anything about O.C. Barrows? He was a
Providence photographer and postcard publisher in the 1900 - 1915 era .
Quonochontaug was a frequent subject of his postcards. A friend of mind is
doing research on him so I thought I would ask the group here if anyone
knows of Barrows and his work.
Thanks
Marcia