Thank you for visiting my profile, I have been an avid genealogist all my life, it is my passion, and I research and develop the memorials I manage every day. I live in Western Massachusetts, my earliest ancestors came to this part of the state starting in 1636. Despite my Italian surname (I am an adoptee, given up at birth to Brightside in Holyoke, and who found my biological parents at age 20 , even at that age I was a passionate genealogist, I started looking at age 15, received my non identifying info from Brightside at 18), my ancestry is quite ethnically diverse, and has it's origins in England, Scotland, Iran, Germany, France, Italy (both mainland and The Island of Sicily), Poland, Greece, Spain and Canada.

Please be polite and respectful, I am a volunteer and will work with you and help in any way I can for people who lived in New England. I do not hoard memorials, I have photographed over 300,000 graves since 2013, I travel all over the Northeast for Findagrave in order to find/document/link so many precious lost souls who are no longer with us.

I am more than willing to transfer memorials to family members!

If you wish to take over management of a Memorial outside of New England, PLEASE ask I am trying to downsize my memorial management to just my local area and despite asking findagrave repeatedly to let me transfer whole states to member #8 (The Findagrave Member # which allows any member to assume management) they require I do it by cemetery#, which is incredibly tedious and would force me to transfer each memorial individually to #8. In the interim any edit I receive for the rest of the country (excluding MA, CT, NH,ME, RI, VT) I will automatically transfer that memorial to the member who has submitted the edit. I will definitely transfer New England memorials if the individual memorialized is a relative and you send me a message here, but not automatically as I will for other states from just a submitted edit.

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* I will go and photograph your relative's headstone if they are buried in New England and less than two hours from Northampton, MA. , just ask!*

*I verify all edits in which a name or date change is suggested*

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Genealogist and native/resident of Western MA. (Springfield / Westfield). My earliest ancestor arrived from England to Massachusetts in 1634 (Rowland Stebbins). I primarily photograph cemeteries without a readily available trans. and add memorials from my photos.

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Thanks to all the FAG photo volunteers for your hard work! You are truly what makes this website such an incredible genealogical tool.

James