Thomas Andringa
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As a preface, although I've no doubt that this website has information beneficial to genealogists, I find it to be nothing more than a database of grave related information, and not a genealogy website on its own. A tool to be used by whoever may need it. Any individuals that I may contact, know that I am simply attempting to provide you with any additional, or more accurate information that I may happen to have in my possession. Please accept the suggestions, they're free. The only memorial transfers I desire to request are for those buried in one specific family plot, those of my closest immediate family.
I have been engaged in the study of genealogy & family history since 1978, and received a certificate to that effect from the University of Washington in 2008 under the direction of Sarah Thorson Little. I've made a number of contributions to published genealogy texts, and have recently been producing self-published materials for branches of my own family.
I make regular trips to the Netherlands for research, as well as the states of Massachusetts, New Jersey, Florida and my home in California. Every trip I've taken over the course of my life has involved wandering through graveyards, my vacation photos are mostly that of headstones.
My mother's family has resided in the neighborhoods between Calvary and Fairview Cemeteries, along the Springfield & Chicopee, Massachusetts line for roughly two centuries now, so I have a lot of family buried in both and spend most of my time here towards that end.
The Lynch branch of my family for generations were Chicopee's sole stone dealers, so many of the monuments and headstones from a certain time period were made by my grandfathers, most notably the Reverend Healy Monument on the grounds of Holy Name of Jesus Church on South Street in Chicopee. An edifice that my family also helped to build, and now sadly watch decay.
I grew up just a couple blocks from Fairview Cemetery, and played there as a child with my cousins in all sorts of weather, knowing the final resting place of my ancestors as I had been told who and where they were by my great grandmother, grandmother and then mother. May they all rest in peace.
I have been engaged in the study of genealogy & family history since 1978, and received a certificate to that effect from the University of Washington in 2008 under the direction of Sarah Thorson Little. I've made a number of contributions to published genealogy texts, and have recently been producing self-published materials for branches of my own family.
I make regular trips to the Netherlands for research, as well as the states of Massachusetts, New Jersey, Florida and my home in California. Every trip I've taken over the course of my life has involved wandering through graveyards, my vacation photos are mostly that of headstones.
My mother's family has resided in the neighborhoods between Calvary and Fairview Cemeteries, along the Springfield & Chicopee, Massachusetts line for roughly two centuries now, so I have a lot of family buried in both and spend most of my time here towards that end.
The Lynch branch of my family for generations were Chicopee's sole stone dealers, so many of the monuments and headstones from a certain time period were made by my grandfathers, most notably the Reverend Healy Monument on the grounds of Holy Name of Jesus Church on South Street in Chicopee. An edifice that my family also helped to build, and now sadly watch decay.
I grew up just a couple blocks from Fairview Cemetery, and played there as a child with my cousins in all sorts of weather, knowing the final resting place of my ancestors as I had been told who and where they were by my great grandmother, grandmother and then mother. May they all rest in peace.
As a preface, although I've no doubt that this website has information beneficial to genealogists, I find it to be nothing more than a database of grave related information, and not a genealogy website on its own. A tool to be used by whoever may need it. Any individuals that I may contact, know that I am simply attempting to provide you with any additional, or more accurate information that I may happen to have in my possession. Please accept the suggestions, they're free. The only memorial transfers I desire to request are for those buried in one specific family plot, those of my closest immediate family.
I have been engaged in the study of genealogy & family history since 1978, and received a certificate to that effect from the University of Washington in 2008 under the direction of Sarah Thorson Little. I've made a number of contributions to published genealogy texts, and have recently been producing self-published materials for branches of my own family.
I make regular trips to the Netherlands for research, as well as the states of Massachusetts, New Jersey, Florida and my home in California. Every trip I've taken over the course of my life has involved wandering through graveyards, my vacation photos are mostly that of headstones.
My mother's family has resided in the neighborhoods between Calvary and Fairview Cemeteries, along the Springfield & Chicopee, Massachusetts line for roughly two centuries now, so I have a lot of family buried in both and spend most of my time here towards that end.
The Lynch branch of my family for generations were Chicopee's sole stone dealers, so many of the monuments and headstones from a certain time period were made by my grandfathers, most notably the Reverend Healy Monument on the grounds of Holy Name of Jesus Church on South Street in Chicopee. An edifice that my family also helped to build, and now sadly watch decay.
I grew up just a couple blocks from Fairview Cemetery, and played there as a child with my cousins in all sorts of weather, knowing the final resting place of my ancestors as I had been told who and where they were by my great grandmother, grandmother and then mother. May they all rest in peace.
I have been engaged in the study of genealogy & family history since 1978, and received a certificate to that effect from the University of Washington in 2008 under the direction of Sarah Thorson Little. I've made a number of contributions to published genealogy texts, and have recently been producing self-published materials for branches of my own family.
I make regular trips to the Netherlands for research, as well as the states of Massachusetts, New Jersey, Florida and my home in California. Every trip I've taken over the course of my life has involved wandering through graveyards, my vacation photos are mostly that of headstones.
My mother's family has resided in the neighborhoods between Calvary and Fairview Cemeteries, along the Springfield & Chicopee, Massachusetts line for roughly two centuries now, so I have a lot of family buried in both and spend most of my time here towards that end.
The Lynch branch of my family for generations were Chicopee's sole stone dealers, so many of the monuments and headstones from a certain time period were made by my grandfathers, most notably the Reverend Healy Monument on the grounds of Holy Name of Jesus Church on South Street in Chicopee. An edifice that my family also helped to build, and now sadly watch decay.
I grew up just a couple blocks from Fairview Cemetery, and played there as a child with my cousins in all sorts of weather, knowing the final resting place of my ancestors as I had been told who and where they were by my great grandmother, grandmother and then mother. May they all rest in peace.
