BRATTLEBORO — The next meeting of the Windham County Genealogy Interest Group will focus on “Tracing Ancestors in the Salem Witch Trials ” and “Using Cemetery Directories to Find Ancestor Burials.” ...

Now, 330 years after the executions, visitors to this seaside city will find a simple, peaceful memorial next to an aged colonial graveyard Jill Christiansen, Rachel Christ-Doane It was during the ...

The cemeteries and burial grounds in eastern Massachusetts are some of the oldest in the country, offering a tangible marker of history and the lives of the early settlers. Statesmen, religious ...

MASSACHUSETTS — Rachel Meyer hopes to be in cemeteries forever, before she's dead and after. Clad in black on a blustery autumn Monday, Meyer, dry leaves crackling under her feet, meandered through a ...

The Salem witch trials were the largest witchcraft outbreak in American history, resulting from a perfect storm of catastrophes. Taking place in 1692 and 1693, the Salem witch trials were held in ...

Statistics is just one way to tell the tale of the infamous Salem witch trials. In just 16 months between February 1692 and May 1693, up to 200 people—mostly women—were accused of practicing ...

17 th century New England saw its fair share of witch hysteria, with neighbors accusing neighbors of heresy. Some of the most infamous trials played out in Salem, Massachusetts, but as a new ...