Experience:  From 1975 to 1983 I supervised all public document research for an agency in Boston that investigated potential arson-for-profit insurance claims.  I became an independent title examiner in 1983 and have since searched several thousand land titles.  My work has included a number of searches for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and over 300 searches of properties, throughout eastern and central Massachusetts , for land acquisition or placement of restrictive easements by the former Metropolitan District Commission.   

 

In the late 1980s I began doing historic searches as Christmas gifts for neighbors of mine who also lived in historic properties in South Acton , MA . (I now live in Gardner.)  My first commercial work was for properties in Concord , including the oldest standing house there.  I began Worcester County Old House Histories in the fall of 2004 and now work almost exclusively in Worcester County .

 

I have been doing genealogical research since 1993, when I began tracing the roots of my own family, and am currently a member of New England Historical Genealogical Society, whose invaluable website I use frequently.

 

Apart from my historic searches, I have done extensive work for a law firm that deals with mortgage foreclosures and for another firm in Manchester , NH , that deals with title insurance claims, such as boundary disputes.

 

References:  A list of references for my historic work will gladly be provided.