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Diane M. Boumenot CG

Researcher, Writer, and Editor
Warwick, Rhode Island
United States
Speaking/Presenting
  • Family History Research
  • Methodology & Resources
  • Technology
  • Writing & Publishing
  • Available for in-person events
  • Available for virtual events
Writing/Publishing
  • Author/Writer
  • Editor
  • Publisher
Other Speciality
  • House Historian / Local History
  • Handwriting / Palaeography
I am an experienced researcher specializing in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and migrations outward from those locations. I occasionally accept speaking/teaching engagements for societies, conferences and institutes on New England research, research and writing standards, and effective research strategies for the industrial era of the 1800s, as well as tech, publishing, and organization-related topics.  I hold the credential of Certified Genealogist® and serve as co-editor of the National Genealogical Society Quarterly. 
Geographic Specialities
Rhode Island
Connecticut
Massachusetts
Testimonials
The National Genealogical Society 2023 Lou D. Szucs Distinguished Service Award, June, 2023.  
The Robert M. Sherman Award for Exemplifying High Qualities of Scholarship and Genealogy. Rhode Island Genealogical Society, June, 2023.
Connecticut Society of Genealogists 2023 Literary Award Contest. Honorable Mention, for Rhode Island State Census for Genealogists.
 
Additional specialities or search keywords
Rhode Island, Providence, Kent, Bristol, Washington, Newport
Publications/Media
BOOKS
  • Research in Rhode Island, a volume in the National Genealogical Society's Research in the States states series, was published in 2018 by Maureen Taylor and me. It is available for sale at the NGS bookstore.
  • Rhode Island State Census for Genealogists by Diane Boumenot, self-published, 2021, available on Amazon.
ARTICLES
  • Diane M. Boumenot, "Family Ties Identify Parents for Edward Baldwin of Townsend, Massachusetts, and Amity, New York," National Genealogical Society Quarterly 113:4 (Dec 2025), 245-264.
  • Diane M Boumenot, "Parents for William Fones of North Kingstown," Rhode Island Roots 50:3 (September 2024), 140-151.
  • Diane M Boumenot, "Additions to the 1777 Military Census in Providence," Rhode Island Roots 48:2 (June 2022), 76-78.
  • Diane M Boumenot, "Rhode Island Probate Research," NGS Magazine 48:2 (April-June 2022), 44-45.
  • Scott Andrew Bartley and Diane M Boumenot, "Sorting out the Several Daniel Lanphere Men," The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 175 (Spring 2021), 139-147.
  • Diane M Boumenot, "A Tale of Two Adoptees" Rhode Island Roots 47:2 (June 2021), 59-77.
Lectures
To see my current talks, visit:
https://onerhodeislandfamily.com/presentations/
Research Time Periods
  • 19th Century
  • 18th Century
  • 17th Century
  • 16th Century and Earlier
Languages
English, Middle English, Anglo-Saxon
Honorifics/Credentials
Certified Genealogist (CG®)
Certificates
ProGen 28, ProGen 68 (Mentor)
Affiliations
Board for Certification of Genealogists Education Fund
Rhode Island Genealogical Society, Publications Committee
Massachusetts Society of Genealogists
National Genealogical Society
Godfrey Memorial Library, Middletown, Connecticut
New England Historic Genealogical Society
Association of Professional Genealogists (+ New England Chapter).
 
Degrees
B.A., Wesleyan University (History & English)