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Sally D. Hamblen C.G.

New England, New York, Atlantic Canada, England and Northern Ireland, with a focus on writing.
Lynnfield, Massachusetts
United States


  • Family History Research

  • Author/Writer
BCG Certified Genealogist # 1196, B.U. Certificate, 2021, Pro-Gen 2022, Certification Discussion Group, Massachusetts Society of Genealogists,  Essex Society of Genealogists.
Co-Editor, The Essex Genealogist
Publications, New England Historic Genealogical Register, The American Genealogist, MSOG, The Genealogists' Magazine, (London), The Maine Genealogist
Member of:  National Genealogical Society, The New England Historic Genealogical Society, Massachusetts Society of Genealogists, Essex Society of Genealogists, ( MA), Devon Family History Society, (England), New York Genealogical and Biographical Society.

 Massachusetts, Maine, Nova Scotia

Under former name Sally Dean Hamblen Hill
"Stephen and Hannah (Place) Talby of Boston, Massachusetts, with notes on Hannah Sunderland, wife of Matthew Armstrong and Abraham Gourding of Boston," The American Genealogist 78 (October 2003) 

"The Jilting of Samuel Walker, Mariner of Boston," The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 157 (October 2003)

" Marriages Noted by the Rev. Cotton Mather and his son the Rev. Samuel Mather, Boston, Massachusetts, 1655-1737," The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 159 (April 2005, July 2005, October 2005, January 2006).

"Correction and Addition" The Mayflower Descendant 54 (Winter 2005). (Concerning the corrected son of Aaron May as Lemuel Cravath May, not Samuel C. May)

Under name Sally Dean Hamblen, CG 

"It Was Jane, not James Harris Stephens" The Genealogists' Magazine (London)  March 2025

"The Brief but Adventurous Life of Lemuel Hamblin of Wareham, Massachusetts, (1838-1876) The Massachusetts Genealogist  March  2025. 

"Parents for William Otis Farnham of Woolwich, Maine and Digby, Nova Scotia" The Maine Genealogist  February 2026. 

New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston City Archives, Massachusetts Historical Society, Harvard University Libraries.

  • 20th Century
  • 19th Century
  • 18th Century
  • 17th Century

BCG Certified Genealogist 

Boston University Center for Professional Education Certificate in Genealogical Research, ProGen 60, Certification Discussion Group, GenProof 97,  various institute courses.

Essex Society of Genealogists,(Massachusetts)

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