Presenter Profile: David Curtis Dearborn

David Curtis Dearborn has been a member of the staff of the New England Historic Genealogical Society since 1976, and serves as a reference librarian. A graduate of the University of Massachusetts (B.A. History, 1971), Northeastern University (M.A. History, 1974) and Simmons College (M.S. Library Science, 1982), he is also a consulting editor and contributor to the Society’s newsmagazine, American Ancestors, and has also published a number of articles in the Register, and in a number of other local and national genealogical publications.

He is a Fellow of the American Society of Genealogists, former president of the Massachusetts Genealogical Council, and a contributing editor of The American Genealogist. He is a frequent speaker at NEHGS educational programs, as well as at local and national genealogical conferences around the country.

His areas of genealogical interest include northern New England families, families of Essex County, Mass., migrations, urban and twentieth-century genealogy, finding maiden names, and research in England, Scotland and Italy. His current projects include tracing descendants of Godfrey1 Dearborn (1603-1686) of Hampton, New Hampshire, and William1 Banton (1762-1848) of England and Waldo County, Maine.

David is teaching "Migration out of New England" on Friday morning at 9:30 am.