- Winner of the 2022 Connecticut Society of Genealogists Literary Award - This new full-color edition is an extensive update of an indispensable resource for those researching in Connecticut, Maine,...

Modeled on our other popular Genealogist’s Handbooks, this is the first essential guide to finding your ancestors from mainland Portugal, the Azores, and Madeira. We also provide information for Brazilians...

Celebrate your love for family history with our best-selling Genealogy Defined T-Shirt! Featuring a bold, typewriter-style font of “genealogy” and its definition, this shirt captures the thrill of family research. Crafted...

Already a classic, The Great Migration Begins reflects immense scholarly resourcefulness and is a tremendous source for anyone researching early New England families.  Each individual or family entry in this...

Whether you are new to genealogy or have been researching for years, this improved edition of our bestselling "writing guide" will help you present your findings in writing. Using examples...

The New England Historic Genealogical Society has been collecting published family histories for almost 170 years. Since its founding in 1845, the Society has added tens of thousands of genealo­gies...

A lavishly illustrated and meticulously researched history of the coats of arms used by the ancestors of Howard Cox (b. 1944), 4th great-grandson of Chancellor Robert Livingston who administered the...

First published in 1844, this collaboration of American historians John Warner Barber (1798-1885) and Henry Howe (1816-1893) was Howe’s second book with Barber, the first being their “history and antiquities”...

American historian and engraver John Warner Barber (1798–1885) was well known for his books on local, state, and national history. This work, organized by county, gives historical background on all...

Between 1875 and 1879, Edwin Purple contributed several articles to the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record on the first three or four generations of some of the ancient families...

William Bradford, Mayflower passenger, was not just the long-serving and most influential Governor of the Plymouth Colony. His famous handwritten manuscript, Of Plymouth Plantation, has also preserved its history in...

James Chilton was a complex man with a complex story. He had ties to the Separatist group at Sandwich and to non-conformist communities around Canterbury, Kent. In this new book,...