The American War of Independence was not only a fight for freedom from a tyrannical world superpower. For an estimated 9,000 Black soldiers who fought for the patriot cause and...

By Frank Dorman Published: 1998

Newfoundland and Labrador is Canada’s youngest and easternmost province, joining the Confederation of Canada in 1949. The Irish call it the Land of the Fish for it was the fish,...

Scott C. Steward and Chip Rowe     6 x 9 hardcover; 526 pp. During the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, the Winthrop family of Massachusetts produced three colonial governors...

DNA testing has been a transformative tool for genealogists. However, it can be difficult to determine which test (or tests) to utilize in order to help you achieve your research...

Author: Eben W. Graves Published: 2007/2008

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...

Maureen A. Taylor and Peter M. Small with Carol McCoy February 2018 This compelling narrative reads more like a novel than a family history, covering ten descendants of Michael Metcalf...

It’s a common misconception that all family history research can be completed online—in reality, there are treasure troves of undigitized records and resources in libraries and archives that are worth...

Interested in researching your Lithuanian ancestors in the Old Country but not sure where to start? In this syllabus, Genealogist of the Newbury Street Press, James Heffernan, details the types...

Learn how to locate different types of newspapers and take advantage of the wealth of genealogical information they can contain, including birth, engagement, marriage, and death announcements; legal and court...

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...