NEHGS News

"It certainly isn’t rare for a president to have a relative who is embarrassing,” said Gary Boyd Roberts, a scholar at the New England Historic Genealogical Society who has studied presidential lineages.

Read more about Gary Boyd Roberts and wayward presidential relatives in the Washington Post.

NEHGS and staff members Brenton Simons, President and CEO, and Ryan Woods, Director of Internet Technology, were recently featured in the New York Times as descendants of Abraham Pieterszen Van Dusen, one of the first European settlers of Manhattan.

Abraham, who, records show, by 1627 was the operator of a windmill on Manhattan Island has more than 200,000 descendants over 15 generations scattered across the Americas.

Read more about the Van Dusens through history.

The New England Historic Genealogical Society was featured in an article in The Wall Street Journal highlighting the growing popularity of exploring your family roots through genealogical trips.

The article highlights some of our most popular tour offerings such as London, Belfast and Dublin.

On Friday April 29th, noted filmmaker Ken Burns was given the New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS) Lifetime Achievement Award. As the Society's guest of honor at this year's annual dinner, Ken Burns was also gifted a detailed genealogy which traced his ancestry to, among others, Abraham Lincoln. Learn more at Boston.com.