Welcome! NEHGS is thrilled to once again partner with the world-famous Boston Duck Tours this 2013 season! Boston Duck Tour riders are invited to visit NEHGS to get started with your family history. Be sure to bring your Boston Duck Tour ticket for FREE admission — a $15 value! At the NEHGS library and research center, located at 99-101 Newbury Street, where you’ll find a wealth of resources including:

• NEHGS expert staff, which includes some of the leading expert genealogists in the country.
• Our award-winning website, www.AmericanAncestors.org, provides access to more than 135 million searchable names in 3,000 collections.
• More than 200,000 published books containing family and local histories.
• More than 2 million manuscripts and family papers in our R. Stanton Avery Special Collections.
• More than 100,000 microforms, including vital, census, and probate records, deeds, city directories, and naturalization records – many devoted New England, New York, and Atlantic Canada.
• And much more!

NEHGS is one of the nation’s leading resources for family and local history. NEHGS has been featured in a number of national television programs and news outlets, including NBC, “Who Do You Think You Are?” CNN, Fox News, CBS News, ABC News, People Magazine, Us Weekly, E! Channel, Inside Edition, The Ellen Show, and the new PBS series “Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.”

Learn more about visiting NEHGS.