(Genealogies are listed alphabetically by surname. Multi-family works are listed at the bottom of the page.)
with the Blodgett Ancestry of Eliza Jane (Blodgett) Abrams
Barbara Burt Brown;
edited by Patricia Law Hatcher, FASG
Newbury Street Press; 6 x 9 hardcover, xii + 146 pp., illus.
reg. $39.95, member price $35.96
A moving tribute to an enterprising German-Jewish immigrant, Manchen Abraham/Manson Abrams, and his wife, Eliza Jane Blodgett, a descendant of 17th-century New Englanders. 2008
Richard H. Benson
Newbury Street Press; 6 x 9 hardcover, xvii + 635 pp., illus.
reg. $39.95, member price $35.96
The descendants of Thomas Arnold, who had settled in Watertown, Massachusetts, by 1636, and had moved to Providence by 1656. Award-winning genealogist Richard H. Benson carries forward descendants surnamed Arnold through the fifth generation. 2009
Ancestors and Descendants of Christopher Avery
Edited by Maureen A. Taylor
Newbury Street Press; 6 x 9 hardcover, 128 pp.
reg. $40, member price $36
A family history rich with historical detail and genealogical data. In the 1640s two new colonists arrived in Massachusetts: Christopher Avery, a weaver, and his son James. Within a decade the Avery clan established themselves in New England—first in Massachusetts and then in Connecticut. 2004
Helen Schatvet Ullmann, CG, FASG
Newbury Street Press; 6 x 9 hardcover, 356 pp., illus.
reg. $39.95, member price $35.96
Accomplished genealogist Helen Schatvet Ullmann traces her Billings ancestry from Roger Billings, who was born in England about 1620, immigrated to Massachusetts, and died at Dorchester in 1683. 2012
Descendants of Thomas Brigham
compiled by Rhonda R. McClure
Newbury Street Press; 7 x 10 hardcover, 1008 pp.
reg. $84.95, member price $76.46
A compiled genealogy that reviews, updates, and amends the accounts of the Brigham family’s founder in America. With information from a number of Brigham’s descendants, this genealogy presents fourteen generations. Notable descendants covered in the book include General Artemas Ward; Brigham Young; President George Herbert Walker Bush and his son President George Walker Bush; Eli Whitney; and actors James Brolin and Josh Brolin. 2010
A Presbyterian Family
Marsha Hoffman Rising
Newbury Street Press; 6 x 9 hardcover, 516 pp.
reg. $49.95, member price $44.96
This book presents Nathan Brown’s descendants traced through five generations. 2010
Shirley Louise Purtell Bickel with Helen Schatvet Ullmann, FASG
Newbury Street Press; 6 x 9 hardcover, x + 869 pp.
reg. $60, member price $54
Descendants of Richard Coman, a tailor who arrived in Salem, Massachusetts in the late 1600s, and played a small role in the witchcraft tragedy. By 1700, he and his family had moved to Providence, where they intermarried with many notable Rhode Island families, including Angells, Tourtellottes, Browns, and Smiths. 2006
for Twelve Generations
Richard K. Evans
NEHGS; 6 x 9 hardcover, xvii + 566 pp., illus.
reg. $34.95, member price $31.46
This volume traces the late Princess of Wales’s ancestors from the British Isles to northern and eastern Europe as well as the United States and the Far East. Beginning with her parents, this extensive, fully documented ancestor table includes known dates and places of birth, marriage, and death, along with other key information such as occupations and noble (or royal) titles. American families include Cogswell, Hart, Morgan, Parke, and Strong. 2007
Through Four Generations
Alvy Ray Smith
Newbury Street Press; 7 x 10 hardcover, xxxiii + 548 pp., illus.
reg. $50, member price $45
A comprehensive study of the John Durand family. 2003
• Winner, National Genealogical Society’s Award for Excellence: Genealogy and Family History
David Watson Kruger
Newbury Street Press;
6 x 9 hardcover, xxi + 821 pp., illus.
reg. $49.95, member price $44.96
A meticulous account of the Krüger, Utecht, Plegel, Wischnack, and Jacobsen families. Award-winning genealogist David W. Kruger traces the families’ 19th-century movement from West Prussia to New Hampshire, Iowa, Nebraska, and California, and brings them to the present. 2009
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David Watson Kruger
Newbury Street Press, 6 x 9 hardcover, 1,065 pp. in 2 bks., illus.
reg. $74.95/set, member price $67.46/set
Award-winning author David Watson Kruger has undertaken a project to trace his and his wife's sixteen sets of great-great-grandparents, from the beginning of the nineteenth century, in a five-volume work titled A Family Becoming American. This second volume covers the Foisy family, whose name was anglicized to Frenyear, which has hitherto been untreated.
D. Joshua Taylor
Newbury Street Press, 6 x 9 hardcover, 350 pp.; illus.
reg. $44.95, member price $40.46
This book presents six generations of the Daniel and Margaret (Keane) Keane family from Kilballyowen Parish, County Clare, Ireland to Bridgeport, Connecticut. Detailed narrative and family stories bring these ancestors' lives, experiences, and homelands to life.
Scott C. Steward and Christopher C. Child
Newbury Street Press; 7 x 10 hardcover, 600 pp.
reg. $74.95, member price $67.46
The first full treatment of the Lowell family since Delmar R. Lowell's 1899 genealogy, this book traces John6 Lowell's descendants to the present day, or for as many as nine generations. 2011 Winner of the 2012 National Genealogical Society Award for Excellence: Genealogy and Family History Book and the grand prize in the 2012 Connecticut Society of Genealogists Literary Award Contest.
Zelinda Makepeace Douhan
Appendix by Gary Boyd Roberts
Newbury Street Press; 5 x 8 hardcover, 352 pp.
$49
This carefully researched genealogical work traces the history of the Makepeace family. It begins with Henry Makepeace (of Burton Dassett and Fenny Compton, Warwickshire, England), who died in 1537/8, the earliest identifiable progenitor of the American Makepeace family. The book proceeds from the first Makepeace in America, Thomas1 Makepeace (1595–1666/7), who came to Boston in the early seventeenth century, to the present day descendants, with many other ancestral lines, including Alexander, Bowerman, Bowers, Chipman, Crocker, Hinckley, Hodges, Holton, Jones, Russell, Swift, Taylor, Watson, and Wild. 2004
William Addams Reitwiesner
Edited by Christopher Challender Child and Scott Campbell Steward
Foreword by Gary Boyd Roberts
NEHGS; 5 x 8 hardcover, xx + 165 pp.
reg. $29.95, member price $26.96
This extensively researched volume contains the ancestor table of Catherine Middleton and more than twenty charts that illustrate Kate’s kinships to various figures of historical and cultural importance, including George Washington, General George S. Patton, Jr., and director Guy Ritchie. 2011
Helen Schatvet Ullmann, CG, FASG
Newbury Street Press; 6 x 9 hardcover, xiii + 556 pp.
reg. $44.95, member price $40.46
Accomplished genealogist Helen Schatvet Ullmann brings her keen eye to the descendants of John Mills, a shipwright of Stamford, Connecticut. Many lines are traced forward into the early 20th century, often naming the children of daughters. The book identifies many connections with other Fairfield County families. 2010
Ancestors and Descendants of Harold and Elsie Cole (Whipple) Morgan
Janice Morgan Seligman, Edited by Christopher C. Child
Newbury Street Press; 6 x 9 hardcover, 480 pp., illus.
reg. $49.95, member price $44.96
Covering the ancestors of Harold and Elsie Cole (Whipple) Morgan, this book includes families going back to colonial New England, New Amsterdam, Pennsylvania, and elsewhere. Also included are modern descendants of the Morgan, Cole, Whipple, Graham, and Seligman families. 2011
Helen Schatvet Ullmann, CG, FASG
Newbury Street Press; 6 x 9 hardcover, viii + 182 pp.
reg. $39.95, member price $35.96
A particularly interesting family of ship captains, millers, town selectmen, merchants, builders, and ministers. Ullmann focuses her research skills on descendants through John Pierpont’s son Ebenezer and Robert Pierpont’s sons Jonathan and James. 2007
Richard H. Benson
Newbury Street Press; 6 x 9 hardcover, xi + 388 pp.
reg. $40, member price $36
Covers Thomas Read, who was in Salem by 1636, and the lives of five generations of his descendants, surnamed Read and Reed. 2005
Alvy Ray Smith
Newbury Street Press; 7 x 10 hardcover, xlviii + 714 pp., illus.
reg. $60, member price $54
The family of Bethuel Riggs, a Revolutionary War veteran, Baptist preacher, and church founder. The family later branched out to the middle, southern, and some western states, and now includes more than 1,100 descendants. 2006
Scott C. Steward
Newbury Street Press; 6 x 9 hardcover, xviii + 385 pp., illus.
reg. $49.95, member price $44.96
The first full account of the Saltonstall family in more than a century, the book includes biographical treatments of several family members and new material on earlier generations of the Saltonstall family both in England and America. 2013
of Manchester and Coventry, England, and Newbury and Rowley, Massachusetts
Eben W. Graves
Newbury Street Press; 6 x 9 hardcover, xvi + 488 pp., illus.
reg. $59.95, member price $53.96
Genealogy of the Sewall family from its origins in Coventry to its immigration to Massachusetts in the 1630s, through the sixth generation in North America. 2008
Descendants of Joseph Trimble of Pennsylvania and Maryland
with a genealogy by Patricia Law Hatcher, FASG
Newbury Street Press; 6 x 9 hardcover, ix + 134 pp., illus.
reg. $39.95, member price $35.56
A genealogy of Trimble descendants plus a dozen essays contributed by family members that draw on memories and 18th-century family papers. 2007
Brandon Fradd
Newbury Street Press; 6 x 9 hardcover, x + 330 pp.;
reg. $44.95, member price $40.46
The most extensive treatment of the Winslow family’s origins to date, covering the paternal ancestry of the five Winslow brothers who settled in Massachusetts, including Mayflower passengers Edward Winslow (governor of Plimoth Colony) and Mary Chilton. 2009
Richard H. Benson
Newbury Street Press; 6 x 9 hardcover, 320 pp.
reg. $44.95, member price $40.46
Nicholas Wade came to New England in 1638 and settled in the town of Scituate by 1639. Award-winning author Richard H. Benson covers Wade’s descendants for five generations through children John, Thomas, Susanna, and Nicholas. Includes a comprehensive, every-name index. 2012
Researched by Helen Marion (Locke) Wright, edited and updated by Aaron Goodwin, Patricia Law Hatcher, FASG, FGSP, and Michael J. Leclerc
Newbury Street Press; 6 x 9 hardcover, 160 pp.;
reg. $44.95, member price $40.46
This family history presents more than one thousand ancestors of Helen Marion (Locke) Wright, complete with documentation. Most of the ancestry is English, with two Mayflower lines and many Great Migration lines. The book also includes the descendants of Mrs. Wright's parents, Richard Foss Locke, Sr., and Grace Taylor Hench. 2011
Multi-Family Genealogies
Seventeenth-Century Immigrants to New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey
Patricia Law Hatcher, FASG, FGSP
Newbury Street Press; 6 x 9 hardcover, 216 pp.
reg. $59.95, member price $53.96
This volume presents extensive research on early generations of five families of Connecticut, New Amsterdam, New Netherland, Virginia, and New Jersey. 2011
Two American Missionary Families in Turkey, 1855–1922
Jonathan Conant Page, foreword by Peter J. Gomes
NEHGS; 6 x 9 hardcover, xxvi + 340 pp., illus.
reg. $39.95, member price $35.96
An account of two New England missionary families, the Allens and the Wheelers, who served in the Ottoman Empire from 1855 to 1922. The author used missionary archives, college records, and unpublished papers to recount the families’ experiences. 2008
A Thread of Family from Revolutionary New York to Industrial Connecticut
Peter Haring Judd, foreword by Alan Taylor
Newbury Street Press and Northeastern University Press;
6 x 9 hardcover, 640 pp.;
reg. $50, member price $45
Spanning nearly the first 200 years of the republic, this work treats seven generations of the Phelps and Haring families, and related New York and Connecticut ancestors. The book is a genealogical, cultural, and social history that vividly describes how this accomplished family worked, lived, and reacted to historical events. 2004
A History of the United States of America Viewed Through the Eyes of One Family
James Edward Carbine and Marianne Lemly Carbine
Carbine Lemly Publishing; 6 x 9 hardcover, xv + 393 pp.
reg. $35, member price $25
A family history that integrates the lives of the authors’ ancestors with contemporary history. The result: a history of the United States viewed through the eyes of the Carbine, Lemly, Walker, Porterfield, Stout, Matthews, Robinson, and Brigham families. 2007
Ethel Farrington Smith
NEHGS; 6 x 9 softcover, xii + 254 pp.;
reg. $24.95, member price $22.46
This book presents the profiles of approximately 30 of Hull’s early families who settled there in the 17th century. The book also gives a short history of the town, from its beginnings as a trading post known as Nantascot to its Revolutionary-era activities. 2007
Multifamily works by Carl Boyer 3rd
Ancestral Lines from Maine to Virginia
Hardcover, 247 pp., $25
Fifty-seven families traced in the Netherlands, England, Ireland, France, Germany, Ohio, Missouri, California, and the Eastern seaboard.
Ancestral Lines: 206 Families in England, Wales, the Netherlands, Germany, New England, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania
Hardcover, 960 pp., $70
A massive work covering families centered in Rehoboth, Mass.; Portsmouth and Block Island, R.I.; Albany and early New York City, N.Y.; and Chester Co., Pa.
Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans
Hardcover, 320 pp., $35
An account of baronial ancestry, from the time of William the Conqueror until the reign of Edward I.
Medieval Welsh Ancestors of Certain Americans
Hardcover, 412 pp., $35
A comprehensive genealogy of the known medieval Welsh genealogy of colonial Americans, with biographies, full lists of children, a bibliography, and place and name indexes.