The vibrancy of the nation’s founding genealogical institution and largest nonprofit organization of its kind, New England Historic Genealogical Society, is captured for all to see in The Family Album: A Visual History of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1845–2020. This beautiful volume includes dozens of historical images, many of which have never been published before.

When Nelson McMahon married Louise Rathbun, they forever linked his ancestral families from the Middle Atlantic with hers harkening back to New England. After the American Revolutionary War, his ancestors moved south into Virginia, while hers moved west across New York state. Both sides of the family made their way into the Midwest before the Civil War would have placed them on opposite sides.

The great-great-grandson of Captain George Denison returns from the Revolutionary War to the reality that he must move west for fertile soil and his family's future. With 40 of his kin (Gallup, Thompson, Chesebrough and Gardiner descendants), Robert Denison leaves Stonington, Connecticut to settle near Albany, New York and suffer years of turmoil, which ultimately culminate in murder. Rebelling from the repression, the family disperses westward and settles in Canada. Four generations later, after 100 years as farmers in Ontario, the Denisons move to the United States.

Author and historian Sue Allan has extensively researched Brewster’s early years in Scrooby and elsewhere in England, and here presents an original and insightful view of how he developed into the man who would spiritually lead and nurture the congregation at Plymouth Colony.

In order to understand Brewster, the man, it is necessary to study the life and times within which he developed as a youth. A study of his family – his father, mother, grandparents, and siblings – provides the foundation.

Relying on parish registers, Bishops' transcripts, court records, and a variety of other source materials, Brandon Fradd has compiled the most extensive treatment of the Winslow family's origins to date.

By Brandon Fradd
Published: December 2008