An indispensable resource illuminating the world of decorative arts and its relationship to family history, this book features fifteen chapters by leading authorities, including Abbott Lowell Cummings, Wendell Garrett, Maureen Taylor, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, and others. The book contains more than 200 black and white illustrations and 16 color plates.

By D. Brenton Simons and Peter Benes

Published: 2002

8½ x 10½ hardcover, 350 pages, illustrated

In this new work, Sue Allan presents significant research that disputes Samuel Webber’s early study of the origins of the Southworth line in America. The claim that Constant and Thomas, sons of Edward and Alice Carpenter Southworth, descend from the Samlesbury Southworths can no longer be upheld. The evidence she presents is compelling and sheds light on many of the Bradford, Southworth and other connections.

By Sue Allan

Published: 2019

Paperback, 64 pages

Not for over a hundred years has anyone studied the history of Scrooby Manor with such care as Sue Allan now presents in her new book. Re-examining manuscripts and adding many previously unknown, she has built up a documentary basis for interpreting the remains of what was once a magnificent structure of more than thirty rooms, including a chapel now recognized as part of the existing house.

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 to its shelves.

From the seventeenth century to the present, the diaries in the R. Stanton Avery Special Collections — written by men and women from their teens to their nineties — record details of historic events and of their private lives, giving us fresh insight into the past. This new paperback lists the diaries (approximately 300) currently in the American Ancestors archives; images of actual diary pages are included. Perusing the contents, the reader will get an idea of the depth and variety of the collection and also a sense of the rich historical detail the diaries and journals contain.

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Published: 2010

This important series documents the 18th century settlement of the Beekman Patent by Palatines, Dutch and the English from Long Island and New England. The Beekman Patent was a major entry point from New England to New York and the West.

Author: Marian S. Henry
Published: September 2007

By Joseph Caravalho III

Published: September 2011

Hardcover, 400 pages

Already a classic, this three-volume set contains the most accurate, up-to-date information on over 900 New England families! The information on each individual or family includes their port or country of origin, if known; the date and ship on which they arrived in New England, if known; the earliest known record of the individual or family; their first residence and subsequent residences, when known; return trips to their country of origin, whether temporary or permanent; and marriages, births, deaths, and other important family relationships.

Under the leadership of Robert Charles Anderson, the Great Migration Study Project aims to compile authoritative genealogical and biographical accounts of every person who settled in New England between 1620 and 1640. The Great Migration Newsletter has been a cornerstone publication within this project for the last twenty years and offers researchers essential articles on migration patterns, early records, life in seventeenth-century New England, and more.