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Pilgrim Roots of the Great Migration
I am greatly looking forward to joining a very special Pilgrim-themed ancestral tour in the United Kingdom later this summer! In August, the New England Historic Genealogical Society and American Ancestors will host an exclusive tour, "Pilgrim Roots of the Great Migration," led by world-renowned Great Migration author Robert Charles Anderson. We will be based in Nottingham and will visit Scrooby Manor and environs, as we explore the deep roots of the Great Migration as we lea
Discovering Classical Design in Boston's South End
The New England Historic Genealogical Society is delighted to be a lender to a special exhibition opening tomorrow, May 11, at the Massachusetts Historical Society in Boston, "Entrepreneurship & Classical Design in Boston's South End: The Furniture of Isaac Vose & Thomas Seymour, 1815 to 1825," May 11 through September 14, 2018: "Virtually forgotten for 200 years, Isaac Vose and his brilliant furniture are revealed in a new exhibition and accompanying volume. Beginning with a
Enemy painter: Hieronymus Bosch
On Thursday, May 17, 2018 the Boston Athenaeum will host the following lecture by art historian and Harvard professor Joseph Koerner : "Active in the Netherlands around 1500 at the eve of the Protestant Reformation, Bosch was a master portraitist of devils, nightmares, cosmic catastrophes, and hellish punishments. In cultivating evil as his strange artistic specialty, Bosch also cast himself as potentially demonic --- a painter of enemies who might also be an enemy painter. A
The Ancestry of an American Princess
From the May issue of Vanity Fair: "According to genealogist Gary Boyd Roberts, a researcher at the New England Historic Genealogical Society, in Boston, Meghan and Harry are 17th cousins, thanks again to the prolific Edward III, who had nine children who survived to adulthood. According to Roberts, one of Edward’s myriad descendants was an ancestor of Meghan’s father, the Reverend William Skipper, who arrived in New England in 1639. Other common ancestors can be traced back
Climbing David McCullough's literary family tree!
Pictured: Brenton Simons, Nancy Maulsby (Board Chairman, New England Historic Genealogical Society) and our distinguished honoree, David McCullough, at a dinner held by NEHGS in his honor on April 27, 2018, in Boston. On the evening of Friday, April 27, 2018, the New England Historic Genealogical Society & American Ancestors honored an American legend, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author David McCullough with a gala Family History Benefit Dinner at the Fairmont Copley Hote
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