American Ancestors

LibrariesMassachusetts, United States51-200 Employees

American Ancestors is a library-focused organization located at 99-101 Newbury Street in Boston, Massachusetts, with an employee range of 51 to 200. Founded in 1845 as the New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS), it is described as the country’s leading resource for family history research. The organization educates, inspires, and connects people through scholarship, collections, and expertise to advance the study of family history in America and beyond, serving genealogists of all skill levels and spanning research from 17th-century colonial New England to 20th-century immigration. Its website, AmericanAncestors.org, serves as an online repository with more than 1 billion searchable names from America and beyond. Recent activity indicates ongoing publication and database expansion, including new databases such as Louisiana: Slave Manifests of Coastwise Vessels Filed at New Orleans, 1807-1860, updates to North American Cemetery Transcriptions, and new volumes across several genealogical databases.

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