Notice: 25 February 2025.

TAG is resuming publication in Spring 2025 after a long hiatus.

TAG 92.4 is in preparation and should go to press in May 2025. It will mail to all those whose subscription is current for volume 92 and/or those who ordered subscriptions beginning with volume 93 in the past couple of months. We expect TAG 93 to appear on a quarterly schedule thereafter.

To authors who have submitted articles and have not heard from editors recently: Thank you for your patience. Especially if your submission is more than six months old, it would be helpful if you send an email to the editors stating whether you still wish it to be considered for TAG.

Transient problems with the Shopping Cart feature of the TAG website since mid-January 2025 are being assessed. We expect our Shopping Cart to be restored shortly.

Thank you for your patience.

Sincerely,

Nathaniel Lane Taylor
Editor & Publisher
taylor@americangenealogist.com

 TAG vol. 92, no. 3 (cover dated January/April 2022, published June 2023), has gone to press and will mail shortly.

In our lead article, first-time TAG author Gregory Childs dives into French sources to trace the ancestry and career of Louisiana settler Jean Gisclard. Tweaking  the “origins” mold are articles on the nineteenth-century families of an unwed mother and her children, who migrated from London to Utah as early Latter-day Saint pioneers, and a contractor and his family, who migrated from rural Lancashire to Wisconsin. The issue also contains the long-anticipated conclusions of articles on the ancestry of early New Hampshire colonists William Wentworth (by Terry Booth) and the Sanborn brothers (by Cliff Stott). Among shorter pieces, Bart Saxbe reminds us of the “deodand,” an arguably morbid niche in the intersection of traditional Anglo-American law and culture.

At this time (February 2023) TAG offers a la carte purchase of out-of-print back issues as PDF files.

Details and ordering links are available under the Order > Back Issues tab.

Individual article offprints are not available at this time.

As a reminder, all paid members of American Ancestors (The New England Historic Genealogical Society)  have page-by-page access to The American Genealogist at the AmericanAncestors.org website.

A webinar today by Elizabeth Shown Mills, FASG, led to a run exhausting all remaining physical copies of a particular TAG back issue from the 1980s. Coincidentally, we have been working to roll out a PDF sale option of article offprints from out-of-print back issues. We expect to roll out a mechanism for this within the coming days and weeks.

Those who have ordered that particular issue have been contacted; thank you for your patience!

UPDATE: At this time (Feb. 2023) we have begun to offer individual back issues for purchase as PDFs.  See Order > Back issues tab.

The new issue of TAG, vol. 92, no. 2, has gone to press and will mail before year’s end.

Our lead article is by Terry J. Booth, the third in a series of articles he has authored or co-authored on the ancestry of William Wentworth of New Hampshire. This article resolves long-standing errors in Wentworth’s Lincolnshire ancestry and proves his closest royal descent through the Sothill, Fauconberge, and Greystoke families. Clifford Stott’s breakthrough article on the ancestry of the Sanborn brothers continues this issue’s New Hampshire focus.

Among the other New England articles is a piece by John Bradley Arthaud, MD, FASG, extending the progeny of Mayflower passenger Richard More in the sixth and subsequent generations. This article marks fifty years since Dr. Arthaud’s first contribution to TAG in April 1972, “Family Records: White, Melton, Head” (TAG 48[1972]:170–71), followed by “Abel White (ca. 1758–1823): From New Hampshire to Kentucky” in July (TAG 48[1972]:234–37). Thanks and congratulations to Dr. Arthaud, contributor for half of TAG’s century, and TAG’s indexer since volume 82

Thanks also to all TAG subscribers and authors for your patience as have resumed quarterly publication. We will finish volume 92 (dated 2021-2022) as promptly as possible in the first few months of 2023, and expect volume 93 (2023) to continue to make up time.

With TAG 92.1 at press, now is the time to ensure that you are in the first mailing of that issue. Renewal or new subscription order deadline is *Friday, September 9,* to be on first mailing list for TAG 92.1. Renewals or new orders received later will receive TAG 92.1 later as a back-issue. If in doubt about subscription status, email subscriptions@americangenealogist.com and we can check.

The new issue of TAG, vol. 92, no. 1, has just gone to press and will mail early in September. Volume 92 observes TAG’s centennial: the first issue of what was then titled New Haven Genealogical Magazine appeared in July 1922.

Our lead article is by Clifford L. Stott, FASG, presenting the long-sought identity and ancestry of brothers John, Stephen, and William Sanborn of Hampton, New Hampshire.

Also in this issue is a trio of mid-Atlantic articles from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and the Chespeake’s Eastern Shore. Two New England sisters figure in one of our traditional Enigma features (unsolved genealogical cases). And a new feature debuts, Blurred Lines, showcasing the disproof of a long-accepted genealogical link.

Thanks to all TAG subscribers and authors for your patience as we resume regular quarterly publication this Fall.

All subscribers who have expired with volume 91 are receiving, correctly, a blue renewal notice with their copy of 91.4, mailed at the end of January 2022.  But your white address cover sheet for that issue, by error, also includes a statement that “Your subscription is already covered for the next volume. No renewal is needed at this time.”  This address-sheet statement was included, by mistake, for every copy mailed, not just for those who are indeed paid ahead.  So if you receive a blue slip, please renew now.

The best way to double-check your status is to read the line above your name on the white address sheet, if it says “PAID THROUGH VOLUME 91”, then your subscription has indeed expired and it is time to renew.

A separate clarification letter is mailing from the printer this week to all expiring subscribers affected by this error.  We apologize for this confusion.

The new issue of TAG, vol. 91, no. 4, is finally complete. It will be at press next week and will mail to subscribers within the coming month.

This issue leads off with two new origin articles: one for a Virginian, Lt. Col. Daniel Clark, and one for a trio of New England sisters named “Gentleman”—ironically for a family of yeoman stock.

The issue concludes with a rich array of short additions and corrections to many recent and older TAG studies.

Thanks to all TAG subscribers and authors for your patience as we work back to regular quarterly publication in 2022.

Ian Watson’s superb analytical article, “The Dating of the Providence Civil Compact,” is now being published in in TAG 91.3 and 91.4.

For those who would like to follow the detailed discussion of the document itself, including the handwritings, inks, and history of this leaf, The Providence City Archives has graciously granted permission for TAG to place a high-resolution photograph of the Compact on our website.

The thumbnail at right is linked to a high-resolution image.

Image published on TAG website by kind permission of Providence City Archives, which holds copyright in the photograph and all reproduction rights.