Recently published: John Grow of Ipswich, Massachusetts and Some of His Descendants: A Middle-Class Family in Social and Economic Context from the 17th Century to the Present

“This book will serve as a valuable model for anyone planning to write a narrative family history.” 
                                  — The New England Historic Genealogical Register (Winter 2021)

Published: February 2020

ISBN: 978-1-8870434-6-4; 343 pages; 6 x 9 hardcover; photos and illustrations in full color; appendices; endnotes; index; $47.00

This engaging and highly readable family history by historian Michael Grow follows ten generations of his mainstream middle-class family through three and a half centuries of American social and economic history from the Puritans to the internet age. In doing so, it serves as a model and a research guide for genealogists interested in writing family histories that put their ancestors’ lives in historical context.