The Family at 203 Latham Road, An American Story

Mary Beth Lane

The Family at 203 Latham Road grew from roots planted by immigrants from Italy and Ireland. It tells the story of the Alfano, Tavernese, Anselmo, and Rebecchi families from Italy, and the Lane, Kingston, Green, and Kilkenny families from Ireland. Mary Beth Lane has written a charming and informative history of her family. Full color, photos.

NERGC 2021, April 1-May 31

NERGC 2021 (NEW ENGLAND REGIONAL GENEALOGICAL CONSORTIUM) will be happening April 1-May 31 this year in virtual format. We have lots of new books to show you, and would love to chat about your book. Drop by the exhibit hall, make an appointment, call or write. We’d love to hear from you!

Just published: Descendants of Thomas Stone ca.1720-1791 of Prince William County, Virginia, by Pam Stone Eagleson

Certified Genealogist Pam Stone Eagleson traces five generations of descendants of Thomas Stone (d. 1791), humble planter of Prince William County VA, and their western migration, from the 1700s to the 1900s.

ISBN: 978-1-887043-75-5

$75.00 hardcover, available at all online booksellers.

Just published: Remembering the 1940s, The Coats Family in Minnesota and Iowa, by Deane Dierksen

Recently published: Inklings: John Wilkins Carter and The Carter’s Ink Company, by Michael F. Metcalf

Published May 2020; ISBN 978-1-887043-57-1; Hardcover 606 pages, $88.00

Inklings: John Wilkins Carter and The Carter’s Ink Company is the story of an old New England family and the companies they created and operated – beginning with Timothy Carter’s Old Corner Bookstore in downtown Boston and spanning a 150-year period. The focus of the book is The Carter’s Ink Company, which originated in Boston after the Civil War and prospered until 1976. The story also encompasses James Carter’s paper business in Boston and Nashua, N.H. An in-depth look into the Carter’s family is woven throughout and shows how their devout faith served as the backbone for their commitments to business, their communities, and to their fellow mankind.

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.

Recently published: O’Donnell and Ginkinger Family History: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Immigrants from Ireland and Germany to Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley

Sandra M. Hewlett presents extensive research into the ancestry of two Pennsylvania families: the O’Donnells who immigrated from County Donegal, Ireland in 1852, and the Ginkinger family, whose progenitor arrived in Philadelphia in 1752 from Württemberg. Both families settled in the Lehigh Valley.

The Keen Family and the Mayflower Beginning

Dorinda W. Bloss has been researching and recording her Keen family genealogy since she spent a long, hot summer in 1967 listening to her grandmother’s stories. With charts, profiles, stories,  photos, documents, and over 40 years of work, she’s documented the history of the Keen family in connection with founding Pilgrims Richard Warren and Edward Fuller, leaving room for others to contribute their research as well.

The Keen Family and the Mayflower Beginning documents the family from the time the Mayflower Pilgrims landed at Plimouth, expands on how the Keen family played a role in their history (as well as the history of Maine and New York), and also records how the legacy and principles of the Pilgrims are perpetuated by their descendants today.

In addition, the book includes research on the Logan family, the Beplat family, the Bloss family and their Indiana roots, as well as the author’s family connections to Greenwood Cemetery and Cypress Hills Cemetery in Brooklyn. Appendices. Indexed. Over 200 photos. All genealogical information is authenticated.

Ancestors of Joseph and Brenda (LaMond) Sullivan

This comprehensive book, a companion to Ancestors of Joseph and Brenda Sullivan from Immigration to the Present Times, 1620 to 2011, presents personal letters, stories and photographs of the LaMond and Sullivan families, which were inherited or collected from family members. This book also provides historical information connecting the ancillary members of the family. All the information in this book has been authenticated. Published May 2019.

Just published: The Duffs and the MacKinnons, Neighbors for Generations