The American Genealogist

The American Genealogist  
Discipline Genealogy, American history
Language English
Edited by Nathaniel Lane Taylor, Joseph C. Anderson II, Roger D. Joslyn
Publication details
Former name(s)
 New Haven Genealogical Magazine, The American Genealogist and New Haven Genealogical Magazine
Publication history
 1922—present
Publisher
The American Genealogist (United States)
Frequency Quarterly
Standard abbreviations
Am. Geneal.
Indexing
ISSN 0002-8592
LCCN 86643019
OCLC no. 15561960
Links

The American Genealogist is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal which focuses on genealogy and family history.[1][2] It was established by Donald Lines Jacobus in 1922 as the New Haven Genealogical Magazine. In July 1932 it was renamed The American Genealogist and New Haven Genealogical Magazine and the last part of the title was dropped in 1937, giving the journal its current title. All editors have been fellows of the American Society of Genealogists.[3]

Editors-in-chief

The following persons have been editors-in-chief:

  • Donald Lines Jacobus, 1922-1965
  • George E. McCracken, 1966–1983
  • Robert Moody Sherman, 1984, and Ruth Wilder Sherman, 1984-1992
  • David L. Greene, 1993–2014
  • Nathaniel Lane Taylor, 2015–present

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is indexed in the Periodical Source Index and Book Review Index Online Plus.

References

  1. ↑ Francois Weil, Family Trees: A History of Genealogy in America (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2013), 167—168
  2. ↑ Robert M. Taylor Jr. and Ralph J. Crandall, "Historians and Genealogists: An Emerging Community of Interest", in Generations and Change: Genealogical Perspectives in Social History, ed. Robert M. Taylor Jr. and Ralph J. Crandall (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1986), 12—13n27
  3. ↑ David L. Greene, "Donald Line Jacobus, Scholarly Genealogy, and The American Genealogist," The American Genealogist 72, 3-4 (July–October 1997): 159—180.


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