New England Historic Genealogical Society

Nehgs is a member-based organization with more than 300,000 individual and corporate memberships and 2.5 million online visits. Membership has numerous benefits including access to over 1.6 billion searchable names on americanancestors.org; quarterly delivery of the magazine american ancestors and the flagship journal of american genealogy, the register; discounts on research-for-hire and consultation; discounts on books published by nehgs; free admission to the nehgs library and special collections, newsletters and its ask-a-genealogist service; discounts on hotels through historichotels.org and historichotelsworldwide.com; and access to american ancestrees, an online family tree program.

The nehgs library has been named by usa today as a top 10 world destination for family history. The public, members and visitors may visit nehgs's eight-story library and archive where it offers the largest collection of original family history research materials in the country. The collection, which continues to grow through acquisition and preservation activities, dates from the fourteenth century to the present and spans north america, europe, and beyond. It includes more than 28 million diaries, letters, photographs, and other manuscripts, and more than 250,000 books and microforms.

Nehgs hosts online seminars, guided tours, conferences and events to further knowledge of family history. Guided research tours to locations in the united states, canada, and the british isles, as well as research programs at the nehgs library in boston. Each program includes intensive days devoted to research, one-on-one consultations, presentations by nehgs genealogists and local experts, and social activities. Its online educational programs cover a wide variety of topics, and are suitable for family historians of all levels of experience.

Nehgs offers family history researchers the most-used Genealogical Society website in the world. Americanancestors.org provides access to more than 1.6 billion records spanning twenty-two countries covering the united states, the british isles, continental europe, and beyond, including one of the most extensive online collections of early american Genealogical records, the largest searchable collection of published Genealogical research journals and magazines, and the largest collection of u.s catholic records online. In 2018, family tree magazine noted americanancestors.org as a best genealogy records website, and as one of the best genealogy websites in the world. Nehgs is the nation's leading publisher of family history books and periodicals since 1847. Through its newbury street press and other publication arms, nehgs produces the New England historical and Genealogical register, its flagship journal of american genealogy and the oldest in the field, focusing on authoritative compiled genealogies, and american ancestors magazine, published quarterly. Nehgs sells original and third party books, charts and gifts which are available for purchase on line through https://shop.americanancestors.org/ and in store at its 97 newbury street headquarters.