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The American Society of Genealogists is the scholarly honorary society of the
genealogical Genealogy () is the study of families, family history, and the tracing of their lineages. Genealogists use oral interviews, historical records, genetic analysis, and other records to obtain information about a family and to demonstrate kins ...
field. Founded by John Insley Coddington, Arthur Adams, and Meredith B. Colket, Jr., in December 1940, its membership is limited to 50 living fellows. ASG publishes '' The Genealogist'', a scholarly journal of genealogical research semi-annually since 1980. In a time when genealogy was frequently viewed as the realm of eccentric dilettantes, the founders of ASG were leaders advocating more rigorous research standards. This included using original sources whenever possible and documenting the source of information. Donald Lines Jacobus, founder of ''
The American Genealogist ''The American Genealogist'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal which focuses on genealogy and family history. It was established by Donald Lines Jacobus in 1922 as the ''New Haven Genealogical Magazine''. In July 1932 it was renamed ' ...
'', noted in 1960 that a new school had developed in American genealogy circles about 1930. That movement, according to the late Milton Rubincam, "wrote accounts of specific families, documented and referenced: they showed by example how problems should be solved, what sources should be used, and how records should be interpreted." Fellows of the American Society of Genealogists, who bear the postnominal acronym FASG, have written some of the most notable genealogical materials of the last half-century. In particular, current Fellow
Robert Charles Anderson The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honou ...
is director of ''The Great Migration Study Project'', an effort to catalogue the earliest European immigrants to
New England New England is a region comprising six states in the Northeastern United States: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. It is bordered by the state of New York to the west and by the Canadian provinces ...
. John Frederick Dorman completed in 2007 the fourth edition of ''Adventurers of Purse and Person'', chronicling the earliest settlers in colonial
Virginia Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States, between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains. The geography and climate of the Commonwealth are ...
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Presidents

1940–58: Arthur Adams
1958–61: Walter Goodwin Davis
1961–64: Milton Rubincam
1964–67: H. Minot Pitman
1967–70: Kenn Stryker-Rodda
1970–73: Walter Lee Sheppard Jr.
1973–76: Virginia Pope Livingston
1976–79: Malcolm H. Stern
1979–82: Mary E. McCollam Harter
1982–85: John Frederick Dorman
1985–86: Noel C. Stevenson
1986–89: Henry B. Hoff
1989–92: Robert Charles Anderson
1992–95: Neil D. Thompson
1995–98: Cameron H. Allen
1998–2001: Elizabeth Shown Mills
2001–04: Roger D. Joslyn
2004–07: Marsha Hoffman Rising
2007–10: David L. Greene
2010–13: Melinde Lutz Byrne
2013–16: William Bart Saxbe Jr.
2016–19:
Henry Z Jones, Jr. Henry Z (Hank) Jones Jr. (born June 3, 1940) is an American actor, musician, genealogist and author. He became known to a wide audience primarily through his appearances in Disney films. Life Hank was born in Oakland, California and raised i ...

2019– : Joseph C. Anderson II“Fellows > Past Officers.” American Society of Genealogists, 3 Nov. 2019, https://fasg.org/fellows/past-officers/.


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Genealogical societies in the United States American historians