Roger D. Joslyn (born 1948) is originally from Sacramento and earned a ba in political science at the University of California at Davis, where he spent nearly all his time in the music department. He worked as a musical director in theatre for a few years and went to Boston for further study at Berklee College of Music, but began to spend too many hours at The New England Historic Genealogical Society, expanding work on his personal family history he had started seriously at age twelve. He took clients full-time beginning in 1978, became a Certified Genealogist in 1981, and the next year was elected a Fellow of the ASG. He has served as secretary, vice president, and president of ASG and in 1989β1991 was president of the Association of Professional Genealogists. Most of his professional work is now forensic. His website is genealogicalforensics.com.
Selected Bibliography
Books
Four Ancestral Lines and Descendants of Erastus Beethoven Badger and Fanny Babcock (Campbell) Badger [ghost-written for Alice W. Badger] (Hampton, N.H.: Peter E. Randall, 1982)
Families ofβ¦Little, Smith, Peck, Hinkelman, Hollingsworth, Ackerman and Formon (Deep River, Conn.: William S. Little, 1991)
The Vital Records of Charlestown Massachusetts, 2 vols. in 3 (Boston: NEHGS, 1984, 1995)
[with Sharon DeBartolo Carmack], American Lives and Lines (privately published, 1999)
Mid-Atlantic state chapters (New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland) in Red Book[:] American State, County, and Town Sources (ed. Alice Eichholz), 3d ed. (Provo, Utah: Ancestry, 2004)
Personal family accounts [in progress] on Joslyn, Cotton, Cain, Toolan/Toolen/Toolin, Hiatt, Eltzroth, Waldau/Senffleben, McLeish, Jones, etc., for distribution mostly among family members at this time.
Articles
“The Descendants of John Stockbridge,” The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 133(1979):93β101, 187β93, 286β93, 134(1980):70β73, 135β47, 228β36, 291β98, 135(1981):36β44, 121β32
“The English Origins of John Stockbridge and His First Wife Ann,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly 74(1986):111β18
“The English Ancestry of the Newburgh Badgers,” The American Genealogist 58(1982):1β11, 91β98
“The Family of Abraham and Mary (Soule) Josselyn,” The Genealogist 2(1981):55β64
[with Nancy B. Fratt and Frederic W. Shaen] “Three Generations of the Eltzroth/Elseroad Family,” The Genealogist 5(1984):73β128
[with Merlin S. Eltzroth and Nancy B. Fratt], “The German Origins of the Pennsylvania Eltzroth Brothers,” The Genealogist 11(1997):73β83
“The Benchley-Bensley Family,” The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 142 (1988):3β15, 177β95, 281β97, 371β85, 143(1989):52β69, 152β65
“Rebecca, Wife of Thomas1 Josselyn of Hingham and Lancaster, Massachusetts,” The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 158(2004):330β40
“Indentures of the Poor Children of Orange County, 1829β1847, 1871, 1884, 1885,” The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 137(2006):294β303, 138(2007):144β50, 227β31
“Gertrude Barber, Minnie Cowen, and Ray Sawyer: The Sisters Who Indexed New York,” The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 142(2011):5β20, 131β42, 277β87, 143(2012): 49β64, 133β45, 226β34
“Was Andrew Byrd of Greene County, Ohio, a Son of Col. Abraham Byrd of Shenandoah County, Virginia, and Fayette County, Kentucky?,” The American Genealogist 74(1999):131β46
“Abigail4 (Wells) (Wetmore) Seward of Durham, Connecticut, Wife of Jabez Wetmore and Ephraim Seward,” The American Genealogist 72(1997):81β88
“The Wife or Wives of Samuel2 Butler of Wethersfield CT,” The American Genealogist 60 (1984):27β32
“Enigmas #23: Was Capt. Rufus Gardner of New London, Connecticut, a Son of Capt. Christopher Gardner of South Kingston, Rhode Island?,” The American Genealogist 82(2007): 49β62, 130β41
“Hannah Bumstead (1639/40β1703) of Boston, Wife of Thomas Sherrer, George Nicholson, and Samuel Ruck,” The American Genealogist 85(2011):92β104; see also 86(2012):53
“Sarah5 (Josselyn) Rickard of Hanover, Pembroke, and Middleborough, Massachusetts, Was Not an Indian,” The American Genealogist 84(2010):297β99
“The ‘Short Form’ 1880 and 1890 Federal Censuses,” The American Genealogist 69(1994):231β33
“Coffins by Bela Joslyn of Alexander, N.Y.,” The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 116(1985):10
“The Will of Samuel Holly of Goshen, Orange County,” The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 129(1998):32β33, 261
“Connecting Alvin Joslyn of Buffalo, Erie County, to His 1860 Census Entry, The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 139(2008):203β4
“Joris Rapalye of Flower Hill, Long Island: A Correction, The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 119(1988):143β45
“Records of Charles Titus, J.P., of New Baltimore, Greene County, 1808β1817, The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 139(2008):68β72
“The 1795 Census of Brothertown Indians, Oneida County,” The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 141(2010):213β18
“Town of Ramapo Births in 1847, The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 132 (2001):168β70
“Second-Chance Census,” New York Archives [magazine], 13(2014):32β33.
“Smith Bible Links Mayflower Descendants,” The Mayflower Descendant, 35(1985):59β62, 175.
“Nameless Deaths and Marriages in the 1855 New York State Census,” The NYG&B Newsletter, 12(2001):41β42.
“Josselyn to Joslyn in One Generation,” Josselin Journal, 54(2014):15β22.
(with Thomas H. Roderick, Elving Anderson, Robert Charles Anderson, and Wayne T. Morris, “The Records of the Eugenics Record Office, A Resource for Genealogists,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly, 82(1994):97β113.
“The Lowly Capital F,” The American Genealogist, 74(1999):31.
“Timothy and Melvin Shaw of Wales, Erie County, New York: Brothers from Massachusetts?,” The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 170(2016):101β20.
(with John Bradley Arthaud), “Abraham and Hannah (Millington) Collins of Coventry, Connecticut, and Dorset, Vermont, Reunited,” Vermont Genealogy, 23(2018):99β134.
Job Seward sketch in Western Massachusetts Families in 1790 Volume 4, ed. Helen Schatvet Ullmann (Boston: The New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2019), 400β11
“Vermont Families in 1771: Jabez Josselyn of Poultney, Vermont, and His Children and Grandchildren,” Vermont Genealogy, 25(2020):3β34
“Children of Thomas Joslyn, Grocer of Chemsford, Essex, England, and His Wife, Margaret,” Josselin Journal, 70(2023):5