Scott Andrew Bartley (b. Springfield, Vt., 1959), a native of North Springfield, Vt., has dabbled in genealogy since the age of 11. It started as a school project, when he had five of eight great grandparents alive at his birth with all but one living with a few miles of him. His professional career started went he was hired to join the recently formed Research Service at the New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS) in 1984. He had many assignments there, but ended up as their Manuscripts Curator and part-time reference desk librarian until January 1999. It was there that he went back to receive his Master’s in Library Science from Simmons College in 1994. He worked a 24-hour week for the Massachusetts Society Mayflower Descendants (MSMD) as a proofer of lineage applications. He also served as librarian, archivist, and web designer where he started creating a research guide online. He brought together the MSMD and FamilySearch as the first pilot digitization project for FamilySearch. He also had clients with his free time. In 2012 and 2013, he was hired as a Wiki Content Specialist for FamilySearch. He created the state page and all the county pages for Massachusetts. The crowning achievement was an extremely detailed guide to Boston that included inventorying all the town/city records wherever they could be found. NEHGS hired him as a contractor to head the Early Vermont Settlers project in 2015 and where is still is working. This project was split into two parts and he is focused on identifying all the first settlers up to 1771. The project has produced more than 760 sketches (2025) and all the Windsor County settlers published in two volumes. This is only the fourth scholarly prosopography study in the United States – all done by F.A.S.G. members. He was the editor for the Mayflower Descendant (2000-2010) and Vermont Genealogy (2004-2012, 2022-present). His special interest is the descendants of George Lamphere of Westerly. Though he does not take clients anymore, he can be reached at drew@yourgenealogist.com.
Books and pamphlets:
Vermont Families in 1791 (1992-1997), 2v.
Transcription of the State Copy of the 1850 Federal Census for Springfield and Baltimore, Vermont (1993).
with Marjorie J. Bartley, Index to the Windsor County, Vermont, Probate Records, 1778-1899 (2000).
editor, Barbara Lambert Merrick, The Descendants of Elder William Brewster, Part 1, v. 24 (2015).
Early Vermont Settlers to 1771 (2017-2020), 2v.
Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England: Deeds, &c., Vol. III, Pt. 2, 1671-1673 (e-book, 2019).
editor, Lewis Bunker Rohrbach, Rohrbach Genealogy (2019), v. 6, 7, 8 (pts. 1-2).
Vermont Research Guide (2025).
various Mayflower pamphlets and Vermont chapters for several guide books.
Eight special issues for Vermont Genealogy on name changes, genealogies in town histories, Declarations of Aliens of Lower Canada, Cumberland County (N.Y.) Deeds, vital records of Springfield, History of Fort Dummer and its Soldiers.
Selected articles:
“William Olney and his family in Smithfield, R.I., and Sackville, N.B.,” Rhode Island Roots, 23 [1997]: 59-68, 105.
“Deake-Dake family of Westerly, R.I.,” Rhode Island Roots, 24 [1999]: 1-15.
“Jonathan Bates and his only wife, Lusanna Nichols,” New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 152 [1998]: 49-55, 243.
“George Lanphear of Westerly, R.I., and his Descendants,” New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 153 [1999]: 131-140; 159 [2005]: 333-340; 160 [2006]: 47-59.
“The Parentage of Benjamin Gear of Dover, N.H.,” The New Hampshire Record, 17 [2000]: 49-54.
with Ann S. Lainhart, “Non-Mayflower Bradfords of New England: Descendants of Robert Bradford of Boston,” Mayflower Descendant, 53 [2004]: 1-18, 97-114.
“Newent, Conn., Church Records Brought to Bennington by the First Settlers,” Vermont Genealogy, 10 [2005]: 210-226.
“Who is Elizabeth, Wife of Caleb Wright, of Oyster Bay, Long Island,” Mayflower Descendant, 55 [2006]: 4-15.
“Non-Mayflower Bradfords of New England: Robert and William, Brothers of Beverly,” Mayflower Descendant, 55 [2006]: 140-159.
“Mosher – Lason – Rowley Quandary,” Mayflower Descendant, 56 [2007]: 1- 4.
“Shackmaple – Willson – Colfax Conundrum,” Mayflower Descendant, 56 [2007]: 97-112.
“Who was Fannie A. Stevens, wife of Joseph Upham?,” Vermont Genealogy, 15 [2010]: 97-111.
“Watertown, Massachusetts, Marriages, Deaths, and Other Events, 1794-1837,” The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 165 [2011]: 200-205, 293-297.
with Julie Helen Otto, “The Ancestry of Jason Badcock of Concord,” Vermont Genealogy, 17 [2012]: 1-14.
with Bette Innes Bradway, “The Descendants of Levi and Mary (Bradway) Phillips of Springfield,” Vermont Genealogy, 17 [2012]: 158-179; 18 [2013]: 1-9.
“Descendants of Resolved and Charity (Clapp) White of Rochester,” Mayflower Descendant, 61 [2012]: 60-69.
“Wrestling2 Brewster – A Hoax Revisited, Again,” Mayflower Descendant, 62 [2013]: 123-128.
“Who was John Cooper of Barnstable?,” Mayflower Descendant, 63 [2014]: 152-174.
“Who was Joanna Swinnerton of New Haven?,” Mayflower Descendant, 63 [2014]: 216-226.
“Who Was the Wife of Joseph Ball of Norwich, Vermont?,” Vermont Genealogy, 23 [2018]: 190-192.
“John Geare of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and Kittery, Maine,” New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 172 [2018]: 257-261.
“Letters to Ezekiel and Edna2 (Halstead) (Bailey) Northend of Rowley, Massachusetts, in 1650 and 1652,” New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 173 [2019]: 147-154.
“Who Was Reuben Spaulding of Sharon, Vermont?,” Vermont Genealogy, 24 [2019]: 76-81.
“The Search for the Paternal Ancestry of Sarah (Elwell) Lamphere, Wife of William Lamphere of Milton, Vermont,” Vermont Genealogy, 25 [2020]: 61-86.
“The Tilden Family of Lebanon, New Hampshire,” New Hampshire Genealogical Record, 33 [2021]: 3-34.
with Diane MacLean Boumenot, “Sorting Out the Several Daniel Lanphear Men,” New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 175 [2021]: 139-147.
with Louis Lehmann, “Sorting Out the George Lamphere Men of Windsor County,” Vermont Genealogy, 28 [2023]: 7-17.