Greetings from the American Society of Genealogists, and welcome to our newly-updated website. We hope that it will serve both our own Fellows, and the public, as a point of access, and a reminder of the role of our Society in the genealogical community.

ASG Fellows strive to teach by example. Formats change, source access waxes and wanes, but excellence in genealogical publishing should always have a timeless quality. Our Jacobus Award goes to exceptional published genealogical works. A list of award-winning books appears here. Some of our Fellows have selected bibliographies linked here. Several years of first-rate genealogical articles in The Genealogist are listed here, with a few samples available in full here. In the pages of these works you may find inspiration, techniques, and answers. Sometimes the best path to a solution is knowing whom to ask. Most active Fellows are very willing to field questions in their areas of interest.

— Melinde Lutz Byrne, President

Here are the Fellows on 2 September 1956, near Portland, Maine:

The fourteen Fellows and two spouses were identified by Fellow Gerald James Parsons as:

Dr. Harold Bowditch; George McKenzie Roberts; Dr. Jean Stephenson; Meredith B. Colket, Jr.; George Andrews Moriarty, Jr.; Florence Harlow Barclay; Mrs. Robert H. Montgomery; Rev. Dr. Arthur Adams; Margaret Dickson Falley; Gerald James Parsons; Mrs. Valeria Wilson Parsons; Rev. Dr. Frederick Lewis Weis; Walter Goodwin Davis; Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr; Gerard Malchelosse; Dr. Robert H. Montgomery.

The photograph was taken by Fellow George H. S. King.

Here are the Fellows on October 1, 1955 in the Mayor’s Office, City Hall, Montreal, Canada:

The people in this picture have been identified as follows:

Seated, L to R: Harold Minot Pitman; Dr. Jean Stephenson; Margaret Dickson Falley; Rev. Dr. Arthur Adams; Rosalie Fellows Bailey; Walter Goodwin Davis; Winifred Lovering Holman Dodge.
Standing, L to R: unknown; George Harrison Sanford King; Rev. Dr. Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr.; unknown; Milton Rubincam;unknown; Meredith B. Colket, Jr.; Rev. Dr. Frederick Lewis Weis; John Insley Coddington; Noel C. Stevenson; Gerard Malchelosse.

Mr. Malchelosse was a resident of Quebec and served as host that year.

Notes on this meeting indicate that the Fellows named above were the only Fellows in attendance; the other men standing in the back row are presumed to be officials of the Montreal Archives.