Nathaniel Lane Taylor is Editor and Publisher of The American Genealogist. He holds a Ph.D. in medieval European history and taught medieval and modern history at the university level for many years. Historical interests include the history of genealogy and heraldry in pre-modern and modern times. Genealogical interests range from medieval Spain, France, and Britain, to colonial New England and Virginia. He maintains a website and blog at nltaylor.net, and can be reached by e-mail at nltaylor@nltaylor.net.
Selected Publications:
“A Heraldic American Counter-Revolution: Honorary Grants of Arms to Americans by British Heraldic Authorities, 1916-1960,” in Reformation, Revolution, Restoration: Proceedings of the 35th International Congress of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences, Cambridge, 15th-19th August 2022, ed. Paul A. Fox, Genealogica et Heraldica, 35 (London: The Heraldry Society, 2023), 265-78.
“Donald Lines Jacobus and the Scholarly Genealogical Revolution in the United States,” in Reformation, Revolution, Restoration: Proceedings of the 35th International Congress of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences, Cambridge, 15th-19th August 2022, ed. Paul A. Fox, Genealogica et Heraldica, 35 (London: The Heraldry Society, 2023), 130–38.
“Two More Daughters and an Earlier Arrival for James1 Lane of Malden, Massachusetts, and Casco, Maine,” New England Historical and Genealogical Register 176 (2022), 353–63.
“A Roll of Arms Registered by the Committee on Heraldry of the New England Historic Genealogical Society: Eleventh Part,” Introduction, New England Historical and Genealogical Register 176 (2022), 97–103.
“For the Gratification of Her Posterity: George1 Thorold of Boston, His Daughters of Newport, and Their Lost Legacy,” The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 176 (2022), 18–34, 194–99.
“Memory, Identity, and Genealogy in Iberia: Observations on the Earliest European Genealogies,” in Actas: XXXIV Congreso Internacional de las Ciencias Genealógica y Heráldica, Madrid, 20-23 octubre 2021 (Madrid: Real Asociación de los Hidalgos de España, 2022), 601-7.
“The Mackworths of Shropshire: Royal Ancestry and Colonial Descendants,” The Genealogist 35 (2021), 100–25, 157–91.
[Terry J. Booth, Paul C. Reed, and Nathaniel Lane Taylor,] “Margaret de Brewse, First Wife of Sir Thomas Hawley (d. 1419–20) of Girsby, Lincolnshire: A New Royal Line for the Marbury–Wentworth Immigrant Cousins,” The American Genealogist 91 (2019–2020), 195–206, 286–98.
“The Brief Life of Barrington, Massachusetts,” in Barrington, Massachusetts, Town Meetings, 1718–1744, comp. Cynthia Comery Ferguson, Gleanings from Rhode Island Town Records ser., 2020 (Rhode Island Genealogical Soc., 2020), x–xvii.
“James1 Lane of North Yarmouth, Maine, and His Daughter Ann2 (Lane) (Bray) Shed of Billerica, Massachusetts,” The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 173 (2019), 122–32.
[Terry J. Booth, Paul C. Reed, and Nathaniel Lane Taylor,] “The English Ancestry of William1 Wentworth of New Hampshire: Male-Line Ancestry for Five Generations,” The American Genealogist 90 (2018), 161–74, 263–79.
“The Phippen Heraldic Pedigree,” American Ancestors Magazine 18.3 (Fall 2017), 44–49.
“A Long XY Line: Descent from Elwyse or Avelyn (Pallam?) Colby of Banham, Norfolk, fl. 1450,” The American Genealogist 88 (2016), 187–94.
An American Taylor Family: Descendants of Richard Taylor (d. 1679) of North Farnham Parish in the Northern Neck of Virginia for Seven Generations (1992-2015).
“The Banisters of Boston and Newport, with the Royal Ancestry of Frances Walker, wife of Thomas2 Banister” [by Nathaniel Lane Taylor and Michael Andrews-Reading], New England Historical and Genealogical Register 165(2011):85–99, 206–22.
“The False and Possibly True English Origins of Richard Taylor of Old Rappahannock County, Virginia,” The American Genealogist 83(2009):161–73, 278–91.
“Genealogist John Farmer Discovers his Ancestry: The Warwickshire Family of Edward1 Farmer, Isabel1 (Farmer) (Wyman) (Blood) Green, and Thomas1 Pollard, of Billerica, Massachusetts,” New England Historical and Genealogical Register 160(2006):261–72; 161(2007):62–72, 146–55, 209–22, 289–99.
“Testaments, leur validation, et ordre public en Catalogne et Languedoc au Moyen Age (IXe-XIIe siècles),” Annales du Midi 118(2006):447–51.
“Women and Wills in Catalonia: Sterility and Testacy in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries,” Mediaeval Encounters 12(2006):87–96.
“Another Husband for Mary (Phippen) (Wallis) (Morgan) Black: Samuel2 Morgan (Robert1) of Beverly, Mass” [by Nathaniel Lane Taylor and John Fipphen], New England Historical and Genealogical Register 160 (2006), 99-100.
“The Disgruntled Billerica Militia of 1755,” New England Ancestors 7.1 (Winter 2006), 35-37.
“Kin and the Courts: Testimony of Kinship in Lawsuits of Angevin England,” Haskins Society Journal 15(2005):55–72.
“Inheritance of Power in the House of Guifred the Hairy: Contemporary Perspectives on the Formation of a Dynasty,” in The Experience of Power in the Middle Ages: Essays in Honor of Thomas N. Bisson, ed. Robert F. Berkhofer III, Alan Cooper, and Adam J. Kosto (Aldershot, Hampshire, 2005), 129–51.
“Thoughts on the Robessart Tomb,” Foundations 1.4(2004):241–45.
“A New Medieval Genealogical Journal, Foundations, and the ‘Foundation for Medieval Genealogy’: a Review Article,” The American Genealogist 78(2003):138–42.
“Monasteries and Servile Genealogies: Guy of Suresnes and Saint-Germain-des-Prés in the Twelfth Century,” in Genèse médiévale de l’anthroponymie moderne, tome 5.1: Serfs et dépendants au Moyen Âge, ed. Monique Bourin and Pascal Chareille (Tours, 2002), 249–68.
“Roman Genealogical Continuity and the ‘Descents-from-Antiquity’ Question,” The American Genealogist 76(2001):129–36.
“Three Calebs and a ‘Lara’: Untangling Gloucester Lanes,” NEHGS Nexus 16(1999):106–109.
“Notes on the Ancestry of Sancha de Ayala” [by Nathaniel Lane Taylor and Todd A. Farmerie], New England Historical and Genealogical Register 152(1998):36–48.
“King David, Saint William, and Makhir: a Controversial Medieval Descent,” The American Genealogist 72(1997):203–21.