The Fellows of the American Society of Genealogists (ASG) held their 86th annual meeting on Saturday, October 4, 2025. Scott Andrew Bartley of Tunbridge, Vermont; John D. Beatty of Fort Wayne, Indiana; and Allen R. Peterson of Katy, Texas, were elected to the Society as its 174th, 175th, and 176th fellows, respectively.
Scott Andrew Bartley has been the editor of The Mayflower Descendant and Vermont Genealogy and has published numerous scholarly articles in those journals as well as The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, The New Hampshire Record, and Rhode Island Roots. His encyclopedic compilations Vermont Families in 1791 and Early Vermont Settlers to 1771, together with his editions of vital records of Springfield and other Vermont towns, anchor his major contributions to Vermont and Northern New England genealogy.
John D. Beatty has been a genealogist and librarian at the nationally renowned Allen County [Indiana] Public Library’s Genealogy Center for over forty years. The most recent of his several book-length genealogies was The Vick Genealogy: The Study of An American Family in White and Black, recipient of the American Society of Genealogists’ Jacobus Award in 2024. Other publications cover a broad thematic, methodological, and geographic range, including editions of vital records and historical narratives from Ireland and Maine, as well as scholarly articles on German, Irish, New England, Mid-Atlantic and Midwestern families in each of the major American genealogical journals.
Allen R. Peterson is a Certified Genealogist and a former editor of National Genealogical Society Quarterly. His two books and nearly two dozen studies in scholarly journals focus on English and English-American genealogy, with a special interest in the identification of obscure women and the use of contextual and community-wide research to separate individuals of common names.