One of the speakers at our Sunday morning breakfast is Gary Boyd Roberts, an expert in the genealogies of U.S. Presidents and descendants of royal lineages.  In addition, Gary will be offering one-on-one consultations at the NEHGS booth.  NEHGS is a sponsor of this year's Jamboree.

Gary Boyd Roberts is the Senior Research Scholar of the New England Historic Genealogical Society.  A native of Houston, Texas, Gary received a B.A. from Yale University and a M.A. from the University of Chicago. He was also a graduate student at the University of California at Berkeley.

Gary joined the NEHGS staff in 1974 and has since held the following
positions:

Reference Librarian - 1974-77
Director of Research - 1982-84
Special Projects Director - 1984-87
Director of Publications - 1987-96
Senior Research Scholar - 1996-present

Gary is a nationally renowned genealogist, teacher, lecturer, author, and editor. He is a former member of the Society of Genealogists and the Connecticut Society of Genealogists.

Visit Gary's new website - <a
href="www.notablekin.org">www.notablekin.org</a>.

Publications include:

As sole author: Ancestors of American Presidents (1989, 1995, currently out of print); The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States), Notable Kin, Volume One and Notable Kin, Volume Two (1998, 1999, available from both NEHGS and publisher Carl Boyer 3rd); The Best Genealogical Sources in Print: Essays by Gary Boyd Roberts, vol. 1 (2004, available from NEHGS); with William Addams Reitwiesner, American Ancestors and Cousins of The Princess of Wales (1984, out of print since 1997).

Editor, Genealogies of Connecticut Families From NEHGR (3 vols., 1983), English Origins of New England Families From NEHGR (2series, 6 vols., 1984-85), Genealogies of Mayflower Families From NEHGR (3 vols., 1985), Mayflower Source Records From NEHGR (1986), Genealogies of Rhode Island Families From NEHGR (2 vols., 1989), and Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis (3 vols., 1996). Most of these sets are available from Genealogical Publishing Company or NEHGS.

Other: Introduction to Clarence Almon Torrey, New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (1985, several times reprinted with the introduction revised). In manuscript form: Thee Mowbray Connection: An Analysis of the Genealogical Evolution of British, American and Continental Nobilities, Gentries, and Upper Classes Since the End of the Middle Ages, 23 vols., at NEHGS, New York Public Library, and the Society of Genealogists, London; 20+ manuscript pamphlets on notable descendants of various of his own ancestors (Howlands, Lathrops, Dwights, Stanleys, etc.), plus John Alden and Richard Warren. Parts of "The Mowbray Connection" are being prepared for NewEnglandAncestors.org.

Some of Gary's work is highlighted in his column "Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources" for the NewEnglandAncestors.org website. Kinships between G. W. Bush and J. F. Kerry plus other materials appear on Gary's website www.notablekin.org Additions to both the column and website appear throughout the year and guest ideas are welcome. 

Gary's genealogical interests include immigrant origins and royal descents; royal and noble genealogy; the ancestry of notable figures, especially presidents; colonial New England, mid-Atlantic states, and the South; the editing of major compendia; and writing and lecturing on all of these topics.

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