Award winning author, John T. Humphrey, is the current president of the Mid-Atlantic Germanic Society, and past vice president of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania. Humphrey was the former Director of the National Genealogical Society, Learning Center in Arlington, Virginia.

His principal genealogical publication is the sixteen-volume set of Pennsylvania Births listing more than 195,000 births in fifteen eastern Pennsylvania counties. He has written other books and numerous articles and lectures widely at national and local conferences. He has appeared on national television and public radio where he discussed various aspects of genealogy.

Humphrey specializes in German research at the Library of Congress, the National Archives, and record repositories in eastern Pennsylvania and southwestern Germany. He is a member of the Association of Professional Genealogists.

Mr. Humphrey's research specialties include eighteenth-century Palatines and Pennsylvania as well as nineteenth-century Germans. In 2001 he lead an NGS research trip to Northern Germany. Currently he is working on records created prior to the Second World War of interest to genealogists in the United States and Germany. This past summer he conducted extensive research at the Prussian State Library in Berlin, Germany.

John T. Humphrey, P. O. Box 15190,  Washington, DC 20003
202.544.4142  (phone)   PaGenealogyBooks@aol.com