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The
New England Historic Genealogy (NEHGS)
has launched a new website, AmericanAncestors.org to
reflect the society’s broad range of genealogical resources, announced  NEHGS
president  D.
Brenton Simons.

AmericanAncestors.org includes NEHGS’ New England and New York content, features,
articles, and resources, as well as weekly updates and databases in a variety of regional
and ethnic specialties, such as sources for mid-Atlantic, Irish, and African-American
research. The site has a new image viewer for
genealogical records, an enhanced
search engine, faster navigation and search results time, and social networking-type
profiles for NEHGS members.

Most records databases  and indexes on the site are available
to NEHGS members ($75 per year); but the site also has a few free indexes, an array
of how-to articles, a genealogy question of the day, the NEHGS library catalog and
more.

Though its scope has broadened, Simons says NEHGS will remain
committed to its core strength: New England
genealogical scholarship. “New England will always be our greatest strength and primary
focus, as well as our cherished institutional name. We have much New England material
to bring to the public and the new website will add 25 million additional New England
names to search.”

For more information on AmericanAncestors.org,
see this NEHGS press release.