The New England Historic Genealogical Society (www.NewEnglandAncestors.org), in conjunction with Northeastern University Press, is pleased to announce the release on 1 March 2002 of an important new multi-author book, The Art of Family: Genealogical Artifacts in New England. Edited by D. Brenton Simons and Peter Benes, The Art of Family features fifteen chapters by leading authorities in the fields of history, antiques, and genealogy. Among its noted contributors are Pulitzer-prize winning author Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (A Midwife’s Tale and The Age of Homespun), John Demos (The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America), Wendell Garrett (editor-at-large of the magazine Antiques), Jane C. Nylander (Our Own Snug Fireside: Images of the New England Home, 1760-1860), Betty Ring (Girlhood Embroidery: American Samplers and Pictorial Needlework, 1650-1850) Abbott Lowell Cummings (The Framed Houses of the Massachusetts Bay, 1625-1725), and Maureen A. Taylor (Uncovering Your Ancestors Through Family Photographs).

A unique and unprecedented publication, The Art of Family is illustrated with more than two hundred black-and-white illustrations and sixteen color plates, and features many rare or never-before-published images from the collections of the American Antiquarian Society, the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, the Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife, the New England Historic Genealogical Society, and museums and private collections throughout the United States. It is an essential source for genealogists, historians, collectors, curators, and general readers.

The above is an extract of a much longer and detailed description. You can read all the details at: www.newenglandancestors.org/store/browse/product.asp?sku=3252.

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