The American Genealogist is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal which focuses on genealogy and family history.Francois Weil, Family Trees: A History of Genealogy in America (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2013), 167–168Robert M. Taylor Jr. and Ralph J. Crandall, "Historians and Genealogists: An Emerging Community of Interest", in Generations and Change: Genealogical Perspectives in Social History, ed. Robert M. Taylor Jr. and Ralph J. Crandall (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1986), 12–13n27 It was established by Donald Lines Jacobus in 1922 as the New Haven Genealogical Magazine. In July 1932 it was renamed The American Genealogist and New Haven Genealogical Magazine and the last part of the title was dropped in 1937, giving the journal its current title. All editors have been fellows of the American Society of Genealogists.David L. Greene, "Donald Line Jacobus, Scholarly Genealogy, and The American Genealogist," The American Genealogist 72, 3–4 (July–October 1997): 159–180.
Editors-in-chief The following persons have been editors-in-chief: Donald Lines Jacobus, 1922–1965 George E. McCracken, 1966–1983 Robert Moody Sherman, 1984, and Ruth Wilder Sherman, 1984–1992 David L. Greene, 1993–2014 Nathaniel Lane Taylor, 2015–present
Abstracting and indexing The journal is indexed in the Periodical Source Index and Book Review Index Online Plus.
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External links
The American Genealogist at AmericanAncestors; complete text of all back issues 1922–2007.