The vibrancy of the nation’s founding genealogical institution and largest nonprofit organization of its kind, New England Historic Genealogical Society, is captured for all to see in The Family Album: A Visual History of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1845–2020. This beautiful volume includes dozens of historical images, many of which have never been published before.

When Nelson McMahon married Louise Rathbun, they forever linked his ancestral families from the Middle Atlantic with hers harkening back to New England. After the American Revolutionary War, his ancestors moved south into Virginia, while hers moved west across New York state. Both sides of the family made their way into the Midwest before the Civil War would have placed them on opposite sides.