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               Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Issue

"My favorite genealogical publication has always been The American Genealogist. I think it is splendid; it covers a great many fields of genealogy and it has a better caliber of compiled articles than any other genealogical periodical. I'm devoted to it."

 —John Insley Coddington, FASG

 "If I had to advise a genealogist to subscribe to one and only one journal, in most cases I would recommend TAG."

 —Eugene Aubrey Stratton, FASG

Applied Genealogy

For nearly ninety years, America's premier independent genealogical journal has been The American Genealogist, affectionately known as TAG. TAG was founded in 1922 by Donald Line Jacobus (1887–1970), the father of scientific genealogy in this country and the first person elected to the National Genealogical Society's National Genealogy Hall of Fame. TAG was Jacobus’s vehicle for elevating genealogical scholarship to the same high standards as other scholarly disciplines, and it was at the center of what is now known as the “Jacobus School,” a group of professional and amateur genealogists who were dedicated to these standards.

Throughout its long career, TAG has emphasized carefully documented compiled genealogy and analyses of difficult genealogical problems, all directed toward providing serious genealogists with examples of how they too might solve such problems.

 EDITORS:

DAVID L. GREENE, FASG, of Demorest, Georgia, joined in the editing of TAG in 1984 with Ruth Wilder Sherman, FASG, who was then publisher. He succeeded Mrs. Sherman on her death in 1992 and has been publisher of the journal since that time. Dr. Greene is a Fellow of the American Society of Genealogists [FASG], the honorary scholastic society of the field, limited to 50 Fellows elected for life, a group he is currently serving as President. He recently retired as Professor of English and former Chair of the Division of Humanities at Piedmont College, Demorest, Georgia.

 ROBERT CHARLES ANDERSON, FASG, of Jaffrey, New Hampshire, joined Dr. Greene in editing TAG in 1993. He is one of the outstanding New England genealogists of this generation, probably best known for his three-volume work, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620–1633, published by the New England Historic Genealogical Society in 1995. The first four volumes of the second series of this work, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634–1635,  have recently been published. Like Dr. Greene, he is a Fellow of the American Society of Genealogists [FASG], a group he has served as Secretary, Vice President, and President.

 JOSEPH C. ANDERSON II, FASG, of Dallas, Texas, joined David Greene and Robert Anderson in editing TAG in 1999. He specializes in New England genealogy and is the editor of The Maine Genealogist, one of the best of the regional journals, and editor of the acclaimed Maine Families in 1790 project sponsored by the Maine Genealogical Society. He is also a Fellow of the American Society of Genealogists [FASG].

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