Scott C. Steward
Scott C. Steward was the founding editor at Vita Brevis; he served as NEHGS Editor-in-Chief 2013-2022. He is the author, co-author, or editor of genealogies of the Ayer, Le Roy, Lowell, Saltonstall, Thorndike, and Winthrop families. His articles have appeared in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, NEXUS, New England Ancestors, American Ancestors, and The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, and he has written book reviews for the Register, The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, and the National Genealogical Society Quarterly.
Congratulations, Jeff, you have them identified! Did you need IMDb to identify them?
On Marking the 4th of July
Congratulations, Jerri, you've got them! Did you recognize their faces, or did you look them up at IMDb?
On Marking the 4th of July
Thanks to everyone for the suggestions. I hope to do a series on these and other photos, and perhaps in…
On More object lessons
Susan, it was the Holways and the Hills who lived in Augusta, Maine. I would imagine, since I don't think…
On A small world
Robert, he could well be covered in Davis's book on the Pattens.
On A small world
Jeff, do you mean Franz Ferdinand Colloredo-Mansfeld (Harvard 1932)? He is the father of Ferdinand and grandfather of my contemporary…
On A small world
What a great tradition!
On Overlapping generations
Steven, I don't think there is a close connection. Mrs. Gray's husband's family can be seen in the EIHC volume…
On A Victorian genealogist
Both sound like treasures -- you are lucky to have two such interesting and disparate ways to appreciate your forebears!
On A Victorian genealogist
It doesn't, Sally -- and I have still to look for her manuscript "Record of the Clay-Savage connexions"!
On A Victorian genealogist