The American Society of Genealogists was founded by John Insley Coddington, Arthur Adams and Meredith B. Colket, Jr., in December 1940. It is the scholarly honorary society of the genealogical field, limited to 50 living Fellows.
Prior to the Second World War, genealogy was frequently viewed as the realm of eccentric dilettantes. The founders of ASG and others were leaders in the push for more rigorous research standards. Information was to be do...
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The American Society of Genealogists was founded by John Insley Coddington, Arthur Adams and Meredith B. Colket, Jr., in December 1940. It is the scholarly honorary society of the genealogical field, limited to 50 living Fellows.
Prior to the Second World War, genealogy was frequently viewed as the realm of eccentric dilettantes. The founders of ASG and others were leaders in the push for more rigorous research standards. Information was to be documented and original sources were to be used whenever possible. Donald Lines Jacobus noted in 1960 that a "new school," had developed in American genealogy circles about 1930. That movement, according to the late Milton Rubincam, "...wrote accounts of specific families, documented and referenced: they showed by example how problems should be solved, what sources should be used, and how records should be interpreted."
Fellows of the American Society of Genealogists, who bear the postnominal acronym FASG, have written some of the most notable...
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