MCGS April Fireside Roots presents Dr. Nathaniel Lane Taylor

MCGS is pleased to present Dr. Nathaniel Lane Taylor, Dr. Taylor holds Ph.D. in medieval European history from Harvard University. He has been researching his family for many years, and his writing and speaking interests include: medieval kinship consciousness; cultural and legal systems of kinship, inheritance and probate; the evolution of personal names; the history of genealogy as a discipline and literary form; and artistic and diagrammatic representation of families, including heraldry.

Dr. Taylor is a fellow with the American Genealogy Society, editor of the The American Genealogist and has a blog http://nltaylor.net/sketchbook/