publications

reference books

New York City Municipal Archives: An Authorized Guide for Family Historians
New York Genealogical & Biographical Society: New York, 2016
winner, National Genealogical Society’s 2017 Award for Excellence: Genealogical Methods and Sources

UPDATE: As of 2023, all print copies are sold out, but a digital version is available here. A 2nd edition is in process and expected to be published in late 2024 or early 2025.

New York Family History Research Guide and Gazetteer (Revised Edition)
contributing author
New York Genealogical & Biographical Society: New York, 2017

family history books

The Persian Ancestry of Ali Edward Wambold
Monali Media Publishers: Millbrook, N.Y., 2019

The Ancestry of Helen Marion (Locke) Wright
researched by Helen Locke Wright
edited and updated by Aaron Goodwin, Patricia Law Hatcher, FASG, FGSP, and Michael J. Leclerc
Newbury Street Press: Boston, 2011

journal articles

compiled genealogies

“The Richard Allen Family of Philadelphia”
Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, vol. 47 (April 2011)

“The Prussian Origins of William Aufermann of Manhattan and New Jersey”
New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, vol. 141 (July 2010)
winner, American Society of Genealogists’ 2011 Scholar Award

“Richard Allen, First Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church”
Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, vol. 46 (Spring/Summer 2010)

“The Arent Sonmans Family: Peter Wright’s 1769 ‘Proof of Pedigree’ in Philadelphia Deeds”
Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, vol. 46 (Fall/Winter 2009)

“The Ancestry of Anne (Revell) Curtis of Burlington County, New Jersey, and Derbyshire, England”
Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey, vol. 83 (May–September 2008)
co-authored with Patricia Law Hatcher, FASG

annotated record abstracts

“Pennsylvanians in Charleston, South Carolina, Cemetery Inscriptions”
Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, vol. 48 (Fall/Winter 2012)

“Tees Family Record, Philadelphia”
Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, vol. 48 (Fall/Winter 2012)

“A List of Soldiers in the Gaol, Philadelphia, 1756”
Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, vol. 48 (Fall/Winter 2012)

“Marriages in the Docket of John Gloninger, Lancaster County, 1784–1786”
Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, vol. 48 (Spring/Summer 2012)

“Marriages by Rev. Eugene Augustus Hoffman of St. Mark’s, Philadelphia, 1869–1880”
Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, vol. 48 (Spring/Summer 2012)

“Thomas Smiley’s Records of White Deer Valley Baptist Church, Union County, 1808–1831”
Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, vol. 48 (Spring/Summer 2012)

“Marriages in Justice of the Peace Dockets, Somerset County, 1814–1816 and 1828–1829”
Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, vol. 48 (Spring/Summer 2012)

“Coroner’s Inquests, Mifflin County, 1874–1891”
Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, vol. 48 (Spring/Summer 2012)

“Black Family Record, Philadelphia”
Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, vol. 47 (October 2011)

“Marriages by Rev. Nathaniel R. Snowden, 1793–1820”
Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, vol. 47 (October 2011)

“1891 Dog Tax List, Colebrookdale Township, Berks County”
Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, vol. 47 (April 2011)

“Elk County Marriages, 1852–1854”
Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, vol. 47 (April 2011)

“The Pennsylvania State Agency: Transportation Passes for Civil War Bodies”
Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, vols. 47–48 (April 2011–Spring/Summer 2012)

“Requests for Aid, Church of the Transfiguration, Mission Chapel, New York City, circa 1876”
New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, vol. 141 (April 2010)

“Coloured Communicants at St. Stephen’s Episcopal, New York City, circa 1809–1815”
New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, vol. 141 (January 2010)

“Marriages Recorded at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, New York City, 1814–1850”
New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, vol. 140 (July–October 2009)

“Went Family Record, New York City”
New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, vol. 140 (July 2009)

“Subscriptions for the First Presbyterian Church of Elizabeth-Town, 1734–1745”
Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey, vol. 84 (January–May 2009)

“Marriages Recorded at St. George’s Methodist Episcopal Church, Philadelphia, 1789–1817”
Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, vol. 46 (Spring/Summer 2009)

“The Elizabeth-Town Associates: Signatures on the Original Answer, 1751”
New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, vol. 138 (July 2007)

society magazine articles

“Lost New York Administration Bonds Rediscovered: Liber A, 1742–1753”
New York Researcher, vol.27 (Fall 2016)

“Philadelphia Death and Burial Records: the Popular and the Hard-to-Find”
Penn in Hand, vol. 28 (Fall 2010)

“Church Records Held at the Archives of Christ & St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, New York City”
New York Researcher, vol.20 (Summer/Fall 2009)

lectures

“Using Land Records to Solve Genealogical Problems”
New York State Family History Conference 2020
New York Genealogical & Biographical Society
September 2020

“Dutch Naming Systems in Early America”
New York State Family History Conference 2020
New York Genealogical & Biographical Society
September 2020

“The Andrew Williams Family of Seneca Village:
A Case Study of African American Research in New York City”
Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society, Greater New York Chapter, and the New York Genealogical & Biographical Society at Columbia University
10 February 2018

“Unraveling the Mysteries of Seneca Village”
Landmark West at the Rectory of the Church of the Blessed Sacrament
8 February 2018

“The Andrew Williams Family of Seneca Village:
A Case Study of African American Research in New York City”
Association of Professional Genealogists—New York Metro Chapter
22 March 2017

“New York City Municipal Archives: A Brand-New View”
Association of Professional Genealogists—New York Metro Chapter
14 June 2016