Gary Boyd Roberts

Gary Boyd Roberts (born September 29, 1943, Houston, Texas) is an American genealogist known for his scholarship in Americans of royal descent, the ancestors of American presidents, and notable kin. Roberts is the retired Senior Research Scholar of the New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS).
Early life
Roberts is the son of Jack Carl and Mary Elizabeth Boyd Roberts. He is the great-great-grandson of a soldier from the Confederate States of America, Calvin Henderson Roberts of Johnston County, North Carolina.
A native of Houston, Texas, Roberts received a B.A. from Yale University and an M.A. from the University of Chicago. He was also a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley. He married Margaret Melstrom on September 6, 1969 at Cherry Hill, New Jersey. The couple divorced in 1975 with no issue.
Career
Roberts joined the NEHGS staff in 1974 and held a number of positions including Director of Publications and Senior Research Scholar. Roberts is a former member of the Society of Genealogists and the Connecticut Society of Genealogists.
Kinship between George W. Bush and John Kerry and other materials appear on his website Notable Kin. In recent years, he has collaborated with genealogist Christopher Challender Child, of the Newbury Street Press. In 2017, he research of the ancestry of Meghan, Duchess of Sussex was published online.
Roberts's work appears in his column "Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources" for the NEHGS website.
Works
Books
As sole author
* Ancestors of American Presidents (1989, 1995, 2009)
* The Royal Descents of 500 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (1993)
* The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2004)
*The Royal Descents of 900 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2018)
* Notable Kin, Volume One and Notable Kin, Volume Two (1998, 1999)
*The Best Genealogical Sources in Print: Essays by Gary Boyd Roberts, vol. 1 (2004)
As coauthor
*American Ancestors and Cousins of (1984). With William Addams Reitwiesner.
As editor
*Genealogies of Connecticut Families. NEHGR (3 vols., 1983)
*English Origins of New England Families. NEHGR (2 series, 6 vols., 1984-85)
*Genealogies of Mayflower Families. NEHGR (3 vols., 1985)
*Mayflower Source Records. NEHGR (1986)
*Genealogies of Rhode Island Families. NEHGR (2 vols., 1989)
*Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis (3 vols., 1996)
As contributor
*Introduction to New England Marriages Prior to 1700 by Clarence Almon Torrey, (1985, several times reprinted with the introduction revised)
*The Ancestry of Catherine Middleton (Foreword, 2011)
Other works
* “The Mowbray Connection: An Analysis of the Genealogical Evolution of British, American and Continental Nobilities, Gentries, and Upper Classes Since the End of the Middle Ages,” 23 vols., at NEHGS, New York Public Library, and the Society of Genealogists, London. OCLC 26794516

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