Introduction / John Demos
Sect. I. Two Historians' Views on Family History and Genealogy
Families and the Decorative Arts / Wendell Garrett
Creating Lineages / Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Sect. II. Family Representations and Remembrances
Decorated New England Family Registers, 1770 to 1850 / Peter Benes
"Keep Sacred the Memory of Your Ancestors": Family Registers and Memorial Prints / Georgia Brady Barnhill
Tall Oaks from Little Acorns Grow: The Family Tree Lithograph in America / Maureen A. Taylor
Sect. III. Families and Portraiture
New England Family Record Broadsides and Portraiture, and the Letterpress Artist of Connecticut / D. Brenton Simons
Family in Portraiture / Lauren B. Hewes
Tokens of Sorrow: New England Portrait Miniatures and Mourning Jewelry / Elle Shushan
Sect. IV. Representations of Passage
One Moment in Time: The Family Portrait Mourning Piece, a Unique American Form / Betty Ring
"By this you see we are but dust": The Gravestone Art and Epitaphs of Our Ancestors / Laurel K. Gabel
Sect. V. Patterns of Inheritance and Acquisition
Sterling Memories: Family and Silver in Early New England / Barbara McLean Ward and Gerald W. R. Ward
Abigail Ball Box: The History of an Initialed Object / Abbott Lowell Cummings
Sect. VI. Patterns of Family Legacies
Preserving a Legacy / Jane Cayford Nylander
Commemorating Colonial New England's First Families: The Triumph of the Pilgrims / Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs
Sect. VII. Genealogy and Historical Research
On the Importance of Genealogical Methodology in Researching Early New England Folk Portraitists / Arthur B. Kern and Sybil B. Kern
Selected Checklist of Manuscript, Watercolor, and Needlework Family Registers and Family Trees in New England, 1780-1846 / Peter Benes
Checklist of Printed Family Registers and Memorial Prints, 1790-1900 / Georgia Brady Barnhill.
