Barbara Jean Mathews

Barbara Jean Mathews is a Board-certified professional genealogist who specializes in the families of colonial Connecticut and Massachusetts. She serves on the board of the Massachusetts Genealogical Council. She is a past officer of the Board for Certification of Genealogists and of the Connecticut Professional Genealogists Council. In 2014 she was elected a Fellow of the American Society of Genealogists.

Barbara's blog, "The Demanding Genealogist," explores issues of quality in genealogical work. She uses generally accepted genealogical standards to review printed and web-based genealogy work products, including her own work.

Among Barbara's publications are "Philo Hodge (1756-1842) of Roxbury, Connecticut," and "Descendants of Governor Thomas Welles of Connecticut through Hezekiah[5] and Daniel[5] Wells of Stratford, Connecticut." Barbara also edited The "Descendants of Thomas Lamkin of the Northern Neck of Virginia." She has many published articles in The American Genealogist (TAG) as well as a few articles in such journals and magazines as NGS Newsmagazine, Association of Professional Genealogists Quarterly (APGQ), The Connecticut Nutmegger, and The Essex Genealogist. Her book reviews have appeared in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, TAG, the National Genealogy Society Quarterly, and APGQ.