"'Guide to the Manuscript Collection of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, First Edition' will direct family historians to an unprecedented wealth of resources -- most available only in the R. Stanton Avery Special Collections Department at NEHGS. The NEHGS manuscript collection, considered one of the largest and most valuable of its kind in the world, contains more than deeds, and cemetery transcriptions to unpublished genealogical treatments for a multitude of New England and American families. The guide is fully indexed and is an easy-to-use reference for the NEHGS manuscript collections" -- Cover, p. 4.