D. Brenton Simons

David Brenton Simons is president and CEO of the New England Historic Genealogical Society (AmericanAncestors.org), a nonfiction history author, and an American genealogist.

He served as Vice Chair of the Plymouth 400th Anniversary State Commission by appointment of Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker. In this role, he has led commemorative activities in the United States, United Kingdom, and The Netherlands, and has established the world's largest online database of Mayflower descendants. He was also appointed by Governor Baker in 2021 as a member of the Special Commission on the Seal and Motto of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

He is President of the American Friends of St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, and Descendants of The Knights of the Garter, a nonprofit organization supporting St. George's Chapel, a royal peculiar under the jurisdiction of King Charles III, affiliate of The Society of the Friends of St George's and Descendants of the Knights of the Garter. He is also President of the 36th International Congress of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences, a biennial conference begun in Barcelona in 1929, which will be held in for the first time in the United States in 2024, in Boston. Provided by Wikipedia