With the help of the Berkshire Family History Association (BFHA), the Athenaeum has built one of the finest collections of genealogical research materials available on New England forebearers. Our greatest strength is in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont and early Rhode Island resources, and we are working hard to strengthen our collections of Maine and New Hampshire materials while updating and filling in as many gaps as possible. In addition, we have materials on adjacent New York counties east of the Hudson River, Quebec, and other areas from which New Englanders came and to which they moved on.