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Please note that this site is a private, professionally hosted service, which is open to new members. It is dedicated to the genealogies of descendants of early founding families. If you would like to read information about how and why we choose families for inclusion at this web site, and about details and limitations of our research, please click here. Members have unlimited copy rights and may request information from our archives. New members are welcome.

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What are you, relative to your ancestors and descendants, in the river of time? For the answer, click here.

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Rules for email contact: NFFG welcomes the receipt of possible error corrections to, or omissions in, the online family tree files, by email: please send your proofs for the errors which you identify. NFFG also welcomes general brief messages, of a positive or constructive nature, by email. Non members: do NOT send a genealogical inquiry to this email address. Also acceptable: members or known contributors may send an email message for any reason. We welcome receipt of such messages - Please click here to send such an email. Such an email will reach the Project Co-ordinator of NFFG at nffgfamily@hotmail.com. Most messages are answered within 24 hours. Other unsolicited inquiries and comments must go through filters - we used to answer ALL inquiries, and became buried under a mountain of complex and difficult queries, overload, spam, and viruses.

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Welcome to a linked family genealogy, a Founding Families Project.

 

NFFG provides a private forum in which family genealogies are linked with other family genealogies, and thereby linked back to early Founding Families of the U.S.A., Canada, Quebec, and Newfoundland. All North American pioneer settlement was one large, interwoven pool until the end of the War of Independence (The Revolutionary War) in 1783. The interwoven linkages are found in the bloodlines and marriages, which have been contributed to this project. All of the family records which are found in the genealogical files here, have been provided by contributors and members. NFFG genealogists co-ordinate these genealogies and interweavings, and make every effort to ensure accuracy.

 

While the earliest pioneer founders are the ultimate roots, the merging and intermarriage of many other later pioneers from many lands and cultures make up many of the branches, of this family tree.

 

This site and its families and records, consisting of contributed materials which may not be available elsewhere, may be helpful in your efforts to get back past ancestral hurdles, where existing research ends in mystery or uncertainty. In turn, new members and contributors may help others find their own links to Founding Families, and unravel their own genealogical mysteries. When you join NFFG and contribute your family records, the NFFG files are used to help solve your mysteries and questions. Your records will appear online here, and your research will become a beacon to new family researchers. The posting of your family's records at the NFFG Online Family Tree is free- included in your Membership fee. This posting will assure that they can be accessed by a simple Google search, and are not buried within inaccessible locations within private genealogical sites - and may thus generate more feedback from Google-browser-researchers, and thereby add to your knowledge of your early family.

 

NFFG stands for Network of Founding Family Genealogies. RDF is a descriptor of a member of NFFG, a Registered Descendant of a Founder. RFR is an NFFG designation of a Registered Family Researcher.

 

 

We support genealogical tracing by bloodlines as well as surnames, whereas many online sources are primarily concerned with surnames. Surname genealogies link fathers to sons, with casual reference to the mothers along the way. Simple surname genealogy implies a poor understanding of genetics. Everyone is equally related to the mothers along the way. The mothers in our family tree will have many different surnames.

 

In a time of wavering values and uncertainties about self-identity, the linkage to a Founding Family may help provide an anchor of identity. No matter what happens, you will always be a child of your ancestors. Your genes, your identity, came from them. And the Founding Families were fountains of the best genes that were available.

 

Open YOUR sack of ancestral treasures Join NFFG today and start the process.

1. Find out more about membership and adding your research to this project. Click here.

 

2. Patriots and Loyalists: the two factions in the American Revolution of 1776 - 1783. Both considered themselves loyal Americans. They had used the term 'Canada' to describe the areas formerly held by France, but after the Fall of Quebec in 1763, all of what we now call Canada, was considered as part of America. Modern Canada was really started by a mixture of early, fragmentary settlements, finally gelled together after 1783, by the arrival and settlement of the Loyalists. The Patriots remained in America, and founded the modern United States of America. Both groups, Loyalists and Patriots, are represented in the NFFG online family tree. Both groups are KEY founding ancestral groups. Descendants of Patriots are honored by SAR and DAR, and descendants of Loyalists are honoured by UELAC. (Click on the blue links to find out how you can establish your ancestry, if applicable - NFFG genealogists can help establish your case.) All three of these websites contain valuable genealogical and historical information, and are well worth an extended visit. If your ancestry includes either a Patriot or a Loyalist, you will likely have the other in your ancestry as well. Read an excellent and fair synopsis of Loyalists and Patriots found in Wikipedia. Click here to read the article, then click 'back' on your browser to return here.

 

3. Rules for email contact: NFFG welcomes the receipt of error corrections to, or omissions in, the online family tree files, by email. NFFG also welcomes general brief messages by email. Non-members: do NOT send a genealogical inquiry to this email address. Also, members or known contributors may send an email message for any reason. Please click here to send such an email. This email will reach the Project Co-ordinator at nffgfamily@hotmail.com. Non-members requiring information, please click here.

 

4. Do you need a lot, or a bit, of professional help with your family research? Do you have a confusing mystery, or are you struggling with conflicting information? Would you like to know what might be found in our NFFG archives? Please click here for help.

 

5. If you would like to view the areas of research, and the families under study by current NFFG members, please click here.

 

6. Visit and browse the NFFG Family Tree files: Click here to go to the explanatory portal to the Family Tree files.

 

7. Read some recent articles from genealogical journals, about DNA testing, and about the Cluster Principle of Genealogy. Click here to read the articles. Note that despite the promising start to DNA testing for family research, problems have arisen, and new technology is needed.

 

8. Click here to read a biographical sketch of the Co-ordinators of this project.

 

9. Read our copyright and caution notice, and information about virus threats. Always use virus protection.

 

10. Find out about placing a Bronze Plaque on a family home or site, complete with an NFFG Registration Certificate. Click here to view the information.

 

This page was last updated January 6, 2010, or later.