NFFG Contact Information

How to Contact Us...

Send corrections of errors at any time. Also, send photos or images or records, people, family homes, etc., for anyone who is found in the online family tree. Please include your proof or reason(s) for the corrections or errors which you have found. NFFG thanks you for your assistance. Please click here to send such a message. This message will reach the Project Co-ordinator, at nffgfamily@hotmail.com.

Also, members or known contributors may send an email message for any reason. Please click here to send such an email. This message will also reach the Project Co-ordinator, at nffgfamily@hotmail.com.

General information Regarding Information about Family Records as shown in our Online Family Tree here....

We have to protect our inbox from deluge, viruses, spam, and time-consuming unpaid inquiries. For this reason, non-members should NOT send an inquiry to this email address - read on to find out how to send inquiries.

Non Member Information. We are very, very busy with research for NFFG Members, and genealogical response to many inquiries requires Membership status. If you are not a member, but you require response to a simple question, you may send a minimum guaranteed response fee of the token amount of One Dollar ($1 US) to Pay Pal, which will guarantee that we will read and respond to your message within 24 hours. This fee provides for a simple quick response, but does not include any genealogical analysis. Please read on for information about genealogical analysis. We may, however, be able to provide a quick, simple answer to your query, or further direction. Click here to pay this fee immediately online (using PayPal), which will send us a secure, immediate message - and wait for your reply within 24 hours. Place a comment in the box with the Pay Pal payment, but do NOT send your main question at that time. When we reply, you may then state your main question.

We cannot answer other queries from non-members by email. Source requests, or clarifications to family records, may only be made by members, or by those who purchase copy rights or family cds, or to those who send their information and proofs by postal mail. Only members with a family stake in accuracy, may make such clarifications to the main NFFG Family Tree. Information is also provided to those who purchase units of Professional Help - see below. We regret this inconvenience, but spam and virus attack has made this necessary. For our postal mail address, please see below. To acquire a membership, a searchable .ged version of the family CD, or other product or service, please use PayPal. PayPal has security features which protect us from spam and viruses. To use this service to obtain help with your family research, see the next paragraph. For membership, family CDs, or copying rights, please return to our main web page and find the link you need to obtain your choice of access.

Do you just simply need a bit of professional help with your family research? Would you like to know what is available in the NFFG archives, which might help with your search, RIGHT NOW? Please click here for help options, which require fee payment.

If you have found someone in your family tree in the NFFG Family Files, then welcome. You are a special guest. We may need your help, on a Membership basis. Please click here for more information, just for cousins.

Due to spam and viruses associated with email, Postal Mail is required for ALL contacts from non-members, except via PayPal payments, which begin with PayPal email contact, as provided above. Upon receipt of a payment message from Pay Pal, you will receive a response within 24 hours. EXCEPTION to the MAIL-ONLY rule : members, known contributors, or persons who have previously sent payment for use of our files or other reasons, MAY send an email. If you are such a person and need to send an email, please click here. This message will reach the Project Co-ordinator, at nffgfamily@hotmail.com. For our Postal Mail Address, see the bottom of this page.

NFFG is the genealogical arm of DFNW, Descendants of the Founders of the New World. DFNW, a registered entity, which is dedicated to the acknowledgement of the great importance of the lives, history, values, and beliefs of the founding families of America and Canada. NFFG allows living descendants of Founders to establish registered bloodline links back to these Founders.

The Network of Founding Family Genealogies is also committed to the old-fashioned method of contact: Regular Postal Mail. NFFG Family Files represent a major project, and must be as correct as possible. Here is how to use Postal Mail, assuming that you do not wish to use the Pay Pal & email method.

To Send Corrections, Changes, or brief Additions to the Family Files found here at NFFG: please submit this information, along with your proofs or persuading arguments, by postal mail. DO NOT send original documents: send high quality paper copies, or send jpg image files, which you store on a floppy disk or CD, and mail the floppy or CD to us. We will examine your records, and once approved, we will make the changes or additions to our main database and our online Family Files. When these changes are made, your name will be cited as a source for the new information. There is NO CHARGE to send these corrections; these are very welcome, and NFFG thanks you for taking the time to 'do it right'. We will send an acknowledgement by mail, with a few weeks.

To send images to add to the scrapbook files of individuals found in the NFFG Family Files, which will be available on the Member version of the family CD: please DO NOT SEND ORIGINALS. If you do send originals, please send $5.00 cash or international money order, to cover the postage for their return to you - otherwise they will be retained permanently in our files. Use a scanner, and save your images as bmp or jpg files on a floppy or CD, and send us this material, along with a cover letter. Such materials might include old photographs, paintings, drawing, gravestone photos, copies of vital records, family homes or sites, church records, property records, census records, etc. WE NEED and WELCOME all such contributions to the NFFG Family Files. There is NO CHARGE to you, to send us these materials. We will examine them, and when approved, they will be added to the files of the appropriate Family Tree Individual, and a credit will be given to you as the source. NFFG thanks you for such valuable contributions. An acknowledgement will be sent to you by mail, within a few weeks.

If you wish to add extended information or family genealogies to NFFG, please submit these either as documents (copies only) on paper, or as documents saved as MS Word files on floppies or CDs. NOTE that this requires that contributors join as NFFG Members first. This may be initiated most quickly by PayPal payments, or Money Orders may be sent to us by postal mail. Please make money orders payable to NFFG. Next, send the genealogy linking you to a founder - an individual who is already found in our main Family Files. Use Family Tree Maker or other software to create a Descendants Report from the Founder to yourself. Copy this report into a blank MS Word document. Save the MS Word document on a floppy or CD, and mail this to us. To find the correct amounts for this Membership process, please return to the Main Page of this website, and click on the appropriate link. There, you will also find a link to make a direct and secure payment using PayPal, or, you will find the amounts to send via postal mail.

If you are a past member or contributor, and we seem to have ignored your past emails, they are probably lost. Please send your information again, by email, or by postal mail, and accept our apologies. If you require an updated CD, please advise, and send a money order for $10.00 to cover airmail postage. All money orders must be redeemable in Canada - please ask your bank if this can be done. If you wish shipment by overnight courier, the amount for shipment to the USA is $40.00, and to Canada the amount is $25.00. Please make all money orders payable to NFFG. If you are a recent member and are entitled to a free replacement CD, please advise by mail, and we will send it to you.

If we have not responded to your email...If you have sent important information about our family files, whether it was a correction, change, or addition, the emails have probably been lost. Please send these by regular mail. Or, try email again. Send your message to the Project Co-ordinator, at nffgfamily@hotmail.com. We apologize for any inconvenience.

If you have need of specialized research, no matter how challenging, we may be able to help. We have thousands of pages of contributed information, and are willing to do on-site research if needed. Send us a letter indicating your needs and expected budget, and we will reply quickly. For truly fast response, you may send an instant guaranteed response message, by clicking here and scrolling down the page to the link.

Why Pay Pal? When you are sending payment for any reason, PayPal is recommended. It will save 2-3 weeks over the lag time for regular mail. Some follow-up by regular mail may also be required, in some types of transactions. You will be advised if this is the case. In all cases, SEND COMMENTS when using Pay Pal - use the Comment box with your PayPal payment, and describe your request in a bit of detail. We find PayPal safer and more secure than our local bank account and our debit or credit cards.

Please use this address...

DFNW - NFFG Genealogical Centre

141 Perth Street

Stratford, Ontario, Canada N5A 3Y1.

If sending any type of payment, please ensure that your payment may be processed in Canada (many US money orders cannot), and is made payable to NFFG.

NOTE that if you are mailing money orders for memberships, CDs, or services, to be sure that they are International Money Orders, in US dollars. American money orders cannot usually be processed outside of the United States. Persons living in Canada, with Canadian return addresses, may pay in Canadian dollars.

Stratford, Ontario (home of The Shakespearian Festival), with a population of 29,000, has more acres of parkland per capita than any other city in Canada along with several formal floral gardens, close to 100 municipal flowerbeds and several major formal park areas. The city is blessed with 340 hanging floral baskets and each year plants approximately 100,000 annuals. Stratford also captured the Nations in Bloom World Championship in Madrid, Spain in 1997 for the 10,000 to 50,000 population category. Stratford is indeed a Community in Bloom. It has been our pleasure to welcome several DFNW cousins to Stratford. Visit, and bathe your soul in the plays of Shakespeare, then sit by the lake and feed the swans.

Stratford was originally a highway stopover for travel by the Huron Tract settlers, and later a railway hub - the railway era starting about 1850, peaking about 1910, and diminishing greatly by about 1960. During this era, Thomas Edison was in Stratford. Thomas Edison (see below) learned telegraphy in Stratford. In 1863 he obtained his first position as a regular telegraph operator on the Grand Trunk Railway at Stratford Junction, Canada. Later, he was retained by the railway to help develop a complex system of telegraphy. When in Stratford, visit the railway station and read the bronze plaque commemorating this great man.

Click here to visit the official web site for Stratford.

Click here to visit the official web site for the Stratford Festival Theatre.

Thomas Alva Edison (1847 Ohio - 1931 New Jersey)

Profoundly influenced modern life through inventions such as the incandescent light bulb, the phonograph, and the motion picture camera. During his lifetime, he acquired 1,093 patents. He is often called The Greatest American Inventor. He is found in our family tree with (currently) several hundred related individuals. These may be found on the online website or CD. From the CD, you can view many photographs, and run a report to see whether any of your family lines are connected. Thomas will not be found in a DAR report though, as his great grandfather was a Loyalist in New Jersey, whose lands and home were confiscated in 1783. Many Edison homesites are marked in Ontario, though the family returned to the USA. Read the full story of this fascinating family transition by finding his file in our Online Family Tree Database. And note again that DAR and UEL are one-sided and inadequate for a full understanding of New World genealogy. His records may be found in our online Family Tree.

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