The list which follows is far from complete. Some of our records come from notes which were submitted many years ago. If we have missed your name, please send us an email message. These individuals, several now deceased, have contributed thousands of pages of irreplaceable notes and records and photographs. It is to be hoped that this web site will keep their work alive, and make it available to many more family researchers, who will, in their turn, build the Founder's Family Tree further. If you find an error in our records - and whose records do not contain some errors - do not blame any contributor. Join NFFG and provide the corrections, along with your proof. Or simply send the correction itself - see the link to 'Contact Us' at the main page of the website, and work through to the 'submission of errors' notes.

'RDF' behind a name means the individuals are NFFG members (formerly DFNW) and/or CD holders. If you made a contribution and we have not included it, please get in touch by email. If you are on the list and would like your email address included, or your specific area of research included, let us know by email. If you are on the list but wish to be removed, please let us know by email. If you would like to place a small advertising banner on this site for research services, (fee required) let us know by email.

Dennis Doane, RDF, and the Doane Family Association of America, Inc. (Katherine K. Blair, Historian) have contributed records for the Doane family and many intermarried and related families. Deacon John Doane (1583 - 1684) was in the very early group of Massachusetts Bay Founders, named in detail by James Savage and other early researchers. By 1638, Deacon John Doane and a small number of associates founded Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts. In a few years, his family also had a key role in founding nearby Orleans. As things change with time, some of his descendants became Friends, and resettled in Pennsylvania, while a central core of the family remained in Barnstable County (and other counties in) Massachusetts. The circle widened, and direct descendants settled across America and into Canada, as some chose to become Loyalists during the Revolutionary War (1776-1783). Take some time as browse through the NFFG records for the Doane family. The records here are not complete, as they depend on records submitted by descendants: and if your Doane-connected family line is not named, YOU may join NFFG and help us fill in this fascinating family story.

Dave Brown of Miramichi. NB, who has sent an extensive fascinating genealogy of the descendants of John Trerice, first identified as a foundling in an orphanage in England, whose descendants have spread across the U.S.A. and Canada. Dave Dillingham Wiltshire, Dillingham Family Researcher, cited in database and CD, welcomes email inquiries. Click here to send an email message to Dave. (dwiltsdill@aol.com). Carla Perkins, Dillon Family Researcher, may be reached at PerkC2@aol.com. Paul Giometti RDF, New York State post-Revolutionary War families. Many excellent materials published on the web, diligent researcher. Ernest Embree Coates (1910-1997) Ripleys & descendants, Nova Scotia, Canada and U.S.A. A tireless researcher who supplied via my father, hundreds of pages of typescripts, publications, notes, wills, etc. Russell Ewing - Genealogist, WW2 Intelligence Officer, meticulous researcher, supplied hundreds of pages of research and notes. Richard Phillips, RDF, of Potts Camp, Missouri- early Phillips of North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, and Indiana, patiently worked with us through complex ancestries, and helped us overcome errors which had slipped in. John Ripley. Judy Messenger. Mary Ann McCrea. Mary Noiles (Conrad). Kaye (Noiles) Higgins. Phyllis Noiles (Noiles family researchers have helped develop the descendants of an Acadian family who avoided the Explusion of the Acadians, and has resulted in extensive genealogies in Nova Scotia, Louisiana, and other provinces and states). Eric Keys (Embree, Chisholm; Eric has good vitals). Jim McLean (McLean, Ripley, Pennsylvania McLeans). James Newman. Mike Burley (MacPherson). Pat Shipley (Shipley, Miles, Myles, Innes, Dougherty families). Jessica Golomski. RDF. Julia Wakeley (Wakeley, Phinney, Pettis families). Rev. Robert Ripley. Treena Harvey - (Smith Family, many library and biographies, news items). Karl Brady, RDF (Phillips family). Donald Pugsley. H. Gibson (Hundreds of corrections, updates, new information, articles, biographies, etc). Shirley Gauthier. Nanette MacPherson. Hazel Staple (Taylor/Jenks and related families). Doug Skidmore. Julie Johnson, RDF (GAR, Iowa Pioneers). Alex Sarson & Harold Crawford. Alice Earles. Andrew J. Morris (Irish Ship Lists). Doug Korsma, RDF. Ann Shannon (Menno and other surnames). Betty A. Parker RDF of Florida - a wealth of cemetery photographs, family records, and other invaluable assistance). Lauri Ripley, RDF - Massachusetts and other grave inscriptions, much research. Earle Ripley RDF - (Western Canada Ripleys & interwoven families). Bruce Pitts (US Phillips families). Ann W. Gardner RDF,- (Phillips of New Jersey, New Brunswick, and Utah). Carol McCrelias of Hawaii & Michigan. Cathy Phillips (Halifax records). Don Lewis (invaluable transcriptions of Cumberland and Colchester Counties). Doug Skidmore of Vancouver. Edie Traplady. Carol Mayne (PEI records and transcriptions). Eric Estrada, RDF (Nelson Family). Dawn Roberta Beange Wood. Roderic A. Davis, II, RDF, who has an excellent web site. John Benjamin Ripley. Myrtle Chappell (invaluable self-published book on Fenwick, Nova Scotia). Tom Conrad (Upper Mahanoy Twp, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania - Howerter's Church). Gordon Ripley of Teeswater, Ontario, whose research we borrowed from heavily, and also received direct information. Harry Sarson of Shearwater, Nova Scotia. Karl Brady. Linda Fleming of Euless, Texas. Marg Hutton, RDF. Margie Chapin. Nanette Davis, RDF. Bill Martin, who kindly published rare Loyalists and other records which we consulted extensively. Verlyn Liberty Kyle (1910-1996), who contributed letters, records, old postcards, etc. Michael J. Frost. Terri Paris, RDF (Phillips family). Mike Phillips, major contributor of hard-to-find Rhode Island Phillips and other RI surnames. Nancy Downing, who has a valuable book. Sylvia JEAN Smith, RDF. Derron J. Bain, Prime Minister's Office, Nova Scotia, for valuable government archive resources. Picton Castle Trust of Wales, for ancient Phillips records. Ralph H. Phillips, Golden, Colorado. Read Allen. Roger C. Ripley, my father. Tracy O'brien, New England researcher. Robert Dickey, supplied a valuable manuscript. Sandi Moses. Don Bird and Guy Henderson, early Smith records, published on the web and consulted extensively. Sue Burns. Howard Trueman, whose book we consulted extensively. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, with their incredible and tireless genealogical research, and generous provision of this data to all, is to be most highly commended by all who seek their ancestral roots. Connie (Siewertsen) Smith, RDF, has added to the genealogy of one or more branches of the Phillips family which came from New Jersey to Ohio, with an extensive set of records. The intermarriages introduce the Hackenbracht, Firman, Woodmansee, and other interconnected founder surnames. This family is descended from Reverend George Phillips of Watertown, Massachusetts, a Winthrop Fleet passenger and close associate of Governor Winthrop. Many descendants are found today in Coshocton County, Ohio, Missouri, and Texas. Teresa Herrmann, RDF, has contributed major data about the Herrmann family of Ohio, which intertwines with the Ripleys and other featured families in this tree. Many Wars were loyally fought by this Herrmann family branch, including a GAR veteran. Teresa's notes are very detailed and interesting, and relate many of the triumphs and tragedies of this family group. The Herrmann group is also descended from a Mayflower passenger - one of the most cherished family clusters. Be sure to browse through the Herrmann files here, when you would like a good genealogical read. More names of contributors will follow...

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