Robert Alan Kraft's Genealogy Page

This page is regularly under construction; one may also consult my old genealogy page for the older form of the files at http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/gopher/other/journals/kraftpub/Genealogical/ [viewed 14ja2016]

Orientation:

Some Useful Links


• For genealogical research in general see the USGenNet site
• For early New England Families, see Savage's Genealogical Dictionary (also in this format)
• Also Steve Condarcure's New England Genealogy
• Of special interest for New England research is the NEHGS site (full use requires membership)
• See also the Connecticut Society of Genealogists (full use requires membership)
• For ship arrivals, through Ellis Island or elsewhere.


Special Locations and Some Gravestone Evidence


• Milford CT (numerous colonial connections, especially on my mother's side)
• Wolcott CT (where my parents lived from1931-2000, and where I was raised)

1. Pierpont, Pierrepont, Pierpoint, etc.(Mary Ann Pierpont [wife of Charles Somers Miller] was my mother's mother's mother -- my great grandmother)

• 1.1 The Pierpont Family Association of New England [PFA], Records
  
  
  • New England Pierpont Genealogies (updated periodically)
  • Listing of Annual Meetings of the PFA, now linked to the Minutes
  • Attendance at PFA Annual Meetings (1924-1990) has also been appended to the Minutes file.
  • Pierpont Family Association Annual Meeting Minutes (updated annually)
  • Selected Images from PFA Annual Meetings -- still unrepresented are photos from any of the following: 1924-41, 43-44, 46-61, 63-67, 69-70, 77, 79, 82, 87, 93 -- please help fill the gaps!
  • Click here for information on the next Annual Meeting or contact Association co-Presidents Nancy Anderson Harrison (165 North Orchard St., Wallingford, CT 06492; carllh@yahoo.com) and Linda Pierpont Mansfield (907 Little Meadow Road, Guilford, CT 06437; lindamansfield972@gmail.com). For updating or correcting the Pierpont genealogy and for other information about Pierpont family history, please contact Robert Kraft, genealogical historian, Religious Studies / Cohen (Logan) Hall, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA 19104-6304 (kraft at ccat.sas.upenn.edu).

• 1.2 The Pierpoint-Pierpont-Pierreponts of Maryland and Virginia

  • Table of Contents and Index to Kathryn Pierpoint Hedman, The Pierpoint-Pierpont Family of Maryland-Virginia West Virginia (Privately published; second ed 1973; with instructions for downloading the 1953 first edition and a note about its 1939 predecessor by Hattie Malone Pierpoint)
    

2. Miller, Somers, Stannard, Oviatt, Frisbie (central CT; my mother's mother was born Margaret Miller)

• 2.1 Charles Somers Miller Journals (1876-1943)
  
• 2.2 Mary Ann Pierpont Miller Diaries (1880, 1881, 1890)
  
• 2.3 The Somers and Frisbie [SAR/DAR] connections
  
• 2.4 The Stannard-Oviatt connections (Goshen CT)
• 2.5 Enid Miller Forsberg and Malcolm Iver Forsberg, Missionaries to Ethiopia

3. Northrop (New England; my mother was born Marian Augusta Northrop)

• The Milford CT connections
• Some useful links (many others -- check google.com or a comparable search engine)

   

  • A. Judd Northrup, The Northrup-Northrop Genealogy: A Record of the Known Descendants of Joseph Northrup, who came from England in 1631, and was one of the Original Settlers of Milford, Conn., in 1639; with Lists of Notthrups and Northrops in the Revolution (Grafton Press, New York, 1908; searchable online database: NewEnglandAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2003)

  • Steve Condarcure's New England Genealogy

  • The Northrop Family Genealogy Forum <http://genforum.genealogy.com/northrop/>

  • Northrop Genealogy Queries <http://www.cousinconnect.com/p/a/0/s/NORTHROP>

   

4. Kraft, Binder, Hummel (GERMANY; my father's and his father's mother's side)

• 4.1 Bickelsberg GERMANY connections (Binder, Hummel)
• Index to the Photographic Albums and Journals of Marian Augusta Northrop Kraft (1912-2006)
• Obituary notices, Howard Russell Kraft (1911-2000)

5. Peterson (SWEDEN; my father's mother was born Lillian Constance Peterson)

6. Wallace (Dalry SCOTLAND; my wife was born Carol Lois Wallace, daughter of William Deans Wallace)

7. Entwistle (Bolton ENGLAND; my wife's mother was born Edith Entwistle)

• Entwistle Family History Association site
• Twissle Times Newsletter

[last updated 13 February 2009; attempted, 23 August 2021]