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Belfry family

Posted: 1 Sep 2013 12:29AM GMT
Classification: Query
I am a descendant of Jacob Belfry and Joanna Sherman as follows:

Pierre Belfry born 1783
Jacob Belfry & Joanna Sherman
Prince Sherman Belfry & Mary Robinson
Jacob Belfry & Elizabeth Martin
John Wesley Belfry & Phoebe Ann Hazelton
Clara Jane Belfry & Edward Lattimore
Edward Murray Lattimore and Margery Jean Lawrence
me

How do I make the connection to earlier ancestors to apply to the Mayflower Society?

Re: Belfry family

Posted: 7 Sep 2013 1:36PM GMT
Classification: Query
> How do I make the connection to earlier ancestors to apply to the Mayflower Society?

You do it in the only possible way - the way that research on one's ancestry is always done - you work backwards one generation at a time, consulting as many contemporary records as possible. If you are fortunate you will find an ancestor whose surname, time and place suggest possible Mayflower ancestry. You can then investigate published Mayflower research to try to confirm the connection.

Dale H. Cook, Member, NEHGS and MA Society of Mayflower Descendants;
Plymouth Co. MA Coordinator for the USGenWeb Project
Administrator of http://plymouthcolony.net

Re: Belfry family

Posted: 31 Mar 2015 12:34PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Sherman, Belfry, Hayes
Hello

We are also Belfry Descendants of Jacob Belfry and Joanne Sherman. Listed Below. I am wondering if anyone has made a connection (membership) with the Mayflower Society? I have emailed the Canadian contact for the Mayflower Society but have yet to receive a response.


I will share information with anyone interested. Here is my connection;

Ira Belfry & Permelia Ann Amy Edmondson
Alexander James Belfry & Mary Jane York
Ethel Ann Belfry & Edward Hayes
James Alexander Hayes & Annie Palmer
William John Hayes & Yvonne MacInally
James Hayes & Catherine Gardner
Myself -Terri Hayes

Re: Belfry family

Posted: 2 Apr 2015 10:35PM GMT
Classification: Query
A valuable resource for determining whether a particular surname has already been linked to a Mayflower family is the Bowman Files. This is a data collection encompassing about 80,000 individuals, compiled by George Ernest Bowman (founder, secretary, and genealogist of the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, founder and editor of Mayflower Descendant, and the first great Mayflower researcher) over the course of more than 40 years. Susan Roser has compiled a series of books extracting and transcribing information from the Bowman Files. The surname Belfry does not appear in any of them.

Dale H. Cook, Member, NEHGS and MA Society of Mayflower Descendants;
Plymouth Co. MA Coordinator for the USGenWeb Project
Administrator of http://plymouthcolony.net

Re: Belfry family

Posted: 12 Jun 2015 4:38PM GMT
Classification: Query
Hello

I was wondering if you made a connection with the mayflower society? I am also a descendant of Jacob and Joanna Belfry (Sherman). I have a connected all of the ancestors before Jacob and Joanne to Stephen and Constance Hopkins, but I was wondering if you know if the Mayflower society already recognizes the Jacob Belfry & Joanna Shermans descendants as Mayflower descendants?
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