Taft talk : newsletter of the Taft Family Association
(Periodical)

Semi-Annual

Semiannual, published roughly in May and November.

Vol. 1 no. 1 (Dec 1981) -

Editor: Richard "Dick" T. Messinger; Barbara Krueger; David Taft.

Full title: Taft tree talk = Taft [picture of a tree] talk.

Published: Uxbridge, Massachusetts; Norwell, Massachusetts; Mendon, Massachusetts.

Some issues were published on long (11" x 14") pages, and were filmed horizontally. Best copy avaialble.

Not yet available in PERiodical Source Index (PERSI) at this time. (3 Feb. 2006).

Volume and issues designations used for vol. 1 nos. 1 & 2; used whole numbers thereafter. No. 35 (Nov 1998) was misnumbered as no. 34.

Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Taft (and variant spellings) families who came mainly from Denmark, England, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Norway, and Russia. Some focus is on (but not limited to) Robert Taft who immigrated in 1675, to Braintree, Massachusetts with his wife Sarah and their sons, Thomas, Robert, Daniel, Joseph, and Benjamin. They settled Mendon, Massachusetts ca. 1679. Some other ancestors were Matthew Taft and his wife, Ann who settled Hopkinton, Massachusetts in 1728. Other Tafts also settled in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Rhode Island, and Vermont in the 1600-1700s. During the 1800s, some moved to Nova Scotia (Canada), and to California, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Washington, Wisconsin. Later descendants also lived in Ontario (Canada), Australia, Cuba, and in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Nevada, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington D.C., Wyoming, and elsewhere. Some were orphans. Some have African American bloodlines.

Also available on microfiche.

The Taft Family Association was founded in 1955, and has headquarters in Uxbridge, Massachusetts. For more information see their Web site.