The Bean stalk
(Microfiche, Microfilm)

Quarterly

Quarterly, with only two issues in 1972, and five issues in vol. 20 (1990/1991), vol. 21 (1991/1992) and vol. 27 (Dec 1998), and one issue in vol. 24 no. 1 (fall 1995/1996). After transitional issue, vol. 27 (Dec 1998), the subscription year began as a quaraterly beginning with the winter (March 1999) issue.

Vol. 1 no. 1 (fall 1972) -v. 35, no. 3 & 4 (Sept./Oct. 2006)

Title varies: "Southern Bean Association newsletter" assigned to the first issues of vols. 18-20.

Editor: Cynthia Gryder Germany; Hazle Boss Neet; Monna Sue Hood; Jean Huggins Wingert; Bettye Wingert; Roger Gleitz; Joe R. Beene; Valerie Been Lober; Dianna B. Hokanson.

Some issues entitled "Southern Bean Association newsletter" replaced select issues of the "Bean stalk" quarterlies, i.e. vol. 18 no. 1 (Sep 1989) and vol. 19 no. 1 (Sep 1990). Vol. 20 (Aug 1991) and vol. 21 (Aug 1992) were supplementary issues to vols. 20-21. The extra issues were discontinued after vol. 21 (Aug 1992). Vol. 24 nos. 2-4 were never published.

Published: New Iberia, Louisiana; Pontotoc, Mississippi; Hamilton, Hamilton, Alabama; Benicia, California; Macomb, Oklahoma; Pearland, Texas.

Title strip on the Index microfiche says, "Index to vol. 1-9" but actually contains index to vol. 1-11.

Some back issues are on microfilm only, some on microfiche only, and some are available in hard copy and microfilm. Some pages have bleed-through, are faded, are filmed upside-down or sideways, are out of order, or are otherwise hard to read. Best copy available.

Some volumes have individual indexes.

Vol. 18 no. 1 fall (Sept 1989) was misnumbered as vol. 19 no. 1. Vol. 24 no. 1 (fall 1995/1996) was followed by vol. 25 no. 1 (winter 1996).

Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Bean (and variant spellings) families who came mainly from England and Scotland. Some settled in Virginia ca. 1660. In the 1700s, some settled in Georgia, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Vermont. One ancestor was Baxter Bean (born ca. 1790) and his family who were reknowned gunmakers. During the 1800s, some moved to Alabama, Arkansas, California, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Texas, Washington D.C., West Virginia, and Wisconsin. Some married members of the Chickasaw, Cherokee, and Choctaw Indian tribes who lived in the Indian Territories of Arkansas and Oklahoma. Later descendants also lived in Florida, Nevada, Oklahoma, Utah, and elsewhere. Some Beans' wills contain the names of their African American slaves.

Also available on microfilm and microfiche.

The Southern Bean Association was organized at Irving, Texas in 1972. The Association is also referred to as the Southern Beans or the Southern Bean Family Association. For table of contents for volumes 1-4, memberships, and other information see their Web site.

Cumulative index to volumes 1-11 includes localities, topics, surnames, queries, responses to queries, titles of published articles, lineages, record types, etc.

Commercial Bind 490W spine title: BEAN STALK (SOUTHERN BEAN ASSOCIATION), bind every 2 years, permission granted.

12 Vols. 15-16, 22, 35, no. 1 & 2 have been loaded