Blaisdell papers
(Online Content)

Semi-Annual

Semiannual, published mainly in June and December.

Vol. 1 [no. 1] (Aug 1935) -

Editor: Kenneth W. Blaisdell; James E. Blaisdell; Carter Blaisdell; R. Carter Blaisdell.

Published: Elmhurst, Illinois; Somersworth, New Hampshire; Cando, North Dakota; York, Maine.

Not yet available in PERiodical Source Index (PERSI) at this time. (8 Nov. 2005).

Includes bibliographic references.

Each volume is indexed.

Vol. 1 has 12 issues (1935-1940); vol. 2 has 11 issues (1941-1945); vol. 3 (1946-1950) has 10 issues; vol. 4 (1951-1955) has 11 issues; vol. 5 (1956-1960) has 13 issues; vol. 6 and later volumes each have 10 issues. Indexes are numbered supplements to the volume they index.

Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Blaisdell (and variant spellings) families who left England for America. Some focus is on (but not limited to) descendants of Ralf, or Ralph Bleasdale who sailed with wife, Elizabeth, and their son, Henry from Bristol (England) in 1635. Their ship, the Angel Gabriel was shipwrecked near the shore of Pemaquid Point, Maine. Ralph and his family settled in York (Maine), and later moved to Salisbury (Massachusetts). In the 1700s, some settled in Lancashire (England), New Hampshire, and Ohio. During the 1800s, some moved to Arizona, Indiana, and Virginia. Later descendants also lived in Australia, Canada, England, Hong Kong (China), Ireland, and in Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin, and elsewhere.

Also available on microfilm and digital images.

Title variations: Report of the ... annual reunion and meetings of the Blaisdell Family Association (v. 1-2).

The Blaisdell Family Association was organized in 1935, by Dr. James Arnold Blaidell, Dr. J. Harper Blaisdell, and Nathanial Blaisdell. The name was officially changed to The Blaisdell Family National Association, to include the various local and ancestral branches, i.e. the California Branch, the Chamberlain-Moore Branch, the Eastern Branch, the Illinois Branch, the Lt. Jacob Blasdel Family Association Branch, the Oklahoma-Kansas-Colorado Branch, and the Southestern Branch. For records of births, marriages, deaths, graduations, obituaries, military service, special events, memberships, and select articles from back issues, and other information, see their Web site.

Commercial Bind 192W; spine title: BLAISDELL PAPERS (years); permission to film & digitize granted.

Digitized: v. 11-14, 15-16 (in process)