Shambaugh families newsletter : project of Shambaughs International, Inc.
(Microfilm, Microfiche)

Quarterly (Combined Months)

Frequency varies: Old series (1940-1946) monthly with some irregularities. New series: monthly, roughly bimonthly (1948-1978); quarterly (1979-thereafter).

[Old series] Vol. 1 no. 1 (Jan 1940) - no. 53 (Apr 1946); New series no. 1 (Jan 1948) -

Editor: Harry Gleim (1940-1950); Flavius A. Leighty (1951-1972); Harold S. Shambaugh (1972-1991); George F. Shambaugh (1992-1999); Jay (James H.) Slagle (2000- ).

Publication was suspended from May 1946-Dec 1947, then began again with New Series in 1948.

Published: Fort Dodge, Iowa; Silver Springs, Maryland; Wooster, Ohio; Stewarts Draft, Virginia.

Some back issues available on microfilm and microfiche.

Some issues are individually indexed.

[Old series] ranges from no. 1 (Jan 1940) to no. 53 (Apr 1946). "New series" number designations begin again with no. 1 (Jan 1948), with the same whole number given each quarterly issue within each year. Some later issues give the "New Series no." followed by hyphen and numbers 1-4, indicating the quarter (some do not, but this library adds them in the catalog for tracking).

Numbering errors: New series no. 172-3 (July/Sept 2007) was misprinted as no. 172 (Apr/June 2007).

Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Shambaugh (and variant spellings) families who came mainly from Denmark, Germany, and Prussia. Some related families came from France. Some Shambaughs settled in Pennsylvania and Virginia in the 1700s. Among the immigrant ancestors featured are: Adolph Schambach who came to America in 1729; and Georg Schambach (Sr.) who came in 1749; and Johann Valentin Schambach. During the 1800s, some Shambaughs moved to Canada, and to Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. Later descendants also lived in Nova Scotia (Canada), India, and in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Nebraska, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, and elsewhere. Records are extracted from census, military, and other record sources.

Also available on microfilm, microfiche, and digital images.

Title varies slightly.

The Shambaughs Families Society was founded by Dr. Gig Shambaugh in 1963, at Wabash, Indiana. It was later incorporated in September 1973 as the Shambaugh International, Inc. For more information, see their Web site.

Includes a separate cumulative index to 1973-1992 issues.