The Willard Family Association of America, Inc. [newsletter] : descendants of Simon Willard, his brother, George, and their sister, Margery Willard Davis
(Microfiche, Microfilm)

Frequency varies: Annual published with supplements through 1968; semiannual (1969); three times per year (1970-1984, although editor states it is four per year); semiannual 1985-1993.

[1946-1957], vol. 1 no. 1 (Dec 1968) - vol. 26 no. 1 (May 1993)

Editor: Francis H. Willard; Dorothy G. Willard; Elsie E. Willard; Alfred T. Willard; Paul H. Rietzel; Emma A. Willard Reitzel; Edward W. Willard; Marjorie W. Travis.

Published: Nashua, New Hampshire; Needham, Massachusetts; Springfield, Massachusetts; Elizabeth, New Jersey; Wethersfield, Connecticut; Lexington, Massachusetts; Shrewsbury, Massachusetts.

Publication under this title ceased with vol. 26 no. 1.

Publication information unavailable prior to 1946, and for 1962-1967.

Some newsletters and supplements were microfilmed or microfiched out of order.

Not yet available in PERiodical Source Index (PERSI) at this time. (15 Feb. 2006).

With: Supplementary leaflets issued for 1946-1957.

Volume and issue number designations begin with vol. 1 no. 1 (Dec 1968); prior to that issues were designated by year only.

Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Willard (Villard, Williard) families who came mainly from England, Italy, and Germany. Focus is on (but not limited to) three children of Benjamin Willard: Simon Willard (1604-1676), George Willard, and Margery Willard who married Dolard Davis. In 1634, they left Horsmonden, Kent County, England, and settled in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and in nearby New England ares. Simon had a son, Josiah who settled Wethersfield, Connecticut in 1635. There were also three Willard brothers who left Germany and settled in Maryland in 1746. Other Willards also lived in Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Vermont, and Virginia in the 1600-1700's. During the 1800's, some moved to Ontario and Quebec (Canada), and to Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, and Wisconsin. Later descendants also lived in Cruz Bay, in Ethiopia, in St. John (Virgin Islands), in Korea, in South Africa, and in Alaska, Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, South Carolina, North and South Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island, Texas, Utah, Washington, Washington D.C., West Virginia, and elsewhere.

Also available on microfilm.

Title varies: The Willard Family Association [newsletter] from (19??- 1958); The Willard Family Association of America, Inc. [newsletter] from 1959-1993, and was later changed to Willard news in Dec 1993.

The Major Simon Willard's Descendants Association was first organized in 1908 at Winchester, New Hampshire. Soon afterwards, the name was changed to The Willard Family Association, to include other family lines. In 1958, the name was changed again to The Willard Family Association of America, Inc., to includes its branches throughout the United States and Canada.