Sanborn signatures
(Periodical)

Semi-Annual

Semiannual, published in the spring and fall.

Vol. 1 issue 1 (winter 1985) -

Editor: Ruth MacPherson; Mary Jane Sanborn Lewis; Charles A. Watson.

Published: Leominster, Massachusetts; Huntington Beach, California; Deerfield, New Hampshire.

Not yet available in PERiodical Source Index (PERSI) at this time. (15 Dec. 2005).

Includes some bibliographic references.

Vol. 9 no. 1 (fall 1991) was misnumbered as vol. 9 no. 2.

Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Sanborn (and variant spellings) families who came mainly from England and Ireland. Some focus is on (but not limited to) descendants of the immigrant ancestors, John, William, and Stephen Samborne of Hampton, New Hampshire (1638). In the 1600's-1700's, Sanbornes settled in Nova Scotia (Canada), and in Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts (especially along the Merrimack River and in Newbury), New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Virginia. During the 1800's-1900's, some moved to Alberta, Ontario, Quebec, and Saskatchewan (Canada), Australia, Chile, Mexico, and to Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, the Dakota Territory, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Washington, Washington D.C., Wisconsin, Wyoming, and elsewhere.

Vol. 17 issue 1 (fall 2000) includes information about the Sanborn Foundation. Its full name is the Elizabeth and George L. Sanborn Foundation for the Treatment and Cure of Cancer, Inc. It was established in 1998, through grant funds provided by the late George L. Sanborn whose wife, Elizabeth died of cancer in Arlington, Massachusetts in 1931.

The Sanborn Genealogical Association was founded in 1853, and was re-established as the Sanborn Family Association, incorporated in the State of New Hampshire in 1983. Additional information may be found on their web site.