Coleman world
(Microfilm)

Five issues (1980); six issues (1981); four issues (1982); two issues in each year (1983 & 1984); one issue (1985); four quarterly issues (1986-1998).

Quarterly

Vol. 1 no. 1 (Aug 1980) - vol. 18 no. 2 (spring 1998)

Editor: Jonathan Whitcomb (1980-1985); Fred W. Field (1986-1998).

"Coleman world" was a periodical founded by Jonathan Whitcomb. He published the periodical from 1980 to 1985, with the help (publication and printing) of The Gaviota Company, which collected family history data from many sources. Jon Whitcomb turned over publication of the "Coleman world" in to Fred W. Field in 1986, but assisted the work by maintaining the Coleman computer data bank [base] used for indexing the periodical.

Publication suspended in 1984. Publication ceased with the vol. 18 no. 2 (spring 1998) issue.

Some issues were filmed and bound out of order. Some issues are lacking from the bound volume labeled 1980-1990.

Not yet available in PERiodical Source Index (PERSI) at this time. (17 Nov. 2005).

Includes query indexes, arranged by surnames and by localities. Each volume has an annual index. Locality indexes are broken down to the county level.

Issues published from August 1980 through January 1981 were unnumbered. Volume and issue designations begin with vol. 2 no. 2 (Mar 1981). Indexes refer to issue numbers in the following formats: issue no. 89-2 or issue no. 892 which both refer to vol. 9 no. 2 (spring 1989).

Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Coleman (and variant spellings) families who came mainly from Czechoslavakia, England, Ireland, and Scotland. Some immigrated to Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Virginia in the 1600's. In the 1700's, some settled in Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Tennessee, and West Virginia. During the 1800's, some moved to Alabama, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Ohio, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Vermont, and Wisconsin. Some married into the Cherokee Indian Tribe. Later descendants also lived in the Mariana Islands, the Marshall Islands, American Samoa, and in Arizona, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Washington D.C., and elsewhere. Some names of slaves are given. Some have African American bloodlines. Earlier issues focus mainly on Colemans who had special influence on history, such as benefactors, businessmen, engineers, explorers, inventors, patriots, pioneers in various fields, politicians, etc. Information was taken from Bible records, biographies, burial records, cemetery records, census records, county histories, court records, D.A.R. records, letters, marriage records, naturalization records, shared genealogies, tax records, vital recordds, wills, and other sources. Years covered are the 1600's-1900's.

Commercial Bind 240W, spine title: COLEMAN WORLD, (years); bind every 10 years, permission to film granted