Ruffner roots & ramblings
(Periodical)

Quarterly

Semiannual (1998-1999); three per year (2000); quarterly (2001-2004); semiannual, published generally in June & December (2005 - ).

Vol. 1 issue 1 (winter 1998) -

Editor: Joan Ruffner Reid; Kimberly McNeely Flucher (Assist. editor); Pam Flasch.

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

Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Ruffner families who descended from Peter Ruffner (1713-1778) and Mary Steinman (1714-1798) and their eight children, Joseph, Benjamin (Sr.), Catherine, Peter Jr., Reuben, Tobias, Elizabeth, and Emanuel. In 1731, Peter (Sr.) left Maienfeld, Switzerland in the Upper Rhine Valley and settled in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. In 1739, he married Mary Steinman and moved to the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, where they established a homestead on Hawksbill Creek in the town of Luray, Page County, Virginia. Joseph Ruffner took his family in 1795 to Charleston, West Virginia. Peter's son, Emanuel Ruffner (1757-1848) married Magdalene Grove and left the family homestead in 1805 to settle in Fairfield County, Ohio. Other Ruffner families are also included. Later descendants also lived in British Columbia (Canada), Japan, South Africa, and in Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, and elsewhere. Some adoptions are noted. Some have American Indian (especially Crow Indian) bloodlines, and some had African American bloodlines.

Title varies: The Ruffner family news (vol. 1 no. 1 only); Ruffner roots & ramblings.

The Ruffner Family Association was established in June 1997 by the Organizing Committee under chairmanship of Robert N. Sheets. The Association was fully incorporated as a non-profit organization in 1999. For membership and other information, see their Web site.