The Goddard newsletter : dedicated to the preservation of Godard and Goddard related family history
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3 Per Annum

Roughly three per year, with some irregularities.

Number issued per year: 1 issue (1977), 4 issues (1978), 2 issues 1979, 3 issues each (1980-1982), 2 issues (1983), 3 issues each (1984-1985), 4 issues (1986-1988), 3 issues 1989, 6 issues (1990), 4 issues each (1991-1994), 3 issues each (1995-1996), 2 issues each (1997-2000), 1 issue (2001), 2 issues each (2002-2003), 3 issues (2004), 5 issues (2005), 3 issues each (2006-2007).

No. 1 (July 1977) -

Editor: John W. Harms; Eunice May Stewart Goddard; Mary L. Goddard; Kathryn Goddard Meyer; Anne Goddard Jones.

Publication was suspended in 1999.

Published: Edmund, Oklahoma; Witchita, Kansas; Dandridge, Tennessee.

Back issues are available on microfiche.

Not yet available in PERiodical Source Index (PERSI) at this time. (16 Nov. 2005).

No. 18 was used on both, the August 1983 and March 1984 issues. No. 40 was used on both, the January 1990 and February 1990 issues. No. 52 was used on both, the March 1993 and June 1993 issues. Some issues may lack issue numbers.

Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Goddard (and variant spellings) families who came mainly from England (especially Oxfordshire and Wiltshire counties), France, Germany, Ireland, and Wales. In the 1600-1700s, some immigrated to Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia. During the 1800s, some moved to British Columbia, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, and the Yukon Territory (Canada), Barbados (West Indies), China, Mexico, Siam, and to Alabama, Alaska, California, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, and Washington. Later descendants also lived in Manitoba, Prince Edward Island and Quebec (Canada), Australia, the Philippines, Poland, Zaire (Belgian Congo), and in Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Washington, Washington D.C., Wisconsin, and elsewhere. Information includes biographical sketches, cemetery inscriptions, convocation and reunions, members' lists, current special events, obituaries, photographs, shared research, vital records, etc.

Also available on microfiche.

The Goddard Association of America was founded in Oklahoma in June 1977 by Dr. John W. Harms, Pearl Goddard Harms, Ethel Mae Goddard, and Pliney E. Goddard. It was incorporated in 1978 in Ohio as a nonprofit organization, and changed its name to the Goddard Historical and Genealogical Society. It has a sister organization, the Goddard Association of Europe, which also publishes a newsletter. For more information, see their Web site.