Newsletters for interchange of genealogical data and history of the Franklin (and variant spellings) families who came mainly from Germany, and England (especially the village of Ecton in Northamptonshire). Some related families came from the Netherlands. Some immigrated to Maryland and Massachusetts in the 1600s. In the 1700s, some settled in New Brunswick (Canada), and in Connecticut, Delaware, Kentucky, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North...

Johann Georg List arrived in Philadelphia in 1754 with a group of emigrants from Germany and Switzerland. He died in Newberry Township, York County, Pennsylvania, in 1790. Descendants listed lived in Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Indiana, and elsewhere.

Epke Jacobse (son of Jacob) Banta was a farmer from Harlingen, Holland, called "the common ancestor of the prolific family of that name". Epke emigrated, with his wife and 5 children, on 13 February 1659. They settled at Flushing. Later they went to Bergen, near Hackensack New Jersey. Dirck Bensingh married Catalina Berck. They emigrated from Groningen, Sweden, via Amsterdam to New Amsterdam on 23 August 1649. He died in Albany on 12 February 1659....

Descendants of James Christie, a Scot who arrived in New Netherlands in the late 1690's.

David des Marest (1620-1697), a Huguenot, immigrated from France to The Netherlands, and married Marie Sohier in 1643. They immigrated to Staten Island, New York in 1663, and in 1667 moved to Hackensack, New Jersey. Descendants lived in New Jersey, New York, and elsewhere.

Jesse Beaty, son of William Beaty and Elizabeth Gilleland, was born November 17, 1848 in Henrysburg, Belmont County, Ohio. He was a Civil War veteran. He married Elizabeth Weeden June 23, 1867. They migrated to Wisconsin in 1868 and settled on a farm near Woodstock. They had eleven children. Jesse died March 15, 1931 in Richland Center, Wisconsin. Descendants and relatives lived in Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan, Florida and elsewhere.