Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Coffey (and variant spellings) families who came mainly from England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. In the 1600s, some immigrated to Barbados and Jamaica (West Indies), and to North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia. In the 1700s, some settled in Nova Scotia (Canada), and in Delaware, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania,...

Information was generally taken from York County, Pennsylvania, court records, county records, cemeteries, churches, newspapers, etc. Includes Larue family in the U.S.; Sitton family of Callaway County, Missouri; LaRoux family of New Jersey.

History and genealogy of the Baird and Beard families. Descendants of James Baird, of Scotch-Irish descent, who was born in 1703, and immigrated to New Jersey about 1720. Descendants and relatives lived in Ohio, New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Iowa, Wisconsin and elsewhere.

A record of some of the descendants of Thomas Stanley. He was born abt 1662 in Cheshire, England. He immigrated to Virginia Colony in the late 1600's. He married Mary Holme abt 1685 in Henrico, Virginia. She was born 1666 in St. Peters Parish, Virginia. They were the parents of six children. Descendants lived in Virginia, North Carolina, and elsewhere.

Edward Eanes (d.1757) lived in Henrico (later Chesterfield) County, Virginia. "The name Eanes is unique in that every white person in the United States bearing that name whom it has been possible to interview, either originated in Virginia or has family knowledge that their ancestors came from the Old State ... it is significant that in the Bristol Parish Register the name of Edward is spelled Yanes and Yeans. It is indexed as Eanes as well as Yanes."...

"Most of this book deals with John Nelson Biard and his descendants."--Pref. John Nelson Biard, son of Henry and Keranhappuch Baird, was born 15 January 1780 in Buckingham Co., Virginia and died 9 January 1839 in Limestone Co., Alabama. By 1799 the Biard family was living in Blount Co., Tennessee. It was here that John married Rebecca Stone of Sevier Co., Tennessee in about 1803. Rebecca, daughter of Ezekiel and Jane Stone, was born 12 October1782...

Chiefly the descendants of Jeptha Ginn and Penina Magee Ginn who were married in about 1787. Penina's parents, Jacob and Mary Scott Magee, were early settlers of Marion county, Mississippi. The 1800 census lists Jeptha Ginn as a head of household in Lancaster, South Carolina. By 1804 he was living in Washington county, Mississippi Territory and then on to Amite county, Mississippi Territory by 1810. The family is later listed in the 1816 census...