Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Vance (and variant spellings) families who originated in Les Baux-en-Provence, France, and who were known as DeVallibus or Vaux. Some families moved into Normandy and other parts of France. Others went to Belgium, England, Germany, Ireland, Italy, and Scotland. In the 1600-1700s, some immigrated to North America. Some settled in Canada, and in Connecticut, Delaware, Kentucky,...

Leota Mae Vance was born in Utah in 1929. Her great grandparents were among the early Latter-day Saint pioneers who came to Utah. She married Dean Fillmore and was the mother of at least one son. Her information on her ancestral lines makes up this collection of materials. Most of her ancestor were long time residents of the United States but at least one line comes from England about 1850.

Melton Meek grew up in Oklahoma during the first half of the twentieth century. He married and raised a family and practiced medicine for many years. He began collecting material on his ancestral lines which broadened into almost a general collection of materials on some Southern families back to colonial times. Materials included come from all southern states and other United States and represent many individual surnames. Includes Meek, Jones, Sallis,...

Bulletin for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Blair (and variant spellings) families who came mainly from Ireland and Scotland to America in the 1600-1700s. One early progenitor was William de Blair, who lived in 1260 in Scotland. Some of his descendants immigrated to America, and others moved first to Ireland and from there came to America. One immigrant ancestor was Dr. James Blair, a graduate of Edinburgh University. He...

John Alma Vance, son of Isaac Young Vance (1818-1898) and Martha Eleanor Yager and grandson of John Vance and Sarah Lavinia Perkins, was born in 1847 in Winter Quarters, Nebraska. He married Maria Forbush in 1869 in Salt Lake City, Utah. He died in 1886 in Fairview, Utah. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in Tennessee, Kentucky, South Carolina and Utah.