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The Calkins Family Association

Dedicated to the memory of our immigrant ancestors Hugh and Ann Calkins who braved the seas in 1638 to the new world and to all their descendants.
Annual Dues are $10.00 per calendar year and entitles you to receive the newsletter Calkins World and take part in all events. New in 2006 is life membership for $100. Make your check or money order payable to: Calkins Family Association and remit to the Treasurer-Memberships officer listed below at 628 W. Ionia St.; Lansing, MI 48933-1015. Calkins World is not copyrighted and its contents may generally be freely quoted or copied. Through the year 2004 there have been eleven volumes most with four issues each. Back issues are available from the Past Editor for $1.50 per issue, $7 per single volume, $5 each for two or more volumes.

The Calkins Family Association was conceived on June 12, 1993 in Eagle, WI. As of July 2006 the officers are as follows:

September 2000 the book Calkins Family in America with the first 10 generations of the male lines (four generations of the female) and some unplaced families was distributed. As of July 2002 it is available for $75 in softcover or $87 in hardcover, plus $6.75 shipping and handling (US dollars please). It is 524 pages and indexed. It is by the past president, past genealogist, and current librarian Ken Calkins and is available from Higginson Book Co., 148 Washington St., PO Box 778, Salem, MA, 01970. Higginson will accept personal checks, or credit cards (Visa/MasterCard). Books may/could also be ordered online at orders@higginsonbooks.com.

An International Family Reunion was held in May 2000 in Norwich Conn. The following was presented there. Of great family interest was evidence which suggests Rowland Calkins and Elen Payne married June 23, 1597 were the parents of Hugh Calkins christened April 8, 1603, both in the parish of Waverton, Cheshire. Also found there were christening dates for Sarah (May 6, 1627), Mary (Dec. 27, 1629), Rebecka (Nov. 9, 1631), and Deborah (April 17, 1639, buried Oct. 4, 1639). Missing records probably explains no record of birth for John or Ann (Eaton?), nor a marriage record for Hugh to anyone. Mr. Roy Edwards of Hayes, Middlesex, England is preparing an article on the origin of members of the "Welsh Company" (he suggests that it might be renamed the "Cheshire Company") for submission to a national genealogical publication.

An International Family Reunion was held in Seattle in May 2003. Since then a new memorial stone for Hugh, Ann, John, and Sarah has been installed in the Colonial Cemetery in Norwich, CT.
An International Family Reunion was held in May 2006 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. News about the Calkins Y-DNA project was disseminated and additional participants solicited. You can read more at http://www.andrews.edu/~calkins/genealog/calkdna.pdf and http://www.familytreedna.com/public/Calkinsfamily/index.aspx.
The next International Family Reunion is tentatively being planned for Syracuse, NY in early May 2009.
Minnie reported 356 members (in good standing) as of December 2000.
A Calkins family website at http://www.myfamily.com may interest those of you willing to accept cookies (no error message issued). Contact the administrator (Judie Schiel) at e-mail: jttschiel@aol.com for a username and password. Good luck getting rid of all the gratuitous advertizing, birthday, photo contest, and other junk e-mail.

An "official" homepage for the Calkins Family Association is now available at: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~calkinsfamilyassoc/index.html Cookie monster or such might help here as well.