HIGGINBOTTOM FAMILY NEWS | Issue JANUARY 2018
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Higginbottom Family Tree Project
PROJECTS
by Valerie L. Reaves
The Higginbottom Family Tree Project is a project designed to archive the history and document the existence of the descendants of Randal and Mittie Higginbottom. Randal Higginbottom, born in 1810, is the latest known ancestor of the Higginbottom family that exists today. Documented through census record, military records, birth certificates, marriage licenses, death records, obituaries, family cemetery plots,newspapers, photography (family albums), elder recollections, multiple family member historian/genealogy efforts utilizing ancestry electronic tools, etc. over 1,000 descendants of Randal and Mittie Higginbottom have been identified.
Genealogy - Family Tree Branch Form
Have you completed your family tree branch form for your immediate family? Request your Higginbottom Family Tree Project documentation packet from Valerie Reaves at valerie_reaves@yahoo.com or call 678830-8676.
Host Meetup packet from Valerie Reaves at valerie_reaves@yahoo.com or call 678-830-8676 to get started.
Where you at Fam? To dated, there are descendants of Randal and Mittie Higginbottom currently residing in the following states, (in multiple cities): Alabama Arizona California Florida Guam Georgia Illinois Indiana Kentucky Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Nevada New York North Carolina Ohio Pennsylvania Tennessee Texas Wisconsin And also in Germany Your state not listed? Let us know where you’re at!
Genealogy The archival of the historical information and documentation of family member’s lineage via branch form, photographic images & pedigree chart.
Annual Family Yearbook The first print of the new Higginbottom Family Tree Project annual yearbook is scheduled for Spring of 2019. Send family headshots to: valerie_reaves@yahoo.com .
Annual Family Yearbook
Have you submitted headshots of your immediate family? Don’t let your image block be blacked out in the yearbook.
Family Local Meet-ups
The purpose of the family local meet-up is to connect outside of the family reunion. The idea would be to have a designated host every state to coordinate periodic informal gatherings, preferably once per month. Request your Higginbottom Family Tree Project
Headshots do not have to be professional photos, you may simply take them with your phone. The idea is to get as many of our images documented as possible. Send your photos to Valerie Reaves at valerie_reaves@yahoo.com or call 678-830-8676.
Local Family Meet-ups
Several family members are residing together in nearby cities across the United States and don’t even know it.