Jay Family
Association
Archive CD
The Jay
Family Association (JFA) was founded in the 1950's for the express purpose of organizing
and recording Jay Family genealogical research.
One of its founding members, Katherine Jay Bradley of
The
transfer project is now complete and the JFA is making the CDs available to
interested genealogists.
File
Format
– Adobe PDF for ease of viewing with IBM and MAC hardware.
Content – Over 4,000++ quality
scans. About ˝ of the content are
documents, letters, correspondence, etc. pertaining to William Jay and Mary
Vestal, their children and descendants.
Most lines are well represented.
The remaining ˝ of the content contains letters, correspondence and
lineage charts from a multitude of former and current JFA members and other
interested allied family members.
The information is conveniently
organized into folders for ease of accessibility and reading. The bulk of the historical material dates
from the 1950s through the early 1970s and gives the reader a fascinating
insight into the research “brickwalls”, thoughts and assumptions from researchers
who have paved the way for our generation. There are copies of many land deeds, wills, etc.
Believe me……there are tidbits on this CD
for even the most advanced genealogist.
Many files are devoted to allied families
as well ... the Pugh, Wright, Arnold, McCool, Perdue and Vestal Families are
all well represented.
Price
- $25 for JFA
members
$85 for non-JFA members
To
Join the JFA………click
on this link to print your JFA application.
To
ORDER the JFA Archive CD…..click
on this link to print your CD order form
As
chairman of the JFA CD Project Committee and a life long researcher, having the
opportunity to review the material in the archives was a wonderfully
informative exercise. You can rest
assured that the information available on this CD is worth many times its cost.
Vince
King
Descendant
of David Jay Sr. (1765-1839)
Chairman,
JFA Archive CD Project Committee