We started researching the John Stoddard of Wethersfield clan in the late 1970's. It began as an interest in finding out more about Clayton Stoddard, my grandfather. He passed away before I was born and none of his remaining children had a very clear recollection of him. You see, Clayton and Adehla, my grandmother, never divorced but Clayton was never home much. We interviewed Adehla before she passed away. Her memory was as sharp as a tack! What a great start she provided us. Over the years the remaining children provided bits and pieces of their memories of Clayton and today we have a much better picture of who he was.
Our love of genealogy and family history has grown into researching the other 4 major Stoddard lines in the U.S.
We invite you to share your Stoddard heritage and stories with us and to visit our website.
In our efforts to complete Julie's Stoddard line, we were fortunate enough to find John Howard Stoddard, a sprightly senior, who was kind enough to share huge amounts of data gleaned from two well known Stoddard genealogists, Charles and Dan Stoddard. John was an editor of the Stoddard Tribeloid as well and shared back copies for this newsletter originally created by Charles. All of this data came to us in binders which are not the mainstay of our continued research. John's son, also a John, continues with the Stoddard Tribeloid website and has major strides in updating the website. You may visit his site here: http://www.stoddard-family.org/tribeloid.php
ReplyDeleteGoing forward we hope to hear from many Stoddard descendants and as always are more than happy to help in their research and to share whatever data we have.