|
|
|
Welcome to the home of the Goodrich Family Association
Membership in the GFA is open to all spelling variations of the Goodrich surname and any interested parties who wish to join.
If you are interested in joining the GFA please visit this page.
If you would like to be added to our newsletter e-mail list please contact Delores Goodrick Beggs
A limited number of copies of the fine reprint of The Goodrich Family in America, edited by Lafayette Wallace Case, M. D., originally published in 1889, are still available. These books are hard cover and are printed on long lasting acid free paper. There is room in the back of the book for additions and notes. They are well bound and with proper care should make a fine family heirloom.
Send a $45.00 check made out to:
Dr. Joyce Goodrich
315 E. 68th St.
New York, NY 10021
We hope that you find the information on this site useful. We will be frequently updating this site with new information and corrections so check back often!
News and Announcements
New URL and New Host! I am pleased to announce that we have moved to a new hosting solution. For reasons I won't go into here, we have also changed our domain name, so please update your bookmarks if you haven't done so already.General information about this site:
This public site is pretty much completed. At this time we have taken all the data from "The Goodrich Family in America. A Genealogy of the Descendants of John and William Goodrich of Wethersfield, Conn., Richard Goodrich of Guilford, Conn., and William Goodridge of Watertown, Mass." by L.W. Case (Editor) and input it into our TMG database. I do not anticipate any further changes to this portion of our web site.
In the future we will be adding another section to this web site that will be for GFA members only. Into that member only database/section, I will be adding the data compiled by many other people, most notably George W. Farrell, who during his life did extensive research on the lines of John and William of Wethersfield and other Goodrich lines as well. As I do further research on the family it will be added to the member only section as well.
Site status and update history:
As of the 19 April 2007 update, I am done with the Case book. The database now holds 6443 people.
You can see when the site was last updated at the bottom of this page, along with the number of people currently in the database.
Previous updates:
Updated on 26 Novemebr 2006. There were 5795 people in the database at that time.
Updated on 22 October 2006. There were 4260 people in the database at that time.
Updated on 8 October 2006. There were 3419 people in the database at that time.
Updated on 4 July 2006. There were 3013 people in the database at that time.
Updated on 18 June 2006. There were 2508 people in the database at that time.
Updated on 16 April 2006. There were 2231 people in the database at that time.
Updated on 01 April 2006. There were 1514 people in the database at that time.
Updated on 19 March 2006. There were 1013 people in the database at that time.
Using this site:
Under most names in the data section you will see a reference number. For example;
Reference=LWC17
This is the number of that person in the Case book, in this instance Col. David Goodrich. If there is an S after the number, that denotes a spouse of that person. S2 denotes a second spouse. So Col. David's second wife Prudence Churchill has a reference number of LWC17S2. Please use these numbers when sending us inquires.
A brief introduction to the included lines:
The Case book contains three distinct lineages plus a miscellaneous section.
The data on John and Ensign William of Wethersfield, the first and main line of the book, begins with their Grandfather
William Gooderich who was born circa 1545 and his place of birth was probably Suffolk County, England.
The second line from the Case book is the line of Richard Goodrich of Guilford, Connecticut.
Richard is said to have been an original settler of Guilford and in that area as early as 1639.
The third line from the Case book is the line of William Goodridge of Watertown, Massachusetts.
Please note that earlier generations of the line kept the spelling of the name as Goodridge, some of the later generations changed the spelling to Goodrich. In the Case book the compiler used the Goodrich spelling exclusively for the fifth generation onward.
Please note that there are no known connections between these three lines.
Useful links:
Goodrich DNA Project Page
Rootsweb
The Private Letters of James S. Griffing and J. Augusta Goodrich
Cyndi's List
The GenealogyGuys Podcast
Disclaimer and Other Information:
Like all genealogies, invariably there are errors and omissions. Some records may seem questionable or contradictory. In the L.W. Case book for example there are mistakes, some are obvious, others are not. I have tried to point these out as they occur, but I may have missed some along the way. We welcome documented additions and corrections. If you do have information and/or corrections to share (including sources), please contact our association genealogist Delores Goodrick Beggs and be sure to include the LWC number for the persons you are inquiring about.
Database copyright 2006 The Goodrich Family Association. The information in these Goodrich immigrant files was compiled by many persons through the years. While every effort has been made to check for accuracy, you should verify any information against available records.
Please report any problems with this site to our Database Compiler and Webmaster:
Matthew Goodrich
This page was created by John Cardinal's Second Site v1.9.16.
Site updated on 22 Apr 2007 at 3:37:43 PM; 6,443 people
|
This page has been viewed
Times