The Official Website of the Surname French
Last Updated by Mara French on 4/6/08. Back to FFA Home Page.
The Official Website of the Surname French
Last Updated by Mara French on 4/6/08. Back to FFA Home Page.
Staff
About Us Á Mission Statement Á Staff Á Chart Compilers Á From the Editor Á FFA Library Á Reunions Á WhatÕs New
Today
the French Family Association (FFA) is maintained by Mara French who designs,
organizes, researches and writes the FFA website. The FFA wants to
acknowledge and give special thanks to
Á Julia French Wood who maintains
the DNA website and
the French List
of Queries
Á Approximately 22
chart volunteers who carefully enter French family names of a particular
line into GEDCOM files, . . . . . and by
Á Each and everyone with source
references who wants to contribute family data, whether they contribute to the
French Query List or by email to Mara
French.
The
1984 original staff members of the French Family Association were (with current
addresses and photos):
Á Roland Rhoades, Jr.
(left), President
of the FFA, 10 Blackberry Lane, Gorham, ME 04038-2361, 207-892-0923, email: seeker@maine.rr.com. Roland is now a
Fuller Brush distributor and a genealogist for the surnames French, Rhoades,
Leavitt, Morgridge, Boardway, Safford, and Stinneford, plus researches Maine
Old Cemeteries. (FFA Chart #4)
Á Art Westneat, Vice President of the FFA,
originator of Charts #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #9, #11, and #20. He wrote an
indexing program in Turbo Basic, got it to ÒreadÓ by lineage list, interpreted,
consolidated multiple entries, and print out an index. He worked in Africa
while completing his PhD through the University of Indiana in Bloomington,
email: westneat@quixnet.net, phone:
202-712-5765. Art now lives in Vienna just outside WDC, works as a Private
Sector Advisor for USAID in WDC, and also is a distributor for the spin-off of
Amway, Quixtar. (FFA Chart #4)
Á Nancy French Dodge,
Vice President of the FFA, 157 Creampoke Rd., Stewartstown, NH 03576-5404,
603-237-8861, email: nfrench@together.net. Nancy was a librarian
in South Hampton, NH before retiring to the very north of NH near the Canadian
border. At first she bought several timberlots, which provided income for her,
but now she loves gardening, and helping visitors with their genealogical
needs. (FFA Chart #1)
Á Milton L. French,
President Emeritus,
Mara FrenchÕs father, deceased 21 Apr 1986 who gave me the encouragement for
this project. He was a university newsletter writer and taught writing,
composition, and French as a professor at Cal Poly, Pomona, California. (FFA
Chart #6)
Á Mara French (left), Editor-in-Chief of the Frenchline, retired as a technical
computer writer for online help manuals at Cadence Design Systems in Silicon
Valley, now lives in the Sierra Foothills in California away from the
hussle-bussle of the San Francisco Bay Area. P.O. Box 1109, Sutter Creek, CA
95685, 209-267-0649. Email: marafrench@mindspring.com.
She enjoys gardening, piano, genealogy, traveling, renovating, Spanish/German,
and classical cars. (FFA Chart #6)