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Update 2012!
With the shut-down of fortunecity.com, my free
space I've been using to host this content for
over 10 years has gone away. I've bought my
own domain-name to host this information on now
and as long as I pay my annual fee, it should be
around for as long as I am. We'll have to
make arrangements with someone to take it over
after that arises. In the meantime, I intend
to keep updating and keep responding to your
requests. You should keep sending me updates
as well.
We are up to 19,209 individuals in the databas and
11,700 pages on this website.
This LINKS page is hard to maintain, if you find
any links that appear to be funky, email me.
I've had to update them quickly to re-publish this
page and they may not be right.
Regards,
Robert J Becraft aka castlewrks@aol.com
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The
Entire Database - for those of you
interested in finding someone who may not be linked in an
obvious fashion to one of the lines listed below. The
index is quite nice. There are numerous loose leaves to be
found in the database. These are stubs that will over
time need to be connected into the rest of the family.
Right now, I have insufficient data to do so. If you
find a stub that should be connected or that you have more
data on, please contact me.
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| The Maryland Lines
The Maryland Becraft line originates with
Peter Becraft and Rebecca (unknown) in 1695 with the
birth of their first child Rebekah. The Maryland
line is responsible for the majority of Becraft's living
in Maryland today. In addition, branches of the
Maryland line can be found in VA, KY, and OH. In
addition, many other branches in many other states owe
their origins to families in one of these states.
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The NY Lines
One of the first known Becraft
genealogists is David Martin Kendal. He has a
mimeographed version of his "Beecrofts" book in the
Library of Congress. It documents Beecrofts in and
around the Schaghticoke region of
NY.
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Other Lines
Jim Beecroft of Washington has documented
his family line's quick entry into the states and
migration west by leaps and bounds. His line
originated with Joseph Beecroft who came into America on
June 30 1856. Many Beecrofts in the western states
are descended off of this line.
Another Washington Line, starting with
Thomas Becraft.
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| Maryland
II/ Wythe VA Lines
Lorrain Plotner Becraft has been trying to
connect the Washington County MD Becraft's to the rest
of the MD line, but so far they elude connection.
There is also some evidence that this line is the source
of the elusive Wythe, VA BeCrafts.
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Canadian
Lines
The Canadian lines...
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England Lines
The line continues in England. The
following researchers have provided their lines to aid
in building a comprehensive family tree of those
Becraft's.
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| New Jersey Line
Here is a New Jersey line that
interestingly, came through Baltimore, MD, long enough
for one child to be born there.
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Pennsylvania Lines
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Michigan Lines
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| Iowa
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Australia Australian Lines
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Germans
Biegraft Biekraft appears to be another
version of Becraft that has shown up in records
especially in PA. More study and contributions are
needed to firm up these families.
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Other Countries
None known, but I'm sure they're out
there. I've seen some Scotland tidbits.
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| Previous Update Notes... |
| Hello Cousins!
Update 2011!
For those who
keep track of things on this site, there will be
another 3,000 names here. Give or take a few.
Australian lines have been added. Much more detail
has been added to existing lines, including some
leaf consolidation into the main lines.
All I ask in
return is you send me updates, content that isn't
here, anything that helps to clarify the lines and
connections better.
Regards,
Robert J Becraft aka castlewrks@aol.com
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| Hello
Cousins! Update 2006!
The following
lines have been developed from my research and
contributions made from other researchers, either
directly or indirectly. As I have done in
earlier updates to the website, I am publishing
everything in my database. This includes all
the lines that have sprung up over the years that
people are still trying to either tie back to
England, or into the existing lines. The last
update to this site published just over 2900 family
sheets. There are now more than 4100 family
sheets. I've published each family as a
separate sheet to facilitate printing them out for
your own use in reviewing the data that is here, or
in comparing it to your own data sheets.
A note on my
philosophy... what I have established is a working
document of Beecroft/Becraft lines. There are
bound to be points of contention with regard to how
this collection fits together. It is the best
I have been able to put together with the data I
have. SO, if you disagree with something I've put
together, don't get mad at me, just send me the data
that can be used to make it right.
One of the
exciting parts of putting this collection together
is the number of matches you start to get when you
review your collection of raw data.
Regards,
Robert J Becraft aka castlewrks@aol.com
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| Hello
Cousins! Update 2007!
This is an
exciting update. There are now almost 5300
family pages on this website. I've started
integrating some of the various English lines that
people are putting together in order to possibly
begin to make connections between the American lines
or some of the disconnected English ones.
There is a whole new collection of wonderful
researchers over there who are just as willing to
share and provide information as the ones here in
the states.
My first comment
is "THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!" If it
weren't for everyone who is sharing, this site and
this collection would not be possible.
As I always say,
please feel free to set me straight. I don't
believe I have the most correct, or even remotely
the best collection of Becraft materials. My
goal is to keep making it better. Here's
hoping you find a tidbit or two that you didn't have
before. And if you've sent me updates, I hope
I got them all in the right places.
You will find some
photos mixed in here now. I've been collecting
those as well.
Regards,
Robert J Becraft aka castlewrks@aol.com
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| Hello Cousins! Update 2008!
Here are some
statistics... 2007 had 5,755 individuals with 1,630
unique surnames. 2008 now has 8,809
individuals with 1,918 unique surnames. In
2007, the database had 1,466 Becrafts, now has
2,303. It had 790 Beecrofts, now has
1,447. I've been working on making dead people
dead so their info shows up when I publish it, but
it appears I've still got lots of them alive in the
database.
In an effort to
make maintaining this database easier I've used a
new format for the pages. It is a format that
is used on other sites throughout the internet and
should be familiar to everyone. I also turned
on publishing of every field I can find in the
report part of the database. It added some
details to this site that didn't make it into the
updates from last year.
As before, I've
been adding pictures, so if you have any to
contribute for these people, send them in and I'll
put them in the next update.
This is intended
to be a collection of genealogical materials to make
it available for everyone doing research on these
families. Contributions are encouraged.
No money is made from this collection, no money is
ever asked of anyone. It exists to honor those
who have contributed and worked to uncover
everything found here.
So far no one has
offered up any Australian lines to be included here,
so one of my upcoming projects is to add some of
those cousins into the mix. They are showing
up more and more around the internet, so this should
not be too big a project. There are some
interesting stories in these lines as well.
Regards,
Robert J Becraft aka castlewrks@aol.com
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