NASH PROJECT

A project with the goal of updating, correcting, and bringing forward
the line of Thomas and Margery (Baker) Nash

Based on the 1853 genealogy,
The Nash Family: or Records of the Descendants of Thomas Nash of New Haven,
Connecticut, 1640
By Rev. Sylvester Nash
 
Submitting your information
  • Guidelines on what information should and should not be included
  • Permission to print
  • Confidentiality issues
  • Submitting photographs
Unsolved mysteries
  • Was "our" Thomas Nash in Holland before coming to New England?
  • On which ship, and when, did Thomas and Margery (Baker) Nash arrive?
  • Can you connect these Nashes to Thomas' line?
  • Did Thomas Nash build clocks?
Interested in becoming the next compiler?
  • Submit your qualifications and goals, should you wish to take over this project
Financial considerations
  • How is this project financed?
 
 
 
 
E-mail Debbie Rothery for more information.

Deborah Lee Rothery
1915 N.E. 56th Avenue
Portland, OR 97213-3514
drothery@hevanet.com

 
The Nash Family Updated: Descendants of Thomas Nash of New Haven Conn., circa 1640,

compiled by Deborah Lee Rothery,
is now available from Higginson Book Company.

     Go to this link at Higginson Book Company to place an order. Or call the Acquisiitons Department at 978-745-7170. The price of the hardcover version is $295 and the paperback price is $275. The book is a two-volume set which is over 2,500 pages. The index is in a large, easy-to-read font.

     The Nash Project was begun in 1953, 100 years after the publication of the original genealogy, The Nash Family; or Records of the Descendants of Thomas Nash of New Haven, Connecticut, 1640. The information for the original book was collected and compiled by The Rev. Sylvester Nash, A.M., Rector of St. John's Church, Essex, Connecticut. The book was published by the Press of Case, Tiffany and Company, Hartford, in 1853.

     Dorothy Nash Roberts of Dallas, Texas began a family newsletter, the Treebune, with the goal of eventually updating and carrying forward the lines in the original book. Rev. Nash dropped female lines after women married into another surname, and a major goal of this project has been to bring forward those female lines.

     In about 1991, Ms. Roberts turned the project over to Deborah Lee Rothery. After nearly 12 years, the book is nearing publication, making this endeavor nearly 50 years old.

     Title of the new book will be The Nash Family Updated: Descendants of Thomas and Margery (Baker) Nash, New Haven. When the new book is ready, a posting will be made to this web page, post cards sent to those on Ms. Rothery's mailing list, and e-mails to those on her e-mail list.

     Please note: New lines are no longer being accepted for the book in progress, but they are being accepted for a Nash repository. This repository will be turned over to Ms. Rothery's successor, who will publish another update, with corrections, hopefully in 20 years.