PEOPLE THAT HELPED ME DEVELOP THE FAMILY TREE
Stella E Shipardson (Riggs) developed the Shipardson tree - I want to thank her for all her work.

Theodore A Ferg and his wife Harriet for their help associated with the Ferg tree and for their help, love, and the pictures they provided.

Robert D. Enright for his help with his part of the Enright tree.

My wife Cindy - without her help and support this "project" would have gone nowhere.

Tom & Sarah Schlaug for the info and pictures they provided.

Dewey Milton for the info and pictures he provided which included information compiled by Robert & Patsy McAliley Torbert on the Johnston, Brooks, Cruse/Crews, and Helms families.

Robert Behra for his info about the Horney family

Janet Sell for info about the Deindorfer family and Sell family

Gerland Hay for info about the Fannin/Lollathin family

Edna (Jungbert) Parrott for the info on the Biechner, Parrott, Jungbert, many other families

John Passafiume for info about the Passafiume and Passanise families

The Riggs Family Tree info was written up by Raymond Wright (wife Jean Porter) in 1900 and a copy was sent to Horace Lester Riggs, Sr.  His son Horace Lester Riggs, Jr. provided the info to me.

The Shepardson Fanily Tree info was written up by W. K. Shepardson in 1958 (Volume II) and provided to me by Horace Lester Riggs, Jr.


The book " BOWDOIN FAMILY IN THE UNITED STATES" by U. Bowdoin Marsh, published in 1982 - a self published book that we purchased at a family reunion in Alabama.

Bowdoin College is an independent, nonsectarian, coeducational  residential, undergraduate liberal arts institution founded in 1794 by the Bowdoin family. It is located in Brunswick, Maine, a town of 22,000 on the Maine coast. Study at Bowdoin leads to a bachelor of arts degree in one of about 40 departmental and interdisciplinary majors. Bowdoin enrolls approximately 1,550 students from across the country and around the world.  It has some resources in their library about the Bowdoin family - see Bowdoin Library .  They had a Bowdoin family reunion about 1987 and we went.