Please reserve a copy for me! Thanks Mike, and very sorry for your loss. Gary R. Disbrow Sr. Program Manager, Detectors DRS Power & Control Technologies, Inc. Phone: (203) 798-3243 Cell: (203) 482-5319 e-mail: GaryRDisbrow@drs-pct.com fax: (203) 798-3214 -----Original Message----- From: disbrow-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:disbrow-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of mdisbrow1 Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 11:32 AM To: Disbrow Mailing List Subject: [DISBROW] Disbrow Family Newsletters now available on CD >From - Mike Disbrow, listowner (mdisbrow1@sbcglobal.net) Subject - Disbrow Family Newsletters / Disbrow Descendants Reports cd now available I now (finally) have available a cd containing the complete set of Disbrow Family Newsletters, Nos. 1 through 45. And in order to fill out the cd and make it even more valuable as a Disbrow research tool, I've added all twelve of the "Disbrow Descendants Reports". Really, there is a very large amount of material here (almost 700 pages in the newsletters alone!), that many will find valuable for the research on their Disbrow ancestry. Here is an explanation of exactly what is on this cd: --------------------------------------------------------- The Disbrow Family Newsletter (DFN) was published from 1984 through the first quarter of 1999, with a four-year break between 1992 and 1997. The first publisher/editor was Michael S. Disbrow (myself), and in 1989 the project was turned over to Cassius L. "Cash" Disbrow, who continued to edit and publish the newsletter until early 1999 when he had to quit on account of his health. Cash increased the size of the newsletter from the previous eight, to twenty pages per issue, and printed several long excerpts in serial format from manuscripts in his collection, as well as material submitted by others. (Cash passed away on 9 June 2001 in Sioux Falls, SD, at the age of 77.) The main purpose of the DFN was to collect and share information on the history and genealogy of the various Disbrow (and various spellings) families, prinicipally of the United States and Canada. At the same time I was trying to gather as much information as I could on the descendants of Thomas and Mercy (Holbridge) Disbrow, for the purpose of having a printed volume made of the same, which project was accomplished with the publication of "The Descendants of Thomas and Mercy (Holbridge) Disbrow" in two volumes, the first of which was printed in 1992, and the second in 1996. The pages of the DFN contain many different types of records, including biographies from county histories and other such books, census records and indexes, family Bible records, cemetery inscriptions, excerpts from family genealogies, old letters and diaries, obituaries, vital statistics from town and county records collections, military lists, etc., etc., and in all, fill nearly 700 pages of material. There is an all-name index included for the years 1984 through 1988, and individual indexes for the years 1989 and 1990. Unfortunately at this time there are no indexes covering the years after 1990 (with one exception - 1997), however starting with DFN No. 30 (Apr. 1991) Cash started putting a Table of Contents on the front page of each issue, which does help with locating items of interest. --------------------------------------------------------- The "Disbrow Descendant Reports" have been compiled from research done by myself and by others with an interest in these families who have shared their information with me. Much of the information was turned up while I was researching my own line (the descendants of Thomas Disbrow of Fairfield, CT,) and the families in these reports are either from a different Disbrow immigrant, or cannot be placed within the known descendants of Thomas. I make no claim that all the data is entirely accurate, or that these reports comprise a complete list of descendants. I am no longer doing any personal research on any of these families, but only want to make the information available for future researchers to use as a starting point for their own research. All, or at least most, of the references used are listed within the reports, each report has an all-name index at the end, and there is usually a date shown to indicate when the report was last updated. Here are the titles of the reports: DDR-1 - Descendants of Furbank & Susan (Howcroft) Disbrow of Wayne Co., NY DDR-2 - Descendants of Henry & Catherine Disbrow of Montgomery Co., NY DDR-3 - Descendants of Henry & Sarah (Anderson) Disbrow of Detroit & Monroe, MI DDR-4 - Descendants of Israel & Jerusha Disbrow of Danbury, CT DDR-5 - Descendants of John & Sarah (Few) Disbrow of Lockport, NY DDR-6 - Descendants of William & Fanny (Jackway) Disbrow of Conneaut, OH DDR-7 - Descendants of Samuel & Anna (Patterson) Disbrow of Dutchess Co., NY DDR-8 - Descendants of Samuel C. & Mercy (Coon) Disbrow of Broome Co., NY DDR-9 - Descendants of William & Sarah (Savage) Disbrow DDR-10 - Descendants of William H. & Arminta "Submit" Disbrow of Milford, MI DDR-11 - Descendants of Abraham & Jane (Ferguson) Disbro of Richland Co., OH DDR-12 - Descendants of Henry & Margaret (Haddon?) Disbrow of Mamaroneck, NY (Note - all of these reports can also be found on the Disbrow Family Website) --------------------------------------------------------- The files on this disk are in .pdf format, made with Adobe Acrobat version 5, and have been burned to Maxell CD-R Pro disks, which are purportedly "scratch resistant" and have "superior archival life", according to the packaging. (Elsewhere I have heard these referred to as "100 year disks".) You will need some version of the Adobe Acrobat Reader on your computer, which - if you don't already have it - can be downloaded for free from the Adobe web site, and the address is included on the disk. There are also two Notepad (.txt) files with notes about content and other explanatory information. The cost of the disk is $12 (including postage). I'll accept personal checks (made out to me), or money orders. Send to: Michael S. Disbrow 11413 East 20 Rd. Manton, MI 49663 If you have any questions before you decide whether or not to order, please email me: mdisbrow1@sbcglobal.net ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DISBROW-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message