Hi Fellow Ferris Fans: My name is Dennis Bell, and I've got a grandmother named Fayetta Ferris born in Ontario during the 1890s who died in Calgary, Alberta in 1951. I believe her father's name was Samuel Ferris, but it may have been William Ferris. In any event, I've been tracing the family back from there through the UEL migrations to Ontario and New Brunswick/Nova Scotia from New York, Connecticut and Pennsylvania during and after the War of 1812 and the American Revolution to Jeffery Ferris arriving in Boston from England in 1635. From there, I've gone back 25 generations In England with the Ferris surname devolving back to Ferrers and de Ferrieres, through the Lords of Groby, the Earls of Derby and the Barons of Ferrers to the Norman invasion in 1066, and Walkelin de Ferrieres, Master of Horse to William the Conqueror. And from there, back through the Viking invasion of Normany in the 800s to the Norse rulers of the Orkneys and Ireland, the kings of Norway and finally a Norse king named Eystein, who died in 541 AD in Oslo. Others trace the Ferris family back to a Viking king of Finland whose name escapes me in 150 AD. I've also discovered, much to my amazement, a startling number of Ferris women who married into the Plantagenets in England (King John I of Magna Carta and Robin Hood fame sired a princess with a Ferrers mistress), the Scottish royal family (Robert the Bruce came from Norman origins and had lots of Ferrers relations), the French royals and even the kings of Jerusalem during the crusades. And then there's George Washington Gale Ferris, who invented the Ferris Wheel . . . It's quite a family. And an awful lot of fun to research. Dennis Bell Burnaby, B.C. Canada Wanda Rabb wrote: > We hope you will introduce yourselves and tell us about the family you are > researching!