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Last updated: February 21, 2009
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Western Blue Genes
5th biennial Reunion
Date: June 27, 2009 - Saturday
Walla Walla Washington
In Historic Walla Walla County
The geographic and Historic Center of the Pacific Northwest
For more information and details:
Please contact: Jim Irwin

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The 13th bi-annual NBFA Reunion 2008 all Blue family descendants (both Dutch and Scottish Lines and anyone interested in the Blue family name and it's history) is now history! Check the 'CHALICE" Bill Blue is sharing it all with us! Done miss this issue!

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Welcome to The National Blue Family Association Homepage we hope you enjoy your visit and come back often. Please take a second to bookmark this site before you forget.
This site was first post on the Internet in 1992. We have enjoyed a very long and informative history at this site. We have found many 'new" cousins over the years. We hope that you may be able to also find a "new" cousin from visiting our site.
You are welcome to add links from your site to our site. LINKS TO OTHER FAMILY BLUE SITES CAN BE FOUND AT BLUE FAMILY LINKS. We are always happy to add links from any Blue Family site to our site. Please send your URL to Sarah Bitter and she will visit your site then add a link to the NBFA site.
If you have additional information you would like to share with the Association. You can do it one of two ways.
First, The Chalice our NBFA newsletter, you are welcome to send family news, family research articles, new or old photos, births, marriages or Death information Please send your information to William H. Blue or Sarah Bitter. We are always looking for "Blue family news"
Second, The NBFA Website we are always happy to post Births, Marriages or Death announcements on the website. Please send your information to Sarah Bitter.

If you have additional information on any of the Blue Family lines please contact William H. Blue .
Best of hunting and do keep us all updated on your family tree.

PURPOSE
The National Blue Family Association is an informal group of people with an interest in the genealogy, history and origin of the Blue family surname and its many variations. (BLAW / BLEW / BLAUEN / BLAU / BLU et al) and allied lines.

THE BLUE FAMILY brief history

The Chalice This silver cup has been passed down from father to son in the Dutch Blue family since the 1600’s. It was crafted by silversmith Jurian Blanck, New York City

The major Dutch BLUE family descends from a couple associated with the Dutch West India Company, Frederick Janss and Grietje Janss. They are believed to have originated in the northern part of The Netherlands and appear in the records of the Dutch Reformed Church in Recife, Brazil, in the year 1646. By 1651 they were in New Amsterdam, (Now New York City) where Frederick Janss received a grant of land. Their son, Jan Frederickse (John, son of Frederick) took on the surname BLAUW after the British took over the colony. Many of Jan ’s descendants migrated to New Jersey, then westward to Pennsylvania, New York, and Virginia (West Virginia). From these locations they spread throughout the United States and Canada.
The great majority of the Scottish BLUE families in North America originated in Argyllshire, the maritime county in southwestern Scotland. Some of these came by way of Ireland, and spent a generation or two there before coming to North America. The earliest known Scottish BLUE family to emigrate was that of Malcolm BLUE (1700-1766) and his wife, Sarah SMITH, from Cantyre, Argyllshire, who came in 1748 and settled on the Cape Fear River in North Carolina. In the following decades many more Scottish BLUEs arrived, settling in Ontario and the Maritme Provinces of Canada, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. At this time we have identified about thirty Scottish BLUE families. Research in Scotland may eventually lead to the connecting of many of these families.
Please feel free to join us in the search for your roots. If we have been of any help in your search, please let us know by contacting any from the list below we would love to hear from you.
If you have additional information on your line please contact one of us.

Our Mission
We are a clearing house for information on all BLUE families we can find who resided in North America.
*** Please Note that this site has stopped at the sixth generation. We have tried very hard not to post generations with living members. If you need help finding your connection to the Blue family we will be happy to help you. Please give us as much information as you have of your oldest know ancestors. (1930 is a good goal the 1930 census is available to us and we normally can find your ancestors and begin to trace them form this point. Also any other information you may have that could help us to help you find your connection. Dates, places and names are very important. Spouse surnames are also very helpful.
We request in return that you furnish us with any updates that may help us with the 6th edition to the Family genealogy works always being worked on. Remember the Blue family is a LIVING family and if we all work together we can keep it updated.

JOIN The National Blue Family Association: Anyone with an interest in a family surname like BLU, BLUE, BLEW, BLAU, BLAWEN, BLAW or in a surname that means BLUE, is welcome to join The National Blue Family Association. We are always looking for new members. With your membership you will receive the Chalice newsletter. Starting 2004 there will be 4 issues per year. Your membership helps finance additional research of the Blue Family.
Please visit by clicking here to go The National Blue Family Association Application on this site.

NEW - September 2007

Sample of our Newsletter The Chalice Is Now online!
Please click on the above underlined words "The Chalice"
and download in PDF format a sample of the Spring 2007 Chalice.
We hope you enjoy it.

If you are not a member of the NBFA and receiving the Chalice (our newsletter) Please take a moment and click on the 'NBFA Application' above and send in your application today.

NEW - January 1, 2008

Scottish Blue Family Lines

A new, 1800 page history and genealogy book has been released.
"The Scottish Blue Family in North America" by Douglas F. Kelly
Is now available.

Most of the Blues included start in North Carolina, but there are sections on Blues in South Carolina, New York, West Virginia and also in Canada

The following links will have more information regarding this Book.

1) http://home.earthlink.net/~blue.history/ This link will take you to a site for more information regarding the above mentioned book. "The Scottish Blue Family in North America" by Douglas F. Kelly

2) http://www.carolinascots.com This link will take you to a site which describes another books by the same author which not only gives information about some Scottish Blue Families, but also the history and background of the emigrations from the Highlands of Scotland to the Carolinas.

Thanks! Caroline Kelly for providing with this most useful information.

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Contact Information
You may contact your Web Host Sarah A. Bitter for general information.
If you wish to join the Association please contact Rev. John Gray.
If you have anything you would like to contribute to the Newsletter please contact William H. 'Bill' Blue.
Our Newsletter is published FOUR times a year.
If you have updates on any of the Blue Family lines please contact William H. Blue. Bill has completed the 5th edition of his wonderful work "Descendents of John Blaw" SEE ABOVE

Officers: of The National Blue Family Association CLICK ON THE MAILBOX TO EMAIL

Secretary/Treasurer:
Rev John Gray
Please NOTE as of December 2005 John Gray has a NEW mailing address.
Please see NBFA Application for his new address.

Fifth Edition "Descendants of John Blaw d. 1757" and the Scottish Blues in America.
compiler: William H. Blue (This book is now available in CD format) Please feel free to contact Bill with additions and corrections to our family genealogy. Please Contact Bill for articles you would like to contribute to the Newsletter "Chalice"

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Late updated: February 21, 2009