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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.

We will be happy to assist you in finding your Blue Family roots.  We encourage you to share your research with us.  If you have additional information you would like to share with the Association. You can do it one of two ways.

The Chalice the 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. We are always looking for "Blue family news"

The NBFA Website here we have published the first 6 generations of the Fifth Edition "Descendants of John Blaw d. 1757" and other helpful information regarding genealogy and the National Blue Family Association.  We welcome you contacting us and will do what ever we can to help you make your personal Blue family connection.

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.

There are three major lines of Blue Families

 

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.
 

Some of the Blue families that did own slaves before 1860's. Many of these beloved Blue family slaves who were freed kept the Blue surname.
 

 
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 those listed below we would love to hear from you. If you have additional information on your line please contact one of us, so that we may continue the Blue Family rich history.

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 back to your oldest know ancestors. (1930 and 1940 is a good goal the 1930 and 1940 census are available to us and we normally can find your ancestors and begin to trace them from 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. With so many of the Blue males being named John, Frederick, William and Richard it is often hard to to connect to the right one..
We request in return that you furnish us with any updates that may help us with the 6th edition to the Family genealogy works already being worked on. Remember the Blue family is a LIVING FAMILY and if we all work together we can keep it updated.

PLEASE - JOIN The National Blue Family Association:

Anyone with an interest in a family surname like BLU, BLUE, BLEW, BLAU, BLAWEN, BLAW or 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 from the year you join. Your membership helps finance additional research of the Blue Family.  We have worked very hard to keep our fees low.  We offer, three forms to receive your newsletter: printed matter, CD and email.