The Self Family NetLetter
The Self Family NetLetter
The Original and Best Online Self Family Resource
WELCOME
TO SELF PORTRAITS!
The family of George Washington Self and Margaret Ann (Miller) Self features just a few of the many members of the Self family in America. It's the intent of the editors of this NetLetter to provide a readily accessible forum for the exchange of information about this proud old Southern family and all its branches. We hope to update our pages constantly with new and interesting material relevant to the Self family along with selected links of specific interest to Self researchers as well as those which are important to all Genealogist.
BRIEF HISTORY OF THE SELF FAMILY IN THE UNITED STATES
Most researchers believe that Olde Robert Selfe was the ancestor of most of the Self family in America. Arriving in Virginia in the 1600s, Robert Selfe appears to have been related to the prosperous Selfe family prominent in Wiltshire, England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, but a definite link has yet to be established. The name "Self" is thought to be a shortened version of "Seawolf," dating back to the early Viking voyages along the English coast. Many courageous Selfs became pioneers in our country's expansion westward, and the descendants of Robert Selfe were soon residents of the Southeastern United States from Virginia to Texas with several families settling in the midwest. Today, the Self name can be found in all fifty states.
SELF SEEKERS: THE SELF FAMILY ASSOCIATION
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YOUR EDITORS
TIM
Tim is the grandson of Homer Self, the little boy seated at the extreme right of the photograph on our "Family Album" welcome page. He lives in Southern California, and in addition to genealogical research, he's interested in computers and restoring old trucks. He's added six children and four grandchildren to his own Self portrait.
BARBARA
Barbara is a computer network administrator in a Southern California community college. She's been involved in family research since the age of 14 in New England.
ENHANCE YOUR OWN SELF PORTRAIT
RESEARCH PROJECT
Contribute to our ongoing Self Family History research project. Pictures are always intriguing, but words will do just as well. Contributions of photographs, stories, copies of old letters and other documents, and most especially "family trees" of both your ancestors and your descendants will all be considered. If you're interested, please send e-mail to Webmaster
We enjoy corresponding with all of the "cousins" who discover Self Portraits.
Have you changed your e-mail address lately? Please let us know so we can correct our files.
Click here for a list of cousin correspondents for whom we no longer have a valid e-mail address
Our Website, SelfSite at RootsWeb is an extension of Self Portraits. SelfSite at RootsWeb is dedicated to facts. Here you'll find our Census Tables as well as State by State/County by County families that make up our "Loose Ends" and "Dead Ends." Both projects are always in progress, so please check the site regularly. And if you would like to contribute Census records, please contact us.
The "Self Seekers" Newsletters for 1998-2002 are now online at RootsWeb. When each new quarterly issue is made available to "Self Seekers" members, another back issue will be uploaded to the RootsWeb site for the enjoyment of all our Self cousins.
SELF MAILING LISTS
Subscribe to our Self Surname mailing list!!
Send an e-mail message to SELF-L-request@rootsweb.com (or, if
you prefer "digest" form instead of individual messages, send
the message to SELF-D-request@rootsweb.com).
Turn off or delete your signature
Leave the "Subject" area blank
Type the word subscribe in the body
of the message; do not add anything else
We hope you'll join us soon!
Please contact Webmaster if you would like information on our other listservs
SELF GENBBS BOARDS
Please post your contributions directly to the RootsWeb-hosted Board. You may wish to place queries on both the GenConnect Board and this Website.
If you'd like to post a query to help you find an ancestor, visit one of our Find YourSelf pages and then contact Webmaster with your request.
Page 7 has the most recent queries
SUPPLEMENT YOUR QUERY by placing it also on our GenConnect Self Surname Board!
LINK YOURSELF
to our Link YourSelf page.
SELF FAMILY OF THE WEEK
Check out the featured family!
Updated each weekend!
View past families on Family Record Online
A list of past families can be found on the Featured Family List page.
A second page starts with the Sixth Generation
SOURCES PAGE
HelpYourSelf to source documents in print and electronic format
If you have a gedcom or other electronic file that you would be willing to distribute to other cousins, please let us know.
SELF FAMILY ALBUM
Picture your Selfs in The Self Family Album
Also visit The Self Family Album II
Can you identify the people on our SELF MYSTERY PAGE?
CENSUS/SOUNDEX RECORD PAGES
The Self Census/Soundex Records are now located at SelfSite at RootsWeb
SELF CEMETERY TRANSCRIPTIONS
READ ABOUT YOURSELF
in Self Revelations, page 1 Self Revelations, page 2 Self Revelations, page 3 Self Revelations, page 4 and Self Revelations, page 5
We would appreciate
news articles about Selfs--births, marriages, deaths, feature stories, and special achievements
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Copyright 1997-2004 Tim Seawolf-Self and Barbara A. Peck, All Rights Reserved
This page was last updated on Dec. 25, 2003
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