John E RANSOM devised a form letter in 1907, to explain his purpose and solicit information from people throughout North America.
This list is not indexed here; use your browser or word-processing FIND function to search for a name or place of interest. If you don't get a hit, browse the entire list; there may be a clue, spelling or name that jumps out at you. An index of all the names and places listed here is included in RANSOM RESEARCHER #8 [December 1994].
Each "folio" is in a file jacket containing as few as one sheet, or as many as 100 sheets [estimated]. Some files deal with an isolated fact, and contain only a query by JER to a source. Most files contain folios of information on at least one generation, and frequently four or more generations. Each ancestor has a folio, and each child who married & had children has a separate folio, with this multiplicity of folios growing with each generation. Each folio has notes attached, chronicling JER's efforts and results. The notation "4 generations" is based on a cursory examination of the file, and the presence of at least one folio in the numbered generation. This listing is designed to display the variety and wide range of information collected by JER, and suggest possible resources for RANSOM family researchers.
A notation such as "see 111.111.1" usually refers to a specific folio in the other part of JER's work, the 373 Henry-System numbered files & folios of the known descendants of Robert RANSOM of Plymouth and Matthew RANSOM of Saybrook.
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is directly descended from Mark Ransom WALKER (Chandler 13) and has obtained copies of all the Chandler files from the library in Buffalo. If you are interested in acquiring copies of some or all of the Chandler files quickly and at a lower cost than is possible by hiring a researcher to visit the library in person, please contact him.