Ives Family History Blog

Update on Ives Family History Blog: July 2016

I started this blog on February 15, 2007 with this post Ives Family Blog Overview. I first did this summary on October 4, 2007 and this is just an update. I have put up a total of 258 posts so far. I am still getting many comments and have 499 so far. As I said then, I am writing about the descendents of William Ives, one of the founders of New Haven CT. It is not like a regular blog that posts on current events and does not go back and makes changes to prior posts. Rather it is an online draft history that I hope to continue to improve. I intend to continue to modify this document on an ongoing basis and welcome all comments, additions, and corrections. This includes going back and correcting material already posted when new evidence arrives. Below is an Ives family gathering in Pinebluff North Carolina in the early 1900s. My great grandfather, Sumner Abraham Ives, is on the far right. My grand father, Sumner Albert Ives, is next two him. The two women are my great grandmothers, Alice Dunbar Ives and Eulalia Sharp.

  

I have now provided all the research that I have completed to date. This summer I finally visited New Haven and walked on the land owned by William Ives. It is now a parking lot for a medical building but there is a nice green hedge along one of the property lines. There have been over 150,901 page views since I started with an average of 44 a day, over a 100 on some days. I have met a number of new relatives and learned new information about the Ives family. I will continue to make periodic updates through new posts and corrections to existing material. There have been 499 comments on the 258 posts. Your suggestions are welcome.

Known Ives Lineages In The U.S. & Canada - David Ives

I recently received a a link to a document entitled, “Known Ives Lineages In The U.S. & Canada.” It can be downloaded from his web site at: http://ivescentral.com/genealogy/  This compilation covers the 18 separate Ives descent lines that are known to me in the U.S. & Canada, which have identified male progenitor individuals (Charles through William), as well as 2 additional, substantial, Ives descent lines (Jeremiah's and John's) for which the actual male progenitor still remains “at large.” It also contains DNA information for 5 of these known Ives lineages (with many thanks to John Wilder – coordinator of the Ives DNA Project – and to the DNA participants!).

Many thanks to David for all the hard work putting this document together and for sharing it with us. It is 153 pages in length.