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The Nims Family
Association is an association of individuals and families
descended from Godfrey Nims of Deerfield, Massachusetts. The
association is registered in Massachusetts as a non-profit, domestic
corporation. Membership in the Nims Family Association
is open to any person descended from, or married to, anyone of the
surname Nims. The purposes of the association are to collect, maintain,
and distribute genealogical and historical data pertaining to
descendants of Godfrey Nims, to preserve and display artifacts of the
family, and to promote other activities relevant to the Nims family.
We actively seek contact with all descendants of Godfrey Nims through four of his children who survived to adulthood: John; Ebenezer; Thankful Nims Munn; and Abigail Nims Rising. We have completed a foundation volume titled "The Nims Family: Seven Generations of Descendants from Godfrey Nims". Our goal now is to continue publishing records in the files of the association. Toward that end, we have purchased computer equipment and are continuing the process of inputting data from the four family branches. These records will be made available to association members for nominal publishing and service costs. Eventually, copies of the files will be placed in the LDS Church Ancestral File and at the Deerfield, Massachusetts Memorial Libraries. All descendants of Godfrey Nims are encouraged to participate in the Nims Family Association and in the gathering of data and artifacts. If you are interested in joining the nearly four hundred families who are already association members, contact our secretary or treasurer at the address below. Dues are $10 per family annually. We welcome your participation and support. Click HERE for further membership information.
April 2012 Nims Family Project Update
During the past six months the Nims Project has
been moving forward. Most of the work continues in the Thankful line
but I have updated other lines as information has come in from members.
I have been able to send reports for correction and updates and then
update the files as information has come back.
We have finally determined how you can get what information that we
have as it becomes available. We have contracted with a
company called Box.com that is a repository of our available
information. You can log into box.com/nimsfamily.
You don’t need to sign up or log in. Just click the link to bring up
the website.
There will be a Permanent link that will take you directly to the box.com/nimsfamily
repository from this web page. You will find it in the Site Navigation
section in the left column of this page. It is the link that says "Nims
Family Reports".
What you will be able to get.
When you connect to box.com/nimsfamily the first
screen will present you with five file folders. The first screen has
one folder for each of the four children plus Godfrey. The
Godfrey folder will give a report of his first three generations.
When you select the file folder for your ancestor you will be presented
with the file folders for the children of the ancestor. Some
reports are so large that it required us to go down another generation
such as in the case of Thankful Munn the daughter of Thankful Nims.
In the lowest file folder for the grandchild of Godfrey that is your
ancestor you will see three types of reports. If there are no files it
means that the information for that child has not been uploaded. Just
select download to download the file to your computer then you can read
it. As corrections are made and information is added you will
see new versions of the file. The older versions will be
replaced.
1.
Generation Report – This is a report by generation. The same format
that is in the Nims Book. This report is printed in a PDF format,
meaning that you can print the whole report but that it cannot be
modified.
2. Henry
Report – This is a report in descendant sequence. It generates a Henry
number starting with the first person in the report, not from
Godfrey. The report is in both PDF format and also RTF
format. Rich Text Format (RTF) means that you can download
the report and modify the report with any word processor. For
those that want to help in editing your family, you can select pages,
make the corrections (in RED) and then send an RTF file of those pages
with the corrections back to me for updates into the master files.
Note: Some of these files are very large. You need to
download the file and then determine what you want to print, either the
whole document or selected pages.
3. GEDCOM
File (GED) - This is an interchange format between genealogy programs
such as PAF, RootsMagic, Legacy and others. You can download
the file and create your own genealogy data base without keying the
data from scratch. The GED files contain the descendants and their
spouses. It does not contain ancestors and siblings of
spouses. Don’t select a GED file unless you know how to use the file.
Please let me know how it is working for you by Emailing me at
wiscombear@aol.com
Allan Wiscombe
President’s Message
Nims-Sequin Reunion
August 24-25, 2012
Montreal, Canada
We are excited to announce that many plans are already set in place for the forthcoming reunion in Montreal! Places have been secured in which to meet, meals are being arranged, and various speakers and activities are in the works. The official part of the reunion will take place in the Vaudreuil section of Montreal from Friday evening, beginning with dinner, and continuing on through the day Saturday and ending sometime Sunday morning (if plans for a tree planting ceremony become official for Sunday a.m.) If you live outside of the Montreal area (which includes just about all of us in the Nims group), no doubt you will want to arrive a few days early and/or stay a few days afterwards to experience all that you can while in Montreal.
In the upcoming April Nims News, Lise will have lists of hotels and ideas of things for you to do on your own time. Meanwhile, for those of you who are computer savvy, you can find much information on the Internet to assist you in your plans.
We, of course, are hoping for a good turnout from the Nims side of the family. We are anticipating the fun of meeting the Sequins. For those new members of NFA, we are referring to relatives who have been in Canada for many years because of the fact that Abigail Nims, daughter of Godfrey Nims, was taken to Canada as a child in the early 1700s, so we have a large group of Canadian descendants from Abigail. The Seguins are planning their reunion in conjunction with ours so that we can all become acquainted. The connection between the two groups is that Jean-Baptiste Seguin married Abigails’ daughter Marie Catherine, while Louis Sequin married another Abigail daughter, Marie-Ann, two brothers from one family marrying two sisters from another.
Isn’t this going to be great! We think so and hope you will, too. Please try to include Montreal in your plans for this new year. Also, it would be helpful if you could give us an idea of whether you are considering attending, or definitely attending. It doesn’t have to be a decision you make right now, but when you do decide, let us know. It would be beneficial to Lise in making plans. You can drop us an email or a regular note in the mail, or even a phone call would be fine. If you plan on attending the Montreal Reunion 2012, please be advised a passport is required.
Betsy: allanandbetsy@yahoo.com, or P.O. Box 186, Eden, UT 84310
Lise: lise.rochette@videotron.ca
Until next time,
Betsy Wiscombe, NFA President
For more information on applying for a passport, go to:
http://www.usps.com/passport/welcome.htm.
You can also get more information at:
http://travel.state.gov/passport/passport_1738.html.
A Contribution from Norris Nims, Sr.
I am fortunate enough to have another note about Norris Nims, Sr., found among family photographs I have used in other publications. Here is a photo of four individuals who were at the unveiling of the Godfrey Nims Memorial Boulder on August 13, 1914, at Deerfield, MA. Shown, left to right: Norris G. Nims (about 3 in this photo), Ruth M. Nims, Charlotte S. Nims, and Estelle Charlotte Nims, my aunt, who was about 18 years old.
NFA is fortunate to have received additional material about this family from the son of Norris G. Nims, Norris G. Nims, Jr. We received in May of this year several photos of family members, including Sidney A. Nims, Marian Maxwell Nims, Charles Asahel Nims, Roger Gurnsey Nims, the Nims Farm in Sullivan, NH, and the Osgood Farmhouse in Sullivan, identified as the oldest standing house in town, although renovations have altered its appearance. In 1907, Sidney A. Nims bought the property as a summer home for himself and his family. For many years the four Nims children, Marian, Charles, Norris, Sr. and Priscilla, went to their Sullivan summer home the day after school ended each June, and returned to the city the day before school opened in the fall, with only a few trips to Keene for a circus parade or a haircut interrupting the summer. Charles Nims, now deceased, remembered idyllic boyhood days there fishing, haying, berrying, hiking and hill-climbing.
Here are two photos from among the many contributed by the Norris G. Nims family. All of the family contributions will be forwarded to the Historical Society of Cheshire County in Keene, New Hampshire.
Sidney Asahel Nims, father of Norris G. Nims, Sr.
Charles, Marian, Priscilla and Norris Nims, siblings and adult
children of Sidney A. Nims, 1950 photo at the Sullivan farm
President:
Elizabeth Wiscombe, P.O. Box 186, Eden, UT 84310-0186
Vice-Pres:
Treasurer: Nancy
Garreaud, 921 East 100 South, Salt Lake City, UT 84102
Secretary: Sally
Phillips, 104 Mechanic Street, Shelburne Falls, MA 01370-1224
Directors:
George Babineau, MA
Gordon Bean, Toronto, Canada
Judy Graves, MA
Judy
Nelson, MA
David Nims, MA
Patricia Potter, MA
Lise Rochette, Montreal, Canada
Newsletter Editor: Vicki Coutu, MA
Publications Coordinator: Allan Wiscombe, UT
For
further information concerning the Nims Family Association and any of
its activities, please use the "e-mail us" link on the left or contact
us at the following address: Sally Phillips, 104 Mechanic Street,
Shelburne Falls, MA 01370-1224
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