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The Bickford Newsletter The Bickford Newsletter is a quarterly printed publication devoted to all who share Bickford ancestry. Please join us!

Published since 1989, we explore all branches of the Bickford family and constantly search for new family members and connections. I invite all Bickfords and descendants of Bickfords to join us in making the family newsletter reach all 50 states and find Bickfords and their families around the world. Subscribe if you can: $10 for email, $20 for mailed issues, $100 for a sustaining member. Email me for a sample copy at MahlonBickford@Outlook.com and Paypal me at MahlonBickford@Hotmail.com

04/20/2025

Hi Folks,

The newest newsletter issue hit the mails last Thursday so it should begin showing up in your mailboxes shortly. Please drop a note here when you get it, if you can. Thanks all!

Here are three Bickford Medal of Honor recipients from the Civil War era. We have several family members who can connect...
04/13/2025

Here are three Bickford Medal of Honor recipients from the Civil War era. We have several family members who can connect to these lines. Please let me know if you can. I will begin short genealogies of these three beginning with the next issue.

The chart here shows the family relationships of everyone on the cover page. This is the Belgrade, Maine branch of the f...
04/13/2025

The chart here shows the family relationships of everyone on the cover page. This is the Belgrade, Maine branch of the family to which most of our newsletter readers belong.

Vol. 32 No 2 Summer/Autumn 2024 highlights family deaths from William Bickford's (1777-1856) Work Journal. This document...
04/13/2025

Vol. 32 No 2 Summer/Autumn 2024 highlights family deaths from William Bickford's (1777-1856) Work Journal. This document has never been published. Page 13 shows the relationship of everyone listed here.

Volume 32, No 2 of the Bickford Newsletter is at the printer now and will be in your mailboxes soon. The cover image is ...
04/13/2025

Volume 32, No 2 of the Bickford Newsletter is at the printer now and will be in your mailboxes soon. The cover image is from William Bickford's work journal in which is recorded the deaths of 15 family members, including his own. This never before published page is a primary document recording the deaths of many of his family member. Please save to your files if any of these names are your family members. William Bickford's work journal is now permanently preserved at Maine Historical Society in Portland, Maine.

This is Bickford Shoes in Milford, Massachusetts (1975) from the collection of the Milford Town Library from the Paul Cu...
12/20/2024

This is Bickford Shoes in Milford, Massachusetts (1975) from the collection of the Milford Town Library from the Paul Curran collection. Does anyone have any additional information on this shoe store? Thank you.

This cover is Volume 16, No. 4 from many years ago. The family featured are descendants of the Bickford family who settl...
12/16/2024

This cover is Volume 16, No. 4 from many years ago. The family featured are descendants of the Bickford family who settled Biddeford, Maine in the 1740s or so - and family of our Bickford DNA Project Administrator, Juanita Hanger.

Hello everyone, the current issue of the newsletter is in the mail now and a few have been delivered in Maine. Please wa...
12/16/2024

Hello everyone, the current issue of the newsletter is in the mail now and a few have been delivered in Maine. Please watch for them and maybe put a post here when you get yours - just so I can see how delivery is going. They are coming bulk rate from the printer in Waterville, Maine. In the meantime, here is a page from the issue showing the War of 1812 Widow's Pension of Patience (Jenness) (Peavey) Bickford, widow of Aaron Bickford. It's a great document with lots of data on both of them. Thank you for your support and patience with this issue. Enjoy!

Volume 32, No. 1 The big news is that this and futures issues will come to you from Italy, which is where I retired. Our...
12/05/2024

Volume 32, No. 1 The big news is that this and futures issues will come to you from Italy, which is where I retired. Our Bickford Archive was acquired by the Maine Historical Society in Portland, Maine in September 2024. All our research, letters, correspondence, photos, ephemera, and "things" will be preserved there for research. All items were scanned and I have them with me here in Italy.

Results continue to come in for our Bickford DNA Project. Project Administrator, Juanita Hanger has shared some of the l...
12/05/2024

Results continue to come in for our Bickford DNA Project. Project Administrator, Juanita Hanger has shared some of the latest results with us on her project page of the current issue. Current test results are in on a few of the descendants of Stephen E. Bickford (1835-1900) of S**o, Maine and Virginia City, Montana. These results have finally given us a clue to his ancestry. Also, test results from the descendants of Eri Bickford (1815-1874) show which line they do not below with. If you descend from either of these families, please see the results below. And, if you want to share your test, or test for us, contact Juanita. Great work, thanks all!

Hello everyone, here is the cover of the latest issue of the Bickford Newsletter, Vol 32, No 1. Lots of news inside, pl...
12/05/2024

Hello everyone, here is the cover of the latest issue of the Bickford Newsletter, Vol 32, No 1. Lots of news inside, please take a look. More to come and thank you for your support all these years.

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