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Welcome to the Peter Worden Family Genealogy Web Page!
The Worden Family Association has a new web site . It is just in it's infancy stage at present but has exciting plans. There will be an archive section which will only be available to their members. In it will be all the past issues of Wordens Past as well as the work of other Worden genealogists. Future plans also include the data base and files of Patricia C Worden. Their address is http://wordenfamilyassoc.org/home
2009 Worden Family Association Reunion October 8-11, 2009 COME JOIN US IN THE HAMPTON ROADS AREA OF VIRGINIA, AN AREA STEEPED IN HISTORY AND BEAUTY, FOR ANOTHER MEMORABLE REUNION. IT'S BEEN THREE YEARS
SINCE OUR LAST REUNION, SO
COME AND REKINDLE OLD FRIENDSHIPS AS WELL AS MAKING NEW ONES WHILE DISCOVERING
FRESH INFORMATION REGARDING YOUR WORDEN ANCESTRY
SCHEDULE : THURSDAY, OCT. 8TH, at 7:30PM - An informal gathering with introductions and distribution of reunion information. Light refreshments served. FRIDAY & SATURDAY, OCT. 9TH & 10TH (TIMES, LOCATIONS & TOUR PRICES TO BE DETERMINED) Learn more about our heritage, particularly during the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, from several prominent guest speakers. We'll tour the extraordinary MARINERS' MUSEUM which includes the USS MONITOR CENTER. As most of you know the commander of the USS MONITOR was John Lorimer Worden. There will also be tours of several other historic sites of interest. SATURDAY, OCT. 10TH - An evening banquet of local cuisine. Time, location and cost to be determined. A short Association meeting will follow the banquet. SUNDAY, OCT. 11TH - A casual breakfast before departing for home or for other sites of interest in the area. HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS : The reunion headquarters will be located at the BEST WESTERN COLISEUM INN & SUITES in Hampton, VA. For those who wish to stay there, we have obtained a VERY special nightly rate of $55.00 with the choice of either a room with a king size bed or a room with two double beds. For $75.00 per night, you can opt for a Jr. Suite which is a larger room with a king size bed and a sofa bed. An expanded continental breakfast is included in the rate. For reservations, call (757)-838-5011 and mention that you will be attending the Worden Family Reunion.
REGISTRATION & FEE
Name______________________________________
John Schuerman
presents 160 possible descents of Peter Worden from Charlemagne
(click for a pdf file)
Worden, Werden…The West Becket Cemetery and associated grave stones
The goal of this web site is to find, sort, share and preserve the best information possible concerning the thousands of descendants of Peter Worden I, who died on Cape Cod in early 1638/9 (see article "Colonial Calendar"). Along the way we will give some details and stories that make our ancestors more interesting. We will expose and clarify previously published errors in Worden genealogy.Oliver Norton Worden published the first Worden genealogy in1868. At that time he estimated that the whole posterity of Peter Worden 1st might comprise fifty thousand names. I quote from his book Some Records of Persons by the Name of Worden. "Even ‘black and white’ memorials have errors—are not always complete—some times can not be understood. The index is often missing, and partakes of human infirmity. Incompetency or carelessness, on the part of some one, has led to hopeless confusion. During civil revolutions, records were unkept, destroyed, or deposited elsewhere then their proper, natural place. Fire, mould, rats &c. have defaced where they did not devour……’Figures won’t lie’ but it has some times been hard work to make them tell the truth. Through errors, some figures which reached me missed the facts by from one to a hundred years." (see O. N. Worden) We are just beginning to get all the information we have onto the site. Come back and visit us again or better yet send something to display on the site and to advance Worden genealogy.
Reference: O. N. Worden, Some Records of Persons by the name of Worden,
(Lewisburg, PA: O. N. Worden,1868) Hosted by Rootsweb |
