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| Welcome to the new FFFAA website! |
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Welcome to the new FFFAA website! Feel free to browse around and please sign our guestbook. Consider joining our Association to assist in our genealogy efforts. You will be able to post comments in the discussion forum, have access to archived documents and member links, and be able to upload family information into the site.
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| Member Alert |
To access premium content in this site you must be a member of the FFFAA. Existing members should have already received communication with their login/password information. When logging in as a member using the password provided with the bulletin, please do NOT change your profile or the password. The generic login and password provided is meant to be temporary, so please send an e-mail to webmaster@fffaa.org and we will create a unique profile for you. And if you did not receive the bulletin with the password information or you misplaced it, please send an e-mail to webmaster@fffaa.org and we will set you up. To join the FFFAA, click here.
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| Archived Document - Edward S. Frisbee 1926 Genealogy |
 Hot off the press! The Edward Frisbee 1926 Genealogy has been scanned in its entirety. Family members can access this by going to the Archived Documents section of the webpage.
Enjoy!! ...and thanks Ted!
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| Ted Yungclas |
 We asked family member, Ted Yungclas to write a letter to be read aloud at the reunion. He had wished to attend but had a conflicting event. Ted has immersed himself in the family archives this past year, having made a pilgrimage to the State of Connecticut library to view the collection of family papers that have been catalogued there. Virgina Banerjee, FFFAA Board member, genealogist and the person who organized the collection, arranged for Ted to be able to remove boxes and take them home. Ted enjoyed looking through the family papers and generously donated his time to scan the family bulletins. Now he has "scanning fever" so we are strategizing about what next should be scanned and put up on this website for all to see. Stay tuned for more of Ted's work!
Ted is an inspiration. He is a new member of the FFFAA and he has plunged in to help, realizing that without active participation from family members the Association will not survive. Thank you so very much, Ted!!!
Here's his letter:
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August 7, 2008
Dear Frisbie/Frisbee Cousins,
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| FFFAA - Archived Bulletins - Volume 1 - No. 3 - July 1951 |
In this third issue of the FFFAA bulletins, then president, Olin Frisbee's enthusiasm is palpable. He has done so much research and is full of information and stories, but knows he has to pace himself for many more bulletins to come. Clearly the upcoming first reunion of the FFFAA was foremost in his mind and he hints at a "surprise object" that will be unveiled at the meeting. We know what that was, right?
I loved reading about Ben Frisbie - he was one of the earliest members and someone you will, like me, grow very fond of as you read years of the bulletins.
The bulletin is a nice mix of historical information and info on current members: who's who, who's doing what, who lives where, etc. That is what we're seeking to do with this webpage. Make the site an archival place for preserving the family history, but also forging interest in current Frisbies and exploring our commonality.
I read with admiration about the establishment of the first church in Branford and how the early settlers approached the task with "selfabasement and a sense of our great unworthiness". Who, these days approaches a challenge in such a humble way!
I also thought it ironically fitting that our little group of settlers in Branford were instrumental in the founding of Yale and that years later Yale students would be instrumental in immortalizing our family name as they played with pie tins on the Yale Commons.
So, read this third issue of the bulletins and enjoy! Remember ALL of the bulletins are posted for members to enjoy - we have from 1951 through to 2001 available.
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| Volunteers Needed |
This website is turning into a real virtual community and we have lots of new members and interest. It's important that the site remain vital and that it reflect the interests of not just me, your President and the Board of Directors, but the entire community. Frisbies are talented and hardworking. Frisbies are fun and often irreverent with wicked senses of humor. This site can be anything we want it to be without losing sight of the basic mission statements, foremost of which is creating a place where the family history can be preserved. These are areas where you could help!
Typing - you can't see it but the online genealogy is up on the web (hidden behind this site). We are not making it public for the time being because we need more time to flesh it out and we also need to assess the potential impact on book sales should the genealogy be made public. Having said that, we need to get all of Nora's volumes typed into the database. Once that is done, we will work on corrections. Nora had a boatload of corrections she wanted to make to the Volumes and hopefully someone experienced in proper genealogy practices will step forward and offer their time to go through her notes and incorporate changes. For now, though we just need a few people with accurate typing skills to transcribe what's in Nora's books into a database. It's simple, but painstaking work.
Notable Frisbies - As you can see there is nothing under Notable Frisbies. Fred Frisbie has some ideas about who we should feature in this section, and there is ample information about these famous Frisbies available - I just need someone to write up the content so it can get posted.
Glimpses of History - in that same vein, we have a section called Glimpses of History that is a place where stories from old bulletins, the Volumes, the Internet, family documents, etc. can be highlighted. There has been such good stuff written about Frisbies - we are not lacking for content. If we resurrect these old stories and feature, say, one per week, that will be fun reading for those Frisbies who didn't see the original source documents.
Creative Corner - I added this section in the hopes that the literary Frisbies amongst us would step forward and send their creative writing - short stories, poems, etc. Is there someone who could take ownership of this section? OK, I'll jump start the effort. Years ago when my kids were little I wrote cautionary tales to keep them from doing dumb stuff. I'll post them weekly up on the site, but really I'm sure we've got greater talent amongst us! Send me your stuff and if you could also be the editor for this section that would be great!
Phone calls - I would like to reach out to all our Frisbies and let them know about the Association and encourage them to join. I have over 3,000 names and that only represents about half of the living Frisbies. It's fun to make these calls. One things about Frisbies - we love being Frisbies and talking about our "Frisbie-ish-ness", so once you overcome the initial hurdle when the Frisbie prospect thinks you're trying to sell something, you are usually in for a fun and gratifying conversation!
Frisbie endowment - Are there any Frisbies who have experience in estate planning? The reason we have an Association today is because of generous gifts left by family members. I believe it's a mistake not to ask current family members to remember the Association as they do their estate planning. This Association is part of their Frisbie legacy! We need someone to lead this effort in approaching our Frisbies for this consideration.
How about a new column? I talked with a Frisbie in downstate Illinois who used to write a Frisbie culinary column - yumm! We have great old family recipes that should be shared and who doesn't like to read about food! Let's resurrect that column! Any volunteers?
The Bulletin - Mary Frisbie has produced the bulletin for many years now. She would love to hand that responsibility off to someone else. The ideal candidate would have good ideas about incorporating the paper bulletin with website content and would be comfortable with desktop publishing. Volunteers?
Teens and Tweens - how about a venue just for our teens? Perhaps a special Facebook page or a separate website just for the teens. How about a Frisbie scholarship for a deserving college bound Frisbie teen?
Document Archiving - Ted Yungclas has been generously donating his time to scanning items in the family archives in the State of Connecticut Library. I'm wondering if there is a Frisbie close by who could lend him an assist. Am I dreaming to think that we could at some point have every darn thing in the collection scanned and online for everyone to see? If we did that then we would be able to enlist genealogy help from anywhere in the country - that person could peruse our archives from their armchair!
Host a Reunion - Finally, think about hosting a reunion. Our new Vice President Eric Frisbie and long-time member Dale Hull are hosting the next one in Philadelphia in 2010. It's not too soon to be thinking bout 2012!
Thanks in advance for any help you can offer. E-mail me at sbritton(at)brittoninfoservices.com if you can help. (Note that the (at) is really the @ symbol - don't want spybots plucking my e-mail address and spamming me!
Sarah Frisbie Britton
President
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| WISH YOU WERE HERE!!! - REUNION 2008 |
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Frisbie-Frisbee Family Association of America - 2008 Reunion
Thanks to Connie Block for this write-up!
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Frisbie family members gathered in Evanston, IL on August 7 for three full days (and nights) of talking and enjoyable activities. Attendees ranged in age from three to ninety-three and came from fifteen states (AZ, CA,CT, FL, IA, ID, IN, IL, KY, MA, MI, NJ, OH, PA and UT). In several instances, three generations of the same immediate family were represented.
The reunion was held at the Margarita Inn, a quaint old European style establishment in the city of Evanston, north of Chicago. People gathered in the large and comfortable parlor for breakfast, to visit and to divide up for small group events. A library..
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| GENEALOGY WEB LINKS |
Virginia Banerjee (Frisbie # 6-910)
Hear Ye! Hear Ye! See the genealogy links! (click “Web Links” on left panel in the premium content area.) These first links are some of the “basic” ones...many with links to other sites.
Do you want to know more about your ancestors (Frisbies and the other surnames)? Are you just beginning genealogy research? Or are you more experienced and wondering what to do now? The Internet has become a great resource although you can’t do all your genealogy on the Internet. It surely is a great place to start! But someday you may want to visit places where you ancestors lived…there are no doubt records there that will probably never find their way to the Internet. You may even visit the homeland abroad.
Sprinkled through the old FFFAA Bulletins which have recently been posted on this web page…you will find..
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| KEEPSAKES AND MEMORIES |
 Virginia Banerjee (Frisbie #6-910)
Family treasures enrich our lives and bring our ancestors to life. Family history is the fabric of our lives. What did our ancestors do and why, the times they lived and how they felt about it are very important. Some of this can be found by researching their times and place in history books, etc. The rest is up to us. Perhaps some of my projects will give you ideas about ways you can preserve memories and keepsakes. read more
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| The Gavel |
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THE GAVEL
At the very first meeting of the FFFAA in 1951, there was a ceremony that touched the hearts of all in attendance. Olin Frisbee, the first president of the Association had become close to the Riesmans, a couple who purchased Hearthstone, the home of Edward Frisbie built in the late 1600’s – the ancestral home of most Frisbies in this country. Part of the restoration included the removal of some of the floorboards and joists. That wood was relegated to the wood pile and during the Riesman’s first winter in the Frisbie house, they camped in a single room and used the wood as their sole source of heat.
Learning of the reverence..
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