Dues payers receive a quarterly newsletter containing family articles and history and sharings of marriages, births, anniversaries, deaths, career-related announcements and happenings. The BFA holds annual family reunions with the next to take place in Lenox, MA in September, 2000. Most members descend from John Bidwell, a founder of Hartford, Connecticut, in the 1640's. Ancestors of some in the U.S. and most in Canada, came from England later.
Research continues on both sides of the Atlantic.
Bidwell Family History, 1587-1982, Vol. Joan is also accepting family data for Volume 2 including additions and corrections to Volume 1 plus information about lines of the Bidwell family other than John of Hartford. The Association needs your Bidwell-related ancestor charts and family group sheets to update and correct our records.