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.

 Dear Nims cousins,

  It is with pleasure that I report that the long-anticipated Nims-Seguin Reunion held in Vaudreuil, Montreal, Canada the weekend of August 24-26 was a success. We had 32 members of NFA who traveled to this location and about 80 members of the Seguin Association in attendance.

  Lise Rochette Menard planned and prepared for us to have a good time and we extend a big THANK YOU to her for all of her efforts of the past four years since we last met in Deerfield. She was assisted during the weekend by her husband, Louis, and their son, Etienne, and we appreciate all they did. It was a joy to be around the Menard family with their happy personalities and their zest for life.

Those in attendance were the following:

Gordon Bean, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Laurence and Suzanne Canell, Ballston Spa, NY
Janet and John Dunbar, Norwell, MA (she is a sister of Charlie Nims)
Nancy Garreaud, Salt Lake City, UT
Jean Haynes and her college friend, Janice Moran, Hoosick, NY
Fleur-Ange Lamothe, Paris, Ontario, Canada
Nancy Meyer and Charles Linzner, Yardley, PA
Lise, Louis, and Etienne Menard and Etienne’s girlfriend, Julie, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Betty and Jeffrey Nims, Union, ME
Charlie Nims and Sheila McCarthy, Norwell, MA
Jane and David Nims, Richmond, VA
Rick and Cynthia Siemens, Deerfield, NH
Cynthia Smellie, Norwell, MA
Nancy and James Tasi, Pt. Jefferson, NY
Meg Villaneuve, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
Annette Wigglesworth, her sister, Gwen Gardner, Dawn Gardner and Paula Smith, Melvin, MI
Betsy and Allan Wiscombe, Eden, UT

       
                      

           Betsy Wiscombe, NFA President

 

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

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Board of Directors, Nims Family Association

President:   Elizabeth Wiscombe, P.O. Box 186, Eden, UT 84310-0186
Vice-Pres:   David A. Nims, 1103 Peachtree Blvd., Richmond, VA
                        23226-1137 
Treasurer:  Nancy Garreaud, 921 East 100 South, Salt Lake City, UT 84102
Secretary:  Sally Phillips, 104 Mechanic Street, Shelburne Falls, MA                                          01370-1224
 
Directors:
                 Vicki Coutu, MA, Newsletter Editor
                  Dina McCrum, CA
                  David A. Nims, FL
                  Frank M. Nims, IL
                  Jeffrey A. Nims, ME
                  Cynthia Smellie, MA
                  Allan R. Wiscombe, UT, Publications Coordinator, Genealogist

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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