This collection contains a discrete set of records collected by the organization and Fitzig dating from about 1992 to 2001. During the project, several FOF members, including Franklin Bache Satterthwaite and Larry Tise, sent out letters to people identified as Franklin’s descendants. Many people responded by sending letters with genealogical information linking then to Franklin, as well as copies of family documents proving their connections. These files from respondents, organized alphabetically by last name, comprise the first half the collection.
The latter half of the collection contains copies of older versions of Franklin’s genealogy, including a copy of the chapter on Franklin from The Genealogical Register of the Descendants of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence. There are also historical records pertaining to the Bache-Lott-Birt family, recent obituaries and biographies of some of Franklin descendants, and a copy of the American Philosophical Society’s guide to the Bache papers in the Castle collection, as well as miscellaneous family trees and correspondence.
HSP has an internal copy of the Franklin family tree that resulted from this project. At over 200 pages, it is far too large to print; however, researchers may view the family tree upon request. An abbreviated genealogical report is available in the paper version of this guide in HSP's library.
The collection is open for research.
Gift of the Friends of Franklin, Inc., 2001.
Cite as: [Indicate cited item or series here], Friends of Franklin, Inc. Descendants Project records (Collection 3117), The Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
Processing made possible by a generous donation from Mary Countess of Bessborough.
A computer program, Roots III (published ca. 1990), one 5.25” floppy disk, and several 3.5” floppy disks were removed from this collection because they are inaccessible on current computers.