Isaac Cummings Family Association

Purpose - Membership - Publications - Inquiries - Reunions - Board

Purpose: The Isaac Cummings Family Association was established in the fall of 1996 by a small group of Isaac Cummings descendants:

To develop, preserve, and exchange information on Isaac Cummings history and genealogy in the United States and Europe.

To promote further research across the seas to determine the origin of Isaac Cummings and to make a direct connection to the Clan "Comyn" of Scotland.

To search for Cummings artifacts and other items of interest to the family historian and to try to determine who has the oldest portrait/photo of a Cummings ancestor.

To develop an organizational charter that would outlive any one single member. The organization could file for non-profit status and to raise funds that could be used, for example, to assure the maintenance of our ancestor's burial sites, to generate scholarship(s) for Cummings descendants of need or ability.

To place a statue, memorial or some other structure in Topsfield, MA to pay honor to Isaac Cummings as a pioneer of the area.

To assure that those Cummings ancestors/descendants who fought honorably for this Country are so recognized during Veteran's Day.

Membership: Open to any and all descendants of Isaac Cummings, 1601-1677, of Ipswich/Topsfield, MA.

The membership year coincides with the calendar year and dues are Fifteen Dollars ($15.00) for an individual membership, or Twenty Dollars ($20.00) for a family membership, which includes husband, wife and children under the age of eighteen (18) years of age. Members who join during the membership year pay dues for the entire year and will receive all ICFA publications (Cummings Chronicles) and other benefits of membership for the entire year. New members dues received after 31 October will be good for all of the following year. The money received from dues will be used to help defray the cost of printing and postage costs as well as any other expense which may be involved in operating this association. Members become delinquent and are placed on the inactive list if annual dues are not received by the end of January. They will not receive any publications for the new year until dues have been paid.

Benefits of membership include a subscription to the newsletter, genealogical inquires, and any other services which may be available. Please direct membership inquiries to our Membership Chair:

Charles D. Larson
2601 E. Victoria St. #64
Dominguez Hills, CA 90220-6019
chaslar@aol.com

Publications: The Isaac Cummings Family Association publishes a newsletter, Cummings Chronicles, four times each year, currently in the Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter, to provide a forum for historical discussion and query while maintaining a "network" of Isaac Cummings descendants and researchers. Back issues cost $3.00. Members are encouraged to assist the Editor through submission of any appropriate information or articles for publication. Back issues of the newsletter are available from the Editor:
Pamela Cummings
978 Reese Street
Whiting, IN 46394
pammy43324@aol.com
Please include a self-addressed, stamped envelope (SASE) when making these requests.

Genealogical Inquires: It is our desire to develop a master Isaac Cummings descendants database beginning with placing the 1903 and/or 1904 Cummings genealogies on PAF or another GEDCOM file format and adding to the database as family information becomes available. Members may forward queries to the Data Base Chairperson:

Clint Cummings
9275 SW 92nd Place Road
Ocala, FL 34481
clintc@atlantic.net

Members are encouraged to forward their lineages as they are updated and corrected when they learn and verify more about their line of descent.

Queries can also be posted to the Cummings Genealogy Forum on GenForum.

Bi-Annual Reunions: The Association sponsors Bi-Annual Reunions to conduct business and provide social opportunities where we may exchange applicable information and form family friendships with other members. Our next Reunion will be in 2003 - watch for news!

Reunion Chair: David L. Cummings
12337 Clarence Center Road
Akron, NY 14001-1008
cummindl@buffalostate.edu

Our 1997 - 1999 - 2001 Reunions were all a huge success - here are some photos

Officers/Executive Board Members
ICFA Board of Directors and Trustees - 1997 Reunion

PRESIDENT:
Barry C. K. Moravek
2387 Carriage Ave.
Richland, WA 99352
(509) 375-4872
barrymor@aol.com
VICE PRESIDENT & MEMBERSHIP CHAIR:
Charles D. Larson
2601 E. Victoria St. #64
Dominguez Hills, CA 90220-6019
chaslar@aol.com
SECOND VICE PRESIDENT:
David L. Cummings
12337 Clarence Center Road
Akron, NY 14001-1008
cummindl@buffalostate.edu
CORRESPONDING SECRETARY & LIBRARIAN:
Sherry Milham
2318 Gravelly Beach Loop NW
Olympia, Washington 98502-8837
(360) 866-0256
smilham@halcyon.com
TREASURER:
Lorraine J. Cummings
22 Holly Ridge Drive
Sandwich, MA 02563-2715
capecod300@aol.com
DATABASE CHAIRPERSON:
Clinton L. Cummings
9275 SW 92nd Place Road
Ocala, FL 34481-8604
clintc@atlantic.net
ICFA WEBMASTER:
Carrie Bodensteiner
Madras, Oregon 97741
bodenst@kichline.com
NEWSLETTER EDITOR:
Pamela Cummings
978 Reese Street
Whiting, IN 46394
pammy43324@aol.com
MARKETING & PUBLICITY:
James Robert Cummings
3-B Fairview Drive
St. Charles, MO 63303
TRUSTEE:
Jack W. Cummings II
978 Reese Street
Whiting, IN 46394
pammy43324@aol.com
TRUSTEE:
Leigh E. Cummings, Jr.
10 Hillview Avenue
Houlton, ME 04730
lecummings@ainop.com
TRUSTEE:
Ruth Horton
13160 Lincoln
Grand Haven, MI 49417-9624
TRUSTEE:
Sandra K. Wilcoxon
609 Wenonah Ave.
Oak Park, IL 60304-1031
Skwilco@ameritech.net