The Harriman Family Association
FOUNDED July 18, 1987

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An Association Of the Descendants of Leonard and John Harriman
Immigrants to Rowley, Mass., and New Haven, Conn. c. 1638
(including surname variations, such as: Herriman, Harryman)

Goals Of The Association

  • Researching the ancestry and descendants of Harriman, Herriman, Harryman and variations, including DNA studies, and maintaining a Harriman genealogical database
  • The sharing and dissemination of family data
  • A regular newsletter
  • A Reunion meeting with all Harriman descendants welcome
  • The on-going publication of The Harriman History, a multi-volume genealogy chronicling the migrations and generations of the descendants of Leonard and John Harriman
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The current newsletter is here. It requires your password supplied to you with your mailed newsletter.

The November 2024 issue of the newsletter was mailed on November 12, 2024

Our first ever Zoom meeting was held on September 28,2024, between noon and 2:30.
There were 26 members in attendance.
The meeting was recorded and can be seen here:

Here is the link to the recording.

Our next in-person reunion will be in the fall of 2025.

Attention members We would like to have an e-mail address for you. We would hate to lose contact with you.
We will not distribute your e-mail address and will use it only for important HFA business.
You can see what email address we have for you now and add or change it here.
You will also see the mailing address that we have for you and whether or not you are in our database.
(Remember that living people in the database are not shown on-line.)

The HFA has funded the digitization of the Civil War diary of David S. Harriman. The diary is now on our website for members. It has been transcribed, largely by Shirley White. Take a look here.

HFA Special Reports

Visiting Uldale HFA Members Visit Uldale is a collection of accounts
from the newsletters by our members who traveled to Uldale.

Margaret Harriman Was NOT Margaret Palmer.

Harrimans in the Revolutionary War (from the three newsletters of 2011).

Harrimans in the War of 1812 (from the newsletters of 2012-2013).

Harrimans in World War 1.

Corrections sheet for Feudalism to Freedom by Lois Ware Thurston (included in 2021 version of book)

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