Blaisdell Family National Association

Welcome to the Blaisdell Family National Association, please take a moment to enjoy our site.

Welcome to the Blaisdell Family National Association’s web site.  The Association is a literary and educational private operating foundation, established in 1935 in York, Maine, and is devoted to preserving the genealogical and cultural heritage of the Blaisdell and related families.  It is the fifth oldest surname organization in the country.

Ralph Blaisdell of Bleasdale Village, Lancashire County, England arrived at Pemaquid Point, Maine on the Angel Gabriel with his wife, Elizabeth, and their three-year-old son, Henry, on August 14, 1635.

The Association preserves the cultural heritage and genealogy of this and 62,000 related families  through the publication of Blaisdell Papers  and its extensive genealogical collection.  

The Association’s goal since 1935 has been to unify all genealogical, historical and biographical research and compile this information into as complete and accurate a record as possible.  Photographs (including same person in different decades) and supporting documents are now being digitized. 

A benefit of being a Basic Member of the Association is a reduced price of the genealogy printouts of your family line.

When anyone can not afford either a Basic Membership or a genealogy printout of his/her line of descent, the Association will issue either or both of these for as long as we have the resources to do so.  Contributions to Association’s Endowment Fund enable us to be charitable. 

The BFNA cooperates with other historical and maritime groups interested in recovering and raising the Angel Gabriel.  Periodic updates appear in the Blaisdell Papers. 

The Blaisdell Family National Association has applied to the Internal Revenue Service to be recognized as a 501c3 literary and historical private operating foundation, which would allow charitable contributions to be deducted on one’s Federal personal income tax.  Unless this determination is made by the IRS, gifts to the BFNA are not tax deductible.

Basic Membership to the Association is open to the public.  Receiving the June and December issues of Blaisdell Papers is a benefit of membership. 

For a yearly membership, click here Pay Pal or make $15 check payable and mail to:

Blaisdell Family National Association (or BFNA)

PO Box 444

Harrison, OH  45030