Monthly Archives: January 2014

Regan Family News Volume 1 #2

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Here is the link to Regan Family News Volume 1 #2


Here is the second RFN as published by Roswell Regan in 1962.  I posted the first issue last month and I plan on posting all that I have (through 1965) periodically.  I set the privacy settings to high, requiring a password sign in.  This is because the RFN has all sorts of address and relationship information that I felt reluctant to make public, even though the material is 50 years old.  I hope this doesn’t present a hardship for anyone who would like to have access to this material.  I’ll send this information to any Regans I have email addresses for, which is a very short list.  So please alert me to others who might want this access.

In this issue, like many to follow, Ross talks about Pop’s (my grandfather, Peter’s) siblings.

Peter and Nellie Regan on the occasion
of their 50th anniversary

He clearly knew them well and kept close to them, even cared for them.  These were my great aunts and uncles but my mother hardly mentioned them and seemed not to know them nearly as well as Ross did.  There were four of them; all childless and living together at this time.  They were all to pass away before the decade ended and, in fact, we lose three during the RFN run.  I discovered through the RFN that three are buried in Farmingdale, New York, about 15 minutes from my home!  I visited the grave last month to find a single stone inscribed “Regan, In God’s Care”, nothing more, though there are four Regans buried there (Steven’s wife and the 3 siblings).  

Ross also mentions Pop’s brother David.  I have found through census records that David was four years Pop’s senior, though I know nothing more about him. 

Ross then goes on to publish news from the families and what I think is the most prescient information, his “Information Which Everyone Should Have” column.  This is great stuff and I love the way he organized the family tree.  Again, what a great job Ross did with this newsletter.  I hope you find the material as interesting as I do.

Regan Family News Volume 1 #2

by on .

Here is the link to Regan Family News Volume 1 #2


Here is the second RFN as published by Roswell Regan in 1962.  I posted the first issue last month and I plan on posting all that I have (through 1965) periodically.  I set the privacy settings to high, requiring a password sign in.  This is because the RFN has all sorts of address and relationship information that I felt reluctant to make public, even though the material is 50 years old.  I hope this doesn’t present a hardship for anyone who would like to have access to this material.  I’ll send this information to any Regans I have email addresses for, which is a very short list.  So please alert me to others who might want this access.

In this issue, like many to follow, Ross talks about Pop’s (my grandfather, Peter’s) siblings.

Peter and Nellie Regan on the occasion
of their 50th anniversary

He clearly knew them well and kept close to them, even cared for them.  These were my great aunts and uncles but my mother hardly mentioned them and seemed not to know them nearly as well as Ross did.  There were four of them; all childless and living together at this time.  They were all to pass away before the decade ended and, in fact, we lose three during the RFN run.  I discovered through the RFN that three are buried in Farmingdale, New York, about 15 minutes from my home!  I visited the grave last month to find a single stone inscribed “Regan, In God’s Care”, nothing more, though there are four Regans buried there (Steven’s wife and the 3 siblings).  

Ross also mentions Pop’s brother David.  I have found through census records that David was four years Pop’s senior, though I know nothing more about him. 

Ross then goes on to publish news from the families and what I think is the most prescient information, his “Information Which Everyone Should Have” column.  This is great stuff and I love the way he organized the family tree.  Again, what a great job Ross did with this newsletter.  I hope you find the material as interesting as I do.