Descendants of James Popenoe
Foreword
All living Popenoes descend from James Popenoe. This seven-generation genealogy contains, hopefully, all of them as well as many living descendants through female lines. It is based mostly on material collected over the past century or so from family letters and accounts, not from primary source documents, hence has no footnotes. If you have questions about any statement, ask me. I know there are errors. I welcome your suggestions and corrections. I have included short biographical statements (educations, jobs, whatever) from many of you and would be happy to include more.
I hope this document (and the earlier one on the Frontier Family) will encourage many of you to become more interested in your family history and have greater awareness of your many living cousins. Some genealogies on the Internet omit all living persons in the interest of privacy. But that defeats the purpose of connecting you with your past. I have omitted birth days and months of all living people born before 1984, in order to give you some protection against a perceived threat of snoopers wanting to commit credit card or bank fraud. If you need any of those dates, write me. And if you wish any other deletions or changes in what I have said about you or your family, or if you have any 19th century photographs that you think would make useful additions to this document, please let me know.
--Oliver Popenoe
Send email to:
oliver@popenoe.com