Our Course We Have A Purpose - It's To Find A Purpose

Welcome to the Cheever & Beyond blog site and forum. The purpose of the blog is to give members of the Cheever family the chance to learn more about their ancestry, share personal stories about themselves and their respective families and to memorialize some of our history and discussions around the topic. While the blog has a definite beginning it doesn’t have an end and we really want to make this an ongoing family effort.

While the blog is called Cheever & Beyond, we hope it’s abundantly clear that your surname doesn’t have to be. There are many last names belonging to our ancestors and offspring that are a part of the Cheever clan including Martin, Hinton, Boutwell, Weger, Banks, Thompson and Newman just to name a few. Over time we hope we’re able to provide useful (and some not so useful) information about the many branches of the family tree. If you’re willing to contribute we welcome your efforts. Whether they’re totally serious or tongue-in-cheek, we want this site to be organic and fluid. It may take us a while to work out the kinks, but I’m confident we’ll get there. Contributing to blog isn’t mandatory, so if you’re simply interested in reading and making the occasional comment great! (However comments always feed the contributor’s ego – and that’s a good thing – isn’t it?)

We hope the blog will have enough participation that we can keep the posts coming on a regular basis. Any storylines, suggestions or critiques that you submit will be considered yours unless you tell us otherwise. This means all submissions will be properly sourced and cited for ownership. Currently there are several contributors to the site including myself (John “JC” Martin, Jim Hinton and John J. Martin. Other family members have also expressed an interest and will be appearing from time to time. If you’re interested, send one of us an email.

(Note: We may ask for additional information to ensure you’re at the correct family tree.)

In addition to the blog we also have a family photo site and we’re planning to add a forum link for discussing various topics including questions about the family, sayings we might have heard as children and other non-genealogical (off topic) interests. Depending on how many participate we may get so ambitious as to start our version of a Wikipedia for the Cheevers. That’s our story and we’re sticking to it.

We thank you for showing an interest and we hope to hear from you soon.

JC