Hello! Welcome to the John Neff Family Blog. We would like to begin again to connect all the descendants of John Neff and Mary Barr. John and Mary had 10 children, 7 grew to adulthood and had chilidren - 89 in all. Seventy-two of the grandchildren had children and now the 9th generation are being born and we have almost 10,000 descendants and spouses in our Personal Ancestal File database. We haven't kept it current, however. Please help us update the PAF database and collect addresses, email address and phone numbers for all John and Mary's descendants.
Thank you,
Alice

September 19, 2008

John Neff was born 19 September 1794. Though John could read and write very well, we have no history, diary or journal written by him. We will try to put some of the stories we have found on this blog.

John married Mary Barr, a Mennonite like himself. They had 10 children, Amanda died as a baby. Of the 9 living children the oldest, Barbara Matilda, was 20 when he was baptized. Elizabeth just a baby while the family was learning about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. All the children migrated to Utah with their parents and became strong, faithful members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Seven had large families. Amos and Benjamin each had 3 wives. All together John and Mary had 89 grand children, 72 of them had families. The ninth generation of great (+) grandchildren are coming into the world. We have 9435 descendants in our Personal Ancestral File database and 2500 names and addresses many of them are outdated.

Please help us update our PAF database and our address list. Send information to Alice Neff at alice@neff.ws.