Conant Name Study

Profile managers: Jeanne Howell [send private message], Teresa Conant [send private message], One Name Studies WikiTree [send private message], and Frank Follett [send private message]

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How to Join

Please contact the project leader Teresa Conant or post a comment at the foot of the page. If you have any questions, just ask. Thanks!

Goals

This is a One Name Study to collect together in one place everything about the surname Conant and its variants. The hope is that other researchers like you will join our study to help make it a valuable reference point for people studying lines that cross or intersect.

Task List

• Our profile sticker is shown on the right.
  

  This profile is part of the Conant Name Study.
  You can add it to the Conant profile you are currently working on. To add the sticker simply type:

One Name Study | name=Conant

inside double brackets {{ }} immediately below the "==Biography==" section of the profile you are working on. Or, better yet, contact our in-house expert and profile manager Jeanne Howell for questions or guidance. Jeanne has been with WikiTree since 2015 and has a strong background in genealogy.

• I believe most of us connect to Roger Conant, or are his descendants. So, cousins, I thought we'd like to find out just who our links are. As a matter of fact, soon we will have two of our members who will connect from their root profile to Roger! Many more to come, I'm sure.

• I'm actually completely new to genealogy, so would appreciate anyone who could take over this one-name study for me, or help in any way. Please join the "trusted list" for this project.

• Also, remember we have a WikiTree Livecast by Doug Lockwood on the One Name Studies Project: ^[1]

• The early Conant genealogy in the United States is fairly well known, thanks to the book: "Conant genealogy," by Frederick Odell Conant, published in Portland, Maine in 1887. The book is out of copyright and now available in PDF, text, MOBI, and ePUB versions at: ^[2]

There are many other such resources. During the 18th century, various groups of the Conant family moved out of New England to New York, Ohio, and other places. I'd really like to know where those other places are.

• I live a stone's throw from Salem, Massachusetts which Roger Conant founded. Also, my family has thousands of pictures of Conants, which we could share, and many others which need identifying. The more pictures, the merrier–especially if you have pictures of houses where any Conants or their kin have lived.

• Presently, I am working on getting Pre-1700 qualified. Would love to have as many members qualified as possible. Already we have two members. Also, you can join the ^[3] and help work on our earlier ancestors.

• Currently we have 33 Wiki Genealogists who are tagged following CONANT genealogy content. I'd like to see a lot more! Please invite as many profile managers as you can. Collaboration is what One Name Studies are all about.

• There are about 2,485 Conants now on WikiTree, with 33 of them unconnected. So we have plenty of resources to go after these orphans. Except for two merges which are currently being researched, there are no pending Conant merges. I personally have rejected 20 merges.

• There are about 92 suggestions without a resolved status. Twenty of those are orphans and about a dozen have been resolved. So Data Doctoring duties are a minimum–except for about 14 unsourced profiles. Again, since I recognize at least 7 of them, I don't think we'll be overtaxed with sourcing problems, either.

• There are almost 3,500 Conant names in the U.S. Social Security death index. So we can already brag that we have more than 70% of them profiled on WikiTree! My point being, I think our project has an excellent chance of being one of the most successful. And I love success!

• Related surnames: COMMENT (43) CONAN (32) CONNAN (16) CAUMONT (5) CONART (7) CONAT (5) CONNANT (5) CANANT (7) COUMONT (4) KONAN (3).

Sources

1. ↑ [1] WikiTree Livecast by Doug Lockwood.
2. ↑ [2] "Conant genealogy," by Frederick Odell Conant, published in Portland, Maine, 1887 is available in PDF, text, MOBI, and ePUB versions for download.
3. ↑ [3] England Project

• [4] How a New Name Study gets listed on the index page.
• [5] Registering with the United Kingdom Guild of One Name Studies
• [6] Federation of Family History Societies

Resource Notes

• [The Internet Archive] has about 137 free Conant resources, including books.

• Been to Conantville, Connecticut, or perhaps Conant Wildlife Area?

• Speaking of Conantville, go to MAPS for free detailed (to house and cemetery level) downloadable maps of everywhere in the United States.

• Lots of famous and interesting Conant individuals, have books about them A man in earnest: life of A.H. Conant, by Robert Collyer, Lee and Shepard, 1875 - 230 pp. which can be downloaded for free. Find your own people named Conant which have helped shape American history and share them here.

• History of Barrington, Rhode Island, MyHeritage.com (online database). Lehi, UT, USA: MyHeritage (USA) Inc., Record: [7] Citation: History of Barrington, Rhode Island, Text: "... a n , Carey, Micah, Sergeant, Chase, Grindall, Child, Haile, Child, Hezekiah, Child, William, Clark, Nathaniel, Cole, Ambrose S., Conant, Samuel, Drown, Benjamin, Jr., Sergeant, Drown, Caleb...", Place: Barrington, Rhode Island, Image: 496

• Teresa Conant is from the Athens, Ohio branch of the Conant family and is willing to help anyone research relatives from the area.

• Most of all, don't forget to add your own research notes and resources here!