Genealogy
There are two genealogical databases on this website.
TSFA Historian Thurmon King's database has records in raw data format on some 15,000 Sackett descendants. The focus is mainly on the US Sackett lines.
Chris Sackett has compiled genealogical sketches in narrative format of some 2,500 Sackett descendants. These include ancestors of TSFA members in the Register of Members, and a growing number of records of English Sacketts.
Some notable Sacketts
— the famous, the infamous, and some just interesting
The Sacketts have been adventurers, ambassadors, colonists, generals, historians, sea captains, settlers, and spymasters. The family even boasts a town mayor, a bigamist, and a highway robber.
DNA project
The Association is conducting
a DNA project with the primary objective of establishing a genetic
link between the lines of Simon Sackett the colonist, 1595-1635, and John Sackett of New
Haven, c1623-1684. Further details are available from DNA Project Administrator Tom Smith or visit www.familytreedna.com and search on surname
Sackett.
Members' websites
- The Sacketts of America by Charles Weygant. The complete text transcribed by Thurmon King.
- Mary Lou Sackett's Genealogy Home Page. Includes descendants of Joseph Sackett of Vermont.
- The Sackett Family Photo Album by Ted Smith.
- Sackett Family Headstones by Fred Sackett.
