Welcome to the Rand Family Tree

This site is dedicated to the study of the far-reaching RAND family. While your Web folks belong to the Southern Branch of the Rand Family, we seek to connect all Rands--white, black, or mixed--and we invite participation from anyone interested in the RAND surname. We know there are many RANDS in New England, but we have been unable to find a connecting point so far. So far...

LINKING YOUR FAMILY, OUR FAMILY, THEIR FAMILY

At the moment, there is no “Master” family tree.  As we put together various branches of the family over the next few years, we hope to be able to generate one. 

Various Rand family databases will be located at Rootsweb.com, a free genealogy site.  We encourage you to upload your information here* and share it with the rest of the family.  Names of living persons will not be shown for privacy reasons.  It is our hope to update these databases frequently, as new information becomes available.

We suggest that you purchase Family Tree Maker genealogy software to organize and share your research.  It is available in any office supply store for about $30, or online at familytreemaker.com. Ancestry.com offers free forms to fill out, and the Mormon Church (of which we have no affiliation) even has a free family database, the PAF.

*For now, you will have to contact us for upload instructions.

If you need help getting started, we've put together some tips. Click here to read them.

Click here for free forms

Click here for the free .PAF family-history software

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WISH LIST FOR OUR FAMILY

• Family databases. They should be posted at the (free) Rootsweb.com site, for all to see, and we will have links to certain of the Rand databases. Rands are invited to post their own, let us know, and we'll add your link. (Here is one of the Rand sites already online. This one starts with William Rand, our immigrant, and his wife, Sophia Almand. It is one of several at the rootsweb.com site. NORLANDIC SAGAS ~ RAND.)

• Hand-drawn family trees. We invite them.


• Family photos, cemetery photos, house photos, etc.
  
• Copies of documents such as the family-history manuscripts, or personal stories about particular members of the Rand family.
  
• Links to any good information mentioning Rands.
  
• Family Blogs. Rands will be invited to post family stories and/or messages, where others can respond to the blog.
  
• DNA project information and results. We are seeking RAND MEN of all colors to participate in DNA testing. (Did you catch the CNN piece on Mrs. Mineola Johnson, a Rand? CNN commissioned a maternal DNA study for the descendants of Ann Rand, and the results are here: Rand Female DNA Study.)
  

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ALL MATERIAL TO BE INCLUDED AND/OR LINKED TO THE Randfamilytree.org Web site must be approved by the Randfamilytree Webmaster, who reserves the right to reject anything off the subject of our family, or that is deemed inappropriate to our mission.