S560: American Seymour Genealogy

This site is dedicated to the genealogy of the American Seymour lines – with particular emphasis on the descendants of the original Seymour colonist, Richard Seymour (who settled in Connecticut c.1639).

Here, you will find genealogical information on numerous Seymour families. If you find mistakes or wish to contribute new information, please contact me.

There are three main regions to this site:

1. "A History of The Seymour Family", by George Dudley Seymour and Donald Lines Jacobus, published in 1939. This is a partial transcript of a book which documents six generations down from Richard Seymour. It is far from complete, but has a lot of useful information anyway.
2. The Seymour Immigration Page
3. Medieval Seymour / St. Maur genealogy

More useful links:

• Bibliography
• Contact Me
• My Family Tree (w/links to FindAGrave.com)
• The Seymour DNA Project
• The Seymour Resource page at Rootsweb.
• The Seymour Surname Message Board at Ancestry.com.
• The Seymour Family Genealogy Forum at Genealogy.com.
• RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative.
• The Connecticut Society of Genealogists
• Higginson Book Company. About the only place where you can buy a printed copy of "A History of the Seymour Family" (or any of several thousand other historical and genealogical books). Note: I've also seen a CD-ROM version of this book available on eBay.
• Penhow Castle, home of the St Maur/Seymour family from the eleventh century.

About Me:
I am Jim Seymour from Hillsboro, Oregon, USA. While I have done no original research on the various Seymour families, I felt I had sufficient interest in the subject along with the computer skills to collate and present other people's research on the web. This site started as “The Seymour Immigration Page” back in 1999 and was migrated to the s560.com domain in 2007. I can also be found on Ancestry.com under the username “jdseymour”.