The
Maybee Society was started by Belva Maybee Perry with the assistance of
George Maybee Martin in 1986 by 33 people gathered from correspondence
with George and Belva. All were researching their Maybee family
roots
At that time there was no internet and these people were digging into
family histories and bibles; looking, into older publications that
included research on our families including works by Edward C.
Marshall, Royal A. Mabee, Grenville MacKenzie, and R. Robert Mutrie;
and into census records, church records; and government vital
statistics.
The information on the submitted family group sheets, pedigree sheets
and other paper records were transmitted to index cards by Belva Perry.
No effort was taken to verify any of this information. In 1988 Belva
moved this information to a computer. The card file was put in an early
database and the family group and pedigree sheets were put into the new
Personal Ancestry Files (PAF) put out by the LDS Church. There was no
room for sources and citations in the PAF program so a note was added
to the individual of all who had contributed to the information, but
not where any specific information had come from. In 1995 the Maybee
Society file was moved to the program The Master Genealogist™ (TMG) by
John MayBee and since then all entries have been given citations
detailing from where every piece of information came.
The PAF file had almost 15,000 individuals at the time of the transfer.
As this database had entries from individual members records, there
were many duplicated people and lines. Some of the members ancestries
showed different parents for the same person!
Since that time our research has been able to untangle most (but not
all) of the errors originally submitted. Where there is insufficient
proof, we have made notes indicating differing opinions.
The work done by genealogical researchers prior to the internet was
arduous involving much travel, mail inquiries, photocopying, etc. Now
the internet is giving us access to more and more original records to
verify and add to our Maybee records.
We have placed the information on non living people into our database
on the internet at this Maybee Society website and also for those who
have access to it) at ancestry.com
| President | Vice President | Secretary-Treasurer | Communicator Editor | Database Administrator | Webmaster |
| George
MaybeeMartin 1987-1994 |
Belva
Maybee Perry 1987-1999 |
Belva
Maybee Perry 1987-1999 |
Belva
Maybee Perry 1987-1999 |
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| John
Albert "Jack" Maybee 1994-2003 |
Steve
Mabie 2005- current |
Barbara
Maybee Carter 1999-2009 |
Barbara
Maybee Carter 1999-2009 |
John
D.
MayBee 1999 - current |
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| John
D.
MayBee 2003-2013 |
Treasurer John D. MayBee 2009 - 2013 |
Steve
Mabie 2005- current |
John
D.
MayBee 2005 - current |
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| Kim
Geddes Mabee 2013-current |
Ann
Doyle
Christmann 2013-current |
Royal A. Mabee
(1906-1971)
Royal's information was principally
based on extensive interviews with Mabies (of all spellings) during the
mid 20th century in the United States. The original of Royal's notebook
is at the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society.
R. Robert Mutrie, Maybee
Society Member Number 23
In 1986, R. Robert Mutrie published his
book 6,000 New
York Ancestors: A Compendium of Mabie Research, which
compiled into one easy to read book the research of Royal Mabee,
MacKenzie and others.
Steve Mabie of San
Antonio, Texas. Maybee Society Vice President since 2005
Steve, used Mutrie's book as a starting
point and
focused on finding original records which would either support or
correct this baseline. Steve has assembled a collection of
thousands of baptism and marriage records, supplemented by hundreds of
probate records covering the first two and a half centuries of the
Mabies in North America. This (and much more can
be seen at his website Steve Mabie
John MayBee of Scotts
Valley, California. Maybee Society Database Coordinator since 1995
John’s research areas include England;
censuses in US, UK, and Canada; and ancestry.com databases
John Albert (Jack)
Maybee (1928-2007) President of the Maybee Society 1994-2003
Wrote the book Descendants of William and
Sophia Scripture Mabie which is a history of the Mabies of
the South Valley, Otsego County, New York area
Douglas
Cameron Mabee
Researches the Canadian Mabees
Ruth Linder
Researched the Michigan Mabies as part
of her Saxon file.
Barbara Millar
Researches the Canadian Mabies and more