The Tackett Family Association™

Prices effective & page updated 29 Aug 2007

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The following publications are available from The Tackett Family Association™. Please send your orders to: Jim W. Tackitt, Editor; 260 Bella Vista Way, Rio Vista, CA 94571.

1. The Tacketts of Kanawha Co., VA©, Erna Young Johnson, Charleston, WV (1969); 76 pp including a NEW INDEX and an introduction by Jim W. Tackitt - plus an 1850 era map of the area. Size 8.5" x 11" w/card cover.

$15.00  [add $4.50 Media Mail or $7.50 for Priority Mail]

2. The Tackett-Fletcher Pioneers (w/supplement)©, Mae Eliz: Lang, St. Joseph, IL (1969 w/1973 supplement); 119 pp including a NEW INDEX and an introduction by Jim W. Tackitt plus an 1850 era map of the Kanawha Co., VA area. (Covers family & descendants of Lewis Tackett, Jr. of Kanawha Co., VA & Henry Co., IN. The new introduction corrects the previous claim that LEWIS TACKETT, JR. was a Rev. War Vet.); Size 8.5" x 11" w/card cover. Some photographs.

$22.50   [add $4.50 Media Mail or $7.50 for Priority Mail]

3. The Story of Stafford, compiler John Tackett Goolrick, Fredericksburg, VA (1939). A narrative history of Stafford Co., VA, w/map of historic sites, including "Tackett's Mill." "Old" Stafford Co., VA is where the immigrant ancestor, Lewis Tacquett, Sr. settled. 88 pp w/index. Size 5.5" x 8.5", saddle stitched, soft cover.

$7.50   [please add $3.50 shipping via Priority Mail]

4. Early Tackett Family Migration (Map)© with 2nd side being a chart of assumed lines of descent from PHILLIP TACKITT, SR. (c1745-aft1830), who was living in Pike Co., KY in 1830 and who is probably the progenitor of the majority of early Tackett lines to East Kentucky. Map and Chart, 11" x 17", two color, Ivory 70# Offset paper. [Not all on this chart has been validated.]

Postpaid............................ $5.00

5. 29th Annual National Tackett Reunion© (1987). A VHS VIDEO TAPE, approx. 1.5 hours in length. Held at Virgie, KY (formerly known as Tackitt, KY), covers all activities from start to finish, featuring Keynote Address by National President, Jim W. Tackitt and several other speakers including: Willis Reo Johns, Vernon Webster Tackett, Leah Deane Tackett, John Benton Tackett, Stanford Tackett, Hassell Tackett, KY State Rep., N. Clayton Little & Judge J.D. Bond.

Postpaid............................ $20.00   [please add $3.50 shipping]

6. LEWIS TACQUETT: The First Family©: This booklet will be generated from our computer files on "The First Family," which consists of Family Group Sheets and documentation secured to date on LEWIS TACQUETT and his four known children: Lewis Jr., John, William & Rachel. Included will be known or assumed children of the three sons. Now included is a re drawn 1737 map of the Brent Town Tract showing the location of the original homesite for Lewis Tacquett [and 37 neighbors] plus a plat map showing locations of the original Tacquett grants in PrWmCo., VA.

Postpaid............................ $25.00     [please add $4.50 shipping]

7 . A printed version of our Descriptive Table of Contents of all back issues of The Tackett Family Journal™ and its predecessor, The American Pioneer™. We also maintain this on a word processing file so topics can more easily be located. This file is also available on this web site for you to search or download the complete file free of charge. [For our Macintosh users, we also have a fully formatted file available on disk which can be accessed by your own copy of Microsoft Word 5.0 (Contents) and PageMaker 5.0, or higher, for the order blank. . . . $5.00.] You can print a pdf file of the price list by clicking here. [you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view this file.]

Postpaid............................ $2.50

8. The Family of Elder Wm. Tackitt Sr. (1779-1851) & Amy Johnson Tackitt©: Family Group Sheet and documentation for the Patriarch of this large family group centered in Pike & Floyd Co., KY. Some photos of headstones included.

Postpaid............................ $12.50    [please add $3.50 shipping]

9. The Family of William "Buck" & Sarah Caudill Tackitt Jr.© of Pike Co., KY. This is a special report on this large family, includes copies of pages from the old Family Bible, photos of several of the children, photos of headstones, old letters and extensive documentation. . . Also includes a photo of Abel & Mary Crace Caudill of Magoffin Co., KY; an 1867 letter written by Abel & Mary Caudill's son, Pleasant Caudill, b c1846, the year prior to his marriage to Catherine Ellen "Kate" Wiley; and a c1898 letter to Sarah Caudill Tackitt & Rachel Caudill Crace? by her sister-in-law, Mary Crace Caudill, telling of the death of her husband, Abel Caudill.       Ask for Vol. 28 No. 4 (1991) of The Tackett Journal.

Postpaid............................ $7.50   [please add $2.50 shipping]

10. "The Descendants of Allen Jackson Tackitt, 1826-1895, " by James Wm. Tackitt [Chico, CA : 1958]. Allen Jackson Tackitt, from Monroe Co., VA and thence to Cass & Johnson Co., MO abt. 1837, moved to Placer & Nevada Co., California during the Gold Rush to claim Bounty Land for his service in the Mexican War of 1848. He was married to Mary Elizabeth Grider, the dau. of the Captain of the overland wagon train, Tobias S. & his wife, Eleanor Usrey Grider.  This small compilation, with a few photos, was the first genealogy publication by Jim W. Tackitt.  Now considerably out-of-date, this will still be of interest to members of this family.    Size 5.5"x11," 44 pp plus index, photos, letterpress & offset printed, saddle bound.

                                                            $7.50   [please add $2.50 shipping]

11. Tackett/Tackitt Family Reports: Register Reports [starting with one of your early ancestors and recording DOWN all the children in each generation, or as many generations as you specify] & Ahnentafel Reports [starting with you and going BACK through each generation, but only including those in your direct line], as well as the standard Family Group Sheets for a single family unit, with children, are available on a large number of early Tackett/Tackitt family units, many with photos. These reports can be presented on 8.5x11 inch paper and 3-hole punched for your binder. They will contain extensive documentation [not the non-documented WFT type so often found on the Internet]. If desired, these can also be sent to Internet users as .rtf or .pdf files at a reduced rate. These reports can be from about 10 to well over 100 pages each and may change daily as new documented material is entered. Please ask for the family unit you are interested in and we will let you know the number of pages for that family, if available]. [These reports are the result of our 50 years' experience working on these families.] Note: A single five generation "Ancestor Chart," sent via email attachment, is FREE to any Tackett descendant.

Cost: $7.50 up to 20 pages. Each additional page is .50 cents if sent as hardcopy via USPS. If sent via email attachment, each additional page is .30 cents.  [To order, please send check to Jim W. Tackitt, 260 Bella Vista Way, Rio Vista, CA 94571]

Please add $4.50 Shipping. Thank you. Please note that these files are for your own private use, and for your family, but are not to be transmitted to others via print or electronic media, including websites, without express permission from Jim W. Tackitt, The Tackett Family Assn. 

12. For those interested in allied East Kentucky family lines, we also have very extensive material available for many of the early Pike & Floyd Co. families. [If you do not find the Pike/Floyd Co., KY family below that you are interested in, please ask]. These two-generation copyrighted Register Reports [including known children & dates for the 3rd generation], like those mentioned above contain extensive documentation [not the non-documented WFT type so often found] , are from about 25 to 85+ pages each and may change daily as new documented data is entered. Photos may be included in many of these reports. [These reports are the result of our 50+ years' experience working with the early families of Eastern Kentucky.] Some of these include reports on the families of:

Cost: $7.50 up to 20 pages. Each additional page is $ .50 up to 100 pages. Any pages over 100 are .25 per page. If sent via email attachment, the cost is $ .25 for each page beyond 20. [To order, please send check to Jim W. Tackitt, 260 Bella Vista Way, Rio Vista, CA 94571]]

Note: Number of pages were at the time that this page was set up. Pages will vary with the addition of new data.

Please add $4.50 for shipping. Thank you. Please note that these files are for your own private use, and for your family, but are not to be transmitted to others via print or electronic media, including websites, without express permission from Jim W. Tackitt, The Tackett Family Assn.

13. Back Issues of The Tackett Journal©. All back issues are available at varying prices.

14. Photo files:  If we have a photograph available for one of your family members these can be obtained for a fee, if we have the negative [we have well over 2,500 indexed].   We do have many that we have pre-printed to 5x7 [$5.00] & a few 4x5 or 4x6 [$3.50] size. [Please request no more than two different prints at a time. Thanks!]. Those requesting may obtain 72dpi jpg images, via email, of those in their direct line for no charge. There is a fee if you wish 320 dpi images on a CD. [Please request no more than two different jpg images, via email, at a time. Thanks!]

     If you have an old Tackett related photo, we will copy and reproduce it at no charge, whether you are an enrolled member or not. We will maintain the negative in our collection for future donation to The Allara Library at Pikeville College, Pikeville, KY, and we will send you an up to 5x7 print.  For some samples of retouched photos and samples of historical photography, go to our Photo Retouching site.

15. Historic U.S. Maps: A large selection of U.S. State, area and specialty maps available thru vendor, Jim W. Tackitt. Write for a catalogue.

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