Art is descended from William¹ "The Pilgrim" SHERMAN (as yet unproven ties to Dedham clan). His lineage continues with: Samuel², Samuel³, Samuel⁴, Elijah⁵, Isaac⁶, Isaac⁷, Daniel⁸, Alfred⁹, Lillian¹⁰, Art¹¹ COHAN.  He was born in Mt. Vernon, NY, grew up in Baltimore, MD and Hubbard, OH, and now lives in Harlingen (deep south on the Gulf coast), Texas with wife Debbie and her "zoo" of animals.

Retiring from the Marines in 1978 after a great 20-year career in electronics, Art and his family (ex-wife and six wonderful children) moved to Harlingen, where he spent several years teaching at a private military academy.

Divorced in 1989, he and Debbie McClure were engaged in 1993, when she suffered a nearly fatal accident just a week before their marriage. Debbie's resultant head injury caused a total loss of memory, and Art fully retired to become her hubby and care-giver. As her recovery progressed in late 1994, she began asking about her deceased father's family - and his adventure into the world of Family History began.

Today Art concentrates most of his "spare time" energies (when not busy with Debbie or some his 13 grandchildren or six great-grandsons) on all SHERMAN lines, not just his own.

I descend from William "The Pilgrim" Sherman, of Plymouth/Marshfield, MA in 1632, with four (so far) Mayflower lines via female connections (Cooke, Doty, Hopkins & Warren).

I maintain two Sherman databases (totaling over 100,000 names, so far) on FTM 4.4. These include one on my William line, and one on the rest of the Shermans, including the other five main early Sherman immigrants to New England (and lines of Gen. W.T. and Hon. Roger who signed all four founding documents), and "Unknown" ancestry, where I enter all queries I see (that I cannot find) and then try to "match up" about once a week, for others. This second file now contains many variant spellings, and numerous other lines of Shermans immigrating thru other ports and migrating into the south.

I have several Sherman references, listed below, enjoy doing lookups for others, and will xerox and send pages of most on request, gratis.

1. Mary Holman's "Desc. of William Sherman of Marshfield" - 1936
2. Thomas T. Sherman's  "Sherman Genealogies" - 1920
3. Charles White's "Ancestry of Rev. John Sherman and Capt. John Sherman" - 1897
4. Bertha Stratton's  "Trans Atlantic Shermans" - 1951
5. Bertha Stratton's  "New Light on Henry Sherman of Dedham..(etc.)" - 1954
6. Bertha Stratton's  "Sherman and Allied Families" - 1969
7. Sherman William Bear's  "In Search Of Caleb" - 1978
8. John H. Sherman's  "Sherman Directories" - 1991  (four volumes)
9. Frank Dempster Sherman's  "Ancestry of James Morgan Sherman and his Descendants" - no date - privately printed (transcribed)
10. Marge Sherman Lutzvick's  "Going to Palmyra"  - 1997 **
11. The Sherman portions of Frederick Barreda Sherman's "A New England Heritage" - 1969
12. The Sherman Ancestry of Janet Hess - privately printed - 1998
13. The Sherman extracts from the records of Stratford and Woodbury, CT (from Higginsons)
14. Roy V. Sherman's "Some of The Descendants of Philip Shearman" - 1968
15. Roy V. Sherman's "New England Shermans" - 1974
16. Taylor Gordon's "The Man Who Built the Stone Castle" - 1929 (story of Byron Roger Sherman)
17. "Sherman Lines" printed privately by Kenneth Lee - 1990's
18. The original bible of the family of Lydia Sherman (b: 1782) and Isaac Potter. This includes a second Potter family bible.
19. Charles Pomeroy Sherman's "Sherman Genealogy" - 1922
20. Bradford Sherman's "Genealogy of the Sherman Family" - 1916
21. Eldon Sherman's "Sherman Genealogy 1433-1990's - Seneca Co., OH" - 1997 (Vol's I & II)
22. "Genealogy of one branch of the Sherman Family" (Samuel to Jotham) by Walter Booth and Hosea Northrop - 1900
23. Dorothy Alice (Sherman) Laison's "Sherman, Charles, Gass -- and Allied Families" - 1967 (Sherman extracts)
24. "The Shermans" - compiled by Roger Sherman, Titusville, PA - 1890
25. "Records of the Sherman Family", David H. Sherman, Dover Plains, NY - June 1887
26. TAG articles from 1870 Jan/Apr issues by Rev. David Sherman
27. TAG article of July 1897; Sherman Ancestry
28. TAG article of July/Oct. 1985 re: Tobias Makin
29. TAG articles of April/July 1987 re: Grace Ravens, wife of John Sherman
30. TAG article of July 1998, Sarah Odding, wife of Philip Sherman
31. "Desc. of Jacob Haven Sherman & Rebecca Stebbins", Linda Clark Stewart - 1998
32. "Charles & Ella Mae Sherman-Ances. & Desc." Verlene Weber - 1995
33. "McGaffey/Sherman Genealogy" - The line of James Sherman, b: 1764, who married Elizabeth Fenner - 1904
34. "Sherman Family History" - Harold Quentin Sherman - 1996 - a line of Shermans beginning with Jacob, b: 1748, centering in mid-Penn
35. Roger Sherman chapter of the “Descendants of the Signers” by Picton Press, 2002.
36. SHERMAN and variant spellings index pages (about 8,000 names) from the A.G.B.I.

In addition, I have the LDS's 1880 census CD's, and subscriptions to Ancestry.com, Genealogy.com, Heritage Quest, and many libraries that have on-line resources.  I am gradually pouring through them and entering ALL the Sherman ties I can find. Same with ANY other records I find, anywhere.

If you would, I'd appreciate a brief rundown of your line, from immigrant Sherman, to you.  Email txt, Word Document, attached as a GEDCOM or FTM file, snailmail, or any format would be fine.

My files, sans any living persons born after 1920, are the basis for the GEDCOMs posted at the link to SHERMAN immigrants and descendants at the SOY home page.  I will continue to make everything "non-private" available to anyone who contacts me, and will just "will" my files to the LDS (who filter any living persons) when I am no longer able to continue.

Please let me know if I can help you with any research. In addition to the above Sherman info, our library here has the complete set of Mayflower Society "Five-Generation" books, and I'll be happy to do "lookups" there for you.