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There were fifteen charter members of the PCFA and by the time of  the first issue of the association's newsletter, The Chestnut Tree©, in January of 1976, the PCFA had grown to 42 members! Today membership is about 300. Welcome to the PCFA!! If you are researching a Chastain, or a similar spelling surname ancestor, this should be the place for you!! Most Chastain lineage research generates a direct or indirect relationship to the French Huguenot immigrant, Pierre Chastain (1659-1728).   Common spelling variations of Chastain include Chastaine, Chasteen, Chastine, Chesteen, Shasteen, Shastine, and Shastid. The spelling was also corrupted as Chasten and Castain on some early legal documents.   What is the PCFA? The Pierre Chastain Family Association is a non-profit membership fee-based family association. It functions exclusively with volunteer participation in the various administrative and clerical areas of organization. The PCFA is managed by a Board of elected and appointed members; the Board meets at least once a year at the family reunion to conduct the business of the association. The Officers are listed on the Officers/Contacts page.   PCFA History Mr. Elby F. Bowman sent invitations to fellow "Chastain" researchers to attend a conference on the interests of further research and the coordination of these efforts into a society or association. A group of interested parties met on August 31, 1975 at Dyer, Arkansas. That led directly to the formation of this association. There were fifteen charter members.  The first issue of the association’s newsletter, The Chestnut Tree©, was printed in January 1976.   PCFA Mission The mission of the Pierre Chastain Family Association is to collect, document, organize, preserve and publish the lineage, genealogical, historical and related data concerning the descendants of Pierre Chastain, in general, that pertain to the Chastain surname.   A computer database of close to 40,000 individual records submitted by members in their research over the years is maintained by our volunteer Genealogist, Jimmy Chesteen. The data includes not only the demographic data associated with usual lineage material but also numerous census, Bible, land, and other legal records documenting the descendants of Pierre, often covering twelve or more generations. The Genealogist also provides the membership with assistance in accessing the existing compiled data and provides research tips and advice to those doing further research on any Chastain genealogy.   Goal of This Site We are interested in making contact with anyone who has a Chastain ancestor. We extend an invitation of membership to all with interest in Chastain genealogy (please see the Membership page). If you have a Chastain ancestor, please contact our Genealogist and relate your ancestry, interest, etc. Contact info is noted in the PCFA Officers / Contacts page.   The pierrechastain.com web site has been online since 1996.   It could be you who supplies that missing link!   Login to the PCFA Member Section Due to research efforts of the membership since 1975, a great amount of documentation has been accumulated that allows timely lineage verification. The PCFA has placed this material in print for generations to come in volumes such as "Pierre Chastain and His Descendants . . . .". See also: Publications Pierre Chastain's descendants, as with most American families of this era, migrated westward from his original home in Virginia, both across and up and down the Appalachian Mountains, and from there further westward.

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