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Welcome! The Pierre Chastain Family Association is a non-profit family organization dedicated to doing genealogical research on the descendants of Pierre Chastain (1659-1728) who immigrated from France to Virginia in the year 1700.

Pierre'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.

Later generations came to use varied spellings of the surname for various reasons. Common spelling variations of Chastain include Chastaine, Chasteen, Chastine, Chesteen, Shasteen, and Shastine.  The spelling was also corrupted as Chasten and Shatteen on many early legal documents.

This site is instrumental in keeping the Chastain family informed on the new developments in the never-ending genealogical research. The first six generations of descendants of Pierre Chastain are well researched and published in books available on the Publications page.

However, we still have numerous family units that are unplaced or there is little legal evidence to make connections with earlier generations. So, the effort continues via new record search availability and of course our DNA Project.

Our Member Area is a repository of member research, documents pertaining to Chastain genealogy and family history.  The data contained there reflects the current "official" lineages of Pierre, not the often garbled, mixed up names, as seen on various online entities.

If you have a Chastain (or variant surname spelling) ancestor or have interest in Chastain family genealogy, genealogical research, we extend an invitation of membership to all. More information regarding is available on the Memberships page.

Visit the Member Section of the PCFA Web Site

If you are a member of the Pierre Chastain Family Association you can now login to the Member Section and find Chastain family genealogical information which is not available to the general public. If you are not yet a member of the PCFA you can join Here.

Some of the Features of the Membership Section are:

Research files for collaboration. Connect your family tree to get help to do research on your branch of the family. DNA information and definitions Errata & Addenda for the "Blue Books". Current and back issues of The Chestnut Tree. Bylaws and Standing Rules of the PCFA Minutes of the PCFA Board Meetings and Annual Family Meetings

To login to the Member Section:

Click on the link in the upper right corner of each page in the Public Section of the PCFA web site. Find "Don't have a login? Register for New User Account" at the bottom of the Login Page Click "Register for New User Account" Fill out the form and click "Submit" The Register for New User Account page will display: "Thank you. We have received your registration. We will contact you when your account is active or if more information is needed." The site administrator will register you and you will be notified by email when you can login to the Member Section.

Please allow up to 48 hours for the administrators to register you, especially if you just joined. The registration process is done manually.

Thank you for visiting!

The PCFA Board.