.....none. I have no relationship to the Abbott family whatsoever. Zip. Zilch. Nada However, I have recently befriended several Abbotts. We have become good buddies - notwithstanding the fact that they have been dead for a hundred-ish years. Oh, picky, picky, picky. :-) I'm delighted to have stumbled on your site. Over the next few days, I'll scour it for information regarding Josiah Gardner Abbott and his descendants. I'll try (very hard) to avoid reading about the other Abbotts. Why? Because I'm a genealogy buff too. As such, I have MORE than enough people in my OWN 'dead relative collection' to keep me busy....thank you very much. Frankly, it's beyond me how I got sucked into researching YOUR family. Oh well. So be it. I'm hopelessly (albeit inexplicably) hooked. :-D Thank you for creating your site. I'll get back to you, forthwith. Julianne Fletcher Saugatuck, Michigan P.S. I do have buckets of immigrant ancestors who landed in Massachusetts, not the least of which is my Grandmother Rebecca Towne Nurse of Salem. She and her sisters (in my humble opinion) would have been well advised to have settled elsewhere. ;-)