Current PCFA Publications

In keeping with the objectives of the family association to disseminate Chastain and related genealogical data through publications, PCFA offers the following texts prepared by the membership on a volunteer basis. As PCFA is non-profit, the price of the items are directly related to costs incurred by PCFA in printing, publishing, and postage. Previous texts published by The Pierre Chastain Family Association include Little Otter to Lost River by Claude E. "Gene" Cook and Chastain Kith and Kin by Mary Avilla Farnsworth-Milligan. We are sorry to report that both of these outstanding volumes on Chastain genealogy are now out of print, although Little Otter to Lost River is now available in CD format (see below).

The Chestnut Tree©. The official organ and publication of the Pierre Chastain Family Association and journal of Chastain genealogy and family history. Typhically published quarterly as Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall issues each year. "TCT" is only available through membership in the Pierre Chastain Family Association. Previous issues are archived on the member site for reading online or download. The Librarians also keep a limited supply of printed copies.  Pierre Chastain and His Descendants, Volume I, The First Five Generations in America. (This volume now includes the Errata and Addenda) A must have reference text for any Chastain lineage researcher! Compiled by Robert W. Leishman and edited by Ms. Loyce Coolidge with assistance by Gerre Buland from the membership records. The text is 358 pages with index, navy hardcover, and contains data on all documented lines of Dr. Pierre Chastain continuing through the children of the fifth generation. Contains pictures, biographies, and early data on the Chastain, Soblet, and Brian families.  $60.00  TOP  Pierre Chastain and His Descendants, Errata and Addenda to Volume I - for the 1995 edition ONLY. (Included in 2018 edition of Vol. I) Corrections, updates, and additions to the lineages in the 1995 edition of Volume I. Notable additions include descendants of Elizabeth (Chastain) LeSueur and circumstantial descendants of Rev. James Chastain. Soft cover, 143 pages, indexed. $20.00 CAUTION: you do NOT need this for the 2018 edition Volume I listed above. It is ONLY for the old 1995 edition which is out of print!  TOP  Corrections and additions to Pierre Chastain and His Descendants, Volume I, The First Five Generations in America. This is page 377, corrected from a scan error where unreadable. You can download it and print it and insert it in your Blue Book, Vol 1 or the Errata & Addenda if you have an old Vol. 1.  Download the corrected page.  TOP  Pierre Chastain and His Descendants, Volume II The Sixth Generation. Volume II is 597 pages and, like Volume I, was compiled, confirmed, and edited by Bob Leishman, Loyce Coolidge, and Gerre Buland. Thus, the formatting of the lineages remains the same. The text carries forward from Volume I by continuing with the family structures of the Sixth Generation in America to include their children (the seventh generation).  $60.00

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BEST VALUE - Blue Book Bundle, Vol I including A&E and Vol II.    $115.00

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The Allen Articles: The Chastain Families of Manakin Town in Virginia and Their Origin Abroad and Pierre Chastain, Revisited. The best documented histories of Dr. Pierre Chastain under one cover, a reprint of the articles by Cameron Allen, FASG. These articles were first published in The American Genealogist and later in The Chestnut Tree©. Outstanding documentation of the structure of the Chastain family in France through the migration to Virginia.   $10.00 We ran out of this book, but fear not, for it has just been reprinted. You can now purchase one from Amazon for $10.00. It is also available from our Librarian at the same price.    TOP  Little Otter to Lost River by Claude E. "Gene" Cook is now available in CD format. Cook focuses on the Chastains who moved from Franklin County, Virginia to Henry County and Shelby County, Kentucky, and from there went on to settle along the Lost River in Washington County, Indiana. However, he also mentions other Chastains who settled in Indiana. By 1840, one in five Chastain families in America lived in that state. Cook also follows many Indiana Chastain lines that migrated from Indiana to other places.   $20.00 A big thanks to our The Chestnut Tree Editors Susan Slape-Hoysagk for retyping the edition and Phillip L. Sublett for reproducing the CDs and creating the designs.

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