New: I'm collecting information on Harmons on the web, with the intent of "publishing" (on the web, someday) an updated Harmon Genealogy. If you are descended from a Harmon and have information to share, please follow this link.

My father's father's father's sister (my great-great aunt) Shirley Harmon Hellner spent a great deal of time and money researching the genealogy of the Harmons. Over Thanksgiving (1995), in a fit of boredom, I looked through some of my grandmother's old copies of this research. I discovered that she had compiled a rather complete lineage tracing back from my father to a John Harmon born in London c1617.

With this web page, I hope to increase that lineage into a complete family tree, eventually (hopefully) tracing all living descendants of that John Harmon, as well as his ancestors. If you have ANY information on the Harmon name, please email me.

I've begun to compile links to web pages with related families (see my How-To for help on finding your own links). If you have a genealogy page which includes anyone on my pages, let me know. I'm also compiling general genealogy links.

Most of this information comes from The Harmon Genealogy (comprising All Branches in New England) compiled and edited by Artemas C. Harmon, printed by Gibson Bros., Inc. of Washington, D.C., in 1920. I will flesh out as much of I know of the other lines in this book when and if I get time. Special thanks to Scott Prentice (a descendant of Nathaniel Harmon I) for the Mary Skinner lineage.

PLEASE NOTE: Some of the information on this page (specifically side branches from the Harmon line and information before John Harmon) comes from various sources on the web. For this reason, please don't take anything on this page as written in stone (I hope to remedy that eventually, but for now it's more difficult to fix things than it's worth). For instance, I've learned that Elizabeth Cummings was NOT the wife of the John Harmon from whom I am descended. She was the wife of a John Harmon who came to America around the same time, and has thus been confused several times. Read about other possible Elizabeths here.

I recently added information on the meaning of the Harmon surname, as well as a link for those interested in looking up their own. I'm also in the process of adding the meanings of the various other related surnames to that page.

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