THE JOSEPH VICK FAMILY OF AMERICA, INC.

The Joseph Vick Family of America (JVFOA) is a non-profit association dedicated to the genealogy of Joseph Vick, who immigrated to America around 1660. The organization maintains a database of Joseph Vick descendants, sponsors family reunions, and publishes a quarterly newsletter.

The Joseph Vick Family of America, Inc. is an organization of descendants of Joseph Vick, who was born, possibly in Gloucestershire, England. He emigrated to Virginia and settled in Isle of Wight County, Virginia. He is the forebear of the majority of people surnamed Vick in this country. We have joined together to share research and to get to know our extende d family. We are incorporated in North Carolina.

History of the Organization

In July 1972, Sam Vick of Panola County, Mississippi, hosted a gathering of 170 descendants of Joseph Vick at the John Kyle State Park. It was the culmination of months of working tracking down as many descendants as he could through his genealogical connections. After the success of this gathering. other family members sought to organize an association. Finally, a dozen years later, Mary Jo McCrary and James M. Perrin (both descendants of Newit Vick, founder of Vicksburg) organized the Joseph Vick Family of America and started the quarterly newsletter.

A few years later, Gailen Vick and O. Richard Wright had the Association formally incorporated in the State of North Carolina. For many years, the family gathered each year at a location identified with the Vick family, but the reunions have been occurring less frequently in recent years. Members are now using the newsletters as their means of communicating and sharing information.

There are currently about 200 members of the organization. Everyone interested in the descendants of Joseph Vick is encouraged to join. Contact Mary Vick Graves at ("Membership Section" below) for more information.

JVFOA Officers and Board of Directors

President: Joseph Jurlina, Director -
First Vice President: Joseph Jurlina, Director
Treasurer: Mary Vick Graves, Director
Secretary: Shirley Anne Vick Knapp
Reunion Coordinator: Gailen Vick, Director -
Newsletter Editor: Di Ann Vick, Director
Editor Emeritus: John D. Beatty, Director

Other Directors

James B. Davis, Director
Robert Allen Vick, III, Director
Jerry Thomas Vick, Director
John Edward Vick, Director
Shirley Vick, Director
O. Richard Wright, Esquire, Director

Vick Family Reunion - July 17-19, Vicksburg, Mississippi

Well finally, we have a location and a date for the 2009 JVFOA Reunion in Vicksburg, Mississippi!

Tthe Vick Reunion for 2010 is in Salt Lake City, Utah on 16-18, 2010

Please stay tuned to the Vick Project site that tries to pull together all "Vick" sites and the JVFOA site, www.jvfoa.com.

For more information check back at this website or contact Gailen Vick at .

RESERVATION PROCEDURES:

Coming soon.