Welcome!
Take a stroll around our website! We welcome family members to register and take full advantage of the website. We especially encourage your additions to our Celebrations pages of new babies, weddings, missionaries, etc. Due to spammers, most of the website is only available to registered users. When you register, please put your Fairbanks pedigree (father or mother, grandfather or grandmother, etc.) in the Notes section back to either David, John, Harriet or Henry so we know where you fit in. If you aren't a family member and just want to take a stroll through the website, please note that as well.
Registration is easy and your information will not be available to spammers; however, you will occasionally receive an email from us with news, and when our newsletter goes to mostly email, you will receive that as well. If, when you log in, you click "Stay Logged In On This Computer", you should automatically be logged in the next time you visit.
You can also update your information at any time by clicking on "Update Your Account" in the left menu.
The Fairbanks Family in the West is an organization begun in 1907 to honor our ancestors David, John Boylston, Harriet, and Henry Fairbanks, who traveled west in the Mormon pioneer migration. The pioneer stories told here reflect the determination, courage, faith, and inspiration necessary to embark on such a journey.
Today we can emulate and learn from our ancestors as we forge trails of honesty, integrity and perseverance for our posterity to follow. Anyone who has an interest in the Fairbanks Family and the contributions they made in settling the West is invited to join our organization. This is the official source of the Fairbanks Family in the West, sponsored by the family organization.
The photos above are of four children of Joseph and Mary Polly (Brooks) Fairbanks who went West. It is mainly their descendants that we are trying to locate and include in the family tree database.
Let us remember those who lived before us.
Who lived, and worked, and prayed, and sang,
and built long before we were born.
We sometimes think that everything begins with us.
But, we drink from wells that we did not find.
We eat food from farmlands we did not develop.
We worship in churches we did not organize or build.
We enjoy freedoms we take for granted.
We should be grateful for our rich heritage, and turn our minds in
grateful appreciation to those who lived before, and under
vastly different circumstances, so that we can live a better life today.
And let us live so that our posterity may have a better life tomorrow.
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