Genealogy

I used to have a Tombaugh Family Tree, published on-line on my web site, but it became too hard to keep current with the one published as a public tree at Ancestry.com. For the latest genealogy updates and online family tree, please visit my family tree on Ancestry.com. Perhaps the most famous member of the family is Clyde W. Tombaugh, who discovered the planet Pluto in 1930. Clyde Tombaugh’s personal papers have been archived at the New Mexico State University Library. We’re fortunate that our family had a historian, Reno G. Tombaugh, who was able to trace our family history, and roots, back to our earliest known immigrant ancestor, who left Germany for Holland, then the new world in 1728. The findings were published into a book in the 1930’s. The contents of the book have later been published electronically by Wendell C. Tombaugh and his wife Jean Cragun Tombaugh, who have published a number of genealogy works. I have been working to update the contents with additional information, correcting some errors, and adding references. The Tombaugh History (PDF) and other works have been made available through the Fulton County, Indiana, Library. Wendell has also written his autobiography, Every Day an Adventure (PDF) with a tremendous amount of detail of some of the history of the day, and several accounts of my grandfather, who was Wendell’s cousin, as well as my great-grandfather and his father. I’ve converted the written history into a family tree, and have been adding updated and