Getty Family - Direct Ancestors and Descendants - Heiden Family of Monroe County, Michigan Website - Includes Rambow, Milhan, Roggerman, Getty, Knaack and Laas Families

In March of 1985, Monita Fergus published a booklet on the history of the Getty Family. The Gettys are related to the Heiden Family through Mildred (Roggerman) Heiden (right) and Florence and Gordon Toburen.

This great study follows the Getty Family starting with John Getty, Sr. who was born about 1788 in The Parish of Portglenone, in what is now Northern Ireland. It then goes to his four children, John Grant Getty, Elizabeth (Getty) Anderson, Jane Getty and James A. Getty Sr. (right below) who is the direct ancestor of Mildred Heiden.

Listed below by generation are the direct i.e. share DNA, descendants of James A. Getty Sr and his wife, Matilda M. McCaughey. They had nine children, Nancy (Getty) Downing, James Getty, Jr., George Kilpatrick Getty, Eliza (Getty) Underwood, Alexander Getty, Hugh Getty, Peter Getty and Charles Getty. Each of the families is represented on an individual page. George K. Getty was Mildred's great grandfather.

The people listed below only represent a small sample of the total family as it exists now in the 21st century. If you have names of individuals that should be shown on the lists in these later generations, please provide the full name of the person, the decade of his or her birth and the parents' names. If they are still living their name alone will be added to the lists with no inclusion of other specific dates or data.