Tope Family Page

   Melancthon Tope published a History of the Tope Family in 1896 that became the foundation for Tope family research.  When Melancthon began his research is not known, but he referred to a letter written to him on Sept 27, 1892.  Considering that all of his research had to be conducted by mail and personal interviews, Melancthon set a standard that descendants of John Tope, George Tope and Frederick Tope found challenging.
  Eighty-four years later, Austin Dale Maddux revised the book to extract dates  and places from  Melancthon's narrative and portray the family information in Family Group Sheets.  Dale also added information received from descendants of the three Tope brothers.  His revision was first printed in 1980 and reprinted in 1981.
    In November 2006, a number of Tope descendants agreed to establish this Tope Family internet site, with the objective of encourging continued family research.
  Melancthon Tope's book is published on this site. The introductory pages and chapters may be accessed by clickng on the links shown here in the left-hand column.  Where page numbers in this column are missing, the page in the book had a Family Group Sheet, or is blank.