Cliff Barney's Homeplace

Cliff Barney's Homeplace

Cliff ~ 2003
and Midshipman Barney ~ 1960

My name is BARNEY but ~ I'm NO dinosaur!

William Clifford Barney grew up in Idaho in the 1940s and 1950s. After graduation from Wallace High School he went east to attend the United States Naval Academy. When he arrived in Annapolis, Maryland in the summer of 1959, he joined 1200 other young men eager to train for a Navy career. Four long, hard years later, in June of 1963, he was one of the 876 graduates. Cliff then began training for service in the Naval Air Force as a pilot, flying carrier-based aircraft. He continued his education, taught, travelled the world and fulfilled three tours of duty in Viet Nam during the Conflict. He retired after thirty plus years as a Navy Captain.

Cliff is fond of Scott Joplin's "High Class Rag".

Cliff has been interested in Barney family history since a young man and began gathering genealogical information early in his life. Since the advent of the internet and his arrival on it in the early 1990s, he has been vigorously pursuing that interest and helping others in search of their Barney forebears.

He is President and founder of The Barney Family Historical Association (BFHA) and edits and publishes their quarterly newsletter, The Barney Family News. He is the editor and co-author of the definitive compendium of Barney genealogy, The Genealogy of the Barney Family in America.

Cliff met Edna while he was at Annapolis and they have been married for more than forty-three years. After retirement from the Navy, the couple settled in northern Virginia, near to the Capital City, Washington. They are the ancestors of three sons and six grandchildren.

We are a Navy family!
Cliff and James are graduates of USNA
James served as a Submariner
Cliff, Jr, was a Naval Flight Officer
Cliff served in the USN for thirty years
Edna and Kelley were Navy wives
Cliff, Jr, Jon and James were Navy juniors
(graphic from Mary's Little Lamb)

~ Cliff's Family 2001 ~

Barney Family Historical Association

E-mail Cliff ~

Cliff's Favorite Links on the Internet

Barney Family at GenForum

Barney Family at Rootsweb

Barney Family Newsletters
PDF Downloads of Previous Issues
PREVIEW

Joshua Barney, American Hero
from George Mason University

Daisy's Barney Roots

Neddy's Flickr Photo Albums

Dave Barry, American Humorist

Hawk and Badger SouthEastern Railroad

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~ A Neddy Creation ~

Last modified 25 May 2006.