Anthony, Don't always listen when others say there is no connection with families. My gr. gr. grandfather Josiah Watkins lived in a little town in Warren Co., IN, and there were others who told me that his line was not related to the other Watkins families that also lived in the same county. After many years of determined research, I found proof that they were related. It came in the form of a probate document I found in Sussex County, DE. That one document put the whole family together for me. Can't tell you how excited I was to find it. It only made sense to me that these families were connected since they all came to Indiana from Maryland or Delaware, and that is where Josiah was from. So keep digging, you never know where that one piece of information that you need might come from and put the pieces of the puzzle together for you. Anthony Glass wrote: >Years ago I remember contacting someone about a >connection between John Reid Mills and Col. James >Mills and was told that no such connection existed. I >cannot find that email now. Since Azur REED Mills was >named for his maternal grandfather, the REED / REID >names appear to be coincidental, even if one could >demonstrate a connection between John and James. > >arg >

Hello, Again, Adina, and Others, I agree. Until DNA tests are run on a significant number of descendants of all our MILLS lines, we cannot be sure that a relationship does not exist. One DNA participant of a particular line does not establish one's ancestry to an assumed ancestor...as proven by a participant in one of my DNA Projects. This participant discovered after another family member participated that there must have been a significant event in the line and that one of them was not a true blood descendant. He paid for 3 others to participate in order to establish the differences and only then did he determine that his many years of research for his believed ancestor did not truly include him as a DNA descendant. I have not yet found a MILLS or two in my family line to establish my Mills connection. Good Luck, everyone, with ferreting out family connections. Audrey -----Original Message----- From: Adina Watkins Dyer [mailto:adyer@insightbb.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 1:43 PM To: MILLS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [MILLS] Re: Mills>Reed (or Reid) connection Anthony, Don't always listen when others say there is no connection with families. My gr. gr. grandfather Josiah Watkins lived in a little town in Warren Co., IN, and there were others who told me that his line was not related to the other Watkins families that also lived in the same county. After many years of determined research, I found proof that they were related. It came in the form of a probate document I found in Sussex County, DE. That one document put the whole family together for me. Can't tell you how excited I was to find it. It only made sense to me that these families were connected since they all came to Indiana from Maryland or Delaware, and that is where Josiah was from. So keep digging, you never know where that one piece of information that you need might come from and put the pieces of the puzzle together for you. Anthony Glass wrote: >Years ago I remember contacting someone about a >connection between John Reid Mills and Col. James >Mills and was told that no such connection existed. I >cannot find that email now. Since Azur REED Mills was >named for his maternal grandfather, the REED / REID >names appear to be coincidental, even if one could >demonstrate a connection between John and James. > >arg > ==== MILLS Mailing List ==== We have archives! Search for your MILLS information here..... http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=MILLS ============================== Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. New content added every business day. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.14.16/225 - Release Date: 1/9/2006