Sue Apito, et al At 11:26 PM 2/4/98 EST, you wrote: >In a message dated 98-02-04 18:42:11 EST, [email protected] writes: > >> I just received my 2 vol. set of Brenton's books. > >I am new to this mail list - I've already received a few VERY helpful >"forwarded" posts ( thanks "mw" - you know who you are! ) - but I'm also >wondering if there is a digest available of old mail. I have a few questions >I'm sure you "regulars" are probably very tired of hearing! I'd love info on >books - my library only has a fifth edition of Weis's Ancestral Roots - and >that's it! What are Brenton's books? ALL my other research is from online >geneaology sites and some notes a relative sent me made from Ada Haight's book >( and I can hardly read their handwriting! ) My name is Susan Sawhill Apito. >My "Washburn" is Helen Emily Washburn, daughter of Benjamin and Mary Ann >Secor. I haven't been able to verify them yet ( I started this whole project >as a "home school" project for my 11 year old.......got obsessed......now it's >MY project! ) I feel pretty proud of how far I've gotten in only about three >weeks though! ( My family thinks I'm nuts for being so excited we're related >to William the Conqueor - they ask me when my Tiara is coming in the mail!! ) > >Sue > Before you get too excited, the Washburn ancestry going back to William the Conqueror has not at all been proven. In fact, the purported ancestry shown in several Washburn lineages at the turn of this century through William Mytton, Esq., has been almost disproven by the esteemed English researcher E.A.B. Barnard in his "Some Notes on the Evesham Branch of the Washbourne Family," in 1914. If you'll note on p.71 of Weis' "Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists," Fifth Edition, he states: "There is no proof that John Washburn No. 37 was the son of John Washburn and Joan Mitton," giving reference to an article in "The American Genealogist," Vol. 36, p. 63, which in turn uses the work of Barnard as the basis for his arguement that John Washburn of Bengeworth was probably not a son of John Washburn of Wickenford, although the families may have been more distantly related. John A. Maltby Redwood City, CA [email protected]