This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: rsmart197 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.winn/99.113.116/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Please see http://www.ancestor-rescue.com/Winn/WinnMinorH.htm where we are trying to seriously document this family. We can use all the input we can get. Randy C. Smart Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

Randy- I know you are trying to expand the knowledge base for the "Line of Minor Winn" but there are at least 10 other very reliable sources for this line including family papers held in the Draper Mss. collection from the three Winn's who emigrated from Virginia to the Carolinas and Georgia prior to the first Minor Winn you discuss on your website. I can tell you that there have been at least four very authoritative genealogies which have taken on the Minor Winn saga over the last 50 years and the Minor Winn DNA project which I heartily encourage you to pursue has descendants of some of the real experts of this line. It seems that Winn's from various geographic regions have attempted to put together what they thought was a comprehensive genealogy for this line only now we know through the DNA project that many of the Minor Winn lines thought to be unrelated are in fact related to one another. I strongly suggest you take a look at "Winn-Jarvis" which was written by two very well educated Reverends and sourced by a third who had in their possession Winn family bibles and personal family manuscripts to cite as source authorities for "Winn-Jarvis" and other publications they wrote in the 1930's. The is also the Charles A. & Louise Tompkins Winn, "Winn" genealogy which is authoritative for the area and to the 3rd generation where they lose the trail due to the lost records of Prince William Co., VA. However, I believe your web page introduction requires a complete re-write as the Welsh section is essentially a mythtake. The closest anyone can come to a Welsh heritage for this line of Winn is a letter written by a grandson of Col. John Winn of Winnsboro in which he relates that his grandfather told him that the emigrant came to Virginia as a result of some political conflict in Wales with the family estimating an emigration ca. 1680. There is no mention in this letter of a Gwydir relationship to the family or that it was North Wales that the emigrant left for Virginia. As the American West populated you will find Winn genealogies originating in Arkansas, Missouri, Louisiana and lastly in Oregon by Winn descendants who have lived in this regions for 100-150 years. In San Francisco we find Albert Maver Winn who came around the horn in the Gold Rush who was the first President of the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. -----Original Message----- From: winn-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:winn-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of gc-gateway@rootsweb.com Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 9:25 AM To: WINN-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [WINN] Minor WINN This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: rsmart197 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.winn/99.113.116/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Please see http://www.ancestor-rescue.com/Winn/WinnMinorH.htm where we are trying to seriously document this family. We can use all the input we can get. Randy C. Smart Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to WINN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.709 / Virus Database: 270.14.88/2537 - Release Date: 11/30/09 13:05:00