Cousins, Our common Winn line has recently been reviewed, reorganized, sourced, and posted on the Internet. Common ancestors and their pages: Minor Winn (ca 1704 - 1778) VA = Margaret O'Connor http://www.ancestor-rescue.com/Winn/WinnMinor2.htm William Winn (ca.1732 - ca 1800) VA-->SC = Rosamond Hampton http://www.ancestor-rescue.com/Winn/WinnWilliam.htm Minor H. Winn (ca.1775 - aft1840) SC -->TN-->IL-->West Fork, AR = Leodocia "Dicey" Matilda Bedford http://www.ancestor-rescue.com/Winn/WinnMinorH.htm James Minor Winn (1810 - 1868) TN-->IL-->West Fork, AR = Nancy Ann Bloyed http://www.ancestor-rescue.com/Winn/WinnJamesMinor.htm You'll find this family history to be quite unique. In addition to a page for each main character/family, the site has many features intended to help internalize all the information applicable. a.. Home: Overview, Navigation, Maintenance, Sources (sitewide) http://www.ancestor-rescue.com/Winn/index.htm b.. Lineage: Lineage Outlined, Minor Confusion http://www.ancestor-rescue.com/Winn/lineage.htm c.. Origins: Ancestor Overview, Family Naming Conventions, Ancient Sources http://www.ancestor-rescue.com/Winn/origins.htm d.. Maps: An overview of their migrations plus details where they lived http://www.ancestor-rescue.com/Winn/Maps We intend to clearly display information with the utmost accuracy feasible--coupled with all the documentation possible. Past attempts to trace this lineage have failed to capture and document this information in a way that helps correct errors and establish facts. The Internet now makes it possible to share sources like never before. If we can get all that is know of our common ancestors in one place, we all will benefit from the subsequent enlightenment. Bob Saunders has done extensive research centered on Minor H. Winn (1775-1840) and his descendants: http://www.ancestor-rescue.com/Winn/WinnMinorH.htm and has provided a great deal of information that alone, should make a long-term difference. Others have contributed information on this line which has been merged and organized on this site. As resources become available, they will be linked to the site or scans of the critical documents/sources will be embedded where needed therein so that users (themselves) can help sort out the factual, eliminate the incorrect, and capture the remaining facts, controversies, and speculation in their proper context. We have provided readers with much of the pertinent information, formatted for clarity and effective referencing, and minimiIng conflicting information (except where acknowledged and qualified). For example, users can cross-compare sources pertaining to a specific birth of a relative to determine how to use the information. In this way, they can build on what we is known. This is a dynamic site, engineered so it can continue to change regularly with exacting input as others interface with this outline of family history. Please take a little time and compare what the site shows to everything else you have on this line. Dig through those boxes one more time. If you have access to pertinent information we lack, I hope you will share it so it can be put on the site for all to benefit from. This includes pictures/graphics. Use the site for discussions. Help correct and flush out this history for posterity. Reply to either rsmart@ancestor-rescue.com or saundersrj@earthlink.net specifying either the URL (or the page heading--name/dates) and the web page section. And if you have accessed this site in the past, please go back and look again. Much has been corrected and added lately. And let us know how we can better present this information to help youand your decendents. Thank you, Randy C. Smart Webmaster / Historian Winn Family History Site