About Wren Kin
In 1990, Ruth Wren created the Wren Family Organization and the Wren Kin Newsletter as a method of sharing information with those family researchers focusing on the ancestors and descendants of William Wren of Virginia: Wrens, Wrenns, Rens, and even Renns.
With her permission and assistance, this website continues her work.
Wren Family Association members are encouraged to share information such as family group sheets, pedigree charts, and vital statistics. Together we can unravel our family puzzles!
Contribute to Wren Kin!
If you have a Wren family group sheet, copies of wills, deeds, Bible pages, vital records, photographs, etc., please consider sharing them with us. Our goal is to make such documents freely available to other Wren/Wrenn/Ren/Renn researchers. You might have the document that breaks down someone else’s brick wall!
All documents shared with us will be cited as being “from the collection of [your name] in [your town], unless you would prefer to remain anonymous. We don’t need the original. Just a scan, photocopy or clear digital photograph will be sufficient and will contribute to a wonderful cause: the preservation of Wren family history!
About Your Wren Kin Website Editor
This is the first edition of the WREN KIN NEWSLETTER and the editor wonders where she left her logic.
I first heard about Ruth Wren’s newsletter on several Wren/Wrenn forums. When I finally found a set I paid to have copies made, put them in a binder and read every one. Afterward, I often thought of Ruth and what she might be doing with the newsletter.
And in an amazing testament to serendipity, I find myself working with Ruth on this online version of Wren Kin! Now I fully understand the sentiments of her first newsletter:
This is the first edition of the WREN KIN NEWSLETTER and the editor wonders where she left her logic. Response has been less than enthusiastic and the timing is chaotic but I feel that a Wren Family Newsletter is needed.
The only difference is that I never had much logic to begin with and motherhood has taken its toll on most of that. However, I, too, feel a newsletter is needed—hopefully this blog will take its place. I also hope I’m up to the task because Ruth has some pretty big shoes to fill.
Finally, I shall quote another line of Ruth’s from her first newsletter: “I am not a Wren descendant, but I love several.” The Wren family name is precious to me and I want to preserve as much of its history as I can.