Wren Kin

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We’ve had an interesting DNA match in our DNA surname project, with some exciting implications.
Here are the details of the match:
Participant #1: A Wrenn from Tennessee, who says he can trace his line to Albert Walker Wrenn (1813-1889, Spotsylvania, Virginia).
Albert Walker Wrenn may be found on pages 99, 112, and 158 in [...]

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Very interesting article on this topic, here.
Database updates:
I recently started inputting into our database the research of noted Wren researcher, John Howard Wren, author of “The Wren’s of Virginia.” Mr. Wren traced his line back to Nicholas Wren (1631-1701) and Margaret Bell (1650-1701), English immigrants to Virginia.
Mr. Wren very kindly gave me his [...]

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I’ve been feverishly going through the backlog of data submitted to me since early January. I’ve added quite a bit to our database in the last two weeks, but if you don’t see what you’ve sent, please drop me a line and ask me about it.

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Mr. Alvin Lee Wren was the son of James Milam Wren (born 1862 in Smith County, Texas), the grandson of James C. Wren (born 1832 in Tennessee), and the great grandson of William Wren (born about 1802 in Kentucky).
Alvin’s great-grandfather William Wren was brother to Nicholas Wren, the Texan war hero mentioned several [...]

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Based on a lack of any vigorous protest against Ancestry.com maintaining our DNA project, I’ve decided to remain with Ancestry.com.
But we’re in a transition time, which means that if you want to take the DNA test this month, then there’s a special little procedure we have to follow (I’ve outlined it below.)
To make [...]

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I was so cocky!
When the hot water fountained out of our concrete slab in the first week of January, I immediately started some heavy lifting (moving our office furniture, our workout equipment, ripping up the flooring, etc.)
“All I need is a plumber!” I cried as I flung it all hither and yon. “A [...]

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I’m slowly making my way through the member-submitted data in Ruth Wren’s collection of family group sheets and lineage charts and adding them to our database. Tonight I added a lineage chart that includes Butler County, Alabama Wrens who migrated to Louisiana.
If you have Wrens from the Red River and Natchitoches Parishes of Louisiana, [...]

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Hello, all!
No, I haven’t dropped off the face of the earth! I’ve been working very hard on another project and just passed a significant deadline. Now I can focus on Wren Kin.
To that end, I’ve been working my way through a queue of submissions made by readers. Thank you so much [...]

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Ruth Wren sent me a binder containing all the family group sheets submitted by Wren Family Association members in the early 1990s.
I’ve been wondering about the best way to share it with everyone, and have decided to input each group sheet into the database, preferably after I’ve found some vital records to back [...]

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