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I depend very heavily on census information. And thanks to modern databases, what used to take my mother weeks of correspondence with the National Archives in order to look at a census page now only takes seconds in the comfort of my oh-so-cushy sofa.
“How could Mother have another child that I somehow forgot? [...]
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 [...]
I had a fine time following Mr. Alexander Wren (and his wife, Amarilla S. Wood) from state to state.
Born in Virginia in May 1831 according to the 1900 U.S. Census, I tracked him from Warren County, Illinois in 1850 and 1860, to Appanoose County, Iowa in 1870, to Mitchell County, Kansas in 1880, [...]
I’ve been in contact with a descendant of the Bamburg/Wren line from Coushatta, Louisiana and am in the process of adding more data on that family to our database. How exciting!
And in my online cemetery hopping I found William E. Wren and his wife Pearl N. and their family, all from Iowa and apparently [...]
I wasn’t having as much success as I’d hoped in interviewing relatives about my great-grandparents.
The Railroad Retirement Board will not release information on living individuals, but if your deceased ancestor worked for the railroad from 1937 on, they will provide you with his or her employment records for a non-refundable search fee.
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Subscribers of the original Wren Kin newsletter will remember the sweet and informative columns of Mr. Bobby Joe Wren.
Bobby Joe passed away in 2000, but I wanted to post the notice of his death here for all the people who came to know him through the pages of Wren Kin.
A WREN [...]
The dates and counties of these marriages have been entered into the W(R)en(n) database:
Bennie WREN, Delia TUCKER (1914)
Carter WREN, Rilla SHAW (1882)
J.C. WREN, Mattie GODFREY (1878)
Sources used: Marriage Records Van Zandt County Texas 1909-1931, Compiled by Quana Barber, Ruth Johnson & Maefayr Hooton; and Van Zandt County [...]
I just received a package from Ruth containing Civil War Pension records for the following individuals:
Mrs. Anna K. Wren, Wood County, Texas Mrs. E.J. Wren, Wood County, Texas G.W. Wren, Lamar County, Texas Mrs. M.A. Wren, Brown County, Texas T.E. Wren, Brazos County, Texas W.B. Wren, Anderson County, Texas William B. Wrenn, Falls County, [...]
Over at the Wren Family Surname Forum at Genforum, I found this statement:
It is said Randolph Wren signed off on the marriage of Binns Jones Wren and Elizabeth Betsy Depew in Kentucky. I have never been able to document this information.
The record of this marriage may be [...]
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